Venetian
Blind Book
This book looks great opened and hung on a wall.
Supplies
needed:
- Yasutomo Paper 6MMU sponged with
acrylics
- Yasutomo 6JM paper
cut 5 1/2 x11 inches
- thin twig about 4 1/4
inches long
- thin ribbon
- Glue-it or glue stick
- tapestry needle
- small hole puch
- rubber stamps
- calligraphy marker
or metallic pens
- 2 pieces mat board
cut 1 1/2x 5 3/4 inches
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Instructions:
Glue 6mmu paper
onto 2 pieces of mat board. Mitre corners and finish edges.
These will be your front and back covers. Let dry.
Punch two holes in the covers about three
quarters of an inch from the edges.
Accordion fold
the 6JM paper into 8 sections. Your folded piece will measure
1 1/2x 51/2 inches.
Decorate the "pages" now
with stamps, words or pictures.
Punch holes
through the pages while folded to match the covers exactly.
Use one of the covers as a guide.
Sandwich the
book between the covers and thread the ribbon through the front
cover, down through the book, out the back cover. Go through
the second hole up through the book and out the front cover.
Open book completely then tie the ribbon at the top. The book
will now open and close much like a venetian blind. Wrap the
ribbon around the book to close.Glue the twig across the cover
from punched hole to punched hole.
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