Handmade Sketchbook - Pages 77-82

Handmade Sketchbook - Pages 26-31

Painted and stamped artwork, printed digital artwork.

The bear was made from a greetings card which feels like suede. Reused bow.

Page from a map book, butterfly shape, coloured, pig - cut out, car and tree - recycled greetings card 

Page from a map book, butterfly and insect shapes, coloured, car - recycled greetings card 

Painted, stamped background. Animals from greetings card.

Page - painted and stamped artwork, the birds are the offcuts [waste] from a Zing cut out.

Stamped page, with offcuts. The background is actually white but it looks blue here.

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.

New Fabric Book

I didn't know what to call this book but as it is the fattest one I've ever done I thought I would go with fat book. I don't think I would do one this fat again.... .the first cover I did for it didn't work out too well. I used my old trusty rolling stamps on the fabric below.

Pages from a Sketchbook

The hares are actually fabric, one printed on an inkjet [t-shirt transfer] and one drawn with fabric pens.

Button Book - part 8

There are no more pages to show you but I had a few more images of the book as a whole I thought I would share. As I used rings to keep the pages together I could easily add more pages, although if I did that it may not close together to well.

Button Book - part 7

This page is made up of an art background with hand made washi tape strips on the top. I used vintage buttons which I applied with embroidery. Stitched around the edges.

This is one of my digitally altered photos I created a few years ago and the button is an art button I created with a recycled envelope. Stitched around the edges.

Painted and stamped using handmade stamps and painted doily. Various art buttons - I used inkjet and laser prints. Stitched around the edges.

The back cover - painted, stamped, outlined. There are no real buttons on the back.

Button Book - part 6

The background was an inkjet print on glossy paper which I have had in a drawer for ages. I did some experiments on it with a liquid, water I think. It is also upside down, by mistake. I used vintage text for the art button.

More vintage images for these buttons and a thread wrapper. A painted receipt and squared paper with painted lace on top. Ribbon was applied and an image from a magazine was stitched to the background.

An inkjet print of some artwork [do you remember the A4 art quilt? - this was the original drawing for it]. I made the carrot buttons from card.

A giant button made from covered card.