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.

All that Glitters [Handmade Book] final pages

gold fabric, fancy gold braid, textured and painted metal [puree tube - see Tuesdays post], wide metal braid with large sequins [vintage]

layered fabrics - gold and a sheer speckly fabric, between the fabrics are a section of diamonds [probably not genuine], a shisha mirror surrounded by gold beads, part of an earring with a red gem, on top of the fabrics - metal Indian decoration and a bag charm with beads and metal butterfly

this is the back cover, it is a metallic fabric

I used a book binding technique with a gold braid to keep the pages together, not too neat I'm afraid

and that is the end of this book

All That Glitters [Handmade Book] part 3

Gold foil chocolate covers, the one with the writing and building is from a blogging friend in Russia, Masha, she has a lovely crazy quilt circle on her blog today. On top is a patch of metallic braids and threads. Each braid/thread was wrapped around a rectangular metal frame and when most of the spaces were filled I stitched over them with the sewing machine, then it was cut from the frame. [the frame was made from one of those old fashioned metal coat hangers] 

More of the puree metal, notice the different colours. Gold trim and recycled jewellery.

The silver page. Four milk bottle tops [probably vintage now!], cup cake wrapper, painted plastic shapes, braids, tassel, string beads, sequins, beads, ball chain, sequin waste, Indian embroidery decoration, silver fabric.

More puree metal, the centre was cut out and there is gold fabric underneath, stitched. Tattered braid, beads.

Puree metal, moon embroidery [not stitched by myself]

Woven puree metal, stitched in place.