Through making these books, I learned two important lessons.
One, when you buy price stickers that are supposed to be removable, test them out on a piece of scrap paper. Otherwise, you will have an otherwise perfectly nice book that has a little spot of sticky residue if you take the price sticker off. :/
One, when you buy price stickers that are supposed to be removable, test them out on a piece of scrap paper. Otherwise, you will have an otherwise perfectly nice book that has a little spot of sticky residue if you take the price sticker off. :/
Two, always, always, double check that the grain of your paper is running in the right direction before gluing you book together. I made about five guest books in one go a while back, and later realized that they all had some puckering in the first couple of pages because I hadn't checked the grain.
So, my slightly-less-than-perfect creations are going into the yart sale, and hopefully off to new owners who feel that a few puckers and a price sticker on the last page that can't be removed just gives them a bit of extra character. Or something like that. :D
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The books look very lovely regardless. Life would be a lot simpler for bookbinders if paper did not stretch and shrink. I have done the same thing many times, also glued a text block in upside down!
A great idea, the Yart sale :)
I found out about checking grain direction after making mistakes like this too!
Grr.... Lovely work as always :)
Yes, and there's always that moment when you realize what you've done, and you think to yourself "I'll just stick this book in the press now, and maybe when I take it out, the puckers will be all pressed out." But they never are :D
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