Workshops

Instructor: Rosemary Rae   

Celebrate the beauty of images & words using materials readily available. We’ll create a soft-cover journal recycling a cereal or frozen pizza box. We’ll begin by trimming it to size, painting and collaging on the covers and spine, and decorating the interior. Then, we’ll stitch five signatures into the box, attach collages, and craft some poems. Extra pages can be included for additional journaling, random thoughts, and inspiration!

 FOR COVERS & collages:
• Cereal or frozen pizza box (One piece of cardboard approximately 17 inches wide x 10.25 inches high)
• Acrylic paint
• Tools for mark-making—brushes, sponges, sticks, etc.
• For Individual Collages: 20 pieces of paper (approximately 5.5 inches wide x 8.5 inches high)
• Collage ephemera, including but not limited to Stamps, small images, clip art, rubber stamps, torn paper, bits of type, pages from old books, labels, ribbon, hand or machine stitching, small scraps of paper, etc.
• PVA glue and brush or glue stick
• Self-healing mat and X-acto knife
• Scissors
• Bone folder
• Scrap paper (to cover the work surface when gluing)

FOR BOOK INTERIOR:
• Five sheets of cover weight paper/any color
(14 inches wide x 10.25 inches high/folds to 7 inches wide x 10.25 inches high)
• An awl
• Bookbinding thread (any color) and sewing needle
• Glue stick or double-sided tape to attach collages to signatures

OPTIONAL MATERIALS;
• Markers, colored pencils, crayons, vinyl lettering, ink, stamp pads—anything you enjoy using to add color and decoration to your work!

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