Granny's Photoalbum

What a challenge and treat! The Gingersnap Creations challenge for the Chestnut Theme Challenge is: Granny's Photoalbum which gave me another opportunity to create a little book (stab binding style) - a photoalbum. I enjoyed this one SOOOOO much

 

The front and back cover is corrugated card covered with BoBunny patterend paper. I decorated the cover page with stamps (Lily of the Valley), vintage button, lace and charm. The inside page are made from black card separated with traditional photoalbum paper which I rescued from a broken album ...

 

 The album tells the story of Grandparents, Sisters and Granchildren, hope you enjoy looking at the old photos ....

All images are from art-e-zine/Vintage Resources - Adopt an Ancestor. All words are printed and various embellishments (Victorian scraps, flower charm, old book page cutout, lace) added.

I hope you can join us at Gingersnap and show us your Granny's photoalbum, Petra.

Origami Book Tag

A little tag of a different kind - an origami book tag ... for Tag Tuesday

 

It started with a 6"x6" 7Gypsies paper folded in a little book. It is always such good fun to make those ones, they look so cute and are so easy to create! I stamped one word on each of the pages (stamps: Lily of the Valley). The closure is a little velcro dot, small satin ribbon and a cute book owl (stamp: sorry, don't know the manufacturer). To turn it into a tag I added satin ribbon along the inside of the book spine. The size of the whole book is 3x2.5cm. Petra.

On The Road

Ok, it is a project in progress ... it will become a book cover in its later stage of life ... and was inspired by a book from Jack Kerouac: On The Road. I just love the colours and the feel of the cover ... here is my version

To create the cover I used some digital paper from Martora, I printed the design twice overlapping it digitally. I used stamps from Eco Green Rubber Stamps to stamp the screw heads and sentiments onto the paper.
The second layer consists of tracing paper which I printed on using just a normal inkjet printer ... the first time I did this but printing on tracing paper is so easy and seems to be so effective! The Lady waiting by the roadside for a lift and her roller feet are from June from Dezinaworld, our July Sponsor at Gingersnap creations. Her steampunk images are wonderful and work so well with the Gingersnap Creations Chestnut Theme Challenge: On The Road. Body and feet are joined by some steampunk elements from The Sum of All Crafts. The embellishments are watch parts for the feet and a keyring from Lucy pinned to the Ladie's outfit.

Hop over to the Gingersnap blog for some breathtaking creations and join us, Petra.

A New Book

Last Saturday I went to my second bookbinding course and I LOVED it. Tghere is just something really satisfying in being able to create your own book out of somepaper, card and some thread. This time we only used coptic binding for the book
The paper for covering the front and back cover are from K&Company and the small circles are punched from corrugated card. I used waxed linen thread for the binding ... and some beads for embellishment.
Each section inside the book, the signatures, are made up of some white paper and a black 'wrapper' paper
I also decorated the book a little bit with some 'Things with Wings', our current Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge which you can hopefully all join.

Have a great afternoon, Petra.

Summerbooklet

I made some more little booklets lately and this is one of them
The booklet is in A6 size, really handy to put it in your handbag or else to take it with you. The outside consists of lightweight coloured card, inside just plain white paper. The plain card looked a bit boring so I decorated it with some little doggy images from Just Something I Made and a label from the Graphics Fairy.
For the binding I used a technique called: Japanese Stab binding. It is fun and easy to do - you might get a tutorial about it some time soon (lol) ... and as it is/was so much fun to make the booklet I link it to the Order of the Opus Gluei Blog Hop .... have fun today, Petra.

My First Books

Have you ever done any bookbinding? There are so many wonderfully books out there which have been bound by hand. It always intrigued me how the spine, the binding is being doen and although I have quite a few books about the subject, it always seemd to be a bit daunting ... and that's why my experience with binding some pages together was normally exhausted with punching some holes and 'bind' them together with some book rings, ribbons or else. I decided this had to change and went on a bookbinding workshop - and I loved it. It was brilliant. The tutor was excellent and the samples he showed us absolutely inspiring (if you are interested, you find him and his work here).
These are my first books

Japanese Stab Bindings

Coptic Binding

It was a start and now I want to do more (lol) ... have a great Monday, Petra.