Technique Tuesday!

I decided that I wanted to make a little accordian-style books with some of my background papers.  In particular, I wanted to use what was left from the pink and fushia monoprinted paper.  My first experiment didn’t work out too well, as you’ll see.  I used a 1/2 inch paper punch and crocheted the pages together with an oversized hook.  The crocheting went fine, but the holes were way too big!
My second attempt resorted to a standard office-style paper punch and a smaller hook.  Much better!  I trimmed the rectangles to get rid of the large holes, and cut …read more

Make Art Monday!

In the spirit of all the book arts we’ve been looking at this month, I thought I’d experiment with a new way to join pages together.  New to me, anyway!  Tomorrow for Technique Tuesday, I’ll share the method that I used to make this little booklet

Artist: Kara L C Jones
Website: Mother Henna
Kara’s handmade book is beautiful and extremely sensitive.  Since it deals with the painful topic of stillbirth, we have decided to let you decide for yourself if you will look at the rest of the images and read about it.  I hope you will decide to do so.