+ a.box.of.books.

11.13.2010

These are my most recent books I made a few weeks back. For our midterm we had to make a box...and no it's not just a box, its a box covered in book cloth with one seam and 10$ a sheet of japanese rice paper, with minimum seams too. I waited to make my box the day before it was due, thinking 'oh it will be quick and easy', well it took me 7 hours with measurements, gluing- without getting glue on the bookcloth- and cutting everything exact... so maybe not so easy as I thought. But I finished and got an A on my box & books, yay!

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my case book. we learned the typical way that textbooks and books on shelves are bound:
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i added the pencil & loop because it was just too boring for me otherwise
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this is our Cord book
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and here is our guestbook we will be using for our wedding!!
we will have a polaroid camera with a back drop for our guests to use & then paste in our guestbook with a note to us.
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i put dividers in between the pages so that when the polaroids are taped inside the book, it won't make it expand on the end. so with them, it will lay FLAT and beautiful... hopefully :)
i also used the japanese technique of binding. simplicity at it's best.
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beautiful japanese paper on the inside, gold specks for class :)
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and i foil pressed our names into it. it was HORRENDOUSly scary, after completing the entire book, i did not want to mess up and off-center our names, and there was a scare of the foil melting all over the front... Landon was there to testify of my stress, but hey, it worked! and i'm happy with it. simple, just how i like it.
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7 comments:

LSto125 said...
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LSto125 said...

Wow, you are amazing! The box is so beautiful and I love your guest book. It turned out perfect! Only one more week! Woohoo! Love ya!

Leanna said...

So cool! I love that you made your guest book for your wedding. It all seems so personal...so special to share that. Wish we were going to be there. Happiness to both of you!

Emily said...

WOW! Those are simply gorgeous! I love the clean lines of the box and your wedding book! Man, I'd love to take a class like that! You've excelled with your book making talents!

B&A said...

Man I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about this post... I love the box, the books, everything!!! I'm seriously going to change my major for the semester and take that class!!! ha ha ha I can't believe you made that guest book- beautiful! I'm so excited to see pictures of your guys wedding! Congrats my friend!

ashley said...

Brittany!!! you are so sweet!!! i'm sooooooooo excited for you and landon!!! you will LOVE being married :) so hurry up already and do it so you can come back to rexy and we can do fun married couple things!

ps- your guest book is AMAZING!!! you did SOOOOO good! i love it!

Amanda@RelovedRubbish said...

Wow, Brittany, I can't believe you made those! They are so gorgeous and professional looking. I love the rice paper box too - very pretty!

 

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