PA Blog Topic #4 Interactive

 

Hi everyone, I'm here to share with you very fun project 'Carousel Book' in PaperArtsy blog. Thank you so much Dounia for suggesting this, I got very carried away while making it. 

I still remember when I was a little girl and for Christmas I was given a three-dimensional picture book of Hansel and Gretel and The Little Mermaid. I decided to create this Carousel Book based on the happy memories of turning the pages of the book over and over again to enter a fantasy world. Today's C-Book is only 4 pages long, so it's perfect for creating short stories to share with young children and grandchildren. Also PaperArtsy has a range of many fun stamps and stencils to help you create your book.

First of all I will let you know the size of the three sheets of paper that will be used as the base, I make them 30% off the actual YouTube size for the size of the stamp.

you can see the YouTube site here, There you will find detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make it in the video. Step1-I made two sheets of paper in sizes A, B and C as shown in the diagram below.

Fold each piece of paper like an accordion in the mountains and valleys so that there are four sections, excluding the tabs. Then cut the shaded areas as shown in the diagram and glue them together as described. The original size in the video was quite large, so he designed it in half the size and then glued it together, but my size is not so obtrusive that I started with the connected.

Now that I had a base for my book, I was looking forward to designing and decorating it. This is the shortest piece of A-paper in the front window and I made to go with a happy colour. I thought I would use a sponge rather than Jelly plate to apply with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Tangerine Twist (FF190), Banana (FF189) and Persimmon (FF196) in a random order. After the paints has dried I stamped Gwen Lafleur Set 23 (EGL23, ELG06 ) by Ranger Archival Ink Sepia and Watering Can. 

The second and third papers (B, C,) were sponged with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic-Blue Oyster (FF99), A Bit Fishy (FF208) and Cerulean (FF200). Afterwards when it was dry, I stamped the Gwen Lafleur Set 04, 11, 23 ( EGL04, EGL11, EGL23 ) for the scene on each page with Ranger Distress Oxide (salty ocean, Peacock feathers). The B paper in the middle was decided to be the same blue as C after adding each scene and character.

The middle part of the book is closed with a nylon thread to prevent it from falling apart. The visible paper-clipped ends were later covered with small magnets.

When the three pieces of paper are connected and viewed from above, they form a cross like this.

The tribal stamps image on each window and the other decorative stamps image in the centre and in the background were coloured with colour pencils which I love and use a lot in small materials these days.

All the parts are now attached.

This is the finished book.

Let's take a look at each page.--For the harmony of all the animals, plants, fishes, oceans, mountains and people of the earth--I named Nature Land for the book.

Also I thought it would be better to have a case for this book. The case dimensions can be found at the top of this blog.

I was going to use a gel print image for the background, but I wanted it to be a bit thicker, so I thought it would be better to stamp it with a few stamps of paint. Here I used Gwen Lafleur Set 02,03,12 ( EGL02, EGL03 and EGL12 ) with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic-Jade (FF192), Gumboots (FF121), Deep Sea (FF182), Cerulean (FF184) and Southern Skies (FF191).

I have splat some water and used Seth Apter's Baked Texture Dirty Sand. 

Next I made the back side, I stamped EGL02 with Ranger Distress Oxide antique linen on the black card stock then I made splatter by turquoise embossing powder.

The two sheets of paper were then laminated together.

Also I made the border, using EGL03 with Ranger embossing powder liquid platinum on the vellum.

Finally, a focal point butterfly was created, fussy cut and attached to the front cover using 3d foam with the words Nature Land. The last tab of the case is fitted with a magnet to close the case.

With this project I have learned how to make another fun book. I'm going to try to make a few of these as they can be adapted to different sizes and with different pages, so if you're interested in making one, please go ahead and make one! Thank you for visiting here today, I hope you enjoyed this.

Thank you so much for visiting.

Etsuko xxx