School Projects: Book Arts

Book Arts has been one of my favorite classes at college. I took it Winter 09 semester.

We learned how to make many different types of books and boxes. From figuring out measurements cutting/tearing/folding paper, sewing together pages, covering book board, choosing book cloth, making and buying paper, it was quite the experience.

They are a lot better to see and examine in person, but I thought it would be fun to post some picture of them. If you ever want to really see them let me know.

We made a variety of different kinds of books and a box to hold them all.

CLOSE UP OF SOME FAVORITES

Cord Bound Book

It has two different kinds of leather and I added a book mark.

I really like the end papers too.

It was my favorite book.

Long Stitch Book

I added beads to this one, small ones for decoration and a big one for the clasp. I looked around for leather and ended buying a pack of scraps. Then I discovered they were all too small. So I had to be creative and sew different pieces together. But in the end I really liked how it turned out!
Front
back

The Collaborative Pop-Up Book

As a class we made a pop up book. We decided our theme would be "Unique Animals." We slit into pairs. Each pair came up with an animal and created 19 of their page, one for each student. Then we took the pages and bound them for our Pop-Up book. It was a lot of fun.


The page my partner and I made. We decided to set our type on a small press. It was neat to set the individual letters, roll and apply the ink. Yet, it made me appreciate computers! Also, we got to see a printing press replica of the one the Book of Mormon was first printed with. They recently have gotten one at BYU-Idaho.








Japanese Stitch


This was a fun simple book. Also the cover paper is paper than I marbled.






MARBLED PAPER

Some of the paper I marbled

One day in class we got to marble paper. (The inside of a hymn book is marbled paper). It is an interesting process. You have a tray with with liquid. Then there are a variety of ink colors. You select the colors you want and apply then onto the liquid by drops or splattering it. Then you can create designs by swirling the inks. You then place your paper over it and pull it off. The ink sticks to the paper and then dries. It was really fun!







BOXES

Along with our books we were required to make two boxes.
This was a box i made for my scriptures. Though it turned out kind of big and bulky. But it's pretty and I like it anyway.
I added an indentation of the Rexburg Temple in the corner.

The inside. I used beautiful paisley paper. I made a pocket on the lid so I can put things in it. I like the ribbon that ties it shut too.A smaller box I made. These types of boxes are called clam shell.

CONTENT BOOK

For the final project we had to make a content book. After brainstorming a few different ideas i decided to make a book of the different cakes my sister and I have made. I used Adobe Illustrator and put it together. It was A LOT of work and made for a stressful end of the semester, but in the end it was worth it.

The cover. I cut a cake shape out of the book board. I then put three different colors of paper in the book. I ripped them so that they would overlapped for the different layers on the cake. It was fun...but difficult.

Title page. I had fun designing this and loved how it turned out.

A little back ground information i included.

I divided it into three different sections. Birthdays, Holidays and Special Occasions. There are a lot of pages I just included one from each section.

School Projects : Photography

Eye, Eye, Eye!!!

My contacts had been very irritable for me so I finally resorted to just wearing my glasses. So after about six months or so (I was in Idaho at school) I finally went to the eye doctor to figure out what is wrong with my eyes. My eye doctor thinks it's Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis. Oh boy! It is an immunity the body has with the proteins that collects on contacts. Bumps are formed on the eye lid that cause the contact to move around. It looks really gross, from the pictures i saw on the Internet. I am trying some eye drops to see if that will help. If not i may not be able to wear contacts anymore. I am going to the eye doctor next week to see how things are going. It wasn't the best of news, but it could be worse.

My Birthday

The birthday cake my little sister and I made.

My family came and we made pizzas. It was a lot of fun.

My sister's wrapping skills. I felt rather spoiled.

Summer Time so Far

It's been an okay summer. Long, 5 months is long. I'm ready to go back to school. I have about 66 or so more days :) But it's been fun too. Here are some of the things that have happened. For more pictures and stuff visit my family's blog http://www.whatinthewideworldgardners.blogspot.com/ I've made quite a few cakes. I'll have to post them sometime.

A new Nephew

Stanford Jay

My 4 Nephews and soon I'll have a niece!

Family Vacation

We went to Idaho to see Levi on his birthday.

We went to a few zoos, Bear World, visited relatives, gave Heidi a tour of BYU-Idaho, and had other adventures as well. It was a lot of fun!

A ride at Bear World

Idaho Falls

A Party or Two

Cinco de Mayo. Our penguin pinata.

We've had quite a few b-day parties too.

Heidi's Graduation

An arrangement I made of some of the pictures I took of her.

Other stuff

Snake invasion! One in the house and 5 or more outside!

Yucky...and they were huge!

A few last memories of Winter09 semester

So I realize it is July...haha and I'm making a post of winter semester. haha. Yeah I'm bad at this. I've been updating my family blog while I've been home and doing both is just too much. Anyways, but it's kind of like a journal/scrap book for me so i wanted to include these before i went on.

Winter semester was really hard for me.

I made it through and grew a lot. Here's just a recap of a few memories.

The beginning of the semester we decided to make some goals.

We made a guide pyramid for them. Too bad it doesn't show up clearer. It's pretty funny.

I just love homework :)

one of the pages of our quote wall

The BYU-I Learning Model signs.
"1. prepare, 2. teach one another, 3. ponder/prove"


Flirt Responsibility???
One day we discovered the library to be covered with flirting signs.
It was some art students project. Weird and funny.


haha. No we aren't eating it. We are singing karaoke.

Getting ready for a date. No i didn't wear these :)