Books, gifts

When asked what I wanted for Mother's Day, I said a Bind It All. My husband is always pleased when it's something I'll order and take care of. Then I get exactly what I want. The green book is the first one I made following Sueb's http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com/ excellent tutorial on http://www.joggles.com/ The ones that come with it leave something to be desired.

The orange book I made yesterday, and it is better with the pages in the right place. I see a lot of books in the future. The covers are collaged on mat board with painted tissue paper. A friend and I did them ages ago but didn't know how to make the books.

These were given to me as a thank you for showing my friends how to make the necklace a couple of weeks ago. There are 2 styles of grunge book and 5 wonderful lampwork beads waiting to be made into another necklace. This friend is always doing something nice like this.

Book

I made the tab book from Issue 2 of Fibre & Stitch www.fibreandstitch.com . First I painted the pages using watercolor pencils, twinkling watercolors, crayons, and anything else I could find. When they dried, I didn't like them, so they sat around for a while, until I decided to do a wash over them with blue ink. It unified them.

The cover has painted tissue paper and machine stitching. The decoration is hot glue that was dropped on a molding mat, painted with acrylic paints, and when dry rubbed with Treasure Gold. The ties are sueded thread. If you make a book, don't pull the ties too tightly. This one is hard to open.

Altered Book

My altered book had sat around finished except for the cover for way too long. http://intotheblystic.blogspot.com/ has so many wonderful journals with great covers, so she inspired me to finish mine.

First I painted the covers with acrylic, then applied torn pieces of painted tissue. When that was dry, the spine didn't look right, so I covered it with a strip of leather. Using a stencil and molding paste, I made the flowers. When the paste dried, I put green paint on the flowers and rubbed a little bit of gold Treasure Gold on the raised areas.

Wrapfolio

The Fibre and Stitch Yahoo group had a challenge to stuff a baggie with fabrics-15 min. time limit-then make something from them. I made this wrapfolio from Sueb's http://www.suebleiweiss.com/ directions. I keep it simple and will probably make more to give as gifts next Christmas-too late this year! The button is covered with a silk scrap leftover from fabrics I marbled.

Books

This is a book I made for a friend. It is fabric paper using one of the many "reports" sent out by companies that we really don't read. Now I have a use for them. Muslin is covered with medium, then the paper is laid randomly on it and covered with more medium and painted cheesecloth. After everything is dry, I put down silk leaves, then Misty Fuse, and covered it all with net fusing it all in place. The inside has dyed and rubber stamped fabric fused to it. I cut the covers with a decorative rotary cutter and punched holes along the spine. It is filled with watercolor paper. The rings that hold the pages in place are decorated with fibers.