Miniature Bookshelf with Handmade Books

Hello friends! I hope you had a fun weekend! We had a great time visiting friends at a lake yesterday and the boys loved going for a boat ride and fishing. This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a School or Study theme.

I hope you will join us in this fun challenge, and don't miss the last contribution of our August guest designer Simo from Ginny and the Sheep.

There is still time to join the Simon Says Stamp Kid's Summer challenge - Anything Goes with Glitter. You can find Anton's Glittery Cactus here.

I have had the idea of making a miniature bookshelf in my head for quite some time and since it fit this challenge so well, I finally decided to do it. As you might know, I love to read and I think that reading is very important, especially for kids, and I had such fun making this bookshelf and all those miniature books. The words spelled out with alpha dice translate 'read a book'. I took some step photos along the way.

As my base I used a Tim Holtz Vignette Tray and cut up a Baseboard to fit perfectly as shelf. The tray was coated with gesso and I covered the sides of the tray and the shelves with strips of paper as well as design tape. Add some matte medium first to make sure the tape sticks down well.

The side of the book shelf looks like this, very quick as easy with tape.

For the inside I used patterned paper and stamped it with my favourite alphabet stamp as well as a sentiment. The edges were inked with Ground Espresso.

The books were made using Tim's Matchbox die and grungepaper. Die cut book and then cut the top and sides so that you have a variety of sizes.

Cover the books with scraps of patterned papers. For the spine, I used Sticky-back Canvas for most of the books, and strips of paper for a couple. The insides were done with scraps of book paper, as well as small pieces of cream and manila cardstock.

I used hot glue to attach the pages to the book (be very careful not to burn yourself).

The bookshelf was decorated with tiny photos from sample sheets I got the last time I had photos printed. I also added rub-on sentiments, a mirrored heart, metallic stars and number stickers.

The books were decorated with rub-on words and Clippings Stickers.

I used these alpha dices also as bookends.

I love this quote from the Darkroom Door Bookworm set.

These three books are pretty tiny. None of the books were glued to the shelf.

I also used an ephemera notebook piece, and covered it with canvas at the book. A photo, rub-ons and a flower was added to it.

The bottom shelf was used for books only. I had fun picking the sentiments for the books.

These are the three tiny books from the top.

The tiny books looks like this on the front.

I picked papers that featured numbers, words and maps, to fit with the theme of learning.

The back of the books are covered too. The spines were inked with Distress Inks.

More little books. I had such fun making these.

An alphabet book.

There are also books on history and nature.

On this book, I used a tiny photo of my grandmother.

The title of the book above.

I really like the sentiment on the spine of this book. And the ABC comes from the SSS Tiny Alphabet stamp.

A little book about flowers.

I added design tape on the inside of some of the books too.

The pages were torn for a distressed look.

And here you can see all the little books.

Another view of the dimension of the shelf.

 

The books were made so that they only stick out a tiny bit from the bookshelf. You can also make them a little larger, if you want to.

 

When the books are removed, the shelf looks like this.

I hope you will join us this week in our School or Study challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies: 

Tim Holtz VIGNETTE TRAY	Tim Holtz SCHOOL DESK Stampers Anonymous	Darkroom Door BOOKWORM	Simon Says TINY ALPHABET BACKGROUND	Tim Holtz Sizzix MATCHBOX
Tim Holtz Idea-ology 6 x 12 GRUNGEPAPER	Tim Holtz Idea-ology COLLECTOR Ephemera	Tim Holtz BLACK ALPHA DICE	Tim Holtz BOUQUET	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CLIPPINGS
Tim Holtz STARS ADORNMENTS	Tim Holtz SALVAGED BASEBOARDS	Tim Holtz 8 x 8 Paper ETCETERA	Tim Holtz TISSUE TAPE SYMPHONY	Tim Holtz ARISTOCRAT Design Tape
Tim Holtz JOURNEY Design Tape	Tim Holtz BUTTERFLY Design Tape	Tim Holtz CHATTER Design Tape	Tim Holtz Idea-ology VINTAGE Design Tape	Tim Holtz POSTAL Design Tape
Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS	Tim Holtz 12 x 12 Paper Stash DAPPER	Tim Holtz Idea-ology COLLAGE	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CORRESPONDENCE	Tim Holtz Idea-ology MIRRORED HEARTS
Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHITCHAT STICKERS	Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs SPECIAL DELIVERY	Tim Holtz LIFE QUOTES REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz BOTANICAL REMNANT RUBS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology WORDS REMNANT RUBS
Tim Holtz NUMBERS REMNANT RUBS	Ranger NATURAL STICKY-BACK CANVAS 8.5 x 11	Ranger 8.5 X 11 MANILA CARDSTOCK	Tim Holtz Distress Ink CANDIED APPLE	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PEELED PAINT
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK FADED JEANS	Tim Holtz Distress Ink GROUND ESPRESSO	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival RED GERANIUM	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival FERN GREEN	Ranger TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS Mixed Media Palette
Tim Holtz Distress Paint GATHERED TWIGS	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Tim Holtz Tonic MINI SNIPS
Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Tim Holtz Distress COLLAGE BRUSH SET	We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER	Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS

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