This online workshop takes place across two sessions: Thurs, Sept. 16, 10am–12pm ET Thurs, Sept, 23 10am–12pm ET Day 1 will cover how to fold a section of accordion book, how to attach multiple sections together and a few different…
Hi all... Marcy here with a little mini accordion book tutorial for you all. I wanted to create a little mini to house just a few of my favorite photos from the past year. Something I could throw in my...
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Create a tiny handmade book with zig zags of lush color & mark-making. In this video tutorial, learn how to create a delightful handmade accordion book (no bookbinding involved) with watercolor paper or index cards.
Bring stories to life by making your own DIY accordion book.
Accordion Books are a delightful option for visual artists, photographers, storytellers and scrapbookers. Handmade with quality heavy paper for light watercolour, collage, ink and inclusions, what seems on the surface to be a familiar style of book may on opening suddenly expand or pop-up well beyond the boundaries of its covers, holding a beautiful secret inside. Folded forms are favourites amongst book artists because they lend themselves to layers and movement and yet work incredibly well as static display books.
I saw this structure a while back on Pinterest. It turned up again recently. The image is from the announcement of a workshop —now long past— offered by Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo. I tracke…
LOOK! is a leporello book. Some people call it an accordion book or a zig-zag book. That's also fine. As short as it is (it's really just one long page), it deals with the two types of people. Some people see it as: - A the optimistic type - B the pessimistic type Other people however view it as these types: - A the annoying type - B the regular person I guess it depends on who you feel you are. It's all good. The Leporello measures about 75 x 13,5 cm when folded out and 13,5 x 10 when shut like a book. It has a linnen hard cover. It is all hand creased, hand folded and hand bound. I made it as part of my ongoing project ONE BOOK A MONTH. Signed and numbered in a print run of 300 copies
I love making books out of single sheets of paper! This two directional accordion folded book is featured in the brand new book Playing with Paper: Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art and it's completely cute! I bet it would...
I know just about everyone (myself included) has been especially down with the japanese stab binding lately, so I thought I’d venture into the land of the accordion book. …but havenR…
Accordion Pocket Journal: These unique accordion journals are beautiful and easy to make! Once you have made your first book, you will easily be able to make more in less than one half-hour each. They make special gifts for family and friends!
Time for another paper project: this one falls in the field of book arts.
Learn how to make mini gift books that open like an accordion. Fill them with photos, collection of poetry, etc. Step-by-step tutorial.
I'm pretty sure you already knew it was National Accordion Awareness Month, but just in case, I thought I'd celebrate by making this Picnic accordion spine flag book! Some of you may remember when Club Scrap had flag book kits a few years ago. I still enjoy this project and thought it would be fun to design one around the size of the four 3.25x3.25" Picnic Lite Cutaparts as inside pages. Assembly Instructions: 1. Cut one 8x10.25" Dk Green paper to use for the binding. Score vertically every 1/2". 2. Fold accordion-style on score lines. 3. Cut two 3.5x10.25" matte board covers and two 4.5x11.25" Picnic Light Pink Print outside cover wraps. Adhere the cover papers to the matte boards with Bookbinding Glue. 4. Cut each corner at a 45 degree angle, leaving 1/8" of paper extending beyond the tip of each matte board corner. 5. Wrap flaps around to the back of the covers and adhere with bookbinding glue. 6. Brush glue onto one outside flap of the accordion spine. 7. Attach the spine to the wrapped cover flush with top and bottom edges. Align the first fold of the accordion with the long outside edge of the cover. Be mindful of the direction of your front/back covers if you have a design plan! 8. Repeat for the other cover. 9. Cut two 3.25x10" Dk Green inside covers and adhere to the inside of the book with bookbinding glue. 10. Trim (21) 3.25x3.25" inside pages. I used four squares from the Picnic Lite White Cutapart. The rest are paper scraps left from other projects. I also snuck in one print from the Club Stamp collection releasing tomorrow. 11. Glue the first row of pages flush with the top edge of the spine. Place the page in the right side of the valley of each fold for the entire horizontal row. 12. Repeat for the bottom row of pages. 13. Adhere the center row of pages between the top and bottom rows, being sure the page is attached to the left side of the valley of each fold. 14. Embellish the cover with cutaparts and secure closed with a ribbon. Wouldn't it be great to have this done before a picnic so attendees could write a little something inside? All you have to do is add your photos later! Thank you for observing National Accordion Awareness Month with me. Blogging with you in mind is always a picnic! Kay at Club Scrap
Learn how to make mini gift books that open like an accordion. Fill them with photos, collection of poetry, etc. Step-by-step tutorial.
