Four last pics

[treeskin]

Quick and simple. Text block is same paper as in the brown and green caterpillar binding. 2 3/4" wide by 3 1/8" long x 1/2" deep (including covers). Three signatures, 88 pages. Endpapers (which you can see just a sliver of in this scan, where I cut the front cover the wrong size) is ivory vellum. Cover is scraps leather glued over cardstock.



The other book-in-an-Altoids-tin. Tin treated with primer and two coats of sage green spray paint, then rubber stampedwith leaf patterns. Since I didn't let the stamps dry completely before I sprayed it with Aquanet, the bottom layers blurred and ran together. The second layers took better. The little gold leaves I stamped across the top just look like thumbprints in this scan.



Same inside book construction as for the purple book, turquoise cardstock cover.



Shows how the pages slip into the folded cover.

3 5/16" long x 2 1/8" wide x 7/16" deep (including covers). Four signatures, 120 pages.

Once again, because I could.

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It's a trick I learned from my art teacher in high school. You can't erase once you've used it, but you can work on top of it. And it acts funny on some papers....I've had some papers go clear on me, like I'd oiled them, and sometimes they'd be opaque again once it dried, and sometimes they wouldn't.

I'm not sure how well it'll hold up for long-term use on these boxes, but it's cheap enough to be work the experiment.