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GAkked from Karendreamer
Jul. 8th, 2005 02:59 pmGo figure. MiniJack and Thor, sitting in a tree...k i s s i n g....
but this next one? Rwooooorrrrrrrrr
Jul. 8th, 2005
Go figure. MiniJack and Thor, sitting in a tree...k i s s i n g....
but this next one? Rwooooorrrrrrrrr
Valentine Book progress
Jul. 8th, 2005 06:37 pmThe Valentine Book (if I haven't explained this before) is a book I make whenever OS has a Valentine's Day Challenge. The challenge was started last year, in 2004, by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frahulettaes. The first year it got a fantastic response. The fics themselves varied some in focus, but there were a LOT of them to choose from - and I made twenty hand-bound books to celebrate the outpouring of great writing vibes.
This year, the Second Annual Valentine's Challenge hit it rough with only three responses - but same as last year, I'm making a hand-bound edition of the three entries. Because this edition is so much slimmer than last year's, I'm going all out with the "crafty" aspect.
It has a blue cloth cover with 'hidden' roses texture-woven into the fabric. The cover will be "soft cover" but reinforced with stiffener. The endpapers, I haven't decided yet. The text leaves themselves are a Japanese paper I bought years and years ago that are about as archival as I've ever seen - they haven't aged like other papers at all. They're a cream/brown color with long thick filaments winding around the surface. Instead of printing directly onto the handmade paper, I'm going to print the text off onto vellum, cut the text panels out, and attach them with adhesive to the Japanese paper leaves. On the bottom of each leaf of paper, I might (I'm not sure if it's overkill yet) adhere/sew a line of dangly beading, so that when a page is turned, you get a physical response from the book, like a bracelet gives you when wave your hand around.
I noticed, when I was touring around the memory book aisles at Joann's Craft Superstore (tm) that there are soooo many new products on the market, including quite a few "love" kind of doo-dads made of metal, or three-d folded paper, or bumpy stickers...it's fantastic! I'm trying to keep the cost of the book down to a reasonable level ($15 give or take) that I'll have to reign in my usual impulses to buy everything I THINK I might be able to use. I still have a ton of rubber stamps from last year that I can use again, too.
If you've gotten this far into this entry -- I make hand-bound books-on-demand. Meaning, if you have a special fic, your own or someone else's, or want to order a special gift for someone, I'm the one to call. :-)
Books are awesome.
frahulettaes. The first year it got a fantastic response. The fics themselves varied some in focus, but there were a LOT of them to choose from - and I made twenty hand-bound books to celebrate the outpouring of great writing vibes.This year, the Second Annual Valentine's Challenge hit it rough with only three responses - but same as last year, I'm making a hand-bound edition of the three entries. Because this edition is so much slimmer than last year's, I'm going all out with the "crafty" aspect.
It has a blue cloth cover with 'hidden' roses texture-woven into the fabric. The cover will be "soft cover" but reinforced with stiffener. The endpapers, I haven't decided yet. The text leaves themselves are a Japanese paper I bought years and years ago that are about as archival as I've ever seen - they haven't aged like other papers at all. They're a cream/brown color with long thick filaments winding around the surface. Instead of printing directly onto the handmade paper, I'm going to print the text off onto vellum, cut the text panels out, and attach them with adhesive to the Japanese paper leaves. On the bottom of each leaf of paper, I might (I'm not sure if it's overkill yet) adhere/sew a line of dangly beading, so that when a page is turned, you get a physical response from the book, like a bracelet gives you when wave your hand around.
I noticed, when I was touring around the memory book aisles at Joann's Craft Superstore (tm) that there are soooo many new products on the market, including quite a few "love" kind of doo-dads made of metal, or three-d folded paper, or bumpy stickers...it's fantastic! I'm trying to keep the cost of the book down to a reasonable level ($15 give or take) that I'll have to reign in my usual impulses to buy everything I THINK I might be able to use. I still have a ton of rubber stamps from last year that I can use again, too.
If you've gotten this far into this entry -- I make hand-bound books-on-demand. Meaning, if you have a special fic, your own or someone else's, or want to order a special gift for someone, I'm the one to call. :-)
Books are awesome.