Happy Monday! It’s time for Tombow’s Monthly Challenge and for the month of September, I will be your host! September 6th was Read a Book Day and September 8th was International Literacy Day! We are big fans of books in my house! If you haven’t guessed, the challenge for this month is BOOKS! Anything related with books; altered books, quotes from your favorite books, library cards, book paper, mini books! The sky is the limit!
For my project I made a mini book full with quotes!
I made the cover with old records I got at Goodwill for 50 cents! I have to admit that it was a huge pain cutting them! First you have to heat them at 200 degrees in the oven for 60-90 SECONDS. Then you have to cut fast fast because they get cold and hard again! You can always put them back in the oven for another 60 seconds to keep cutting. *Mind the fumes! Do it in a ventilated area.
I used my Bind It All to Bind my book. I had to make the record really soft for my Bind it All to go through with it!
I made my book “junk” style which means that I mixed up lots of different papers, envelopes, tags and everything else I could find.
To glue the embellishments on the cover I used the Tombow Xtreme Permanent Adhesive. Since the flair button is hollow on the back I used a Tombow Power Tab.
I made this charm with and Epiphany Crafts Tool and Metal Charm. To glue the epoxy shape on the metal I used the Tombow Xtreme Permanent Adhesive and to glue the sequins inside the epoxy I used the Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue.
This book has lots of pages so I didn’t photographed ALL of them because that would be one heck of a post!
For the page on the left I used a watercolor technique on the background using the Tombow Dual Brush Pens. I wrote “darling’ using one of my favorite pens ever the Tombow Mono Twin Permanent.
I used lots of recycled postal stamps to embellish. To glue these I used the Tombow Mono Adhesive Permanent .
I always glue my homemade enamel dots with the Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue. The fox flair has a flat back and for those I used the Tombow Xtreme Permanent Adhesive.
I made this library pocket and I sewed on the sides to embellish it. But before I sew on my project I use to glue so it doesn’t move.
I follow some really cool people on Instagram that do found poetry so I thought I would try it and ehhh… Don’t worry, I’ll stick to paper crafting.
Check out the prize for this challenge!
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MONO Multi Liquid Glue
Foam Tabs
So there is your challenge!
Hit the books and then link up your project!
Winner will be announced on September 24th!
Wow Jennie, your book is beautiful! I love how mini books look, but I have so much trouble trying to make them. 🙂
AMAZING! Wow, so many awesome elements! I LOVE the charm and the fabulous embellishments! Great inspiration!
Sherrie K
Awesome book, lots of fun additions. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Was not sure about # entries; if limited to 1 or unlimited. I could not find rules for the challenge otehr than the theme of books. Please respond here or email me at by subbing symbols for words in parens & no blanks:
sunshine_honeybee2004 (at sign) yahoo (dot) com
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Jennie, your mini quote book is off the chain!!! I’m absolutely in love with it and find it super inspiring!!! I must get going on making something similar right away–it just looks like tons of fun!!! TFS and for the GREAT challenge!!! 🙂
First of all, let me say WOW!!! Jennie’s book is AWESOME! Thank you for the inspiration, I will have to go get some. Vinyl records and try this idea! Super fun challenge! Thanks for all you do and share!