Cardboard Book

Hey ho! The March challenge is up over at scrapforhelp and the challenge this time is to use corrugated board.  The thing I use corrugated board (or cardboard box) for most often is for book covers.  Sometimes I wrap it up but this time I thought I'd let the lovely kraft colour of the box be seen and just dress it up a bit with stamping and other bits. (kraft goes with everything!)

 

The book opens...

 To reveal lots of lavender paper from Majadesign's Ska' vi ta en collection.

For you bookbinding fans out there, the book was bound with long stitch.  And I ended up hating the string I used for stitching so I found something to cover it up:

 

And of course, that turned out to be my favourite thing on the book. typical. But I'm still looking out for an old antique spoon so I can replace the one I stole from the kitchen....

This album (or rather a slightly modified version of it) will be taught as a part of a scrapevent in Uddevalla (Sweden) that Maja Design is sponsoring.  A very very big thank you to Creativica and Karin for this opportunity. My sweet friend Karin will be teaching the class and I hope everyone will enjoy making the book from scratch.

The link to the event’s blog is: http://creativica.wordpress.com/scrapevent-uddevalla/ if you’d like more information.