Handmade Book, Recycled Book

Two books for gifts

Handmade book - the pages were from vintage books, envelopes, music etc which I coloured with paint. I've collaged a plain thin piece of paper to each page so that it can be used for writing in. I used a zutter binder to make the holes and attach the wire.

Recycled Book, a new book from an old one. The cover was printed on t-shirt transfer paper and transferred onto fabric, which went quick thick and shiny [probably kept the iron on too long], but I liked the effect. I embellished it with a bit of stitchery and beads.

I collaged each page with art work, found papers, printed papers etc

This image below shows most of the pages, you'll have to click on it to see it more clearly.

Art Every Day for a Month Handmade Book

I was beading today, on a WIP art picture, sorry no pictures.

But I was thinking !!!!... a while ago I made a book called 'Art everyday for a Month'. 

I had completely forgotten about it, but it would have been perfect for the Art every day Month challenge.

The covers were made from pieces of plastic stuff that is a little transparent, don't know what it is called but it is used to make a template for a granite worktop. The edges were covered with washi tape and I used a zutter binder to bind the pages and covers together.

The first page was for the title and name of artist and another 31 pages, one for each day of the month. I cut out words that I found in magazines that I thought may inspire - the list is shown below.

 

drawing

beach

tree

design and decoration

summer

I'm cute

ink painting

red paint

letters

caricature

draw

ink

mountains

coffee

woof woof...

portraits

play

tracing

nature

greetings card

marine art

market day

big, bold and brassy

line

cut and paste

fairy

sweet stuff

art postcards

shades

wildlife art

night