Accordion Glued Spine - Cowboy Proverbs

My Guild (BVCG) gave us a challenge of Cowboy Sayings... I created a couple larger pieces and submitted them... but then I was thinking that there were so many more I wanted to play with... so created a booklet of them.

I was looking for something else and found these papers in the back of the drawer and decided to use them for this booklet. It has a lovely texture. The paper is called Ruche paper because of the crinkly effect in it. It has a weight feel of about 100# although I have no idea what it is advertised as. I have it in several colors and decided to use the beige and deep brown (cowboy colors). Text is written in a western type font called "Cowboy-Movie font. A little time consuming but I like the effect.

The booklet has 16 dark brown pages plus the beige cover which is an accordion fold glued spine with folded over covers for additional strength.

Accordion - Removable Spine - Green - The Garden We Grew

Since the 1st one I created was for a client and I really loved this structure and poem... I had to make one for myself.

Created the text on I believe copy paper that I had pre-cut eons ago... so thought I'd use more of it.
Wrote out the text using a Zebra pointed nib and two colors of green gouache (Holbien Terre Verte & Cypress Green) in "Bullet Rider Typeface" style and trimmed down to 5"w x 4"h.
Cut several strips of this pale green colored Mi-Tientes paper to create the accordion giving me a border of 1/4" all around the text piece.
Created the covers using some of my gelli print paper (front and back of gelli print) around some white cardstock, then slipped the ends of the accordion into the cover and held everything closed with the spine insert (the whole thing is removable if desired)

TLA - Accordion Spine Booklet - Color My World

I signed up for Texas Lettering Arts Holiday Projects 3 day classes. loving these projects...

This one was taught by Gemma Black. What a fabulous booklet design. The accordion portion of the spine can be left so it expands or tied closed like a real book. I left mine open.

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