September 30th 2015 - Spell book

September 30th 2015 - Spell book

Going back to the beginning of the year I started to make a Spell book from some of the spells on this board.  It has taken ages to get sorted as I have typed up all the spells I want to use, had to make sure they were all the same colour and fonts and all had the page logo on.  I bought cream paper to print them on and hhad to wait until I had ink to actually dothem.

I spent a long time today printing the pages, some duplicated, some printed in a pinky colour not brown so I had to re-do them.  I am happy to say that my spells are now printed for the book.  I just need to glue the pages to the book that I made.

This is just 1 page before it was printed on cream paper but it gives you an idea of what I have done.

February 28th 2015 - Painting the spell book

February 28th 2015 - Painting the spell book

Today I am going to give the spell book its 1st coat of paint.  As I don't have enough purple acrylic I am going to do the first coat in a pale pink (mixed with silver) to make sure I have enough, this paint also has a sparkle to it.

I found a pin on pinterest about using acrylic paint to paint book covers with.  I planned to use this paint anyway as its stronger than kids poster paints.  I am also thinking about varnish or pva glue to protect it.

Here is the book after its pink coat of paint:

I think its starting to come along quite nicely.

February 24th 2015 - Spell Book the next part

February 24th 2015 - Spell Book the next part

Back at the end of January (almost a month ago now) I posted about making a spell book.  Since posting that I have managed to glue all the pages together so that they are thicker and there's now only just over 100 instead of the original 200+.

Today I have started to make the fauz leather cover, the idea was combined from this thread on pinterest and an article I found on the Halloween Forum Thread about handmade spell books.

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1. Kitchen towel which is 2ply was seperated and gave the bumpy effect.
2. I covered the inside of the cover with pva glue and then placed the kitchen towel on to it.
3. I then covered the outside cover the same way
4. was a plastic lid I placed inside so it didnt stick together when I turned it over to do the back.
5. The front and back covers of the book all covered.
6. A couple of hours after I did it, its starting to dry with lots of texture.

I now need to decide if I am going to add a 2nd layer of the kitchen towel to it, so that the red of the book is definately gone b4 painting, and possibly loose the texture or leave it with just one and the texture I have.  I'm leaning towards leaving it as I like the way it looks.

February 4th 2015 - the Pentagram/pentacle

February 4th 2015 - the Pentagram/pentacle

Today the Pentagram/pentacle has arrived for the cover of my Halloween Spell Book.  It is much bigger than I thought it would be, but it does fit (just) on the front of the book.

This is it as it has arrived.  I have since Given it a coat of silver paint, and it is going to need a 2nd and maybe a 3rd as its quite patchy at the moment.  I plan to make it really pretty with purple gem stones - my plan is to end up something like this one, obviously without all the swirls and stuff but the with purple stones.

 

 This was my inspiration for todays pin, but I also thought I would use this one which has information about the Pentagram.

The Pentagram is NOT a bad symbol nor is it linked to devil worship like many people believe.  The Pentagram is a 5pointed star that is used for protection, all of its lines are interlinked and are enclosed in a circle.  The 5 points all have a meaning, the top is for the Spirit or Goddess, the rest represent the elements, the top left is for Air, the top right is for Water, the bottom left is for Earth  and the bottom right is for Fire.  You can find out more about it's meanings here.

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.