Creating a Book Cover

Creating a Hard-backed Book Cover

You can use the templates to draw these if you need help!

Draw out your outline

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What should you do if you're having trouble with measuring the final dimensions?

• Tear up your paper

• Use the templates

• Make a friend do it for you

• Guess-timate the measurements and hope for the best

This will give you paper to fold over your backing.

Cut a 1/2 inch border of extra space around your cover

​.5 inch

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Click on the ruler to show how much space you should cut out around your final paper.

This will give you a clean joint when you fold your sides!

Cut the border corners

This will give you a clean fold along your spine!

​​Cut the border spine

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Should you be cutting into the book cover itself or just the border?

• Cut the book cover

• Just cut the border

You can use the black or white side, depending on your preference - just make sure to leave a bit of space between the sides and the spine, so that it can bend!

Using rubber cement, glue your backing board down.

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What material are we using to glue down the paper?

Make sure that all folds are clean and dry - it may take some additional presses to keep them down as they dry!

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Fold and glue down your edges

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What should you do if the edges keep lifting?

• Give up

• Cut them off

• Keep pressing them down as the rubber cement dries

You've made a book cover, and now it's up to you to draw the details.

Congratulations!

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You should draw your final book cover ​

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creating the book cover itself.

Once you're done painting it, we'll glue down a page block.

Draw and paint your work.

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What is the final step?

• Glue down a page block.

• Glue down the backing board.

• Cut the border.

• Draw the measurements.