Deco Book

I love deco books! I'm in a Fairies, Gnomes and Elves Deco Round robin in ATC_World and we're almost done!! I'm so excited!! How it works is we each make the book, with however many blank pages as there are players (in this case 9) and the hostess makes a list of players. We each send our book to the next person on the list. They decorate a page according to the theme and send it on to the next person on the list. And so on until the book comes back to you. Our time period is two weeks. I should be getting my book back in a little over a week! I can't wait to see it! After I get it back I'm going to post the pictures of it, as well as all the pictures of the pages I've done in everyone else's book. The next book theme is going to be Alice in Wonderland and I believe we're starting that in January.

Since I liked making the other book so much, I decided to make one in an asian (of course) theme for me to work on bit by bit. I put 24 pages in it. (alot i know) And I've already done the first page in it. A player in one of my inchie swaps sent me a hostess gift of some interesting asian ephemera. Some neat looking pieces from a large rice bag. I thought they'd be perfect to make the covers for my book. (thanks again Helen!!)

Here's the front cover. I used plain paper bag for the background (to match the bag look of the rest of the cover) and cut out the picture from some asian cardstock I had. I then painted some acrylic lacquer over her to make her shiny. You can see the ceramic blue and white beads I used on the binding. Along with a coin-like charm with dragons on it at the bottom.


Here's the inside front cover. The crane pic is from the rice bag over black bazzil lined cardstock. I then coated it all with glossy gel medium.


Here's the back cover. It's the largest picture from the rice bag. I think it's too cool!!


I did the inside back cover just like the inside front. The copper paper on the left hand side is part of the end of the book's binding I put on since I made the front and back separate and not all one piece. Haven't figured out how I'm going to cover that up yet. If I had thought about it before I did it, I would have coated the whole copper colored piece with paper bag. but... too late now. ;) lol!


And here is page 1! I used the pretty inchie doll I made last week and added some cranes flying around her. Very simple and plain. I like it.


I'll post more pics as I work on the book. I have quite a few other swaps I need to be working on including a hundred inchies to make for a SCS swap! Got to get busy!! (I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad I'm laid off for a couple of months! Gives me time to create!!)

Thanks for looking!!
Kary