Mini Star Book Tutorial

Good Morning Folks.  Here is my take on how I did this star. as many of you asked how it was done.   Sorry if its too many pictures.  Have a Good Day.   Rita xx 

Mini Star Book Tutorial

I have to tell you that this post is picture heavy as I’ve tried my best to give you a step by step tutorial.  Sorry its in stages as I went along and it is not distressed or embellished in any way.  I’ll explain as I go along showing what I've done.  Step by Step in pictures and hopefully it becomes clearer as I go along.   I started by cutting Five 3" x 3" squares and scored them all at 1.1/2"  

Then I scored them again from corner to corner on one side only and creased this fold. 

 Hope you are still with me

 When you push in the scored folds it should look like this one below

Just from another angle

All five little squares ...

 Waiting to be put together....

 Glue on the square as shown until all five have been added

 At this point I threaded a large eyed needle and put both ends down through the bead and tied a not . leaving the other ends and the bead free to add to the star. 

Take one of the ends of ribbon and stick on the corner with a smaller piece of card to cover  then the other side to match. 

Now if you slide the bead towards the star it keeps it open.

 To close it in to a little book, open it up again using the bead and turn it around till all the squares com together again and slide the bead down to close.

 This is what it should look like closed.  Hope this all make sense after such a long winded tutorial.

Now you see why I needed so many pictures. 

Hope you enjoy putting your own mark on these.  Have Fun.   Hugs Rita xxx