I loved the books that Pauline had made and she showed us how she achieved the colour effects on her paper book. I was surprised to see it was made from wallpaper lining too.
The Koh-I-noor watercolour dye sets were wonderful. They gave such wonderful vibrant colours. We all made our parcels (of paper and colour!). How did your books turn out??? Please let me know or send me photos as I'd love to see what colours and patterns were created.
I made a brown and a blue book. The dye was great at running into sections and creating lines and patterns as well as diffusing into the paper and making lovely grades of colour.
I have decided to combine the book cover experiments from Mel with my paper book and have made some hard covers (my gesso wasn't stiff enough) and am planning to make hard covers for my little books.
Here are some photos from the day. Please bring your books if you have finished or sewn them to the next meeting as I would love to see how they developed.
Would also be great to think about creating the pages
ordinary lining paper ! what a wonderful idea!
Pauline's amazing books- I wonder what we could create for the inside.....?
These were how mine turned out after I had "unwrapped" them. I was really pleased with the colours they are so vibrant.
The dye even took hold on the baking paper. I am sure that we can do something with this.
We also made some paper fabric using different papers, fixing them to the fabric with PVA. This forms quite a durable "paper" fabric that can be cut and stitched and applied to other surfaces.
Angela added some tissue paper and the dye from the paper created a wonderful design on the opposite side! Lush!
Using tissue and other "additions" to create a beautiful surface from Mel. How did this dry?? Is it soft enough to take stitching?
What an amazing day!
We did so much and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am so pleased with my little books and am busy trying to think of what theme I can have to develop the pages.
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