Bendy Spine Mini Book

Another day, another mini book created. This time I was inspired by some white metallic paint (it doesn't take much to inspire me at the moment). I painted the covers of this mini book, first with white and then with the metallic white and sat back to think about what next.

This is the finished book:

I wanted something elegant so I loaded up my script stamp with gold paint and stamped the covers and the spine

 

I had a napkin with a variety of black script on it so I tore it down to the last layer, tore the parts off that I wanted and adhered it to the covers with some matt finish modge podge (I love modge podge!)

I wanted some bolder black on the cover too so I stamped a variety of my postcard stamps with black Stayzon.

I then painted the edges of the book with a very fine paintbrush and some of the gold paint

For the pages, I used the Tando Creative innies pack and cut 8 strips using the larger template. I rounded the edges with a punch to give an even finish. I wasn't sure what I wanted in the book yet so I have left them blank.




I used some thick black cotton to wind along the spine and slip the pages in between, so they can be taken out easily for decorating at a later date. I used some double sided tape to adhere the ends of the cotton to the inside of the spine.

I love this elegant finish to this book and watch this space for what I do with the pages

Claire x

Handmade Writers Notebook

I had some stamps which lent themselves nicely to make this book:

I took two pieces of sturdy cardboard for the covers and stamped the script stamp in brown ink onto cream card. I then wrapped these around the covers and finished off the inside cover with some cream card.

The inside has lined paper from a pad so I lined the ready punched holes up and punched matching holes into the covers. I fixed in some bronze brads and book rings hold it all together.

For the front decoration I heat embossed the typewriter image in pomegranate WOW embossing powder. This image was then mounted onto brown card.

The words were stamped onto mountboard with matching red ink and ultra thick embossing powder was applied three times to give it the raised, shiny finish.

A different script stamp was stamped 3 times and embossed with the same pomegranate embossing powder onto the cream card. This was cut out and mounted onto brown card as a border.

The small book was stamped with clear versamark ink onto brown card and embossed with WOW embossing powder in copper metallic.

This would make a perfect present for any writer and you won't find anything like it!