Well while chatting in the cafe today, we were all discussing ATC cards and such and up came a comment about the unfinished wedding book that I started some time ago for my nephew and his new bride. Right before the book was to be finished, I heard that they were going to travel for a year so I thought a travel journal would be more fun to have so the rest is history. This little book (a book before I knew that I would come to make books) has just sat on a shelf never to be finished and never to be seen. So here she is:
THE UNFINISHED WEDDING BOOK
First page - not the cover - that never seemed to have gotten made.
Second page of the book - the engagement. This page has places for little stories that tuck away and little picture holders to place their own and a nice quote only a bride would tear at.
On the third page, the theme of how much can one manage to put on one page begins to unveil itself. As you can see, my love for using transparent papers for words and pictures has already started it's development.
As each page continued, new ideas needed to be formatted to add excitement and interest to the readers or viewers so this next page came from typing the same word over and over and then snipping them apart. Each tiny piece was then laid and glued to form the heart. It was actually a rather fun project. This page is a bit sweet for me, but looking back at a bride to be-nothing can ever be too sweet, romantic or wonderful.
On the third page, the theme of how much can one manage to put on one page begins to unveil itself. As you can see, my love for using transparent papers for words and pictures has already started it's development.As each page continued, new ideas needed to be formatted to add excitement and interest to the readers or viewers so this next page came from typing the same word over and over and then snipping them apart. Each tiny piece was then laid and glued to form the heart. It was actually a rather fun project. This page is a bit sweet for me, but looking back at a bride to be-nothing can ever be too sweet, romantic or wonderful.
This last page just goes on and on. This page was fun to hammer out the little heart signs and to use the old slide holders for pictures. Each picture frame is for a special moment during the ceremony and once again a quote that only on a wedding day should be read.
One last hidden place to be found in this little book. The book was constructed to include an envelope behind each page, that was to be discovered by opening the spine of the book. If you didn't get the picture don't worry-it never got made either. The next shot is of those envelopes and as you can see, even little quotes were hidden in there.
If the book was ever to have been completed, there would have been a few more pages that now remain blank. The service, the reception, the honeymoon and the first apartment would have been included on the last of the pages. Thinking about all that stuff makes my head spin and perhaps that is why it was never completed. Who knows why art people never finish some things. Shrugs.So here stays the old maid. She almost made it to the alter, but not quite. She continues to live with her mother who tells her that she was too good for any wedding anyway.
Hope you enjoyed the picture page.
See you around town,
Janet
