8 March 2007
5-Hole Pamphlet
Posted by Lady Artisan under: KSProject .
I finally finished it! The pc-infused fabric worked well–it’s very flexible, punching holes in it with a needle tool was no problem and I haven’t seen any weak spots developing. The fabric, of course, adds strength to the liquid clay. I cut out leaf shapes from various fabrics, then backed them with green pearl polymer clay, added veins with a needle tool and cured them. The clay side was then “antiqued” with various acrylics (bronze, gold, and black).
Here’s the pamphlet opened flat to show the cover. The leaves were cured and painted then glued into place. One of the most difficult parts of the design for me was figuring out where to place the various leaves since I wanted spaces where you could see the text block through the cover.
I was thrilled to find some buttery yellow paper with petal inclusions in my paper stash since it fit so well with the leaf theme I was going for.
Most of the fabric I used for the leaves was plain beige upholstery fabric. I did make a couple of leaves out of some dark green netting (like colored cheesecloth), some beige polyester, and (my personal fave) some wonderful, vibrant African-patterned cloth. Unfortunately, most of the materials (except the upholstery fabric) were too hard to work with much so I only made one or two leaves from them. I used several Fall colors (red, orange, bright yellow, and gold) to color the fabric side of the leaves. I will probably call this book Summer and Fall.
I’m not sure how the next challenge will work. It’s a two-fold pamphlet. There’s one version where you sew the two sections together at the same time and then glue the cover on the first page, which should be pretty easy for a polymer clay cover. But the second version involves a double-fold at the spine of the cover so you have two valleys to sew two signatures. The pc-infused fabric won’t even do that (it doesn’t really crease well). That may be one I skip. Or I might use paper and just embellish it with pc.
