A Little Thank You

If you recall, Pat very kindly sent me some of her Merino wool tops and she has also made purchases from my Etsy shop, so I wanted to make her a little thank you gift. She told me she uses notebooks and loves to make lists.

This one is A5 size and has the same pattern on the insides and back of the book.

These are some of the inside pages.

This is another sized A5 with gelli print papers on the front and back.

Some of the inside pages.

Back inside cover, another gelli print but on deli paper.

And this one is rougly 4" x 4.5" and it's covered in a gelli print onto deli paper.

This is the inside of the cover and first page.

And the back, or it could be the front!!

I  hope she likes them, and above all I hope she uses them.

More Gelli Print Makes

Sets of envelopes with matching notelets.

Little mini books with gelli plate covers.

And then them put into sets.

Gelli Makes

Using my new WRMK envelope punch board, I made these notelets and envelopes from my very first set of gelli prints.

For anyone who is unsure about the envelope maker, it's fantastic, dead easy to use and so precise.

I ended up with two different sizes as you are governed by the size of the paper as to what size envelope you can make.

I went back into some of the prints and added stamping and doodling.

This ended up being one of my favourites after I'd added stamping and doodling.

And this one I added the black through a stencil, again another of my favourites.

And here they are bundled up and tied with sari ribbon.

I also used some to make the cover for a mini book.

Put some sheets of handmade paper inside and used a cinch for the holes and bind it all wires.

Then I made a few more in different sizes.

And with the off cuts I made a collage.

Or I might use some for background papers.

So that's what I did with my very first batch of gelli plate prints.

Mini Book Covers

You can tell I'm in holiday mode can't you, I forgot to take a photo of the background before I cut it up and made things with it - lol. But luckily you can pop over to the PA blog and see Ellen's project here.

I pretty much did the same as what she did for the background except I used shades of green and instead of a journal cover I made a couple of little note books and a card topper. I used a Dina Wakley image for the front of this one.

I cut up some paper to add into the book and fixed everything together using binding wires, I used a cinch to create the round holes.

I brayered the inside of the books to give them a neat finish.

And this is the back cover.

For the cover of this one I used the image off the TH Papillon plate.

The inside cover.

And finally the back.

Tag Book

I wanted to play with my new Sara Naumann stamps by PaperArsty.

So decided to make a tag book.  I cut 4 tags to different sizes.

This is the full sized #8 one for the back.

I used distress paints through stencils, and brayered on distress stains.

Added various colours of distress inks and more PA stamps from the minis and LB range.

Idea-ology reinforcements and flicks of white Dylusions were added.

And finally I made a piece for the front with a mini tag attached to it.

And this is the tag book put together. You may or may not of noticed that the front piece is now the other way round. I messed up when I was punching the holes!!

PanPastelsUK have an anything goes theme this week.

Book Cover

Over on the PA blog Liz has been back this week and although I've not had a lot of time I was inspired by her wonderful book which you can see here.  I haven't had time to decorate a book, but I've made a start with a cover.

Close up of the LP image stamped in royal purple stazon, housed in the TH idea-ology fancy frame.

And instead of metal I ran a piece of silver sticky foil through a texture fade, coloured it with snow cap, wild plum and sail boat blue alcohol ink and then rubbed on renaissance and onyxite treasure gold.

Notebook For Burn

It was Burns birthday yesterday, so I sent her a little something.  I made this a while ago with her in mind as it's PINK, yes I did say PINK, but like I said it was a while ago.  

Remember way back when, when I attended the gelli plate class at AftH with the lovely Kate Crane.  Well this was one of the backgrounds I made, so I turned it into a notebook for Burn.

Handmade Books

I made a few notebooks for crafty Christmas presents this year and used my Cinch to make the holes.

Close up of the holes and stringed knots.

Maz kindly lent me the T!m tattered leaf die and I used it to cut cork, corrugated and handmade papers.

Again I used the Cinch to make a series of 9 holes for the binding.

I used lots of different handmade papers for the inside including rag and fibre papers, banana, gunny, bagasse and some nepalese mountain paper.