Dudley!

Here's my page in the book I just worked on. It was started by Lauren (Gigglepotomus) and is an ongoing story where each person adds what happens next. I can't wait to see what's next in the adventures of Dudley. I'm afraid I left him in a rather bad spot.

Rebekah's book

Here's my addition to the book Rebekah made!

Away it goes!

Here's Traci's Book, via Jan Cohen.

It was a lot of fun working with Traci's varities of paper and Jan's fabric scraps! Here are some of my favorite pages.

Book #2

I received Jan Cohen's book to work on for the first round. I loved the fabric samples and chose a sequence of pretty green pages to work on. I liked being able to do a little sewing/beading- a nice change from a paper book! Here's my pages:

Failure = reinvention

So, last time I posted I wrote about my troubles with getting spraypaint to stick to the box for my "pages." I had similar problems getting paper to stick! I was using adhesive that I use to stick paper to glass for my lens necklaces, but I think the trouble was that the plastic of the box was thin and bendy. So I gave up on that and just made my own box out of illustration board and bookbinding tape. Here it is, ready to go out in the mail soon!

Failure = discovery

I attempted to spraypaint the purple plastic box I bought to contain my index card "book," thinking silver would be much more interesting than purple. Alas, I forgot that spraypaint tends to not want to stick to things that are plastic, particularly if they are bendy plastic. Much flaking ensued:

At first this was annoying, since my desk, hands, and clothing were full of little paint flakes and my box was mostly back to its former purple self. But then I realized that the paint flakes would stick to paper, so I coated some of my index cards in glue and pressed them down on the paint flakes, which stuck in random interesting patterns. A happy accident! Here are some of the cards in progress- I'm trying to not do too much, but to at least make one mark on each card.

Back to square one with decorating the box- I'm going to try decoupaging some mulberry paper to it using a glue that I know will stick to plastic!