Cherish Letter Book

I continue the never ending battle of using up all my scraps.  Letter books often come to the rescue.  This little guy is simple and fun.  He is made of all scraps, even the embroidery thread used to bind it.

Score one for the Waste Nots!

Kay

Letter Book

I am so very happy with how this letter book turned out.  I painted the background myself using some gel medium, blue ink, and gold acrylic paint.  I used metallic blue embroidery floss to bind it.  It just all came together.  I don't often to a monochromatic color scheme, so I think it made me feel especially accomplished to do something so different for me.

Kay

Letter Book: Asian Inspiration

Even though this

 letter book doesn't have any real Asian imagery on it, I think it still carries an Asian feel 

to it.  It is simple and interesting.  Despite the busy background of a scrap of Que Sera Sera paper from K & Company, it still feels clean.  

Kay

Letter Books Are Fun

These little letter books have been really satisfying little projects.  I almost always use scrap pieces to make them.  The cover is usually a card stock and the inside pages are regular weight printer paper.  Although, I do try to coordinate the inside pages with the feel of the outside.  To accomplish this, I might use cream colored paper instead of white or embellish the edges of the interior papers with coordinating stamped images.

I have changed my binding technique based on one I learned from Esther K. Smith's book How to Make Books:  Fold, Cut, & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-Kind Book.  Now, I am binding my letter book like a signature you would find in a book.  It is completely stitched top to bottom and has a much more finished look.  I am very excited about this improvement.

If you aren't inspired to make one of your own, I am not doing my job properly.   I should get back to work and come up with some better samples.

Kay

Letter Book

This little gem was made with ephemera that was shared with me from a nice lady in the sketchbook group I belonged to.  

I have been enjoying a streak of lazy creativity lately.  For instance, these two bits of ephemera were lying together when I was organizing some stuff.  I thought.."They should GO together!"  So, ten minutes later, out popped a letterbook.

Enjoy!  

I did.

Kay

Letter Book:  Serendipity

While tidying up my craft room, these two scraps happened to get stacked on top of each other.  They looked so good together, I immediately stopped what I was doing and put them together as a letter book.  The craft cord I used to bind them, I left multiple ends hanging at the side.  I then took vellum stickers of flowers and circles in coordinating colors and stuck them on the end.  The end of the craft cord is sandwiched between two stickers so no sticky is showing and there is no "back."

I like this little gem.

Kay

More Letter Book Fun

I resorted to my old binding habits for this beauty.  I just punched a couple holes along the spine and used some embroidery thread to bind the pages and cover together.

The cover is a sample of the K and Company's Que Sera Sera paper line.  I love this stuff!  The wings were stamped on another odd piece of paper from the same line and embossed with gold embossing powder.  The lady is a piece of clipart from, I believe, a Dover collection.

I added the word "imagine" to give it a theme.  It was simple, but tied together beautifully.

Letter Books

I have been making something I call letter books for about a year now.  I love to write letters!  When I do, I am verbose.  In the past, I have made something akin to a signature for a book...just a few pages folded in the center and bound together to a cardstock cover with some twine.  Of course, I spend a little time decorating that cardstock cover. 

I recently got the book, How to Make Books by Esther K. Smith.  Reading it has inspired me to take my letter books to the next level and try something new.  Here is my first letter book since the reformation.  I still have a decorated cardstock cover, but when you open it up, you find an accordian style enclosure which is part of the book.