52 Card Journal
52 Card Journal Back
52 Card Journal – Front Cover
52 Card Journal – Back Cover
52 Card Journal – Inside Front Cover
52 cards in process
Happy New Year!!!! Today I spent the day creating with some wonderful folk, lead by Seth Apter of The Altered Page. We were hosted by the wonderful Barbara Buckles of MAKE ART in LA. We took a simple deck of 52 cards and created a journal out of the cards. It was pure heaven. Now I will take a card each week and art journal on it. I will post my cards here.
Happy Journaling!
GORGEOUSNESS!!!!! So jealous!!!
It was soooo fun! We missed you! You would have loved it Orly!
I thought of you so many times today, Orly. You’d have loved this group, and they’d have loved you.
Today was terrific, Brian, and Seth brings magic and great fun w his work. What a wonderful community of artists! I’m so glad and grateful to be a part of this.
It was so fun to be in class with you!
Nice art Brian
This looks terrific.
omg, I LOVE THIS!! I wish I’d been there, but now I’m gonna follow you and watch this deck develop. Looks great so far! Love the free colors and distinct images on top! Did you gesso first?
These are very cool Brian. And I know from personal experience that they are even better in person! Thanks for taking part in such a fun workshop!
Thank you Seth. The class was a blast!
Beautiful. I’m curious how this book is bound. I see the copper foil on the spine, but can’t figure out how that would be enough ‘stickum’ to hold all the cards in place. Can you share?
Actually the cards are NOT bound. There is a front and a back cover, made to resemble a book. We attached sari tape to the front cover and then the cards are stacked on top of the back cover and you place the front cover and and wrap the sari take around the entire “book”.
Thanks Brian! That’s wonderfully easy, and brings a whole new joy to the game ’52 pickup’!
As I was looking at this (and wanting to start one of my own) I thought about a book making technique I learned a while back using covered binder board for the covers and spine. Instead of sewing in signatures, we built a box attached to the spine that opened on the opposite end. The box then held a collection of small journals. Could prove a challenge to do that technique prior to completing the cards though as the deck would likely expand as cards were completed. I guess it could be done after the fact. Hmmm, got my wheels spinning.
can’t wait to see what you do with the cards (and so terribly jealous you got to do this workshop w/ seth!)
So fun and now you can relive the experience each week.
[…] Card Pick-up class with Seth Apter. You can view the previous post regarding the cover of the class here. I really have enjoyed journaling on the backs, of these cards. I have given myself to be really […]
What a fantastic project Brian! Can’t wait to see what you do each week ;))