A "First Fridays" Artistic Interlude with Sofie Couch
It’s First Fridays, it’s February, and it’s my first official First Friday's post at Classic and Cozy!
So I thought I would lead you all in something pretty
radical for a writer. Yes, today we dice and slice books. I mean, literally, we’re
gonna dice-and-slice books. So get out your
scissors, get out a couple of raggedy-taggedy books, and let’s get chopping and make some book marks.
First, remove the spines from a couple of old books. I
promise, no books were harmed… well, actually, they were harmed. They were annihilated.
But I didn’t pull anything off of the shelves of a rare books collection. In my
hometown, we have an amazing recycle center and there is a special walk-in bin
filled with books that local folks no longer want. They’re sad books. Books that are looking for a good home. Unfortunately, I got to
them first.
Okay, so rip off those spines. If you’re a craft geek, like some of us, you have a laminator just laying around the
crafting bench. Actually, book spines are a little thick for my baby laminator.
They needed a little persuasion to squeeze through, so I took out the ol’ flat-iron
– it doesn’t get out very often – and with a towel between laminate paper and
iron, it works just fine! Don’t have laminate paper? No problem. Pull out a
roll of packing tape (no heat).
With your trusty hole punch, put a little punch in the top
of your book spine/ book mark.
Next, just add ribbon and voila! Now, you have only to grab a cup of tea and a good book, (might I suggest, KEEPING UP WITH MR. JONES?) and your trusty new book mark. Enjoy!
