Remember the art papers that I went insane over? This was the idea in my head behind all that. I have a secret fetish for books and for cut out cardboard shapes. I've been wanting to make books out of them thinking how nice and sturdy they would be as a substrate for mixed media. Well, I'm glad I took those pictures because that was a week ago and I have long since overworked the pages, murdered the pages, ruined the pages. Whatever fresh appeal these bright colors had- long gone. See- I have issues with edges. I like to layer 'skins' over other papers but can't seem to romance myself into enjoying those edges. I'm better if they are torn vs. straight cut by scissors but really- I want them flat. I want them to melt right into the other surface all neat and tidy. My answer to that is to make the paper and scan it into the computer. Or- to scan the design and print it on to the art paper- a two step process. ...