Full metal dust jacket
May. 5th, 2021 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI've been having fun with bookbinding again. Our exchange book theme for May is (of course) Flowers, so I shot some pictures of everything blooming around the place as of two weeks back, then figured out how to fit them together in a book. Inspired by one of the other member's photo book from last month, I made an accordion-fold with black card stock. The photos were basic cell-phone camera quality, so I pepped them up a little in PhotoShop, using the Watercolor Artistic filter. With ten pictures to choose from, I had enough to cover both sides of the accordion, six inside, four out (the remaining two panels were glued to the covers).
As for the covers, I'd been poking around DreamWidth looking for book arts blogs, and actually found one from Germany, bilingual even. One of her projects had beautiful, metal-clad covers that I thought I'd emulate. Unfortunately, she only posted for a few months back in 2015, so the tutorial video she linked to no longer existed.
Sigh.
Not that lack of knowledge has ever stopped me. I fiddled around a bit, and reverse-engineered the technique myself. I think it turned out pretty well.
So I made my own video tutorial.
As for the covers, I'd been poking around DreamWidth looking for book arts blogs, and actually found one from Germany, bilingual even. One of her projects had beautiful, metal-clad covers that I thought I'd emulate. Unfortunately, she only posted for a few months back in 2015, so the tutorial video she linked to no longer existed.
Sigh.
Not that lack of knowledge has ever stopped me. I fiddled around a bit, and reverse-engineered the technique myself. I think it turned out pretty well.
So I made my own video tutorial.