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!
Well, my book is ready to go. I decided to do a mix of "forms" (for lack of a better term). I used book cloth and book board, some sturdier paper on the "outside" pages and the inside pages (between the green, holey paper) is pastels and a lighter paper weight. I'm hoping there's enough room for folks to do two pages if they like. The book itself is somewhat small, around 5". I love tiny things I can throw in a bag or a purse or a pocket so I made it tiny, but not too tiny.
