This was a wonderful project! My friend and her boyfriend had gotten engaged and came to visit for the weekend in the summer. The kids are fantastic, the couple a fun pair. The dinner turned out awesome (and I did not cut myself or burned my hands, how good is that?!). We took lots of pictures and then I created this explosion book. Closes up to only 2" wide and is only 5.5" tall. I built a 'purse' with artist canvas, added feet (painted with crackle paint), beaded wire handles, three dimensional effects, etc. Some picture editing, special paper, the right embelishments and a couple of weeks to finish it yielded a very good record of the visit. I mailed it to her for her XX (we shall not disclose the year of the happy event) b-day in October and I was proud of the results. Here are other pictures of the completed piece.
The seams are re-inforced in the back to prevent wear and tear as the pages are opened and closed. There is only a half a quadrant with narrative journaling (seen on the first page) and the rest of the journaling was bulleted in tags.
This is a whole new level of scrapbooking I have never been exposed to. Without knowing the subject matter, I feel like a beautiful story was told!
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