New for the fashionable Victorian lady on her next airship tour of London, sea cruise in Nemo's submarine, or even a quick carriage trip to her local hat shop:
The Steampunk iPad cover! When the iPad was purchased, I looked at the covers for sale, and thought-- hmph, I can do better than that. So, using Chico and Jo's pattern as a guide, I cut chip board using a combination of an Exacto knife and my little cutting board. The paper I selected from the Tattered Time card stack by DCVW -- a weathered Florentine and some embossed gears.
Black elastic was cut and glued onto the uncovered chipboard, then the outer paper (Florentine) glued on, with a slit cut in the paper to accommodate the elastic. Then, inner paper (gears) was glued on. Finally, I cut out the fleur-de-lis book-binding image from the same stack and glued it on as a faux binder.
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| Faux binder-- embossed paper cut out from Tattered Time and glued on |
I also decided that I wanted the fashionable Victorian lady to appear in the cover itself, so I chose a winged lady with robotic arm and glued her to the inside short flap.
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| I say, Steampunk lady! |
Now-- how to fasten it all together? In the original Chico and Jo directions, fabric is used instead of paper, and a sheet of fabric sewn over separate chipboard sections allows the sections to both bend and stay together as a whole unit. Of course, I've got separate parts covered with paper.
If I could have found brown or faux leather duct tape, I would have been set. But my local Michaels didn't have that. I considered packing tape to connect the parts and then Modge Podge as an overall adhesive-- hopefully the matte Modge Podge would hide the packing tape. A test on scrap paper nixed that idea. So, I went with jump rings. This decision gave me the opportunity to buy the Crop-A-Dile Big Bite Punch, and with my Michaels coupons, I think I paid about 50% of the actual price. Woo-hoo!
I should probably ink over some of the exposed areas (the paper has a white core that is exposed a bit in some places) with brown or black ink. I'll probably get around to it someday. In the meantime, I've got to stop a mad scientist from destroying London with his army of evil robots! Ta-ta!
