A book Folded Book for My Mum

Time to create another book folding project, this time to celebrate my Mums Birthday.

I purchased a second hand book and a book folding pattern and a ruler and pencil and started following the pattern for the word Mum.  I completed the book folding over 2 hours. 

 I started decorating the cover of the book with cream and navy card stock. I covered the inside page next to where the word started and ended to make the word stand out more. I attached  some ribbon 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 and layered this onto navy card fie cut design and fixed to the front cover of the book.

 A personalised tag was printed and cut into a circle and matted onto a scalloped circle . Ribbon was attached to the tag.

To finish decorating I cut numerous buttons from navy, cream and light brown card stock.  Two manikin shapes were cut and one section was cut down , the base and body part was layered onto the remaining piece using 1mm 3d foam pads. Printed ribbon was attached around the body of the maniken and secured with strong tape at the back.

A few skeins shapes were cut from light brown card and blue and cream embroderiery thread wrapped around each. all the embellishemnst were attached using strong glue and the buttons fixed randomly on the cover , and on the pages of the book.

The finished book looked like this.

Finally the book was wrapped in clear cellaphane and finshed of with the personalised tag.