Copper Book: Part Two

Most of the pages in the book are black scrapbook paper with a very soft finish.  I made the book to a specific square size so I could use two envelopes I had, one black and one metallic copper.  This gave me several places to put items that for whatever reason didn't fit on any of the regular pages.

The black envelope with postage stamps, bits of stamped handmade paper, and a mulberry paper with copper colored seed heads in it.



Vintage photo, vintage ticket stubs, vintage postcard, wax seal, postage stamps.



Feathers, postage stamps, top of wine bottle foil, and rubber stamping.  The crows are stamped on a little booklet with vintage drawings of roosters.



Blank greeting card embellished with metallic rubber stamping and metalic pen.  The inside is covered with bits of Japanese newsprint. 



Vintage photo in metallic photo corners on the copper envelope with small tassel attached.



Vintage page, small envelope and tags, yarn.



Some of the items in pockets: Handcolored ATC, rubber stamping, collage materials.  In the upper right is a small booklet shown at the top of the photo below.



Postage stamps, rubber stamping, vintage postcard of Paris flower seller.


My daughter is back to being a dishwater blond again, but for now, she has the Copper Book to commemorate her redheaded years.

Copper Book: Part One

The second type of book I learned to make had an accordion pleated spine with pages glued in and a ribbon binding.  From this first one, I learned that you need more than one ribbon on the binding and that folding paper into an accordion (or concertina) isn’t as easy as it looks.  I now know the secret is to fold the long sheet in half, then fold each half in half, and so on.

My beautiful daughter had gone from an entire youth spent as a blond to a dishwater blond (my genetics) with red highlights (her Dad’s genetics).  She decided to become a redhead, a startling auburn redhead.  I could not get used to her with auburn locks, even though it was a lovely color.  So in an effort to show her some support I dug out all my copper-to-sepia material, added lots of black, and made her a book.

The cover paper had copper metallic stripes and I used velvet flowers & leaves, vintage buttons, and a tassel made with ribbon, string, yarn, beads, feathers, and a copper garden tag.



Postage Stamps, vintage devotional card, metallic covered eggshells



Dictionary page, beads, rubber stamping, copper letters, copper sheet, clear disc (highlighting the word copper).



Rubber stamping, postage stamp, pressed leaves, skeleton leaf, hand lettering.



Rubber stamping, postage stamps, collage elements, hand lettering.

Wire dress, joss paper.

Vintage postcard, copper photo corners, hand lettering.

More coming soon...