Now for some tips on making your own book!
The instruction sheet can be found on Chiaki’s site – click on Idea Sheets and then Bamboo Spine Album. Chiaki’s site ROCKS for the BEST tutorial handouts around!! Thanks Chiaki!
After assembling your book, you have the option of adding lots of fun ribbon to the skewer to hide it. You don’t have to do this step, but depending on the Simply Scrappin’ Kit you use for your book, you might find it fun to embellish this way.
Open your book and lay it flat to start slipping the ribbons under the skewer.
Tip for adding the very top and bottom piece of ribbon:
Here are some samples from the class.. I forgot to take pix before everyone left! ugh! But here are 3 of them:
I hope you enjoyed this project.. it’s SO fun to make! Thanks to Chiaki for the awesome tutorial!
Have a GREAT day!
~ Patty
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! This is fabulous!
wow…I love all of these books…I am going to have to try one! I love all the colors and everything you added to them to make them fun and interesting!! 🙂
Patty, thanks so much for the info! Now I must go try this!
I look forward to seeing what you do! Great job, as always!!
Hugs,
Joani
Hey, that’s really cool!! I won’t even try to say that I’ll try to make one – because I always say it but I never get around to it – heehee – but thanks for sharing the idea!
Blogs are so informative where we get lots of information on any topic. Nice job keep it up!!