Book Edges Question

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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 10, 2008 at 1:43pm

Oh I love powertools! I guess it would depend on what you were going to do with it. Sealing the edges with gel medium might work, but it might also still peel back. Is it cloth covered? Will you be doing something to the cover also? If I were going to be painting the cover, I might add some gaffer's tape around the edges, then paint over it. I'm not sure....I look forward to reading other's ideas & seeing your finished project.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 10, 2008 at 1:45pm

It doesn't appear to be cloth covered. I am going to do something to the cover, but I haven't gotten that far yet. I'm going to look up gaffer's tape now. :)

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 10, 2008 at 6:19pm

Okay, a search at the lowes web site yielded nothing. Do I have to order this or will I find it some place locally?

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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 15, 2008 at 10:00am

Don't think you'd find it at Lowe's. A store that sells scrapbooking stuff would probably have some printed. Some of the major mfrs are marketing it (7 gypsies comes to mind first). That's what I've got, it's not plain it's printed with stuff. Or you could google it & get a wad of it. I keep saying I'm going to get a huge roll of black, but then I'm not having a lot of book art time so I forget. It's nice because of the way it tears. But at your local home improvement store you could probably find a cloth based tape which would work too. Even duct tape, or a good electrical tape. Anything that will stay stuck but still accept any wet media that you might do on top of it.

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Permalink Reply by Sandi Wedemeier on May 15, 2008 at 10:15am

i'm rather fond of silver tape. it can be found in your local hardware store in (i think) the plumbing section. it's used to wrap leaky pipes or can at least be used on wet surfaces.

it's kinda wide but easy to cut. i just went in and asked for 'silver tape'. but the guys at the hardware store are rather used to me asking for odd stuff and coming to them with weird ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 16, 2008 at 9:20am

I'll give silver tape a shot. It looks like I have to drive across town to get gaffer's tape (it's a big town with a lot of traffic) and I haven't been able to set aside time to go this week. Sandi do you know if one can paint on silver tape?

Thanks for the suggestion!

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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 16, 2008 at 2:41pm

You can paint on it but it might scratch off a bit. You can emboss it. You'll have fun with it ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on May 16, 2008 at 2:43pm

Thanks, Stacie. I haven't crossed the boundary into the embossing world yet. Another something to learn!

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Permalink Reply by Stacie Williams on May 16, 2008 at 5:20pm

;-) That's what's so cool.....always more to play with!

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on June 8, 2008 at 1:55pm

Karen, thanks for your note. You didn't have any problems with the layers separating?

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Permalink Reply by Donna Engstrom on June 11, 2008 at 6:47am

Hi Alicia,

To cover the cut edges of a book try using collage - decorative paper, old maps, sewing patterns. and my all time favorite, Gesso. HTH. Donna

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Edwards on June 11, 2008 at 9:01am

Thanks, Donna. I haven't tried that yet, but I plan on trying it soon.

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