This fall I signed up for The Sketchbook Project - my book arrived in the mail and last weekend I took a little “me” time and started working on it. I thought I would document it’s progress.
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| The fun package arrived from Art House Coop in Brooklyn |
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| They sent me a notebook to work some magic on and information & rules for the project |
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so the first thing I did was rip it all apart -
but carefully saved the bar code to reapply to the finished cover
to identify it as mine |
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| I selected handmade papers for the outside and inside of the cover |
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| I decided on the look of an old book -this paper looks like distressed leather |
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| I can’t live with out Best Test spray adhesive! |
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For the inside of the cover I used a beautiful piece of marbleized paper
I’ve been saving to for ages and it was perfect for this project. |
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| I cut it carefully to size so I didn’t waste any of it… |
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Here it is with both papers applied over the original cardboard cover
but I thought it still needed “something” |
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| it needed a spine -for this I used a piece of “suede” paper in dark blue - I wrote on it with a metallic pen. The title is “Create & Capture” the theme I selected for my project |
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| after creating the spine, I decided it also needed corners -so I sewed the suede paper on my sewing machine |
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| I wanted to also create a frontispiece for the front cover so I took a metal file label frame and pounded it flat |
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| I then worked on antiquing it… |
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| I took an old piece of journal paper and stamped the title to fit in the frame |
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| I then glued all the embellishments to the cover and was pleased with the results… |
One Comment
that is a really great project
it is really detailed and seems easy
I'm glad I stumbled upon your bog