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 17 - for series 52

For further info on this series : see this post

week 17 : book 17 

This time a booklet of 6 pages of wood. 

It measures 10x10 centimeters. 

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I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. series 52 - just a play with creating a book every week; a challenge I set to myself.

2. Mini Album Makers

PAGE 12 of the wooden booklet FINAL

 

STAMPS USED: (click on picture)

I am entering this in the challenge on 

So Artful Challenge- TIME!

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THE FINSHED BOOKLET: 

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Hope you like it, I am pretty sure my daughter will.
She is turning 22 in February, I will give it to her then.


 am entering this in the challenge on So Artful - Time

PAGE 11 of the wooden booklet!

 

Here I used some custom made texture paste : mix some white wood glue and gesso, works fine!

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STAMPS USED: 

PAGE 10 of the wooden booklet

 

STAMPS USED:

PAGE 9 of the wooden booklet!

 

I started with torn pieces of scrapbookpaper, and stamping over it with the border stamps. Then I painted it with watered down white acrylic paint. The swirls were heat embossed with black embossing powder. 

STAMPS USED:

PAGE 8 of the wooden booklet...

Page 8 already!!

I was so happy to see how these colors make it a sunny page.

Hope you like it!

 It's going to be very difficult to give all of these pages to my daughter - I rather want to keep it myself LOL

The flowers at the bottom were stamped with the heart stamp with flowers as a collage, isn't it beautiful? The edges were sponged over a torn page from a book.

STAMPS ARE FROM KATZELKRAFT

PAGE 7 of the wooden booklet!

 

Next page of the wooden booklet I am making for my daughter of her passport photographs....

 

 

Stamps are from Katzelkraft. 

PAGE 6 of the wooden booklet !

Just been playing around with gesso, acrylic aints, tissue paper, heat embossing, distress inks, masking tape, stamps (of course!) to get the background.

The wooden booklet is halfway now!

The strip with red lettering LIVE LAUGH LOVE is masking tape from Kadocato...

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STAMPS USED:

PAGE 5 of the wooden booklet!

 

 LOVE my girlie, 11 years old here!

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STAMPS USED:

Katzelkraft!

PAGE 4 of wooden booklet ...

...8 to go!

 The droplets are real glass beads.

 I bought them in a little shop in my hometown. 

They were made by prisoners in the second world war somewhere in Asia. The shop-owner received it as a gift from an old man, and he had told her that he has been making them during the war.  Handmade!

To get them to reflect the light I adhered them to aluminium tape. Aren't they pretty?

I am entering this in the challenge on :
1. Artful times - 'anything goes'
2. Simon Says Stamps says - anything goes

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STAMPS USED:

Katzelkraft

PAGE 3 of the wooden booklet!

 

 

STAMPS USED:

Katzelkraft

Second page of wooden booklet..

This is the second page of the wooden booklet I am altering. 

Last Saturday I did the cover... 

Today the fiirst school photograph of my daughter at age 5 ..

 

 I am entering this in the following challenges:
1. TIOT - memories
2. Our Creative Corner- make you own background (doing that most of the times!)
3. The Stampman - embossing (I embossed the stencilled parts (clear) and the text in the background (white)).

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STAMPS USED: 

From Katzelkraft

Wooden booklet to be used as photo album - the front !

 

 

HOW TO: I used tissue paper (with stamped text) and a real crochetted doily to create the background. Cover it with watered-down gesso, spray it with glimmer mists. Finish as shown.

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I am going to use this booklet as a photo album (for all my daughter's passport photo's  - from day 1 of school, to the last... think I need more than 12 pages..) 

.... to be continued 12 times...

It started off being a wooden booklet for a child. Here you can see the sanded and gesso'd 'pages'. 

I started off with the cover ...

 

STAMPS USED:

Katzelkraft