Wall-Mounted Letterbox Wntr’26 Online Retreat
•WNTR’26 💌📚✂️📌✏️📐
•2 Online Live/Recorded sessions
•Sat/Sun JAN 31-FEB 01 | 10am-2PM Eastern US & Canada | $175
Build the cutest letterbox on the planet that can stand on a tabletop or mount on the wall, using bookbinding/cartonnage techniques with decorative paper, glue, bookbinder’s board, and more.
💻 This is a LIVE online course, not a lecture or demonstration with a silent audience.
This interactive course thrives on YOUR preparation and presence during class.
Process photos, screen shots, and class recordings will be available to you after each session ends and downloadable within 2 weeks of the last class.
Please come to each class, prepared and ready for sacred engagement!
SUPPLY List:
Knives:
Heavy Duty Utility Knife: Fave is OLFA 1072198 LA-X 18mm Fiberglass Rubber Grip Heavy-Duty Utility Knife
Light Duty x-acto knife.
Bookbinding Adhesive (Pick one)
Lineco Neutra pH 8 oz. Adhesive
Jade 403 from Talasonline.com or JohnNealBooks.com
Each of these can be used by itself as a bottle glue for small dots of adhesive or brushable by themselves. Whichever you choose (Jade is my fave) you'll mix this with the next product below, if you want a more slow-drying glue. I’ve a demo for that in our online class folder.
2: 1.5 oz. container of Lineco® Pure Methyl Cellulose (Only if you want thinner glue)
• Bone folder
• Decorative Cover Papers (This is decorative handmade paper that comes in many different patterns, textures and weights. Common names are: Washi Paper, Japanese Decorative Papers, Kozo Paper, Yuzen Paper, Lokta Paper. Pick at least 3-5 sheets you like that are not tissue paper thin or too stiff to be bent without cracking, and that can withstand adhesion with wet glue. We will cover our boards with this paper and within the pages of your book for collage and binding. ) Binders Art Supply carries a beautiful variety of colors and patters, as does Paper Source. Below are a few more links to some papers that would be appropriate.
*https://www.vintage-ornaments.com/
*https://www.talasonline.com/
https://www.papersource.com/search?q=bookbinding+paper
*https://kimscrane.com/shop/
• (optional) Paper from recycled vintage books, illustrations, maps or ephemera to collage with your other decorative papers.
• “Binders Board”: Pick one below.
TalasOnline also sells wonderful book board: Get the 0.98 thickness of Davey Binders Board. (This is my fave.)
Lineco makes a set of 4 sheets you can buy, which is handy, but I find them very hard to cut.
Amazon.com has a great pack of 4 sheets.
• Lineco Beeswax
• Wax Paper
• Mechanical Pencil (to draw exact measurement lines. DON'T use a regular sharpened pencil for drawing your guides, as the thickness of the lead changes and becomes less accurate as you draw with it.
• Self-healing cutting mat (at least 12 x 18)
• Lineco® glue brush. I use a 3/4" brush for most things. You can ALSO get the narrower 1/2" brush for when you want to glue smaller pieces or use any stiff and sturdy kiddie hog's hair craft brush.
• Non-slip metal ruler
• Awl: Lineco Extra Heavy Duty Awl
• Scissors
• Sandpaper, sanding dremel, heavy-duty nail file, or engraver with a sanding bit.