For the last few weeks I have been working on a recycled mini book for a swap I entered. It's been a lot of work but I've loved every minute of it. The only thing missing was the cover image and so decided to use the Three Muses theme for this week - Eyes.
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| Recycled mini-book |
There are so many techniques and pages I won't go through them all here, but for those who would like to see all the pages you can view them on the Flickr slide show here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83296776@N03/sets/72157632057873440/show/
The book is 1.5 inches wide, 2 inches tall and .75 inch thick. It has 3 signatures of 2 pages each which has been hand sewn to the outside of the cover using waxed thread. In addition to the book, is a book holder which is made in matching style also with an eye impression.
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| Inside Cover |
The book is made from a frozen pizza box, off cuts of various papers, some scrap fibres and pieces of canvas. Also included were some tiny pieces of art I had left over from making inchies and ATCs. The book cover and book holder are made from printer paper, sprayed with inks and then collaged with tissue paper, stamped with an eye.
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| One of the inside pages showing the binding. |
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| Book with open pages and the book cover |
I also made a YouTube video of the book and describing each page that you can see
here
