Challenge Entry - Your Sacred Book*
While I wasn’t able to finish my book in 5 days, I was able to make significant progress on it.
I had been working on making myself a small sketchbook that would be covered in suede and a watercolor journal in a floral fabric when this challenge came about and I realized this was the perfect time to make my very own commonplace book. It isn’t easy to find journals in B5, a size I prefer, with more than 200 pages. I got lucky years back and found one at Walmart but they no longer make it. A perfect chance to make my own!
I chose the paper, cover lining pages, and ribbons and I had the perfect thin black leather for the cover.
First a peek at my first two in-progress books. I’m ready to create the covers for both and attach them.
Tsd
I don’t know why Im unable to put captions below each photo but…
(Top to bottom: Inside of Sketch journal, Sketch journal with suede for the cover, Watercolor journal with floral cover fabric, the inside of the watercolor journal, the two journals with the front and back pages added, and finally the two journals with their spine papers attached)
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Comparison of the sizes of the 3 journals.
On to my commonplace book, which is where my spells, recipes, thoughts, tarot readings, and pretty much everything else goes!
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(Top to bottom: The loose pages folded and ready to be bound, In the process of binding, and the pages next to the purple cover pages, black leather cover material, and the bookmark ribbons.)
So very thankful for this challenge to spur me into action and very excited to have my own handmade journals! It’s been fun learning to book bind.
(Sorry for the messy formatting. I was having huge problems with it putting emogies in the wrong place and not letting me type underneath the photos.)