Fat Book Pages - 6

Hand painted/stamped fabric, dyed lace, beaded trim, embroidery.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, embroidery and beads.

Hand painted/stamped fabric. The ATC's are from Australia, the work of  a fellow blogger at Bimbimbie. She regularly shows photos of birds, ones that we never see here in the UK.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, handmade clay buttons, embroidery.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, screen prints.

Hand painted/stamped fabric, sheer fabric layers, embroidery, clay flower. When I made the clay shape I put in holes so that I could sew it to fabric.

Fat Book Pages - 4

A flower from a lace curtain, dyed and beaded.

Layers - dyed net curtain, a rectangle of screen curtain, a crazy patchwork ATC, embroidery. Stitched over with decorative machine stitching.

Dyed lace and broderie anglaise, handmade paper, embroidery, red fabric, tweed fabric scraps.

Vintage tablecloth, lace fabric, lace edging, beads, stitching. [It looks better in real life]

Dyed laces, a fabric photo print [my grandparents wedding day], vintage cloth covered buttons, fabric postcard [this postcard and paper fabric is available from my Spoonflower shop], embroidered and beaded braid.

Woven fabric strips [cut from my Spoonflower swatch edges]. The background fabric was also from there too.

Button Book -part 5

On the background is some painted tissue-like paper over music [which doesn't show up very well], printed 'backwards' text, and an ATC. The ATC is painted vilene, hand embroidery and art buttons.

The background for this one is a recycled altered photo which didn't print very well, but I liked it anyway. Layered with dyed laces, hand embroidery and wooden buttons.

This one is layers of recycled envelopes, hand embroidery and art buttons.

This page was an acrylic painting on canvas paper. The yellow sun button is card stitched on with a decorative stitch.

Pink Book [part 5]

Layered textured papers, glitter, dyed lace, handmade fabric flowers, machine embroidery.

Fabric page - voile pink flowers, flowers made with lace trim with a gem under net in the centres and beads around the centre, raised stitched stems, distressed area with pulled threads and stitched net in the hole

Painted, stamped wallpaper, ribbon, dyed fabric flowers and lace, 2 heart gems, plastic hand.

layered textured papers encrusted with honesty seed pod and metallic threads, fabric ATC - patchwork, embroidery, beads, lace.

Smocking - too neat to be hand stitched? Actually it was from a dress, I cut the top off which was the smocked area to make a skirt.

The back cover - the flowery is vintage fabric, the other is some fabric I transfer printed years ago. he type that you paint on paper and transfer to fabric with heat. The white 'polo' areas were made by putting paper reinforcement rings to act as a kind of resist, the blue and green areas were sticky labels painted with transfer paint. And that is the end of the pink book. What colour next?

This rhododendron below is very unusual, why you may ask? I have had this shrub in my garden for 30 years and this is only the second time I have seen a flower on it. And I mean a flower, just the one both times.

Pink Book [part 2]

I recycled wallpaper samples for a lot of these pages,I used the plain wrong side for most of them. I painted them and used a texture plate [also made from wallpaper] and stamps and rolling stamps. On the page above I've recycled an inkjet print, which was also painted and textured. I used a punch for the circles and machine stitched over them. The flower petals were from a greetings card, the centres are art work, then stitched. The dress is a tag, digitally created and printed.

More wallpaper and inkjet prints. The rectangle of fabric is a miniature version of a repeat pattern  designed. The flowers I made from fabric and dyed pleated ribbon and I stuffed the centres.

As well as the wallpaper and inkjet there is a doily with stencilled art work on top, the little bow ribbon was from a greetings card, the other ribbon was from my stash and I dyed the lace. The ATC was made from layered, textured papers with honesty seed pods trapped between, then painted with acrylics and metallic crayon. 

More painted wallpapers and the cat was from a greetings card. I've attached the butterfly sequins with beads. The card butterfly was from a greetings card.

More painted wallpapers and inkjet prints and decorative machine stitching. The owls and the row of hearts were from a greetings cards. I made the flowers from paper, painted and stitched them.

More painted wallpapers and a painted patterned doily. The bears were from a greetings card but I attached the flowers and ribbon.

The Colour Purple [Pages 14-16]

The Colour Purple - mixed media handmade artists book, size 18x5". Click on the images to enlarge.

Page 14 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Dyed lace, embroidery, fabric under lace. Snippet of art work

Velvet fabric with embroidery and flower beads on top of fabric

Page 15 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Fabric ATC, patchwork, embroidery and beads.

Hand crafted square art buttons, embroidery.

Page 16 - Background - painted, stamped, decorated layered papers, stitched edges.

Fabric inside of a dyed lace frame, hand embroidery, beads, handmade washi tape. Mini art - painted card, metal mesh with feathers threaded thru.

Postage stamp, artificial paper flowers.

The Colour Purple [Pages 6 - 9]

Page 6 - Layered painted papers, some recycled [book, calendar], stitched edges.

Gel print fabric with hand embroidery, gems.

Printed ATC, tag with found image, recycled painted wipe with embroidery.

Page 7 - Layered painted papers, some recycled [book, envelope], decorative machine stitching and stitched edges.

Velvet with embroidery [spiders wheel] and beads.

Hand crafted art buttons.

Page 8 - Layered painted/stamped papers, stitching, stitched edges.

 

Hand embroidery, bird collage.

Hand made card button.

Page 9 - Layered painted/stamped papers, stitched edges.

Altered playing card, hand crafted art buttons, punched stamp shapes, postage stamp.

Hand made card button, beads, stars on string.