Sporky Complex Blog http://blog.sporkycomplex.com the blog of Arianne Pascual Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:28:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 4×5 Handmade Journals http://blog.sporkycomplex.com/2011/01/4x5-handmade-journals/ http://blog.sporkycomplex.com/2011/01/4x5-handmade-journals/#comments Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:16:18 +0000 Sporky http://blog.sporkycomplex.com/?p=446 College papers and old illustration boards were piling up so it was time to put them to better use: Paper mache them into covers for little handbound journals.

With all the sketchbooks I’ve been buying lately, I miss making my own. Bookbinding is a hobby for me, one I’d like to do more often, but I certainly would like to sell my own brand of blank journals. I’d give a discount if buyers would give me some of their old illustration boards. That way, I can recycle those boards into more books :D

This batch has 50 leaves of cheap index cards (maybe 170 gsm). The recycled cover is paper mache’d with crepe paper and sprayed with lacquer.

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Progress shots:

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