Vintage Book cover with jute - book no 36

YES,  book 36 for series 52

The book measures 19 x 21 centimeters, the 16 plastic pockets inside of it 13,5 x 19 centimeters.

 For further info on this series, please see this post

 The book cover is from MDF; the front cover in 2 pieces, a narrow strip for the hinge on the left, and a wider part to act as the actual cover. is covered with the jute to makes for the hinge, and the jute thread to hold the pages. The back cover is one solid piece, the MDF is about 4 mm thick. 
 The 'pages' are plastic pockets for 13x18 centimeter photographs or any other content that size, of course.

To start, I white washed the jute with a watered down acrylic paint.
 It was fun just using a tiny piece of colored background to fill the ellips frame. The leftovers were then cut into various sizes of circles to extend the color to the rest of the cover. 

Background stamping with black ink and mixed media stamps was added to both the back and front cover. White accents adds more depth, done with white acrylic paint and an acrylic marker. 

The ellips is the focal of the book, and the fussy cut foliage fits right in the center of it all.  

All in all it has a vintage style as a start, with the torn edges (jute) and the basic color of the jute, but adding a color and white wash effects it changes to a modern but shabby chic style (I think, lol). 

White paint splatters, vintage buttons and lace finish it off.  

For info on the product, please check out my post on the Rubber Dance blog. 

Book 35 - for series 52

The book has two signatures; therefore the spine of the book has two twigs to which the signatures are attached with thread
(book number 35 in my series of binding books).

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 21

For further info on this series : see this post

For more pictures and information on the making of the set of multiple books I made, see this post please : 
2022 Topic 15: Paper, Seeds & Twigs {by Ellie Knol} with Tracy Scott Stamps

Have fun creating! 

Book 34 - for series 52

 book 34 

This time a booklet with a japanese binding

It measures 12 x 15 centimeters. 

These were the steps I followed; for a dutch challenge of course :)
The middle flower is a stamp from Rubber Dance, I thought it fits the collage very nicely.

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 34

For further info on this series : see this post

2. #steptober from De Scrapheap Community

2021 Topic 1 Stamp Mashing - FP ECF I&D ESA: Take Notes {by Ellie Knol}

2021 Topic 1: Stamp Mashing with ...

France Papillon * Courtney Franich * Ink & the Dog * Seth Apter
(and a tiny bit of Kay Carley :) )

For more info see the post on the Paper Artsy  Blog.....

My book 33 - for series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself 

This time a booklet A5 size. 

2020 #16 Watercolor Paper Hinged Book with HP {by Ellie Knol}

September 2020 Topic 16 for Paper Artsy was
Hinged..  (more info on the Paper Artsy blog)

To say the truth, I forgot to post this book to my blog. 

This is book number 32 - for series 52

For further info on this series : see this post

This time a book with a hinged binding.. 
It's basically an A5 sized book with watercolor paper as the pages. 

Fishy booklets for 52 books...

On the Rubber Dance blog two weeks ago:
 two recycled booklets I will use as mini art journals.

For my 52books series this is book number 31; a very interesting type of binding: a cover over a spiral binding.

I dissembled the books first, and got rid of both the original end papers inside as that was torn by doing so... 

... leaving me with the cover plus spine intact.. 

.. I covered the outside by adhering half of an A4 gelliprint with muted pink and greenish colors (using a Magenta stencil in case you wonder)...  .... 

... I brushed some matte medium to the surface to give it some protection...  

.. stamped onto it with StaZon blazing red ink..
 

.. gave it some extra color with green distress ink.. 

.. added some white with an acrylic marker... 

.. and reassembled the booklets using the second and second last page of the book to use as the new end papers on the inside...

DONE...
Hope you like it and give recycling a book a try.. it´s fun.. 

Rubber Dance Stamps:

The Rubber Dance Webshop

Whale Wishes

Fish Diet 

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 29

For further info on this series : see this post

2. Mini Album Makers

Book 30 for series52

This is book 30 in my book series. 

Guess what I've used to make this book? 

This was a wallet... one from leather... one I've used a lot when we still had cheque books in our wallet...

At that time I was still working for Barclays International Bank in Johannesburg as a computer programmer in mainly Cobol, some 30 + years ago.. 

I might add an elastic band still to carry a pen.. 

I lined it with a floral piece of cotton.. 

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 30

For further info on this series : see this post

2. Mini Album Makers

Book 29 for series52

This is book 29 in my book series. 

Eight signatures in a cover-like booklet... using a piece of cardboard to hold the signatures by stitching them onto it with a coptic type of stitch, which, when finished gets adhered onto the inside of the spine... 

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 29

For further info on this series : see this post

2. Mini Album Makers

Inspiration TIMI challenge time - book 28

April .. already!! 

Join us in the TIMI challenge

A stamped book cover to 3 insert art journals I've made : I recycled the cover of the original book and divided the pages to 3 parts as the journal became too bulky. 

The front. 

Close-up of the front cover

The back cover.. 

The 3 inserts with 3 elastic bands to hold them. I covered the inserts with some white cotton, and will als stamp on these.. art journaling is always a work in progress to me. 

This is book 28 in my book series. 

I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book.. 52 of them: a challenge I set to myself - Book 28

For further info on this series : see this post

2. Mini Album Makers

3. The flower Challenge :

All stamps used are from Magenta: 

48.017.K
Ellie Knol designs

48.018.N

Ellie Knol designs

A work of art...  [07.692.L]

IENIEMINIE - TINY Art - book 27

I am entering this in the challenge from Art Journey - AJC #108 ienieminie/ tiny art 

I have wanted to create a book like this for a long time now, and decided to make it now for the challenge of Art Journey.

I used a torn piece of gelliprinted paper to be the 'page', and stamped all the images from the INSECTS stamp set.

This is also a book in my series of bookmaking for series 52:
For further info on this series : see this post

 book 27 

This time a book with a spool and stamped images on the paper. 

Here are some photographs of book 26 and 27: