Mini Booklet _ Blizzard - ATC

size: 2.5"w x 3.5"h x 1"thk
Cut a couple of looong pieces of green light weight cardstock to create the spine/page holder to fit ATC height and width. Glued the folds together to create a solid booklet. Then cut white medium weight cardstock (Canson Mixed Media) for the artwork... (which will happen eventually...) - 32 pages/ATC's 

 

 

Blizzard Booklet - Black Black (#1)

I rec'd a request to create a Blizzard booklet (black spine and cover) so to make it a little interesting I used photographic background paper (shiny on one side and matte on the other) for the spine area and heavy textured cardstock for the covers.

It will hold 26 back to back pages.

Mini Booklet - Black Black (Blizzard 2)

I had a left over piece of my black photographic backdrop paper from a previous job I did so decided to use it up...it's shiny on one side and matte on the other.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h x 1.5"thk
Accordion folded into 1" folds to hold 38 pages (Canson Mixed Media). I used a heavy weight textured black cardstock for the covers and  a left over strip of the shiny black paper for the belt.

Not sure what I'm going to put into it yet... time will tell.

words: 

Mini Booklet - A 2 Z

size: 5"w x 6"h x .5"thk
Cut Bogus Recycled Sketch paper and folded in half to page size (8, 8 and 10 pages). Created an oversize and tilted funky letter on each page. Added a shadow then added the rest of the 12 letter words for that letter in monoline.
words: Ambidextrous, Bacchanalian, Catastrophic, Devocalizing, Emobilization, Flimflammery, Gobbledygook, Hardheadedness, Idealisticical, Jackanapeses, Kaleidoscope, Labyrinthian, Machinations, Ebulousness, Obfuscations, Pachdermous, Quixotically, Rapscallions, Scatterbrain, Taramosalata, Utilitarians, Voluptuosity, Wunderkinder, Xylographers, Youthfulness, Zillionaires. 

 

Whirlpool Of Imagination Booklet

size: 2"w x 3"h x .25"thk (opens to 18")
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper folded a single sheet (approx 8" x 12"), slitting the folds to create the one sheet booklet.
Doodled with a gold gel pen to create the swirl design adding graphite shading leaving space to add my text.
Text with a black ZIG Writer.
Adhered to heavy cardstock covering with one of my geli prints and adding the belt for closure.
words: Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. Robert Toth

Let Go - Tag Booklet

size: 6"w x 3"h x .25"thk
I was cleaning out a section in my art room (like I do all the time and never get anywhere...) but came across a bunch of tags I had painted eons ago... So decided to finish it. Added funky lettered/doodled words about letting go.

Used various media, w/c, gel pens, ZIG Writer.

Let Go; It Is what it is; Let it be; tomorrow is another day; do what you can & let the rest rest; mind over matter.

Art Of The Fold - Nine Emotions Booklet

Our AofF for September is anything we want...
I came across this blank booklet I made eons ago and decided to finish it...

I covered the  pages with 3 different geli prints I had recently made (a purple-y pink, a bluish and a greenish. I kept the backsides white for my text. Used a 1.5 black ZIG Calligraphy pen for the text in one of my funky styles....

Quotes on the back of each page done with a Juice Up pen in a basic monoline.

Freedom Booklet

I was cleaning out a bunch of stuff... and found a bunch of black cardstock, folded in half with a window on one side... so I glued them together to create the booklet, adhering the letters to spell "FREEDOM'S"

Adhered a piece of crackle scrapbook paper to the left side and wrote a word under the window, one each page from the lyrics. (LOVE this song...)

words: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Kris Kristofferson

AofF_Isosceles Triangle Book - Play Is Therapy

size closed: Triangles - 3.5" x 4"h
Our AofF for June had one thought being an Isosceles triangle project... but then they decided something else... but my head was already in the isosceles mode...

We were to take a square piece of paper and divide it in half both ways and half again and trim off the excess to create perfect isosceles triangles. I did a 2nd piece and adhered them together at their edges...

I then created another one slightly smaller from Genoa Bond paper. Then I cut smaller triangles from marbled paper I created eons ago and adhered them to the Genoa paper

The whole thing folds up into a neat triangle with a little paper band to keep it closed

Then cut out letters from misc black paper to spell out "Play Is Therapy

A of F - One Page Booklet - Crazy Is

Our AofF for May is anything using 1 piece of paper. This is the 3rd booklet I've made. I guess I'm kind of addicted...
size closed: 2"sq x .5"thk
I used my Guild's Genoa Bond paper which I completely covered with various colored linear marks and filling in the negative areas with solid color.
Folded to create 16 sections. Cut the paper thru 3 squares in the 1st & 3rd section and then from the opposite side thru the 2nd section.
Glued a very thin line wherever needed to create a page/pocket and then cut out little rectangles to easily slip in and out my white page inserts.
The only text is what's visible.
words: title - "Crazy is as crazy does" on the edge of the cover.
letters spell out MIND BOGGLING

Popsicle Fence Booklet - R Important

I saw something on-line using Popsicle sticks and was inspired to create this little booklet.
size: 3"w x 3.5"h
I didn't have any popsicle sticks so created mine from Staples cardstock and colored with various Distress Oxide brown pads. Glued them to the cover (also Staples cardstock) over the booklet made from white copy paper hand sewn with a 3 hole basic binding using 3ply un-waxed brown linen thread. Two signatures.

