More Valentine book-making
Jul. 9th, 2005 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gategrrlI ended up taking my two kids with me to the craft store to get the stuff to make the books -- it was just as distracting as I thought it would be, grrrrr. I had to take them for reasons I won't go into right now. But I managed to pick out the best beaded fringing for the text pages (from those that were available) -- the colors aren't traditional for Valentine's Day, but I don't like to go full-out traditional.
The blue cloth is just as nice as it was when I picked it out yesterday, yay!
The beaded fringe is green, with a fancier (and thicker) edging tape to it than I would have preferred, but it works. And I rediscovered a silvery text paper I had tucked up on a shelf somewhere that I *think* fits in without distracting from the other colors. There's a heavy bronze paper that I bought some time ago that I may use for the "end paper", but it's pretty intensely metallic bronze -- but I have some bronzey ethnic metal beads that I might be able to use to help tie it together.
It's a *small* book, too -- the text pages are only 6x4inches.
Instead of buying decorated fabric tape/ribbon, I remembered, jeez, I have all those rubber stamps from LAST year, FCOL! I'll use those with a fabric ink pad.
The only thing I wish that I had for the book are three illustrations (manips or screencaps) of daniel/sha're (2-romantic) and daniel/jack (1-friendship).
The blue cloth is just as nice as it was when I picked it out yesterday, yay!
The beaded fringe is green, with a fancier (and thicker) edging tape to it than I would have preferred, but it works. And I rediscovered a silvery text paper I had tucked up on a shelf somewhere that I *think* fits in without distracting from the other colors. There's a heavy bronze paper that I bought some time ago that I may use for the "end paper", but it's pretty intensely metallic bronze -- but I have some bronzey ethnic metal beads that I might be able to use to help tie it together.
It's a *small* book, too -- the text pages are only 6x4inches.
Instead of buying decorated fabric tape/ribbon, I remembered, jeez, I have all those rubber stamps from LAST year, FCOL! I'll use those with a fabric ink pad.
The only thing I wish that I had for the book are three illustrations (manips or screencaps) of daniel/sha're (2-romantic) and daniel/jack (1-friendship).
