oh my god. I think I made like 18 boxes (or book sleeves).
I didn't use illustration boards because it was way too thick compared to my tiny books, so what I did was use this cardstock from Neenah paper. It looked awesome until I actually folded them. As soon as I made the box shape out of the paper it just cracked revealing its inner paper colour ( I did score beforehand very intensely) also it kept curving everywhere. So after the 4th attempt, I just decided to make a soft book sleeve.
I didn't use illustration boards because it was way too thick compared to my tiny books, so what I did was use this cardstock from Neenah paper. It looked awesome until I actually folded them. As soon as I made the box shape out of the paper it just cracked revealing its inner paper colour ( I did score beforehand very intensely) also it kept curving everywhere. So after the 4th attempt, I just decided to make a soft book sleeve.
From the left, the first two are soft paper and the third one is thicker material.
There is string glued around the first box to make it look more parcel-like, and you can tie and untie the string just where the opening is.
There is string glued around the first box to make it look more parcel-like, and you can tie and untie the string just where the opening is.
The second one is a fail attempt to wax seal. Because the string was too thick, the wax just went everywhere and it was not fixable. Maybe I should've got a fake wax stickers or something. felt like crying. also the hot wax curved the paper like no tomorrow.
I think I like the first stringy one the best and probably will hand that one in as the final, although I kind of still like the wax one despite all the negative things that happened.