Mini Booklet - Blacker Than Black

size: 2.5"sq x .25thk closed
I had this little black book sitting on my desk that I had made a little while ago using Value pack Black Cardstock with a glued spine... so decided to fill it in finally
First added the wavy lines using Stamperia Contour Black which gives a raised glossy black line. Then I added the vertical lines using a Metallic Black Gelly Roll pen which kind of ends up being a silvery color. Then added the text with the same pen.
The title page used a different Black Metallic pen that seems to have a gold sheen to it. Can't remember which pen did that...
words: Blacker Than Black
If they don't give you a seat at the table bring in a folding chair. Shirley Chrisholm

Art Of The Fold - One Page Booklet - Think Green

size closed: 2.75"w x 2.25"h x .5"thk
Our AofF for May is anything using 1 piece of paper. I've done a few of these but this time I decided to glue some of the pages and create pockets so the booklet opens like a normal book... I love the results and decided I wanted an all GREEN theme...

I used my Guild's Genoa Bond paper, folded to create 16 sections. Cut the paper thru 1st & 3rd lines from the left edge thru 3 sections, then from the right edge thru the 2nd line thru 3 sections, and folded starting at one end till the end.

Glued a very thin line wherever needed to create a page/pocket and then punching a semi circle either at the edge or top depending on how the page was glued. I reinforced the glued edges with a very thin piece of geli print scraps.

Used various gel pens and Clean Color pens for the colored text.

Created tags to fit the pockets with the Genoa Bond paper and then adhered a piece of a dark green heavy paper. Wrote in green color names using a Gelly Roll white gel pen.

Mini Booklet - Celtic Knots

size: 4.25"w x 2.25"h closed
I've been playing with Celtic letters recently because of a class by the Edmonton Calligraphy Society. I decided to make a booklet of the two lettering styles I liked so I didn't have large pages to carry around...
I had these paper ends from my Guilds genoa bond paper laying in my stash and decided it would make a nice booklet. Then the booklet was laying on my desk and decided these letters would fit in nicely...
The letters look similar in the images but they have quite a few differences within the alphabet.
The cover was a piece of cold press w/c paper I had done some sort of background on and laying in my stash. Hand bound with 3ply un-waxed linen thread. Wrote the word "Celtic" in one of the styles with a pointed nib and misc white ink.

Origami Book - Artwork Jan - Mar, 2026

  

Another Origami book, this time holding artwork done in Jan, Feb & Mar this year. 

Created with Bogus Recycled Rough Sketch paper 70# 18" x 24" pad. Used 1 sheet per booklet page and 1 sheet for the links

I stopped at 6pages including the covers,, otherwise it would have become too unwieldy...

I like the results. 

 

Understanding - Bubble Stamp Booklet

4.25"w x 5"h x 1/4" thk.
I had these rubber stamped pages from a long time ago... I had used one of my extra large stamps and embossed with various colors of embossing powder (gold, copper, silver, black), then colored in some of the bubbles using Prisma Colored pencils primarily and one with some w/c.

I wrote synonyms of the word "understanding" on 1"h white cardstock with the arrow shape at the tip. Adhered to each page (one below the other on subsequent pages). Bound the booklet using an accordion glued spine.

I added “do you UNDERSTAND” on the last page…

Heart Accordion - Floral Advice

I seem to have forgotten to upload this structure...

size: 2.5"sq closed
size: 13"w x 5"h x .25" thk

I folded a piece of 5"h x 13"w Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper accordion style. Cut into it for the heart shapes, as well as cutting to create the square shapes. Colored the petals in the hearts with Prisma colored pencils.

Text written on separate pieces of paper (speckled gray toned stationary paper) and adhered to the structure (it hid the fold lines). Added the title to the cover

Words: If you're going thru hell keep going... but stop and smell the flowers.

Woven Booklet

I had all these skinny end cuts from geli prints in my off cut basket... and finally decided to use some of them creating these weave patterns... Then I framed them with black cardstock and adhered them to a solid piece of white cardstock and they became covers and page dividers (5 total).
Size closed: 5"w x 7"h x 1"thk
I cut up regular copy paper for the pages (5"w x 10"w x 5shts) and folded in half to create my signatures.

I haven't done hand bound bookbinding in years and really forgot how to do it... so fudged it. Turned out OK. Hung some hand woven beads from scraps as well.

End Cuts - Sewn Skinny Booklet

 

I had these copy paper end cuts size: (1.75"h x 11.5"w) sitting on my desk from another project and said to myself they would make a cute mini booklet... I'm looking at it and thinking I need to pierce my holes to the inside to hide that white coming through. c'est la vie...

Booklet size: (1.75"h x 5.5"w) Ten pages folded in half - 4 signatures and bound them with a simple 3 hole binding technique using dark brown waxed linen thread.
Used cardstock for the covers and wrapped it with a scrap of a pretty scrapbook paper lying on my desk both inside and outside... and with a tiny piece left over made the buckle...

Origami Booklets - Geli Prints

size: 4.5"w x 5.5"h x 1.5" thk.
size: 4.75"w x 4.25"h x .75" thk

I made a pile of geli prints at my last gals get together and created Origami Booklets from them... Nothing inside them yet.
The green one has 18pages including the covers. It's the largest I've done one so far. I reinforced the spine using 110lb cardstock and then glued a geli print onto it.
The orangey one has 10 pages including covers.
Both sizes are made from 8.5 x 11 paper depending on the orientation of your folds you can get either size.