For this project I decided to laser cut something practical that I need for daily use. I knew it had to be a relatively flat object, or an object that could be created with layers of flat objects. I was attracted to this notebook with a cut design. I started with the cloud, to make a replica of an existing product, and progressed from there to integrate my own designs.

laser cutting was the easy part. I then had to teach myself how to do book binding. I found this tutorial helpful: