BOOK FOLDING COMPLETE

Hi Everyone

I hope you have enjoyed your Saturday .. .. mine seems to have disappeared in the blink of an eye .. .. yet again, but I did finish my book folding this evening and the finished project looked like this:

 
by no means perfect .. .. .. but I am quite pleased with it for a first attempt.

I made my tree with the intention of taking it over to Fessiwigs Festive Frolics Challenge and then got drawn into the American voting and forgot to link it .. .. so I am doing that a bit late .. .. sorry Hazel.  The challenge for this fortnight is "anything but a card" .. .. but it has to be "festive" of course! 

Things I learnt along the way whilst making my tree:

1.  Folding the pages to begin with is very, very easy but as you work your way through the book it gets harder and harder, so don't  work too close to the spine (mistake number one).

2.  Pay special attention to forming sharp and uniform points at the top, otherwise your tree isn't going to join together properly when you reach the end.

3.  I heat embossed the edges of my tree using a white and silver glitter embossing powder.  Not a good idea as some of my pages warped with the heat. (mistake number two).  Perhaps a glitter spray would have been a better option.

4.  There are some Christmas tree examples on Pinterest where the tree has been folded into the centre of a book that is displayed open.  I think that might have been easier for a first play.

You can leave your tree to stand directly on a table or shelf, but I added an empty cotton reel to the bottom of mine

So that is me for today.  A few of you correctly guessed I was making a Christmas tree .. .. and there were some suggestions of a heart!  Mmmmm  ....  might have to look into that one sometime.

Take care everyone.  

Catch you again soon but in the meantime please stay safe.