France Papillon was back this week over on the Paper Artsy blog. Her first project was a lovely little Art Journal Book...you can pop over and see it here. Well I do love hand made books so knew I would definately have to have a go at this.
I didn't have a canvas to hand so used a small wooden frame and covered it with sticky back canvas, and painted it in honey dew. I cut a back cover in grey board and because of the different frame had to cut 2 smaller doors. All of it was painted in honey dew and when dry had a thin coat of crackle glaze. Next was a coat of London night and when that was dried I rubbed away some more of the top coat with a baby wipe Darcy style. then sanded it to rough it up a bit more.
I used grunge paper for the hinges which were embossed and a little metal fastener on the door closure. This was painted honey dew and a tiny bit of onyxite treasure gold.
I followed a video on U-Tube to do the coptic binding and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be
On the inside I stamped and painted an image from Eclectic plate 6 and painted it..used a rub on and glued it to the inside of the cover. I used a TH rub on just over the image.
After putting the book together I added some Royal amethyst TG randomly around the edges. Here is the end result!!
I enjoyed this project and will definitely use the binding method again!!
Thanks for stopping by....
I didn't have a canvas to hand so used a small wooden frame and covered it with sticky back canvas, and painted it in honey dew. I cut a back cover in grey board and because of the different frame had to cut 2 smaller doors. All of it was painted in honey dew and when dry had a thin coat of crackle glaze. Next was a coat of London night and when that was dried I rubbed away some more of the top coat with a baby wipe Darcy style. then sanded it to rough it up a bit more.
I used grunge paper for the hinges which were embossed and a little metal fastener on the door closure. This was painted honey dew and a tiny bit of onyxite treasure gold.
I followed a video on U-Tube to do the coptic binding and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would beOn the inside I stamped and painted an image from Eclectic plate 6 and painted it..used a rub on and glued it to the inside of the cover. I used a TH rub on just over the image.
After putting the book together I added some Royal amethyst TG randomly around the edges. Here is the end result!!
Thanks for stopping by....
