Pamphlet Book Revisited [Pages 17-26]

Continuing on from the post yesterday, more pages from the pamphlet book made from recycled envelopes, art work, printed papers. All the pages have been altered since the book was originally made last year and there are altered postcards in the pockets.

Pamphlet Book Revisited [pages 1-12]

I have shown this handmade book before, when it was just made and undecorated. It was made from recycled envelopes, art work, printed papers and plain sheets. It is a pamphlet style of book and most of the pages are pockets. I have decorated found postcards and made some for the pockets. 

To see the original post from April 2012 click here. It is the book with the blue/green cover.

Vintage Photo and Wren

Above - an altered vintage photograph. I can't remember what I used to create the textured background, it could have been a picture of my textured embroidery which I altered. There is also a layer with a vintage letter.

Below - I drew the bird from following a photograph, the background is some altered artwork and music.

Both of these were created on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Squirrel and Robinwolf

I drew these on a tablet, a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and I used Photoshop Touch and lots of layers.

TAST 62

Take a stitch Tuesday 62 - Raised Cross Stitch Flower.

A new stitch for me. I did the flowers in cotton perle first and thought it needed something else and I remembered I had some silk ribbons. When I found the ribbon I also found various lilac threads and one of them was like a chenille, so I used that instead. Some of the flowers look quite square-ish rather than round but I suppose real flowers are not all perfect either. I've also done a chain stitch stalk, some pink fly stitch [I thought afterwards that this was the wrong colour pink but I left in anyway] and stitch on some tiny square sequins. The background fabrics are hand painted and stamped, the lace is hand painted and stitched on - backstitch and little sequins.

More pages from Sketchbook 26

I like to practice drawing faces now and then.

I used one fat multi coloured pencil for the grass and tree.

I used a range of media for this one including pens, watercolours, brush, wax crayons..

Digital Collages

All five pictures were created on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, I used lots of layers in Photoshop Touch.

TAST 61

Take a stitch Tuesday - up and down feathered buttonhole stitch

The background is hand painted and stamped fabric. I've also stitched lazy daisy stitches in green thread and sewn on beads.

I painted some 'Fibre film', non-toxic Tyvek sheets of bonded spun polythene fibres with watered down acrylic paints which I had left over from painting the  fabric. I cut out some spirals with scissors - I chose spirals as they would fit in with this month's Sketchbook Challenge [http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/aprils-theme-spirals.html].
It was old tyvek and it doesn't seemed to have melted as well as it should have but I decided to use some on another piece of hand painted fabric.

I used up and down feathered buttonhole stitch on the green spiral, fly stitch on the blue and feather stitch on the purple spiral. And then lots of beading and some sequins..... 

Finished - Monochrome Handmade Book

The monochrome book completed. 

It is a concertina style book. All the pages have been stitched together back to back with a layer of interfacing in the middle and joined one to another.

All the pages are 4" x 4", mixed media - such as paint, stamped, embroidery, stitched, found objects, collage.

There are ribbons either side to keep it together when not in use.

I decided to stitch clear plastic on the outer pages with the machine but the but it puckered up a little.

I tried hand sewing the plastic on the front but it still puckered and looks untidy, quite difficult to do with it being made up. I was going to leave it without plastic but the M bead came off, it was in my bag and I caught it on something. The beads stick out a bit I thought it may be more secure with the plastic on.

Monochrome Book - WIP2

More 4" x 4" art - pages for my monochrome book