As you may recall, my 100 Days collage diary book was in serious danger of becoming a wedge. I made the first 3 weeks of pages just crammed full of layers, not at all mindful of the effect.
I thought I had two options – rip out all the extra pages and begin a second book for the second half, or maybe stop at 50 days. But then I figured why not dis-assemble the first book, re-bind the remaining pages and make a cover, splitting the existing book in two? Yep. Do that.
It was actually pretty easy. I only had to open the coil on the book I was using, remove the pages for Days 51-100, then make new covers
Used my old Bind-it-all and it worked a treat. I covered the front is a sympathetic style so they look good together, using similar stash:
The Day 51-100 is something I created to mimic the new (but unavailable in the UK at the moment) Dina Wakely stamps. It was easy to do and it let me have the numbers as well – I don’t think the actual alphabet set has numbers – and I will do it again, until I eventually get the stamps. Or not. I have a file full of the black squares and the alphas (pink, cause white on white is tough to see LOL!) and I can make them and print as needed
Somehow I think I printed the ones I used with a stroke outline, hence the black grunge in the white. I’ll test that later. Anyway, here is a hot of the first book, hopefully showing how the first 3 weeks is super fat, the more recent pages, where I made great effort to shift the bulk away from dead centre, are thinner:
You can see how fat the existing book is compared to the new one LOL!
And here is my next page – still on the old book – I have quite a few more days to go before moving to book two. Part of the reason I am jumping in to this well in advance of the end of book one is that I have about 100 more ideas for 100 day projects and I am worried I will be too tempted to abandon this at Day 50 so I can begin a new one!
A little heavy-handed on this page, I think…
Some of my rub-ons work better than others! I was always annoyed by the pressure-marks that show when you have to rub REALLY hard to get them to adhere. It’s pretty obvious here:
Grrr. Problem is that I think these particular rub-ons did that when I first used them. Some craft fails are MY fault for not using stuff up in a reasonable amount of time, but not this one.
scrappystickyinkymess 
27/03/2021 at 10:22 am
Commenting here as late for WOYWW and so much to see! Brilliant solution to the small binding, it’s going to accommodate all 100 days really well now. I can’t agree more about the irritation caused by rub-one that do that. It’s a little thing really, but when you don’t know it’s going to happen until it does. Argh. Love the new American stamps too, they look great on that master board.
25/03/2021 at 8:14 am
You are too clever girl!!