A second example of my 7-fold zine design, and another way to lay out the pages. First example and instructions on how to fold this in this post here. Printable scan below!
Halloween Zine! I made this in october 2023, but I don’t think I ever fully shared it here because some were sent to tumblr mutuals and I wanted it to be a surprise.
I made only about 25 of these to send to friends, and it involved a lot of hands-on work after printing to assemble them all, between the different paper types, cut outs, highlighter, stick-ins, and hand-stitched binding. featuring:
- cut-out cover to make it look like a glowy jack-o-lantern, each zine copy had different faces, and i used 4 different shades of orange cardstock for all the covers
- translucent metallic gold endpapers
- removable recipes printouts, so I wasn’t as limited by paper size and so people could transfer them to their own recipe books. i used scrapbooking corners to hold them in place
- favorite seasonal media, leaf types, and candies
- a flip book section!!! i have always loved the “build your own creature” 3-segment style books, so wanted to do one with halloween monsters. Settled on witch, alien, and mermaid for it, plus a space for people to add their own
- i also like the idea of zines involving some form of craft for the reader to participate in too, so the make-your-own witch hat page; and the second jack-o-lantern on the back cover for the reader to “carve” themselves
- in addition to whatever coloring or doodles they felt like adding on their own to the leaves, candy, monsters, etc
this remains my most ambitious and involved zine to date! 🧡