I started looking on pinterest for ideas because when God passed out creative juices all I got were some leftovers. A lot of my ideas came from other people's creations so I'll try to give proper credit where it's due. I actually found an Etsy page that had a ton of really cute and creative pages but the patterns were $3 a piece and well...I can't afford that. I was able to make my own patterns from just looking at them. A few pages that I made I was able to find free patterns online, and those were awesome and a huge time saver! My goal was to get it done before Christmas and have it be Liam's Christmas present, but I got a little excited about it and started working on it during every free moment I had.
After an uncountable number of hours working on a quiet book for Liam, I finally figured out an end plan and that included making two books instead of one. As I was about half way through making the pages that I had planned to do, I realized that I was going to need two books because all of the pages were going to be too thick to make it into one book. So to start off I decided to make a book with all Genesis stories in it.
This is where the Part One comes in. I haven't finished the other book yet but I'm only a few pages away so I'll post that project once it's finished.
I now present you with the Genesis Quiet Book!
This is the cover. I didn't do anything creative on it.
Page Two: Garden of Eden (Inspiration)
The little basket holds apples and those apples can be snapped to the tree.
The animals have magnets in them and the idea is the match the animal with it's home. I liked this page before I started messing with the magnets. I ordered some magnets from Amazon and I was expecting magnets around the size of a watch battery. The magnets I got ended up being a fraction of a watch battery, but they were still strong. I wanted to use super glue on the magnets because I definitely did not want those going anywhere! Well the super glue kind of messed things up. It turned everything white. Bright white. I was able to color over some of the dried glue with colored pencils but I couldn't fix all of it. Also, the super glue seemed to mess with the magnetism a little bit and made the magnets not as strong. Anyway, I still like the page, I just wish it turned out a little bit better. I should have just gone with velcro but magnets seemed more fun.
The ark is magnetized (with a magnet from an old purse) and when you open the door there are animals in the ark.
The inspiration from this page wasn't exactly the style I wanted for my book but it's where I got the idea and then just came up with this page on my own. That is Lot and his wife and if you turn her around she becomes a pillar of salt. I used a piece of sandpaper for the "salt" but after a few coats it was hardly recognizable as sandpaper so I added some more sand for texture.
This page is pretty self-explanatory. They have belts with d-rings that can be undone.
His coat is a puzzle with velcro.
This way if we are at church and Liam has pieces everywhere and I don't have time to put them all back in the right place, they can all be shoved in here for safe keeping.
Hopefully I'll be posting book number two soon.
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