I wasn't able to record a flipthrough video of the cluster book before giving it away, so this is the next best thing - the story in pictures.
I've added links to posts that contain more details, if I wrote one during the process of creating the book. You will see these above or below the page photo so, if you missed those particular details you can easily read more about them there.
So without further ado I give you . . .
The Front Cover
Created using tea-bags on upcycled brown packaging paper and handcream paper. The closing is made from green upcycled sari silk and raffia.
The whole inside front cover was lined with green upcycled paper previously used to wrap a bunch of flowers.
I added a vintage postcard in the bottom left corner to make a tuck spot. In the tuck spot is a piece of paper I created using the Citrasolv technique. These papers were always my friend's favourites although I think she's made some of her now.
I wrote her a note on coffee dyed paper explaining what the cluster book is and how it can be used and placed that in the tuck spot in front of the Citrasolv paper.
Each of these upcycled paper clusters were created from the same 6 constituent parts and attached to paper from a vintage atlas. The background is writing paper from a house clearance stall at the Sunday Market.
There are various other vintage pages which were hand stamped and/or hand decorated. Each cluster is finnished off with an old postage stamp.
Wire Flower Clusters or are they lollipops as suggested by @jacey.boldart or are they balloons as suggested by @alchemystones, backed onto vintage book papers and attached to pages from an old world atlas.
Each of these paper clusters were created from the same constituent parts and attached to upcycled brown packaging paper.
They are all vintage book pages or tissue paper which were either hand decorated or had previously been used to clean up leftover paint.
Vintage Cheques, Photos And Window Blinds Clusters on vintage music paper.
Rather than a tuck spot which I used on the inside of the front cover, here, in the back I have used a simple pocket.
I had previously made a masterboard and I used part of this for the pocket, attaching it with double-sided tape.
A masterboard is just a collage that can be used multiple times, either by cutting it up into different parts, as I have done here, or by scanning it and then printing it multiple times from the scan.
The original masterboard was made from bits I had left on my desk after making a junk journal for a Christmas present.
In the pocket I added the above pieces of ephemera. There is a piece of paper I dyed by leaving it in a rusty tray, a vintage credit note, some old book pages and a card from a National Trust 'Misrepresented Women' exhibition.
So there you have it. I've finally come to the end of the cluster book posts.
I hope you enjoyed reading them.
P.S. Last year I started working in an altered book and for today's creative task I glued in some paper scraps I have lying around. I won't be making a post about it since it's not very interesting and I've already written this one. But I just wanted to let you know I didn't miss my creative task for Day 37 of The 100 Day Project. š
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The 100 Day Project - 2024 - Collection.
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