Do You Ever Get Over a First Love?

Coptic binding... my first love, that I've neglected for so long. But now I returned to it, I love this technique! But I didn't returned empty handed - I am well prepared and armed with some gorgeous papers I've been collecting for awhile... I felt bad actually that all this beautiful things kept waiting in the closet for the big day.
So here they are, my babies:

The first one has its cover made from black Japanese paper with an elegant golden geometric pattern, for the second I used black parchment paper screen-printed with golden flowers, and the red one is dressed up in the best quality Japanese Yuzen Chiyogami paper, with gold little flowers.
They are listed in my shop, if you want to take this beauties away from me :)

Gradient Roses

     I love teal color, and when I bought this teal leather for my journals, I decided to make something special for them. I really wanted to design them in a romantic way, with polymer clay roses as buttons. So I experimented and here's what I've come up with: some sweet gradient roses!
     I've made each petal a different color, from dark teal to white. I've started with the small petals then added a bit of white to the color for the next petal and so on. I thought I'll make mother nature jealous!
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but then... 
"Can you smell smoke?"...said my mom sniffing all the power outlets... I said "don't worry, neighbors probably overcooked a meal"
So here they are, my burned melted roses! Poor things...

Here's something that made me feel better! Found in kirstypaterson inspired Etsy shop :)