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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

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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