Drawer in a box, concertina book inside.

This concertina book is encased in a small drawer inside a box, made the same way as the others in this bento box project, on tea stained mixed media paper, embellished with collage.

I still may add a focal point to the pages after I have completed the entire project. Although I don't mind the way they look now.

 

Small clipboard created for the bento box project, plus another tin with a concertina book inside.

This is the clipboard that I made for the project, using the teabags from the paper dying process. I gathered a few together and machine stitched across the top, then stamped the pages with some text. I then covered a small mounting board from some picture framers waste with some scrapbook paper and attached the pages with a bulldog clip.

More examples of the stamping onto the teabags.

I find I like to use up scrap bits and pieces rather than throw things away, like the teabags.

once they are dried out the staining leaves great marks.

The images don't have to be text on all the pages, its was just my choice on the day that I put this together.

I must have been playing around with some other dyes this day, that could explain the colour on this page, sometimes mistakes like this have a good result.

This is another of the saved tins for this bento box project. I didn't feel the need to decorate the outside of the tin as it looked like it had had a rough time and had aged beautifully anyway.

The inside of the lid needed some sprucing up with a little collage.

This is the concertina book enclosed in the tin, with every tiny page collaged.   

 

Pack Rat Book flip through,

A quick look through this next junk journal, this time a bit different from the usual tomes that I make, this is a great way to utilise saved materials and do a little scrap busting for the pages. 

Music Junk Journal, Flip through

.

Next junk journal made, music theme this time.

there is still some embellishing to add, tags, journal cards etc.

using isolation to complete some unfinished book projects

Quick flip through of six handmade journals.

These are some more journals that I've been working on during the studio down time, finished off some that had the covers created last year.

Quick Flip through, show and tell, small books

Mark making using plastic doilies etc.

Tea staining papers can be a lot of fun when layering different things over the pages during the drying process. I have found the best results on warm to hot days, I guess the quicker drying time, the better the end result.

Sequin waste, part of a plastic doily, and a cardboard embroidery thread organiser.

these can leave interesting marks.

Large plastic doily layered over two A4 pages, results in a lot of patterning transfer.

There are many different patterns in these doilies to choose from for different results.

This is a particularly large one.

Steampunk Journal

Here it is finally, a quick flip through of me latest Tome, i will include another post of the progress images, creating the book and one of the collage pages.