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Cover construction for The silent isle imbowers, July-Aug 2023.

Finished binding here.

Materials shown: metallic gold and matte black heat transfer vinyl with cricut-cut designs, cricut-cut paper stencil, acrylic paint, bookcloth made of cotton + drawing paper backing + Lineco PVA glue. Calligraphy by quillingwords, flower art and cover construction by me.

————-General tips on how to make smth like this:

Steps in order were (1) have bookcloth, (2) cut and paint stencil, (3) cut and weed both HTV layers, (4) apply black HTV, (5) apply gold HTV, (6) add paint detail with paintbrush over the vinyl, (7) apply bookcloth to cover board.

This is not a beginner-friendly design LOL. Be like me and try most of the steps by themselves on other projects first.

I drew this design knowing how the sections would be layered, and which materials (and therefore colors) would go with each layer. Achieving a similar result with a premade design will likely require editing in a digital art program.

Test how your materials will layer before committing to a complex design. In this case I discovered that the type of bookcloth I made actually helps conceal the adhesive spread under the black HTV.

Layering HTV over small sections of acrylic paint works! Cannot confirm the result if you were to use large painted sections.

PSA This black layer with many very small pointy bits is at the extreme limit of what I think is possible to weed from machine-cut HTV. A different material might work better, and I got a lot faster at weeding the second copy than the first one, but some of this is just a technical limit. The gold section worked great but I would not recommend this for the black.

Layering HTV is much easier to do uniformly with a heat press! Check if your local library or maybe an art class studio has one you can use before doing smth like this with your iron.

Paper stencils are easy to make with the cricut but don’t try to use them for anything with small details. The above example is pushing it despite being very simple shapes. Stick-on stencils are better.

Tiny HTV design tip: designs with jagged sections and very thin lines are hardest to weed successfully. Smooth curves are much easier.

Scale all pieces of a stacked design on the same drawing program and within the same canvas in cricut so they layer precisely.

Cut tiny HTV designs with the washi paper setting on a cricut. I did not find this out myself but I can confirm the results! Using the HTV setting will cause the blade to catch on and pull up small sections of the design while cutting, ruining parts of the design.

—————-Tiny HTV design weeding tips:

For the love of cheese do not try anything this complicated the first time you use a cricut. or the second. you will cry

Seriously consider trying both HTV and cricut stencils before doing anything complicated like this. I wish I had at least attempted the black layer as a stick-on stencil.

This isn't a weeding tip but again you better cut this with a washi setting.

Use a very sharp weeding tool, good lighting, and consider a magnifying glass

Be prepared for this to take several hours, especially if you have never done a tiny piece before.

Important! The cricut does not perfectly cut out designs, leaving very small connected sections around the design at various locations. This is almost unnoticeable on large designs but can ruin tiny designs very easily. Be prepared to hold down the “keep” sections of the design with tweezers or a fingertip while pulling or trimming off some of the “remove” negative space.

Do NOT attempt to pull off all the negative space in a single piece. Either add dividing lines to your design for the machine to cut, or use a sharp tool to scrape them yourself. You are much less likely to accidentally remove part of your design if you weed the design in distinct sections.

#my art #bookbinding #work in progress #fanbinding #art tips #artists on tumblr #here there be fandom #long post #weeding the black layer was so. lol. I started the first one and was like I may have made a terrible mistake #renegade chat lighting candles for me #worth it!! also would hopefully come up with a more efficient stencil strategy instead next time!! #I normally post wip stuff on my side blog but figured this might be worth going on main #also the first wip photo looks neat so #only the vision of this fic being a Really Hecking Badass Book could sustain me thru 12 hours of weeding those black layers #my Learn Bookbinding Skills strategy is basically to choose an extremely ambitious project that excites me enough to keep me motivated #and then to just work on it for months because I am stubborn as all hell and genuinely find this fun instead of frustrating :D #tailfeather binding #id in alt text #described #update I have added ids!

