Deco Book Round Robin

I have joined a deco book round robin so have made a little book to go travelling to other people so they can decorate a page each then send it on. I will decorate the covers when it returns to me.

Mulberry resist

This is a piece of mulberry paper with images stamped in versamark and embossed. I sprayed using colour sprays and then ironed between two pieces of paper to give this beautiful resist effect. One thing I learnt is that if this sheet sticks to the paper above don't panic, keep ironing and it eventually peels away. I used my encaustic iron which is probably not as hot as a proper iron. I saw this technique on Sweetpea's blog in her background book.

Valentine Countdown

Thanks to Lisa Vollrath there is another countdown here. Go and have a look

Decorated box

The beads are from a bead swap and made by Linda Strawn.

ATC box prototype

I have made a quick prototype of an ATC box using plain mountboard just to check how to contruct it and the sizing. It seems to have worked OK so now I can unlace it and decorate. I need to make a new side because I punched the top by accident. I used the Bind it all machine to punch the holes and to put in the binding to make the hinge for the top. Haven't decided what to lace the final version with - I could do a continuous lacing as in the photo or I could tie each hole separately using ribbon. I just used some yarn for this one that was thin enough to go through my needle to see how it came together.

Edit: I have remembered now that I saw a box made with a bind it all machine in Craft Stamper and managed to dig out the copy and it was in August 2007. Phew, glad I found that.

Gothic Arch folded ATC

Chalk and sprays

I combined one of the chalked images with a background using the water spray and stencil to create this card for a swap.