Backgrounds to Bindings: Beautifully easy handmade books and art journals Video Download

Create “juicy backgrounds” and a plethora of different no-sew bindings for your handmade books in this nearly 2-hour long Cloth Paper Scissors workshop! Masterful artist and book-binding genius Kari McKnight-Holbrook takes you through each step, including creating your own stamps made from flip flops to use in your book, developing a color hue for your backgrounds, and using rubber bands, paintbrushes, ribbon, and more to bind it all together!

In this nearly two-hour-long workshop you’ll explore. . .

• Over twenty minutes of handy tips for materials you can incorporate into your book making, including old maps, freezer paper, cereal boxes, and more!
• How to extend your paint and materials in ways that won’t expand your budget. Kari’s instruction ensures that “nothing is ever wasted.”
• Incorporate stencils, masks, paper, and other elements into your pieces that will add depth and dimension to the page.
• Methods that range from wet and messy to dry and easy that lend to variation in your backgrounds
• An easy as A-B-C tutorial on how to create your own hand-written fonts and apply them to your pages without fear
• How to bind your lovely pages using rubber bands and chopsticks or pencils, tape, ribbon, or a few snips of paper and glue
• You’ll be enthralled with Kari’s hands-on and illustrative approach to bookbinding, and impressed with your own results. In her workshop, Kari promises, “Once you get the method down, there’s no stopping you!”
• Order your copy of this approachable and instruction-packed workshop today!