When my very
crafty friend Becca asked me to make the guestbook for their wedding, I couldn’t be
more thrilled!
I got to practising
and made a photo book with compensation guards and getting the okay from the
bride meant I could crack on with it. Their wedding had a blue and green theme
and I know I wanted the guestbook to look quite vintage, and it wouldn’t matter
if it looked too hand-made at all!
I brought some pale
green book cloth online and some blue for the endpapers. I know I wanted
decoration on the cover. I don’t have the skill or equipment to do any tooling as a binder
would so instead I used transfer images I found in a crafting shop.
As you can see
in this photo I used a ‘B’ instead of an ‘R’ but managed to fix it, at the same
time giving the book more of a vintage feel with the use of a new toy I had
just brought at the Society of Bookbinder’s Education and Training Conference.
I am so proud of
the book, and of the way it opens flat!
It looked
fantastic when people were writing in it and that made me unbelievably happy. Nothing
makes me happier than to see people actually using the books I make them! As
well as reading all the lovely notes I hope Becca and Francis also use it as a
wedding scrap book.
I had loads of
compliments throughout the evening and I was smiling from ear to ear!
It was a
beautiful wedding, and I loved the ethos of it: the bride’s dress, decorations,
cake and guestbook were all handmade!
