Sakura Koi watercolor paints

Testing out new watercolor paints tonight while watching Chicago Med, Fire and PD.  Sakura Koi watercolors are very pigmented and blend well on paper. I tested it out on a 5x7 price of paper that has peek a boo doors from the Hero Arts press collection. 

Mini Booklet

I created a mini book with a cascading 3 1/4 size envelopes to hold my ATC trading coins for a swap I joined. This was so much fun to make.   It probably took me about 1 hour or so and made one dry run to see if I liked it.

You will need a paper trimmer, a score board, tons of patience, scissors, solid paper, color paper of your choice.  Some people have made this brown paper cardboard background so that you can create 3x3 individual colorful backgrounds.

I first cut the booklet binding11 inches across by 3 inches in length

Each floral piece below is 3X3 which makes cutting paper the same size for 4 pieces.

Each pocket is 7 inches by 3 3/4 size
Score at 1/2 inch and 3 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch on the bottom
fold the paper at 3 1/4 inches to create the pocket.
I choose to use one patterned piece of paper instead of making them all blue.  I liked this paper line from Scarlet Lime / Planner Society monthly kits.