Bookmaking

[Fiddlette]

Okay, ladies...

This is an important area to cover as scrappers and artists...where to display our art?

printing costs can be so outrageous for the 12x12 pages, and not cheap for 8x8 and 6x6...

but what if we were to print out 4x4 pages..pages designed specifically to fit this size, and look good printed at this size...wouldnt that be a nice solution and one that won't hit the pocketbook too hard?

But WHERE to find a 4x4 book for displaying?

I've looked, they just aren't making this size!!

So, isn't the next logical step for us going to be making our own books?

OF COURSE

So I would love to see everyone who would like to try out this challenge, do so, and share here in this thread!!

Here are some fabulous tutorials from San Diego Museum of Art that I found, pdf files with instructions on how to create three different styles of books...

http://www.sdmart.org/pix/japanesebook.pdf

http://www.sdmart.org/pix/flagbook.pdf

http://www.sdmart.org/pix/starbook.pdf

and this one is my favorite, for the real real creative among you:

http://www.sdmart.org/pix/tunnelbook.pdf

All you have to do is alter the dimesions to suit your personal display needs!!

Please post your results in the gallery, and a link to it in this thread...I'm starting work on mine right tonight! :)

[Fiddlette]

Here are directions for another very simple book:

http://gort.ucsd.edu/preseduc/bookmkg.htm

[Fiddlette]

Here's another:

http://www.papergoods.com/bookmaking.shtml

[Fiddlette]

An another:

http://shala.addr.com/magazines/

[happyrobyn]

Cool challenge Christine!!! I may have to give this a try. What ever became of the fat book we made several months ago? I never got the download of the final thing.

[CathyRose]

I just love hand made books and the bug to make them really bit me after making my first piano hinge book at the Club Scrap Retreat. If you didn't see it when I first posted it it is here.

http://www.digitalartquirks.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=709&cat=500&ppuser=27

I think I would like to try the tag book next! Great challenge Christine!

[Nightwolf]

I've made a couple of tag books and other books. I'll have to shoot them & add them to the gallery

[Fiddlette]

I love your book, Cathy Rose!! I have wanted to make one exactly like that for years, but think it best for me to wait to take a class in it!

I love taking classes, but the best place in LA there was to do that is gone!! It was in beverly hills, a really cool art and rubber stamp store....That is where I took the microscope solering class...and I wanted to take some bookmaking classes, but within months of that class I took it went out!! I was bummed!

[mishou]

Just noticed this thread today. Thanks for all the links Christine! I'd really like to try this.

Actually I was at the LSS the other day and they had some packages of 12x12 blank chipboard. So I bought one and I'm gonna use it to "bind" a book for my ATC collection. I have the ATC's in those 8.5x11 plastic collector page thingies but I don't want to store them in a regular binder cuz that's boring! LOL So I"m gonna alter two of the chipboards to use as covers and try to rig up some kind of binding system that will be easy enough to get in and out of when I need to add pages.

Not exactly like what you're talking about above but a book nonetheless LOL Hmm . . .maybe since I"m playing hookie from work today I should get started on it . . .

[Pixeldigger]

I would love to have a go, but I am afraid that my hands just aren't up to it.

[kygirl]

I love bookmaking -- I've done tag books, paper bag albums, accordian albums, flip flop albums, etc. Right now, I'm trying to decide how to do Caroline's ABC album in a 6x6 format. Thanks, Christine, for posting the how-tos. I'll be sure to put them in my idea file.

[Fiddlette]

That sounds great, Michelle! Will you use scrapbook papers or digital printables? Oooh, please share as soon as you are done! :)

And Donna, you sound like an expert! When you are done with Carolines ABC album, please share it with us! :)

[Macwebgrrl]

Two of my favorite book creations...

1. http://www.digitalartquirks.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1948&cat=500&ppuser=31
[a trip to Scotland in 2003]
2. http://www.digitalartquirks.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1949&cat=500&ppuser=31
[my dad's 75th birthday]

Thanks,
Nancy

[Pixeldigger]

I haven't a lot of manual dexterity, so I just uploaded my pages to Photobox and had them printed as a hard-backed book. The quality is excellent and I am very pleased with the result.