Nothing like a good book!

Hello friends,
Following yesterday's post and to answer a few questions:
absolutely fine to send in photos of family pets, neighbours etc - it is a gallery that will feature all pets wherever they may be!
With regard to the chocolate wrapper, I remove the original wrapper and use it as a stencil as opposed to covering it.

Back to today - a book!  I'm truly in crafting heaven when I'm creating note books, I wonder whether 

it is because it is a useful project...I'm quite a practical girl at heart! 

This is using various dies including Creative Book Pages, Layered Poinsettia,

Lace Doily Accents and Labels Twenty Two.

Yesterday Amanda asked if I could provide more details on how to make my projects - 

not a problem...I will try to do this as much as I can.

For this book I used Cosmo Cricket - Odds and Ends papers.  To make the book covers,

I used the postage style Creative Book Pages die.   I cut a few layers of cereal box

 and then the patterned paper.  Adhered it all together and left it to dry.

While waiting, I cut plenty of inner pages and created the poinsettias just using the two smaller dies, layered them up and gave them a crystal gem middle.   The pretty rosebud label is created from 

one of the Creative Book Pages dies, again I cut it from some cereal box and patterned paper.

The sentiment is stamped onto Labels Twenty Two and inked the edges slightly with Antique Linen.

Once my book covers were dry I used a Bind It All machine to create the book spine.

I stamped the cover just once with a script stamp (more back in stock in my Amazon Shop soon!)

Cut/embossed two of the Lace Doily Accents, just using the long border style die but placed 

them back to back.  Assembled my cover and then decided it was too nice to give away...

It is currently on display in my studio!

I think the message from this tutorial is a Bind It All is brilliant if you love making books and you 

should eat lots of cereal for the packaging as it's jolly useful to add thickness to your die cuts! 

I promised I would let you all know whether I had any Advent Frames to purchase on their own...

I've done my calculations and I do have some available to buy.  

Please note it is just the wooden frame, no pre-cut boxes will be included.

Perfect if you have your own box die.

The cost is £18.00 inclusive of postage.

You can email me to purchase or click on the 'Kits and Bits' button on my sidebar,

there is a PayPal button there...oh please Gremlin let's hope you've not found that to play with!

I'm back tomorrow...most definitely for Friday Die Day!

Take care friends.