Monday, July 5, 2010

Not Like I Envisioned - But Okay For Now

I continue to work on the 6 Treasure Booklets that I decided to make a while back. The first wintery looking one was put together tonight. I am not completely happy with how it went together... but I will sit with it this way for a while, and see what comes. It was supposed to be put together with metal rings at the top, but they made the book to tight to open.


Here is a few of the open book .... with many pages ready for filling with writing, drawings , pasting or whatever one would wish.



My idea for the booklet was for many differently decorated pages stacked unevenly on top of each other. A treasure chest of pages just waiting to be discovered, and inviting creativity.


And this I think has worked. Many layers of roughly decorated pages.....



This is the cover for Treasure Booklet #2...... and yes I have 6 of these to make.

4 comments:

  1. Dear Kim-thank you so much for stopping by my blog. I love your books-do you make them from scratch? They are amazing little treasures of art...(aptly titled Treasures!!)Wow-they are so amazing with all the layers and depth and textures you add. ...P.S. from a fellow Canadian xxx

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  2. what gorgeous treasures! love all the different beautiful papers, they are making beautiful notebooks.
    Job interview went well the other day, I now have a job to come home to :)
    Its almost time for me to start packing all of my crafting supplies away, and to start with the apartment cleaning instead...not looking forward to it!
    See you in a few weeks!!

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  3. In answer to the question above - is yes I do make them from scratch... that is I don't make the paper (well some of it I do), but I decorate the pages, in most cases with paper I have decorated, or with paints, inks etc. It is fun - but very time consuming.

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  4. Oh, your book is gorgeous! It makes me want to hold it, turn its pages, feel all the lovely papers, stitching and paint. Yummy!

    Six books does sound a bit daunting, but they're going to be wonderful.

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