January 29th 2015 - Making a Spell book

January 29th 2015 -Making a Spell book

I am starting the process of making a Spell book ready for Halloween, to go alongside my witches potion shelf and crystal ball that I have.  There are many ideas and tutorials on the internet but most are for an open book and only have 2 pages with spells on, this is 1 of the ideas on pinterest.

However, for my book I plan to add a Spell to every page!  Yes i'm being adventurous and yes I will get it to work and no it's not too early to be thinking about Halloween!  I also found this picture on Pinterest about Halloween that I thought was appropriate:

This is so me and sums things up.  I love Halloween and everything that goes with it, I have boxes of decorations and stuff in the loft, I really think that I should have lived in USA as they do everything on a big scale like I like to do.

Anyway back to the book.  I went to the old/second hand book shop in town on Tuesday 27th January in the hope of finding an old leather bound book of A4 type size that I could convert.  There were some lovely old books that would have been perfect, the only downside was the price of the £6.50 for an A5 and upto £50 an almost A3 size.  They would have been great but I can't justify the cost of it for use of a few hours 1 night a year.  So I went round the charity shops and picked up a 1978 encyclopeadia for 99p, its not as thick as I had hoped for but  i can make it work.

 

I plan to add texture by tissue paper to the cover and then paint it a deep purple, I also want the word spells in raised letters across the top and a silver pentagram underneath and the same on the spine.  I just have to find these bits or work out how to make them!  I am glueing every 2 pages together to make the paper thicker and I will painting them with acrylic paint in a brown to make them look old.  Once these are all done (going to take few weeks as can only glue 4 pages at a time so they dont all stick together and will be the same with paint).  I will then be printing out all the spells I have found  and saved on pinterest in a baord called spells and spell book, and sticking them to the pages.

This is going to be a work in progress and I will be re-visiting as I go during the year.