Making a book

Last week I missed the first class in the three-evening course at Morley, but did my homework and cut some simple stamps from erasers, having decided that those already on hand were too fussy -

The task for this class was to print a page for each other person to incorporate in their book. I tried out a layers-of-colour idea, and decided it would take too long; it involved about 20 stampings on each of six pages...

 ... so I cut a larger eraser into wavy shapes in order to work faster -

 Butting up the papers allowed tops and bottoms to be printed at the same time -

Each page varied subtly  in its colours, thanks to a bit of overprinting with colours available in the stamp pads. As for the white space - perhaps there could have been more of that?

Then it was time for swapping, and for putting our pages into a sequence -

 ... and making covers. And gluing the pages into a concertina ... and gluing the concertina between the covers.

Everyone made a variety of pages with the stamps they'd carved, which led to a linked set of individual books -

 Finished!  on time! -