Welcome Back Carol Quance #1 Tag Book Part 1 ....

"I like making books. I came across the spine for this book somewhere on the internet but I don’t know where so if anyone has seen it before just shout and I will happily credit the person who came up with the idea".

Book spine: Start by cutting 2 pieces of Thorndon Hall Paper 10½ x 4½ inches (I tend to swap between cm and inches. Inches were just more convenient here so I hope I don’t confuse anyone!). Score the paper along its width every inch so that you have 10 x 1 inch panels and a half inch panel at one end.  Crease the folds as if making a fan.

You are now going to join the two pieces together. Remember the half inch pieces need to be on the outside edge. Each panel makes two slots into which you will put the tags. Punch holes in each fold holding two of the folds together at the same time so that the holes align.  These will be the slots for the tags to fit into. 

Then join two folds together in order to create a slot for your tag to go into. I decided to join the folds together with eyelets but you could use brads, ribbon and fibres depending on the effect you want to create. I marked the position of the eyelet holes ¼ inch down from the top and in the middle of each 1” panel. Each 10½ piece of card makes 2½ slots so one end of each piece has one fold and you need to join both together to create one long piece with five slots in it for 5 tags. 

Your tags should fit snugly into each slot.  You should now have something that looks like the pic below with two folds joined together for a tag to be placed in between.

Book covers:  I cut two pieces of mount board 6¾ x 4½ inches for the covers and one piece 2½ x 4½ inches for the spine back. I came up with the idea of joining them with some Grunge Board, so cut two pieces and joined them to the spine and covers with some very large stationery split pins/brads.

I also trimmed the brads.

To create some dimension, I used a mixture of embossed and die cut letters and shapes which I stuck to the outside of the book cover. 

 I also smooshed some Grunge Paste through the Mini Swiss Dot Stencil. It was then painted with Nougat Fresco Paint.

Then I started adding colour with some Cut N Dry foam using these colours below

Note the paints weren't added in any particular order. By the time I reached here, I hated it and started painting all over again! (As you do).

Some time later….. I was happier with the paint process. I added TreasureGold to highlight and returned to my fave gold UTEE to complete. 

 The inside was painted with Pansy.

I added the lovely long stamped image from LPCO12 to the inside covers which also had the added benefit of covering up the brads. 

The spine was then added and I stuck it in place using quite a lot of high tack double sided tape. 

Join me tomorrow night when I will show you all the tags, then join me again on Wednesday night for my final project of the week. Until then!


Leandra Says: These papers were always a fav of ours here at PA HQ, great to see you incorporating them into this project, can't wait to see more.

Gillian Says: The combination of different elements in this project looks great together Carol, love the Treasured Gold highlights.

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