I took a class for $25 on how to fold this particular book. The first one turned out a little lopsided and messy, but it is my husbands favorite so far. This one I put together because I fell in love with the fairy riding the turtle and my favorite color is yellow. I used 10 double sided papers, 3 pieces of black card stock and numerous embellishments to be listed at the end. It took me 2 hours of walking around Barb's Little Scrapbook House to decide what I was going to do. I was not sure what accent color I would use until we started talking about color wheels and I saw a sample with the pale yellow, blue and pink accented with black. I went home and started putting the book together. Once I decided on the black tags, everything else fell into place.
This book took me longer than any of the others so far because I put so much detail into each tag and pocket:
2 hours gathering supplies and discussing technique
2 hours scoring and folding
1 hour gluing ( I was being very careful this time)
3 hours cutting and embellishing the tags
3 hours embellishing the book
It is a good thing I will not charge by the hour.
Supplies used: 10 pages double sided paper, 3 pages black card stock, glue, scoring board, bone folder, double sided tape, yarn, stamps and ink pads, rub on's, ivory parchment paper, decorative papers, embellishments, eyelets, color copy machine, paper cutter, eyelet setter.
Tip: On this particular book, I had a 90 cent paper that looked like antique paper that I wanted to use. I only had one page and was scared I would mess up too bad, so I made color and black/white copies on parchment paper. I was then able to experiment with the paper and found that the parchment paper ripped and glued much easier than the double sided paper. I now use this technique on other projects. Plain typing paper also works well.
Where is this book now? It has been donated to an auction to benefit our local school.
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