August Art Day 4- Color Book

Today's project was a very long stab bound book. This book is 2.5 inches by 12 inches. I had a bunch of strips of gessoed paper that I did not want to waste. I cut two covers to match the paper, coated the covers in old paint chips that have been peeled off of art palettes and then bound the book together.
My plan is to use this book to record color mixes. I might start by painting each page with different tints of my favorite colors. You simply divide the strip (or in this case, the page) into about 9 to 10 sections. Start at one end with the pure color, straight from the tube. Add a tiny amount of white, just enough to shift the color. Paint the next section. Then add a tiny bit more white, and paint the next section and so on. I did this exercise a long time ago when I took art in college, but the strips I made have long since disappeared. I also used an extremely different color palette.
Photographing this book was quite tricky! I might make more. I have some other strips of gessoed paper that I want to turn into small books! I can not stand to waste things, especially paper. This is why I have so much of it.

This is the pamphlet stitch book I made yesterday and took with me to the beach.
This is a quick sketch that I drew of a driftwood structure that someone had built on the beach. As you can see, the cover of the book is a manila envelope that I coated in gesso, and then folded in half. The papers are all samples from various watercolor paper companies, including Canson and arches.

How do you use up leftover paper from other projects?