Autumn Advent Journal completed

I have an Intention to create a book a month this year : small and gorgeous, mixed media and stitched. April's book has been based on Kasia Avery's Advent Calendar offering from 2018. This and 2019 prompts available FREE HERE. I've shared my response to the prompts on separate watercolour pages during April and I am now ready to share the book all finished and glued into my original cover. I started with an old hard back book cover and watercolour paper cut to size

I worked with a limited Autumn colour palette and tried to include stitching, sari ribbon and stencils on each of my spreads.

As I completed each spread, I glued them back to back, and quite soon the pile was too wide to fit inside the original cover so I had to split the spine and remove the back cover

This is the exposed spine view of all the spreads now ready to complete attaching a spine and the cover.

Glued the back of my last page to the back cover

and then wrapped some lovely upholstery fabric over a sari ribbon tie across the spine

Last time I used this method I used super heavy gel medium

but this time I used Aleene's Tacky Glue (just to try something different and I'm running out of gel and not sure when I'll be able to get more)

Decorated my front cover simply

and I thought you might enjoy a flip through.  

To see the process of making these spreads in more detail scroll through my April posts. Check out my other posts about creating a book a month HERE. My May project is going to be less ambitious. Check that out tomorrow.