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Instructor: Rosemary Rae   

Gather found type, numerals, tickets, and random images! This book is an easy and fun flag book structure mounted between two hard covers. Paint the covers or cover with decorative paper. Use found typography to create a paper festival, add a bit of collage, stars, and miscellaneous ephemera, and create a dynamic structure full of type and image! 

Required Materials/Students will need the following materials:  

• 2 sheets of colored, cover-weight paper to paint (11 x 8.5 sheets of paper will be cut down to size/cover paper measures approx. 7.5 inches x 7.5 inches)*

• 2 sheets of bookboard (measures approx. 6.5 inches x 6.5 inches)

• 2 sheets of colored, cover-weight paper to paint or decorative paper for inside covers (measures approx. 6 inches x 6 inches)*

• Acrylic paint in various colors and a brush 

• One sheet of decorative paper for accordion folded hinge (approx. 13 inches x 6.5 inches)*

• Approx. 20 — 5-inch x 1.25-inch flaps of paper for flags**

• Self-healing mat and X-acto knife

• Scissors (optional)

• Double stick tape

• PVA glue

• Bone folder

• Scrap paper (to cover work surface when painting)

• Scrap or decorative embellishments, text or image rubber stamps

• Phrases or words cut out of posters, magazines, books 

• Star paper punch 

*  Dimensions are approximate 

** I will provide a file with two sheets of text/clip art to cut out and use, and two sheets of blank flags for students to decorate/embellish.

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