Domino Book

Before I upload my domino book here is a fridge magnet I made using a domino and a trionimo.

First of all I drilled the dominoes top and bottom so that I could thread something through.  Then I coloured the domino with the Brilliance tri-pad, "Twilight" (these are the ideal size for dominoes) and went around the edges with a silver Krylon pen before glazing with Glossy Accents.  The trionimo was coloured with Brilliance "Orchid".

The crown and the wings are Grungeboard coloured with Dabbers (gold for the crown and three shades of lilac/purple for the wings).

Then I threaded some beads and tiny dice on crochet cotton and threaded them through to represent hands and feet and added some bling.  Finally a magnet on the back and here it is on my freezer in the utility room.

This is an entry for the "Wings" challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show.  I guess my book below could also be an entry as it is stamped with butterflies.

Now to the domino book!

On one of my groups there is a swap for a domino book.  Several people had been asking how to do one - this is how I do mine:

First of all I coloured my back and front cover (dominoes) with Brilliance Ink.  I find the best inks to use for dominoes are Brilliance and Stazon.  Then I dried them off with my heat gun - I always use the heat gun between each stage of colouring  and stamping dominoes

It is much easier to ink your stamp up (Stazon) and take your domino to the stamp - that way you can get the part of the image you want if the stamp is larger than the domino.  Lift straight off.  Heat set.

Next I coloured my butterflies with watercolour pencils.  I used my Perga-Liners this time but I also use Caran D'Ache - both by scribbling on a piece of plastic and adding just a tiny bit of water to mix to a thickish paste.  Sharpies are good for colouring on dominoes too.  Heat set.

When cool I covered them in Glossy Accents to make a glaze on top of them.

Then I cut out my pages from some stiffish paper.  You can see I have three sets of three; these are called signatures.  They are just a bit smaller than the domino all round.

The photo above shows the "carrier" - a piece of card with four evenly spaced pinholes in.  This is the same length as the pages and helps you to align all the signatures when you start your "coptic" stitching.

This shows the coptic stitching holding all signatures together.

Put some double sided sticky tape (red liner is best - you need it to be strong) on both outside pages as above.  Notice how I have trapped some ribbon underneath for a closure.

This shows the book open

This is it closed with the ribbon tied.  The back spine shows the coptic stitching but as it is so attractive it doesn't matter.  Also if you can do coptic stitching you want to show it off and let everyone ask you how to do it.  (there are You Tube videos showing how to do this stitch)