Make a book with me!

I am so excited to bring you this Hybrid Friday Project! This project is all about favourites; places, moments, people, quotes, restaurants, pictures, wines - pretty much anything you want really.

We've had a tiny little book for years where we write down really good wines we've tried, when we drank it, what it was called, what it tasted like, and what we ate with it. I really like this kind of collecting and recently I designed a new book  to keep the tradition going.

In this project you will get my design (both printable PDF files and psd layered templates) and you will learn how to hand bind the book with a beautiful exposed coptic stitch binding.


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Little Book of Favourites is available at JessicaSprague.com today.

New in store - 12 Days of Christmas Hybrid Project Friday

Happy Friday! Bet you never thought I'd have something new up in my shop at JessicaSprague.com on a Friday? Well, times they are a-changing folks. This week is the first week of, I hope, several where I bring you a project for Hybrid Project Friday. Yay!

The project is a handmade accordion fold book devoted to the 12 Days of Christmas.

12 Days of Christmas

(click on the image to go directly to the product in the shop)

The project includes printable PDFs for the covers and inside pages of the book for those who prefer to stay out of Photoshop, fully layered psd templates for Photoshop fiends, and a complete printable PDF tutorial with images to guide you through the bookmaking from start to finish.

The book consists of 12 pages, one for each day of Christmas, with room for one photo on each page. When finished you will have a simple, but sophisticated mini album to remember your Christmas.

Here's my book




Here's what Meg did

Meg used the Frostbite Paper Pack for her book.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! I will spend it making Christmas cards and sweets. :)

A guide on how to print a digi card

I've had a couple of questions on how to print a digi card in relations to the challenge I am hosting this week at JessicaSprague.com. So I have put together a little guide that I am hoping will be helpful. OK, here we go!

First, open a document in Photoshop the size of your card front and back. As I live in the metric part of the world I have chosen to size my card 15 cm x 10 cm. That means that my document needs to be 15 cm x 20 cm (imagine that you unfold your card and measure the full height, that is the height you need for your document).


Now you do your design stuff on the bottom half of the document. I use guides to keep track of the center of the card.
*Note, to make it easy on yourself once the card is printed, if the card is smaller than the sheet of paper you are printing on, do yourself the favour to outline the card by using a stroke.


When you are finished with the front and back of your card make a new document with the exact same size for the inside of your card. Design to your heart's content. Now you should have to documents like this:


Now it's time to print. Start with the front page document. Choose File - Print. A print window opens up. Make sure the Center Image box is ticked. This is key for a successfully printed card.


Put your paper in the printer and go. I have an Epson R1400 printer and the paper comes out printed like this. Depending on what printer you use it might come out in a different direction.


Now for the most important part of the whole tutorial. To print the inside you need to run the same paper through the printer again. Go to your inside document and choose File - Print. Make sure the Center Image box is ticked.


To get the inside printed correctly I need to turn the paper around with the "front" turned backwards. Now, that works for me since my printer prints the front facing side. if you have a HP printer this will not be true. I recommend a trial print if you have a printer that does not print the front facing side.



I want the "back" to be on top like this


The finished product should look something like this:






I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions, please, don't hesitate to ask me!