Book 303 - Parcheesi - Recycled Game Board Guest Book/Journal - Japanese Stab Binding - Herrringbone Stitch

I love doing these recycled game board journals or guest books. The graphics on them are often so cool. For this one, I used a classic Parcheesi board--a game I loved playing when I was a kid. There was also this way cool graphic of some Turkish sheik-looking guy on the box. I wanted to use him, so I copied him and glued him onto the board.

I cut the board so that the board fold would form the hinge in the front cover. I bound all the cut edges with washi tape. The pages are camel-colored text paper cut to size. After drilling the holes through the covers and block, I bound it in a japanese stab binding using black waxed cotton thread in a herringbone stitch. Since the cover had those natural black stripes, I just followed the pattern. I like the way it came out.

Book 290 - "Dogopoly" -2 - Recycled Game Board Box Journal/Blank Book - Single Needle Coptic Stitch

Can't seem to get away from coptic stitch journals and board games. I do love this "Dogopoly" game--a Monopoly clone for dog lovers. This one actually uses the lid from the box the game came in, which shows a smaller version of the entire board. Cute, no?

I cut the board image from the box cover and lined it with a pretty pearly moss green textured card stock. For the back, I sandwiched a piece of tag board between a piece of white card stock for the inside and another piece of the green. I folded six signatures, poked half-a-dozen holes for sewing stations and bound the journal with a single-needle coptic stitch, or chain stitch binding, with black waxed linen thread.

Done. And cute.