03/09/2026
🥣 The Soup Box Book – Part 2! 📖
Well, our humble soup box is getting a serious makeover!
Today it’s all about the signatures.
For those who don’t speak “bookbinder” 🤓, a signature is a group of sheets of paper folded in half and gathered together to form part of a book.
I’ve decided to make two signatures, with 10 sheets of paper in each signature.
Each sheet, once folded, gives me 4 pages — front and back of each half — so each signature gives me 40 pages.
Put the two signatures together and that gives me a grand total of 80 pages!
That’s 80 pages of opportunities to create, journal, embellish and generally have some fun.
The plain white paper also needed a little something, so I tinted it with a lovely browny-pink tone using my fabric paints.
Why fabric paint?
Because it was right there!
It was quick, easy and lots of fun — and I love how the colour has transformed the pages.
Everything is starting to come together beautifully, and I’m really happy with how this little soup box book is taking shape.
From an ordinary soup box destined for the recycling bin…
to an 80-page handmade book.
Now THAT is recycling with a little imagination!
