Sunday, October 18, 2009

Reinvented Book Workshop

Now this was really my cup of tea!! Loved this idea and had a lot of fun collating the paper stocks with which to make my new pages.

I had so many thoughts and ideas about this that I couldn't sleep last night so at 1.30am, I got up and glued the binding to the spines of the signatures (or "packets" of pages, as our tutor calls them) so that I could the glue the original cover back on today and get these photo's up, lol.

So.... this is what I started with. An old Readers Digest condensed book that used to hold up one corner of Mum's old sofa:

I took out all the pages:

I then cut various cardstocks, papers and even an old aerial photo printed on film, to size. These were then folded in half, collated into signatures (or sets) of 3, 4 or 5 depending on the thickness of the paper used and then trimmed up neatly.


I used a mixture of heavily textured paper, water colour paper, black paper and printed papers. As you turn the pages you may well come across a page of random size or a pocket to pop in tags or notes. I love the unexpected element of this.
I may yet alter the cover because of course it no longer reflects the contents but I'm not sure yet how I want to do it.


I can see I will make more of these over time - they will make great gifts.


3 comments:

  1. I can see why you enjoyed this class Esther! It's neat that it has lots of different papers in it too :) Well done you!!

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  2. Glad it was so much fun. And yes . . . a good idea for gifts . . . (not mentioning any particular person with a birthday coming up!)

    By the way, I love the fish.

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  3. Oh I can see why you enjoyed this so much. Very Nice..

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