I REALLY WANT A BIND IT ALL!!! But should I get one???

[Voodoo Vixen]

I just finished my first BIA book here and am off to start the next - this is going to get my Christmas list down to manageable numbers in no time!

[Tinaborder]

Love it Annette!

[Dan99]

I wouldn't be without my BIA, love love love it!! Bought mini-book such as the Maya Road chipboard ones are more difficult to work on because the spine or binding keeps getting in the way! So much easier to work on your pages then bind them together when you're done. I have a few books I've made in my blog, but to save anyone that's interested from trawling through to find them, here's a few links.

Nursery Wrongs

In-flight Entertainment

The Palest Ink

[stressed]

can i ask another question, when you make up these books what do you use for the covers? is it mount board or chipboard?

if so what kind of cutter cuts well through this type of material as thats another thing i am after a very good heavy duty cutter

any thoughts would be good please

sorry forgto to say annette fantastic book love the papers and well done to everyone else they are all great. off to look at dan99 links now

[Voodoo Vixen]

I use any cardboard I can lay my hands on... there isn't an A4 pad in the house that has its back on it! I also buy sheets of it - most sponsors sell it - it goes under various names, hardboard, mountboard, cardboard. I am still trying to find a local picture framer that will let me buy all his offcuts of mountboard. I cut it on my guillotine and it works fine - its a Dahle 507, not sure my puny cuttlebug thingies would be man enough for the job. If you google it you will find it - it wasn't cheap (about £50.00) though but has outlasted all the others that went before it!

[Voodoo Vixen]

I wouldn't be without my BIA, love love love it!!
Nursery Wrongs

In-flight Entertainment

The Palest Ink

I LOVE your 'nursery wrong book' - its fantastic!

[Voodoo Vixen]

In fact, I love all three! Beautiful work, when I grow up I want to be able to make stuff like that....

[Tinaborder]

Dan99 - great books!

[allyf]

Yes, Dan your work is gorgeous.
:-)

[Dan99]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone! For my covers I use mountboard or chipboard (though to be honest, I prefer chipboard).

[stressed]

dan99 great work thanks for letting us look.

annette i am off now to search for a dahl, with regards to picture framers i forgot about that i made some 6x6 planners last year fro the teachers at school and my local PF gave me loads free he said he thows it away as waste.

got a big bag will have to search it out now, i seem to recall though i struggled to cut it with my xcut guillotine.

[stressed]

ok doing a google search now its a trimmer? not a guillotine is that cirrect.

i never thought a trimmer would stand up to something like cardboard/mountboard etc

[Voodoo Vixen]

ok doing a google search now its a trimmer? not a guillotine is that cirrect.

i never thought a trimmer would stand up to something like cardboard/mountboard etc

Yes, sorry, I use the word guilly for them all - it is a trimmer - German, well made, never had to change the blade.... worth the money.

[Dan99]

I've never had a Dahle, but (if I can remember that far back) they are the ones that schools and colleges buy, so that must show that they'll stand up to quite a bit of punishment!

[Voodoo Vixen]

Yep - and mine gets all sorts thrown at it - acrylic sheets, chipboard, multiple sheets of cardstock at a time....