the art of moodling: mixed media artist book

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Sunday, 22 April 2012

mixed media mini stitched book

I think I'm going through a bit of a mini book phase - I finished this one in the week and another one (for a magazine challenge) yesterday!

The cover is made from an old wool blanket that I've added felt too with that wonderful 'dumphing' machine! Then some free machining and snippets of lace.

Inside the page sizes vary. I used pre painted papers that have been hanging around my studio forever, tags, old book pages, envelopes...

I got to use two new toys in this project - Tim's washer border and Typeset Alphabet dies which I ordered from the lovely Wendy at The Stamp Attic. I love the umbrella man die too but decided these had more uses, and they'll make great stencils!

I particularly LoVe the effect I got when I put three sets of papers through my Cuttlebug - the text paper got stuck into the coloured paper one underneath (the stitching's there to keep it altogether, I couldn't be bothered taking each tiny letter out to glue it back in lol)

Thursday, 20 January 2011

all of a twitter at the Play Date Cafe

I've been making little books recently in preparation for my 'basketful of books' workshop. I decided to see if I could make a little origami pocket with felt and free machining and was rather pleased with the result! This week's play date cafe colour inspiration comes from the wonderful Quentin Blake's new range of fabrics based on some of his illustrations.

Unfortunately my boys are now too old to have their rooms decorated in this fabric, otherwise I'd be creating a jungle bedroom lol. I just love the splash of colour against the grey, and of course Quentin Blake's fabulous illustrations. Those birds are just so, so FaB!!!

After putting my envelope together, I created a tiny book (4cm square) to fit inside, using a scrap of stencilled paper from my stash. I added orange stitching and a scrap of green fabric to the front cover. Leafing through an old book I came across a mention of 'orangey-red and green' so couldn't resist basing my text on this.

One of the things I love about old books is opening them and reading a random sentence - usually a great source of amusement.

Don't 'Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts' sound amazing? Very Roald Dahl! The book is made from a 9cm square of paper, folded into quarters and cut along one of these lines into the middle. This creates a little pocket into which I've tucked the torn book page.