Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book

Inspiration: As part of La-La Land Crafts Virtual Craft Retreat, a chipboard book was one of the projects. Since my wife and I were both making the same things with duplicate kits, I decided to change the theme to use some of my Stamperia Sir Vagabond Aviator papers and elements and a bit of steampunk flair. With some helpful suggestions from Nanci Wolter-Duigou, I was very excited at how it turned out. I hope this inspires you to create something fun!

Description: I started with a chipboard book. The project used paper towel (kitchen roll), separated the layered pieces, and applied it to the book with Mod Podge while bunching it to look like an old rough covered book. I painted it with dark brown, medium brown, and light tan acrylic paint to give it a leathery appearance. The project had us cover the book “page” area with a medium and use toothpicks to create pages effect. I used 3D Matte Gel for this. My wife had an idea to paint the pages gold like an old, gilded look. I used art Alchemy Metallique Wax - Aged Brass, to color chipboard pieces to go on the book spine and front cover.  Mechanical gears, screw heads, key and other elements were added to the book. It was finished by adding White Pearl Metallique Wax for highlights. The piece measures 7.5” high x 5.5" wide x 2.25" wide.

Products:

  •        Chipboard Book
  •        Chipboard Pieces die cut from La-La Land die cuts
  •        Mod Podge
  •        Finnabair Art Basics 3D Matte Gel
  •        Stamperia Sir Vagabond Aviator papers
  •        Stamperia Sir Vagabond Aviator Die Cuts chipboard elements
  •        Acrylic paint – dark brown, medium brown, light tan, and gold
  •        Tim Holtz Idea-ology Industrial Gears Embellishments
  •        Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mini Gears Sprockets
  •        Tim Holtz Idea-ology Hardware Screw Heads
  •        Prima Finnabair Rusty Gears
  •        Prima Finnabair Mechanicals – Hardware Accents
  •        Mechanical key
  •        Finnabair Art Alchemy Metallique Wax – Aged Brass and White Pearl

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Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

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Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

Sir Vagabond Discover Flight Book by Jason Duigou with Duigou Designs

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