As soon as I saw this lovely pale green vellum paper today, I knew I had to use it. Here in Mexico you can buy paper by the sheet, so I bought just 10 sheets of it. When it came to tearing the pages of the book, I was a bit nervous since I didn't have enough vellum to do them over if I screwed it up. But I like the way the torn layers came out.
The lovely images are more pages cut from my Arizona Highways weekly calendar (for weeks already past). I made two signatures of 4 sheets each from the vellum and stitched them to a card-stock weight cover. You open one side with the tulip, or you can flip the book over and open from the other side, with the slot canyon image.
Sunday I will go to the "tianguis," the bi-weekly open-air market where you can buy anything from groceries to dried herbs, to old tools, to 2nd-hand clothes, to radios, CD, and cassettes, to live birds, to meat or fish or cheese, to fresh honey, to fabric, to toys, to shampoo to... well, you get the idea. I'm sure I will find some intjeresting materials for future books.
The lovely images are more pages cut from my Arizona Highways weekly calendar (for weeks already past). I made two signatures of 4 sheets each from the vellum and stitched them to a card-stock weight cover. You open one side with the tulip, or you can flip the book over and open from the other side, with the slot canyon image.
Sunday I will go to the "tianguis," the bi-weekly open-air market where you can buy anything from groceries to dried herbs, to old tools, to 2nd-hand clothes, to radios, CD, and cassettes, to live birds, to meat or fish or cheese, to fresh honey, to fabric, to toys, to shampoo to... well, you get the idea. I'm sure I will find some intjeresting materials for future books.
Gorgeous book!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea of torn pages. Almost a tunnel book.
ReplyDeleteooooh, nifty idea. And tomorrow the market will provide cornucopia.
ReplyDeleteI *love* how those pages turned out, especially over the sky background.
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