Book Mania

Or maybe book "MANIAC" which is what I have become since I made my first few books. Now I can't make enough of them. These books though, were made with different kinds of stuff. The covers mainly were either from printed tissue paper, cloth material, marbled construction paper, or my favs (blue and red books) textured memory book paper. Cool!!

 

Some of these have lined pages and the covers are either material or patterned tissue paper covering card stock. 

And some are others I just revamped or something. Like these mini composition notebooks. 

These are just a few that I have already dressed up. I added either colored card stock, an image, printed paper, stickers or rub-ons to the front. The second set, which are slightly bigger, are laminated, and some have plastic jems added. Very cute. I was thinking of my mom when I made the one with butterflies; she likes butterflies.

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Now I have done a couple of coptic stitch  books. It's amazing the things you can learn with google. I have wanted to make one of these for a while . I finally did it and it was easier than I thought. I started out with small ones; didn't want to overwhelm myself with larger signatures which require more stitching.  Turned out pretty neat.Hmm, couldn't locate the other one to digitize...sorry.

 

And last but not least, and my most favorites are my journals.

I was thinking I might make this an arts and craft journal where I will be adding my craft ideas that have not been made reality yet, some that have been created, copies of my old drawings as well as new ones and whatever else I can think of. 

 

This book has an added flap that's held down with velcro and wrapping paper covering card stock as the cover. I love this one.
BTW, this is the same way I make my other books not including the flap.

Hmph, this isn't even all of the books I have made. I have some of these for sale in my online shop and I need to add some more along with other things I have finished. I've been slacking off a little there. I've got a lot of creations to post. But anyhoo, here's a how-to for the journal at Cut Out + Keep. 

ENJOY!!!