[pads-and-moons]

songs i associate with the marauders / think they would like

sirius

- parents by yungblud

- 18 by arnabor

- sex with a ghost by teddy hyde

- verbatim by mother mother

- post break up sex by the vaccines

- ziggy stardust by david bowie

- harness your hopes by pavement

- devil town by cavetown

- paint it, black by the rolling stones

- adderall by max frost

- can she dance by dr dog

- pierre by ryn weaver

- ivy by frank ocean

- sex drugs etc by beach weather

- monolith by t. rex

- good old fashioned lover boy by queen

- sign of the times by harry styles

- temper temper by lime cordiale

- wires by the neighbourhood

- black sheep by gin wigmore

remus

- eleanor rigby by the beatles

- leaves by cheers elephant

- dear friend, by dayglow

- creep by radiohead

- despair in the departure lounge by the arctic monkeys

- where is my mind by pixies

- my heart is buried in venice by ricky montgomery

- chit chat by beach weather

- moondust (stripped) by jaymes young

- willow tree march by the paper kites

- come and be alone with me by the jungle giants

- a world alone by lorde

- dope on a rope by the growlers

- six months in a leaky boat by split enz

- martha my dear by the beatles

- mardy bum by arctic monkeys

- walking the dog by fun

- hazy miss daisy by kid bloom

- chapstick by hippo campus

- space song by beach house

- freakin out on the interstate by briston maroney

james

- say you like me by we the kings

- take a walk by passion pit

- pumpin blood by nonono

- please notice by christian leave

- give me a try by the wombats

- out of my league by fitz and the tantrums

- shark attack by grouplove

- honey by coastal club

- robbery by lime cordiale

- poison drum by gang of youths

- pursuit of happiness (nightmare) by kid cudi

- 1955 by hilltop hoods

- be okay by oh honey

- young dumb and broke by khalid

- octopus’s garden by the beatles

- renegades by x ambassadors

- scrawny by wallows

- san francisco by the mowgli’s

- kids by mgmt

- fun by troye sivan

lily

- there she goes by the la’s

- televised by hunny

- she’s so high by tal bachmann

- sunbleached girl by shag rock

- chasin honey by wild party

- seventeen by peach pit

- dog days are over by florence and the machine

- friends by blaise moore

- she’s so lovely by scouting for girls

- above the clouds by sÿde and olivia reid

- chateau by angus and julia stone

- boys ain’t shit by saygrace

- heartbreak radio by abbie ozard

- kiwi by harry styles

- accidentally kelly street by frente

- pink lemonade by the wombats

- kilby girl by the backseat lovers

- darling by christian leave

- low blows by meg mac

- nothing to regret by robinson

wolfstar

- the prettiest star by david bowie

- she’s a riot by the jungle giants

- peace train by cat stevens

- too much time together by san cisco

- love you so bad by ezra furman

- i melt with you by modern english

- talking to the moon by bruno mars

- all the young dudes by mott the hoople

- us by regina spektor

- talk is overrated by jeremy zucker and blackbear

- somewhere only we know by keane

- if u wanna stay by sweatcult

- low by cracker

- ivy by frank ocean

- boys don’t cry by the cure

- i want you to want me by cheap trick

- trouble by cage the elephant

- martha my dear by the beatles

- sweat by the technicolours

- like real people do by hozier

jily

- friday i’m in love by the cure

- best friend by rex orange county

- kiss her you fool by kids that fly

- my girlfriend is a witch by october country

- banana pancakes by jack johnson

- there’s no way by lauv and julia michaels

- lucky by jason mraz and colbie caillat

- say it just say it by the mowgli’s

- toothpaste kisses by the maccabees

- halcyon by the paper kites

- the louvre by lorde

- light a roman candle with me by fun

- without you by oh wonder

- unchained melody by the righteous brothers

- be my baby by the ronettes

- your song by elton john

- my girl by the temptations

- l-o-v-e by nat king cole

- dress by taylor swift

- me & you together song by the 1975

#marauders #songs #marauders as songs #remus lupin #james potter #sirius black #lily evans #lily potter #wolfstar #jily #playlist #harry potter #padsandmoons on ig