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Friend book as a parting gift that includes several friends

Together with others, you create a friend's book that you give to a friend or several friends as a self-made farewell gift:

  1. In this case you will join forces with the others who will work with you to create this farewell gift. Look for old and new pictures, as well as small mementos that can easily be glued in later (flyers from your favorite club, receipts, business cards from your favorite pub, old ones Letters etc.).
  2. Sort the collected material by topic or chronologically, depending on how you want to structure the friend book.
  3. Find a picture that shows you and the others for the front page. If you prefer something other than a cover picture or Title page (e.g. B. If you only want to use a heading or text), there are of course no limits to your creativity.
  4. In the next step you should decide whether you want to create your self-made book of friends on a PC or by hand. You design the following steps as appropriate.
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  5. Create a table of contents and divide up the pages of the friend's book. An introductory text that you write together is a good way to start. You divide the remaining pages between yourself and your colleagues. Give everyone a certain number of pages that they can freely use and fill. You can fill the other pages with shared experiences. To do this, stick in the memorabilia you have collected and everyone can write, paint, do handicrafts, whatever you want.
  6. Bring your finished friend book to a copy shop as a file, printed out or as loose handwritten sheets. There you can have your self-made friend book bound. There is a choice between a ring binding and an adhesive binding. The advantage of ring binding is that you can turn the pages completely, which is particularly practical (like a spiral notebook). The advantage of a perfect binding is that it looks especially nice (like a paperback). For the title page, it is advisable to put a film over the cover sheet, especially with a ring binding. With adhesive binding, the cover sheet is usually printed on sturdy colored cardboard. (This is especially nice if you have a simple font or heading for the title page!) If you are unsure, please contact the copy shop for advice.
  7. Finally, you can continue to creatively design your friends book by sticking in certain memorabilia or pictures, nice sayings or Add words by hand or whatever else you can think of until you get your homemade friend book as a parting gift hand over.

Friend book as a parting gift that only contains you

You alone create a self-made friend book for z. B. her / her best friend or several friends; this parting gift comes from you alone:

If you create a self-made book of friends on your own, the basic procedure does not change. Therefore, you can read these steps in more detail in the upper part.

  1. Collect all of the materials that you want to use for the book. Sort your collected material.
  2. Think about how you want to design the front page of your friends book. You can either choose a picture shared with the person who will receive the book as a parting gift, a neutral picture or a text.
  3. In the next step you should decide whether you want to create your self-made friends book with the PC or by hand. You design the following steps as appropriate.
  4. Create a table of contents and divide the pages of the friends book. Whether you “review” the time with your friend (s) chronologically with pictures and text or create a colorful book of beautiful memories, there are no limits to your creativity. Create e.g. B. take a quiz about yourself or write a little poem if you are poetically gifted. You can also draw a stick figure comic that tells a shared story. Or document the added memorabilia such as flyers, receipts, admission tickets and the like that you stick in the book. But you can also create one or more lists. (e.g. B. “What I will especially miss without you”, “My favorite memories”, “What I will give you / you wishes ”, etc.) You can also write a profile about yourself and your business card glue in. Let your creativity work Handcraft and creating the friend book free run.
  5. Step 6. and 7. are identical to the points listed above if you design your self-made book of friends as a farewell gift together with others. Please read these steps there.
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