I've finally managed to upload some photos of my Holiday book I made in the weekend. As you can see I went with my favourite colour combination again!
Most of the pages came form Rachel's wonderful tutorial and some I made myself. I am also going to add pages of special events and memories as I go.
It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to add to it! Here are a few more of the pages in full.
In order to document my achievements for this year I made a little mini-book to keep photos and mementos in. It is only little 6 x 4, but will fit photos nicely. I used all sorts of bright papers and patterns because I want this year to be happy and bright and positive. I've already completeed one thing off my list!
I just love this hummingbird illustration and printed it, doublesided, onto really thick silver metallic card. The photos don't do it justice, but the birds really shimmer.
The back is printed as well, with the bottom half of the illustration.
And the inside pages are really thick black card with enough space to house 96 ACEO's. Now I can't wait to fill it up with them. Let me know if you want swap an ACEO with me as I have been making a few originals and limited editions during the long weekend.
I needed a little notebook for Ideas for a new project I've been working on and I really loved the previous Rainbow book so I made a smaller version (A6), this one has a woodgrained paper on the front and back covers. Its pretty cool and is starting to fill up already.
A few more books that I've been working away on and haven't taken photos of, the photos aren't that great as I took them last night with the flash but I thought it was now or never as I was giving one away today. Above is an adorable book I found for $1. I decided I couldn't leave once I saw the title, How the Story Ended, so I removed the insides and stitched up some blank pages to put in it. Now it makes a really cute little journal.
A rainbow book I made with scraps of paper from work. The cover is just simple black but I have debossed a design on the front. You only catch it in certain light but I love it. I think it might be a new quote journal for me. It looks grat on the shelf too.
This was the book I gave to my very good friend Trina this morning for Valentines Day. Sometimes we you know you aren't getting anything its nice to give something to someone else who isn't getting anything just to say "I love you, thanks for being my friend!".
And this was a tiny little book I made with some left over signatures and a really great fabric I bought a while ago for another project but it couldn't be any more perfect for a book.
Another self-taught skill for 2007. I've been admiring the beautiful handmade books from Paperiaarre and have always wanted to have a go. I thought I'd start with some new sketchbooks for myself. The instructions I found on the internet were pretty hopeless and most said the coptic binding was hard to explain but easier to do, and they were right, following a video on YouTube I sort of worked it out. And after a change of mind about equipment, I think the results aren't bad. Too bad I'm a bit late to do Christmas presents for everyone!! This is my first attempt, very loose and lots of tears...
My second attempt was tighter and I managed not to tear any pages...right until the last one!
And tonight, my third attempt, proper waxed linen thread, and a decent needle, helped no end! A little screenprint on top and viola... one pretty handmade sketchbook!
