Today we go pretty simple. The hardest part of this little butterfly book was cutting the pages. Oh, how I wished for a die-cutter! Cutting the butterflies out by hand took forever and it's far from perfect or uniform. The last was really not a problem, because I simply made the decision that I didn't WANT them perfect. I wanted them loose and fluttery and natural looking. Problem solved. But I still would have liked cutting them out to be faster.
The blue butterfly image is both the cover and the center leaf of the single signature book. But the one on the cover is printed on heavy card stock, the one inside on plain paper. The other pages are cut from colored and decorative papers in lavender, blue and cream. The signature is sewn to the cover with a pamphlet stitch and tied on the outside, with two tails left on the thread to represent the butterfly's antennae.
I think it's pretty. It would be fun to pull out of a purse and jot a note in.
The blue butterfly image is both the cover and the center leaf of the single signature book. But the one on the cover is printed on heavy card stock, the one inside on plain paper. The other pages are cut from colored and decorative papers in lavender, blue and cream. The signature is sewn to the cover with a pamphlet stitch and tied on the outside, with two tails left on the thread to represent the butterfly's antennae.
I think it's pretty. It would be fun to pull out of a purse and jot a note in.
This is a delight! I'd be hard pressed to actually write in it, though, because it is so pretty.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful book!
ReplyDelete@Misha, maybe only beautiful words and thoughts. :-)
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