I knew I had some nice photos I've taken here in Chloride, Arizona in the last couple years. So I thought why not do another tile cover accordion book.
First I had to pry the magnets off the back of the tiles, but that was not hard. I covered the back and edges of the tiles with brown lokta paper and painted over it with PVA glue to make it stronger. I sized and printed out all the tiny photos. Then I tore strips of Arches Text Wove paper 1 3/4" wide and accordion folded it. I needed one join in a valley fold of the accordion to make it long enough for all the photos.
After folding it up, I glued the photos to the pages. I designed and printed a first page plus a last page colophon. Once I had glued the tile covers to the accordion, this little jewel was done. I do think it needs to go under some weights. It tends to want to lay just slightly open.
Some of you have probably picked up on the fact that I'm not all that fond of Chloride. But this little book (about 2" square) makes it look not so bad. So I guess that's a good thing.
Just a little tip to help an accordion book fold lay flat.
ReplyDeleteUse a wide butter knife to make the creases.
Who would guess such a simple thing like that, but it also works to make a double crease side by side, but a wide butter knife does it in one pass instead of two.
I'll have to try that, Frances. You mean just use the butter knife like a bone folder to crease the folds down?
ReplyDeleteFirst use the butter knife to score the crease and the use the bone to fold the crease. Then use the bone to flatten the outside edge of the crease. it puts about an 1/16th of an edge on the crease so it can handle the added book elements.
DeleteIf you use the flat side of the butter knife on the paper surface it will leave a mark like a in silver point drawing. The edge seems to stay clean, but if you are not sure, use wax on the metal edge.