Graduation

For years my best friend has been watching the people closest to her make books that are smaller than anything she'd like to regularly write in. I'm notoriously bad at giving presents even remotely on time so finally, for her graduation, I made her a nice big book

cover

inside cover. The paper has leaves and twig shreds embedded in it so that the inside paper continues the trend of the cover stencil

coptic zig zag variation...this took awhile