{"id":2802,"date":"2018-01-05T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T23:17:26","slug":"handmade-watercolor-sketchbooks-with-laser-engraved-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/handmade-watercolor-sketchbooks-with-laser-engraved-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Handmade Watercolor Sketchbooks with Laser Engraved Covers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI’ve spent the last week making these watercolor sketchbooks<\/a><\/strong> filled with 48 pages of Canson 140lb\/300g watercolor paper and…best of all…LASER ENGRAVED COVERS<\/strong>! They are perfect to take on a trip or use as a daily art journal because they are compact, the binding allows them to lie flat for easy painting and sketching<\/strong>, they close with an elastic (perfect if your paper is dry but still damp) and the thick paper takes all different types of media well.<\/p>\n

I first made these little art sketchbooks in 2014 as a way to use up a pad of paper I had kicking around, one of them had honeybees on the cover and one of them had poppies on the cover. Little did I know they would become some kind of Pinterest phenomenon<\/strong> because I had people visiting the listing for years after it sold out, and occasionally sending me messages asking if I could re-make them. The time was never right, and the printing process I used to create the covers was really fussy and tricky and easy to mess up.<\/p>\n

Well, fast forward to this year when our long-awaited Glowforge <\/a>laser cutter arrived! Now we’re in business! I knew right away I could use the laser to engrave the designs onto bookboard and so after a few weeks of playing with settings I had a beautiful result:<\/p>\n

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