Tri-fold Book with 2 Accordion Panels

It was great to see everyone at our first meeting of the year.  We started off with a bang by creating two different accordion fold book structures.  A big THANK YOU to Nancy for putting instructions together and demonstrating.

I am going to start with the easier of the two… 

"Tri-fold Book with 2 Accordion Panels"

Supplies:

     For Cover - one 16" x 7" paper 

     For Inside Panels - two 18" x 6 1/2" papers

            The papers for both the cover and the inside panels should   

              be of study weight, but not so heavy that it can not easily 

              fold.

You will also need:

     Ruler

     Glue  (preferably PVA, but if your just creating a practice book

                  using a glue stick would work)

     Bone folder

     

Score and fold paper at 5", 5 1/2", 10 1/2", 11"

Above, is what the finished cover should look like after you score and fold all the measurements.  (If it looks familiar it's because I used a remnant of my previous paper for the cover of this book.)

Next, you will want to score and fold the inside panels.

Each panel is 4 1/2" wide.  But it's easier to just take each of the 18" sheets fold them in half and then fold each half in half again.

After both inside pages are folded, you will center and glue one accordion panel to the left side of the cover.  Making sure that the panel pulls out to the left.

Then center and glue the second 5" panel to the right side.  Making sure this panel pulls out to the right.  

Here's my book with the panels folded - 

 The last 5" panel becomes the cover.  So when it's closed up it looks like this - 

Nancy was also able to share with us the book she created with the Tri-fold with 2 accordion panels book and Artist Trading Cards from various artists - 

Thanks again Nancy for the demonstration.

I will put up the other book form we created, the "Pocket Accordion Bond Book" as well as notes from the meetings in other blog posts.

Quote of the Week - "I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.  I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show."  - Andrew Wyeth