This
week for Trash to Treasure I thought it would be fun to make some
books to fill the bookshelves. These books are intended to be filler
either to fill the space until you get enough books to fill your
shelves or to fill in bookshelves in projects that require a lot of
books. I know I love to have real books in my projects but in reality
it just isn't practical to try fill all the shelves that way.
I
think these would be really good in either a book store scene or a
library, especially if you some shelves that are more in the back of
the room.
I
wanted to show the books in my bookshelf but I have no idea what
scene I have it placed in or if it is in a box between scenes. I
didn't have time look for it today either. I am sure you get the
idea of how these will look.
To
find the pictures of books just go to Google Images and search for
bookshelves you should get a bunch of pictures to choose from.
Remember if you do this that you can't sell the books or any project
with them in it because the photo belongs to someone else. This is
only for your own use.
Once
you find the picture you want to use save it to your computer and re
size it to just a tiny bit shorter than the space between the
shelves of your bookshelves. I then opened up a document in my word
processor and added multiple copies of my photos and printed on good
quality paper.
For
the backing of your books you need some paperboard- you know a box
from crackers or cereal of something like that.
Cut
strips of the paperboard to the size of you finished books, cut out
your printed pictures of the books, glue them onto the paperboard
(leave room at the end for an area to fold back) then when the glue
dries do the scoring and you have books!
I
told you it was easy.
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