A Tiny Book Charm

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March Greetings!

A trip to Oregon, a touch of the flu and then, jury duty.  Whew!  What a couple of wild weeks.  It’s great to be back home and hopefully back to my regular weekly blog posts. I am looking forward to teaching a book charm workshop this Saturday at one of our local libraries.  It has been fun creating examples for the class, and I thought I would share my creative process.

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The supplies are pretty simple and you probably have them lying around the house: card stock, art paper, clear stickers (you can use modge podge if you don’t have stickers,) wire, beads, charms, embroidery floss and white glue.

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For the fairy book, I shrunk a picture of one of my paintings and created the cover in Photoshop.  The “Reading is My Super Power” cover is just text over a colored background. I printed them out on some thick card stock paper and then “laminated” them with a clear label to make them more durable.   The books are 1″ x 1 1/4″. I used some nice thick white art paper folded in half for the inside pages.  Six pages fit inside each book.

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I nestled a piece of wire with loops at both ends under the pages before I glued them into the book.  Then I attached wire wrapped little charms and beads to the looped ends.  On the fairy book, I wrapped some pink embroidery floss around the book and added a couple of beads and knots at the end to dangle.

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I am thinking of making them into necklaces by adding a jump ring and hanging them from a chain or ribbon.  They are pretty darn cute!  And of course, I LOVE the fairy book.  🙂

I am looking forward to catching up on everyone’s blog posts this week.  I hope you have been well and are enjoying life.

Have a wonderful, creative, day, Janell

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17 thoughts on “A Tiny Book Charm”

  1. These are fabulous Janell, I particularly love the fairy one! I mean those green eyes say it all, so sweet and cute and I think it’s a brilliant idea to make necklaces out of it, I know I would like it! Most charming, the small little details and touches make them so special.

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  4. Hi Jill, thanks, I wondered what an author would think of the little books. You lucked out on the jury duty! I had to report to downtown Los Angeles to the county courthouse. It was a bit of a drive, but an interesting day.

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  6. They’re lovely! Any doll or fairy would be delighted to own one! Jury duty is over-rated, but I guess we all have to do our civic duty at least once. Although the one time I got called locally, as I watched the proceedings my thoughts ran along the lines of, “God spare me a jury of my peers, if these are my peers!” It’s enough to keep one law-abiding! 😉

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  10. These are super cute Janell I looove the fairy! ❤ I used to make some mini book charms in the past very similar to yours but I should go back to create some to add to my Jewelry! Keep up with your creativity!

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