Lots Of Thoughts

So  today I have been researching how to turn a gift bag into a book, for my dissertation cover. I bought a gift bag yesterday, it was the only one that would fit A4 pages inside, was pretty and didn't look cheap, my only problem is that it only fits A4 pages in horizontally rather than vertically.  I made a  makette yesterday  to try and figure out what to do with my  bag, and how I could make it work. The bag it's self is pretty big. I found a few different tutorials :

http://stephaniemakes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/glitz-design-gift-bag-mini-book-tutorial.html

Stephanie Bryan's was the first tutorial I found on how to do this, the only thing that really concerns me about  going ahead with this, is that she made her book into a scrap book/ photo album. I the most pages I will have will be around 50. So I won't need as much of the room  fro m the page as she has used.

This is the bag I bought from ASDA, it is a similar shape to Bryan's.  I have a slight problem with the position of the handles, as this will determine how the book will be seen and opened, as you can see with Bryan, she has put her label on the side of the cover so that it will be opened the correct way, I don't want to lose the style of the bag and how the bag looks, by which way I place my thesis. I also plan to put tissue paper around the opening of the bag, so it gives the  illusion  that its luxury. The tissue paper would be positioned around the side of the thesis, rather than on top,  This makes me think should I continue with this bag or buy another one that will be taller, rather than wider.

I also found this video tutorial on You Tube, it shows how Mary Peterson, makes a lot of books from gift bags.  Her tutorial seems a lot  easier than Bryan's and even the layout makes a lot more sense. However, I feel slightly torn due to really liking the bag I got from ASDA. I think my best option is to go out and try and find a new gift bag, even just as a back up. Or even print my dissertation out Landscape rather than in the standard portrait. 

I also went back and did a wee bit more designing of my deck of cards. I have amended my little mistake with getting the queen of hearts and queen of diamonds mixed up. 

I also went back in a re-vamped the Queen of diamonds.  Here is the image based on my queen of hearts

This is Lady Anne Neville. She became Princess of Wales as the wife of Edward Of Westminster and then later she became Queen of England, husband King Richard iii  (1472–1485) This completes the first suit of cards, within this series of experiments.