I like the pages of old books, and enjoy working with them a lot, but what I really LOVE is the hardcovers! So today we are advancing the Old Book Crafts into making an Accordion Organizer :-D Ho…
While I was traveling in Vietnam and Cambodia I filled an accordion sketchbook, and I had quite a bit of fun doing it. Accordion sketchbooks are relatively cheap to buy, or are easy to make; they are portable, and provide a wealth of options for how to fill them. First I am going to show you how to
Illustrator and designer, Stephanie Davidson, created this awesome and tiny button book with accordion page. I love the images inside!
The new challenge starts today at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog and Sara Emily is our hostess for this one. She is calling it Mostly Neutral and she describes it this way: For this challenge, I would like you to use mainly neutrals, but I will allow you one accent color or use of metallic accents. Let's see how you use beige, ivory, taupe, brown, black, gray or shades of white or any combination of these to make any vintage/shabby chic project you would like. I thought it might be fun to make a really tiny accordion book and use all sorts of bits and pieces from my stash. In truth I was inspired by a new button and elastic closure that I saw online and wanted to make it so I needed a book for it. Since there are so many pages I am not going to show a step by step but will give you an idea of the products and techniques used to put it together. I started with the accordion base and cut two pieces 3 7/8" x 12" and then scored it on the long side at 2 7/8", 5 3/4", 8 5/8" and 11 1/2". I cut away the 1/2" leftover piece on one of the strips and angled the ends of the 1/2" leftover piece on the other strip. I glued the 1/2" strip to one side of the other strip and then folded the resulting long strip into mountain and valley folds - you should end up with the panels on each end going the same direction. If you want a larger book, you can add another strip. Next I created the covers by cutting two pieces of cracker box material 4" x 9" and then scored them on the long side at 3" and 6". I folded one side to the front of the centre and the other to the back of the centre and then glued each in place so that I ended up with a piece 3" x 4" that was three layers thick. One layer of thick chipboard, mat board or book board could be used instead but I like the idea of recycling the cracker boxes. The next step was to add paper to one side of each cover. I cut the paper 4" x 5", centred the cover block on the wrong side of the paper and glued it on. The corners were mitered when I glued the excess to the back side to get nice sharp corners. Glue the covers to the accordion base on the panels at each end that face the same direction making sure to centre the panel on the back side of the cover. Now it was time to make the panels that would be decorated. Since I wanted to use some wet media, I cut pieces of water colour card 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" and then I distressed the edges with a pair of scissors. I had decided to use a nature theme for the book so I set about to decorate each page with that theme in mind. Each panel was inked with distress inks or painted with watered down paints or Scribble Sticks and then collaged with bits of paper, laces, fibers, die cuts, charms (altered with Alcohol Ink), stamped bits, some Chit-chat stickers and stenciling with ink and texture paste.re are some close-ups to give you an idea of what I did on each page. Once each panel (as shown in these close-ups was decorated, they were glued onto the accordion base. I decided which order I wanted them to go in and mounted the flattest ones first on each side and then mounted ones with more dimension. Finally I decorated the covers starting with the front as shown at the top and then the back as shown above. Once the book was all put together I determined the thickness and made the closure by taking thin round elastic cord and wrapping it around the book twice. Once I determined the length I cut it off the spool and folded it in half. The open ends were threaded through the button holes and tied together. The closure was wrapped around the book and looped over the button. This is a super easy closure and will stretch a bit to accommodate thicker embellishments without detracting from your cover design. The button can be a design element in itself as was this leaf button I used. I hope you will join us for this challenge. The Design Team will choose their top four picks with the overall winner receiving a gift certificate to shop at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. All four will receive badges to display on their blogs. The challenge runs until 11:55 