September BBArtisans Challenge - an accordion book

For September, Nancy (NFallonDesign) decided to repeat my favorite challenge: "Try a new media or technique."  I love it so, because it lets me try something new, that I might not otherwise.  So thank you Nancy!

My new technique?  Making an accordion book!

I took two pages of watercolor paper, and cut them into strips of 4.5" x 12".  Then I took two of the strips, folded each strip into 4" blocks and glued two of the blocks on top of each other.  This left me with five "pages" to work with.  

 I watercolored the pages, stamped and stenciled them, and put some tape along the bottom edge.  Then I placed four houses and a beach scene on one side and glued them all down.  Almost like a street scene.  

To keep the accordion closed I used a clip.  If I was making it for someone else or for sale, I would use a ribbon for the closure.  And maybe attach the ribbon to the outer pages, so it wouldn't get lost. 

Since I'm going to keep this first "book", I decided to give it to DH.  As I continued working on the other side, I looked for activities he enjoys and cut them out.  To make the accordion more into a book, I put quotes with each page.

Fishing

Golf

Playing with the doggies

Hiking

Bicycling

I like the concept of this little accordion book.  I didn't really plan on what would be visible, when the pages were folded up; something I need to look at, the next time I do this.