The art of Book Folding

Haven't done a blog update for a while as I been otherwise occupied with some well needed decoration and house works to our property.

Whilst a lot of my craft goodies were in storage thought I would attempt a new craft which didn't require to much equipment.

I purchased a second hand book and a book folding pattern and a ruler and pencil and started following the pattern for the word friend.  Its a therapeutic art and I completed most of the book folding over 2 evenings whilst in front of  the television. 

With a particular friend in mind who's birthday was coming up this month , I started decorating the cover of the book with cerise, pink and green card stock. I covered the inside page next to where the word started and ended to make the word stand out more. I attached two pieces of ribbon joined together with a diamonte buckle and fixed this across the book and attached the end to both the front and back covers of the book . I mat and layered card on the both front and back of the outside of the book and the spine. I cut 8 photo corners and fixed these on the outside of the book. 

I printed a message out connected to the word Friend and mat and layered this onto cerise and green  card and fixed to the front cover of the book. A personalised tag was printed and cut into a circle and matted onto two scalloped circles . Ribbon was attached to the tag and secured inside the book and the tag folded over onto the back cover of the book. 

To finish decorating I cut five flowers out and secured them with light pink organza ribbon at the centre. Using a Sizzix Thinlet die - meadow butterfly , I created 3 butterflies , the flowers and butterflies where fixed both inside and on both outside covers of the book.

Using my Cricut Gypsy and Mickey font cartridge I created the name Susan and welded the letters together before cutting to go on the spine of the book.

Having created the Friend book , I decides to create some more, so I next started a book with the word Dad. 

This being a smaller word didn't take me long and decorating was also quite quick too. Using my Cricut Gypsy and Soccer cartridge I created some football boots and then die cut football our using my Quickutz soccer ball.   

I attached a decorative football design ribbon across the book and attached the end to both the front and back covers of the book. The book inside and out was matted with both black and white card stock. Black photo corners were cut to decorate the outside cover.

A dad sentiment was printed and matted onto both white and black card stock and fixed to the front cover of the book.

Two footballs and boots were fixed to the top and bottom section of the from cover.

 

On the back cover of the book the die cut footballs were fixed randomly , some where cut in half to even go up to the edge of the cover.

Finally the word football was created using my Cricut Gypsy and Mickey Font cartridge and welding the word together was cut and fixed down the spine of the book.

The boots and football were attached using a hot glue gun to the inside pages of the book for added strength.

 Still under construction Ive folded the words Mr & Mrs  and Mum...