This was another one of those "I want a die cutter!" books. I had to cut all the pages by hand with scissors--to the point that my scissors actually fell apart in my hand in protest!
Lucha Libre is HUGE here in Mexico. It's basically wrestling with masks on. The best known wrestlers are huge stars. I picked up these two lucha libre mask stickers in a little gift shop a few days ago. Then I, surprisingly, found some aluminum screw posts in Office Depot. Ahh, a match made in heaven.
This style is called a fan book becuase it opens up like one. The pages are all held together by the screw post and are loose enough to fan out... like a bunch of paint chip samples. There are about 100 or so pages, cut from several different papers, mostly scrap from other projects of the last couple of weeks.
The only real problem in making this book (besides the lack of a die-cutter to cut out all those pages) was the fact that I don't have a hole punch with me. I had to use my handy little hand-held drill bit to start the holes, then enlarge them with an awl, leaving some ragged looking holes that tended to ripple when I pushed them down over the post. Next time I do this, I'll have a hole punch.
Lucha Libre is HUGE here in Mexico. It's basically wrestling with masks on. The best known wrestlers are huge stars. I picked up these two lucha libre mask stickers in a little gift shop a few days ago. Then I, surprisingly, found some aluminum screw posts in Office Depot. Ahh, a match made in heaven.
This style is called a fan book becuase it opens up like one. The pages are all held together by the screw post and are loose enough to fan out... like a bunch of paint chip samples. There are about 100 or so pages, cut from several different papers, mostly scrap from other projects of the last couple of weeks.
The only real problem in making this book (besides the lack of a die-cutter to cut out all those pages) was the fact that I don't have a hole punch with me. I had to use my handy little hand-held drill bit to start the holes, then enlarge them with an awl, leaving some ragged looking holes that tended to ripple when I pushed them down over the post. Next time I do this, I'll have a hole punch.
Oh, those guys are so cute. And yes, what does not kill us (or the computer) makes us stronger and more serene. Buena ventura.
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