pm EST on Tuesday, March 2nd. Supplies list: Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Gathered Twigs, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain, Pumice Stone, Black Soot Tim Holtz Distress Oxides - Hickory Smoke, Pumice Stone Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks - Umber, Sand Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks - Pitch Black, Rust, Mushroom, Blending Solution Tim Holtz Distress Crayons - Antique Linen Tim Holtz Bubble Stencil Wendy Vecchi Dots and Stripes Border Stencil TCW Stencils - Mini Tiny Circles, Mini Geometric Art Layers Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Entomology Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Nature's Wonder Wendy Vecchi Country Flowers Stamp Set Tim Holtz Thinlets Dies - Entomology, Garden Greens, Wildflower Stems #2 Sizzix Circle Die Set Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Kraft Glassine, Chit-chat Stickers Stamperia Alchemy Paper Pad Graphic 45 Mon Amour Paper Pad Miscellaneous - Charms, Burlap String, Burlap, Ric-rac, Wool, Lace, Button, Cardboard, Cork, Skeleton Leaf, Feather, Embroidery Floss, Fabric Scraps Recollections Black Card stock Canson Watercolour Card Stock Elastic Cord Scor Tape Liquitex Modeling Paste Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
A friend of mine approached me during the "Booked" Show and asked if she could buy "My Unforgettable Book Library" artist book. Its funny about selling these labor intensive pieces. Initially they are just too precious to sell, but after I have moved on and created a new one, the pain of separation is much less. So this piece will be sitting on someone else's shelf from now on.
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inside panels. handmade book. made by me. 2007. using photos, ribbons, fabric, grommets, pins, book board, and more.
Hello and welcome to another post celebrating the first of the month - this time for the start of our new challenge at Mini Album Makers. ...
My goal: an inexpensive book using a structure I would be willing to make about forty times. The Woven Accordion is an easy eight-panel acco...
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A matchbox is the receptacle for a book folded away like an accordion. Created by Richard Meier and Sophie Meier / Cosyworks in Pau. matchboox Via Notcot
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This is a little accordion book I made today. I learned book binding while visiting my sister in Spain almost 13 years ago. I wrote the title with watercolor and a very fine round brush. The book measures 2 x 1.5 inches
Next up in my handmade tiny books -- a collection of some of my most popular pen and ink drawings, the Loosey Goosey portrait series. ...
Circle books are fun toys and easy to make gifts. Every page is a pop up of possibilities. In this 7 page ebook tutorial I will walk you through the process of how to create your own accordion style circle book. This contains step-by-step instructions for the making and folding of pages, creating covers and closures, and assembling. The instructions allow you to make a circle book of any size, but easy to use templates and a quick folding guide are included. Let the many hot tips inspire you to play with materials and methods. Bonus printable page of LOVE circle pages ready to cut and assemble into a slinky book. As soon as you make your purchase, the pdf file will available for immediate download. I created all parts of this pdf tutorial using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign with written instructions, simple illustrations, and photos of examples,. These are non-editable files that are copyright protected; please respect my copyrights and do not purchase with the intention of selling or reproducing this tutorial. You will need the current version of Adobe Reader to view and print your tutorial, get the latest version at www.adobe.com
Book Arts is a growing field, and there are many innovative uses of paper in contemporary artists’ books. The following is just the tip of the iceberg and documents my own experience with various instructors over the years. I met Ed Hutchins in the early 1990’s when I took a workshop with him at Long Island University. In one day, we created approximately 25 different book structures, all from copier-size sheets of paper. Ed used the now-defunct gocco printer and photocopier machine to ‘print’ many of his editions on single sheets of paper, and then he cut the sheets and folded them in a multitude of ways to make various book structures. I own a copy of the Mystery of the Magic Box, pictured below. The […]
Printing, folding, pressing, cutting, stitching - making books in preparation for the Baltic Artists Book Market December 5th & 6th
