I started to make my first book tonight.
I haven't done much. I took 24 sheets of A4 paper from a folder which had 4 holes punched. I then punched four holes in each of two pieces of A4 board for the covers. I then took 23 further of the pages and sliced them so I was left with a thin strip of paper with the four holes. The slices will sit in between each full sheet to make the book fatter so there is a little more room to accommodate collage and paint.
Next I need to find an old shirt of F's....
December 22nd Weekly Post
8 hours ago
I'm very curious to see how you make out with this...how are you going to bind it? I'll be stealing your idea for when I get around to starting mine...:)
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea about the "spacers." I'd have never thought of that. You will share pics when you finish it up, right?
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your interest! I have no idea if it is going to work and if it does it may be about as sturdy as a puff of wind...
ReplyDeleteI will be sharing pics but so far it would just be of a bunch of paper and paper strips with holes....
I find it a little frustrating that everything takes so long and even when you get to the more exciting bits, you can't do very much cos everything has to dry properly...
Sometime I find the time I spend making the "boring bits" (like gessoing my journal pages) to be a very meditative.. a good time to think about what I want in the contents, and imagine...Can't wait to see your results!
ReplyDeleteI think I need more journals on the go... i bought a spiral bound A5 sketch book today. My first A5 journal is becoming unworkable - it has too many thin pages and my journaled pages are as fat as the rest of the book and it is slowly pulling itself apart....
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