Harry Potter style Hogwarts Library Spellbooks

Step 7 Gold Leaf 3

Once all the leaf is in place, you can begin to reveal the title again. Use the brush to clear away any of the leaf that is not glued in place by the size. This should leave you with just the title covered with gold leaf.

The edges will be a bit messy because of the size overflowing the letters edges in places. All you have to do to clear this up is scrape your scalpel blade over the edges of the letters to clear them of unwanted gold.

The second pic below is of the cleaned up title.