Painting these roots was fun! Next month you can find out what special techniques I used if you’ve signed up for email updates!

ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #104:

Consistent measurements are so important when you’re making the hinges for a tunnel book, and this mini spring divider makes it easy to be precise! Once you set the distance between the 2 points, you can repeat it over and over again. I started by drawing a template for the hinges, using a scrap of blue card stock for visibility. After carefully lining it up on top of the selected fold, I used the points on the divider to punch through both layers of paper at once, making small holes. After removing the template, the holes served as a guide for my craft knife to cut 2 sides of a triangle for each hinge. When you look inside the tunnel, you can’t see the hinges; so the inner panels appear to float with no support. You need to reverse the template to make the hinges for the left side, as you can see below: