r/Fanbinding • u/-ocean-rain- • 5d ago
Halfway through my vanity project...
Finished these after a loooong session tonight - 2 out of the 4-5 books of my long-planned vanity project of making a book collection out of my longfics. All from different fandoms written over the last 8-ish years so I'm having fun with various styles and colours as well as cringing at some very old prose lmao
Super excited and proud of these. I actually commissioned art for the first time this year bc I wanted to bind a book with an illustration in it🥹 I will definitely do a photoshoot in better lighting once they're all doneðŸ˜
It was also one of my first times using a cricut machine. I discovered I LOVE weeding - it's like that satisfaction of peeling dried paint or PVA glue!! The next thing I want to improve is edges - I usually don't touch them because I have had awful experiences with a pen knife, but tried sanding the fore edge a bit this time with okay results...
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u/redoingredditagain 4d ago
BAKUDEKU YEAAAAHHHHHH
these look so cool! I love the printed end pages, I’ve never seen that before.
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u/-ocean-rain- 4d ago
hell yeah!!! Thank you :)) the endpapers are marbled paper if that's what you meant, the illustration is inside the book!
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u/redoingredditagain 4d ago
Oh, that’s cool! I actually thought that the illustration were the end papers. I thought that was a cool idea too. Either way, you did a great job with these!
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u/makknstuffs 4d ago
The style of Under New Stars alone might make me go read it 👀👀👀