I have always admired Japanese book binding, never tried it until today. It was very much fun, I have to say. I think this could become a book, even though I intended a card. Meandered my way through this project.
What got me started was deciding that if I was going to the Japanese binding, I was going to make a Japanese card. I had just gotten a booklet of Japanese papers, stickers and labels from Pepin Press. I hadn't done the SC yet and with those skinny strips, I knew I could use the tapes in the book. They were sort of wide so I cut them in half and put them on a foiled marbled cs (F4A sparkle, shimmer or shine). I didn't measure, just eyeball. Then I embossed the whole thing, love how that turned out. Added a circle sticker in the middle and a simple sentiment, gold embossed on a leftover mixed media piece. To make things a bit more simple, because I'm challenged with construction, I added the cs strip with the book binding and scored it so it acts like a hinge. I could add papers inside for a booklet, but they wouldn't be bound with the twine. Added some strips of tape and the foiled cs under the binding, which of course were added after I did the binding. Making it up as I go. I had fun doing this little project
Date: Friday, May 29, 2020 GMT Views: 918
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Fri, May 29, 2020 @ 9:35 PM
Oh, the irony, the juxtaposition, "Live Simply" on such a complexly stunning cover. How Buddhist of you, how transcendent to ponder the details and process. Another thriller, Jean.
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Sat, May 30, 2020 @ 8:14 AM
Very pretty and looks really hard to do. This is great!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6