completed anthology

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thanks for all your stencilling suggestions earlier this week.  i ended up NOT stencilling a design onto the books, as it took me long enough just to get the circles cut (and at that, because of the way they xeroxed, they are still not exactly lined up...

in case you're curious as to what the finished product looks like (i warn you, it's not very exciting):

Though this picture makes it hard to see, the white circle with the title in it is actually the title page showing through a hole cut in the cover.



A more top-down view (you can see a sneak glimpse at the layout, which took me FOREVER because it was my first time using indesign and i am SLOW.  thank goodness my boyfriend worked on his high school newspaper for three years and was able to help me along as i went...)



My set-up for cutting out the circles:  i used a cardboard template to position the circle approximately on the navy cardstock, but since the hole in the cardboard template wasn't perfectly round, i ended up retracing each penciled circle with the lid of a jar of cumin (to the left of the shot...my workspace smelled very strongly of cumin after that, lol). 



I also now have a bunch of random navy blue cardstock circles that i don't know what to do with -- any ideas?

and finally, so that this post is more legitimately crafty than DIY, a photo manip that i did to illustrate a piece that a student wrote on global warming (there was a big old empty gap in the layout because his piece was short, so i filled the space with an illustration).  i took a stock image of a globe (clip art from somewhere online), made it look like it was melting, and then made it grayscale:



:) thanks again, for everyone's help!