Fabric Book

These are the pages of my fabric book. We made enough panels to do 4 pages [including a blank back] but Linda's book had 5 pages and I liked the balance of it so I made a further two pages when I got home.



This is my front cover - I added a beaded tassel to my illegal flower. The images were stamped on white cotton material and coloured with diluted fresco paints.



Inside front cover - a stamped scrunched dragonfly on crunchy paper with a printed chiffon pocket [it still needs a tag for the pocket].



Extra page made at home - with another stamped coloured panel and scrunched flowers - that drops down to reveal





the facing page - the bird is stamped on acetate and coloured on the reverse, with a layered tulle & crunchy flower and Tim Holtz book plate



another page done at home - using my favourite quote stamp, some stamped & coloured Dyan vines and a die cut flower from a recycled babywipe that had cleaned up dylusion inks - that folds out to reveal



my art nouveau page - including the charm I made before I went from graphic 45 paper and glossy accents, a stamped & coloured image layered with chiffon that was randomly stitched on and then randon areas were burnt away with a "soldering iron"



and another page - with a padded heart on painted interfacing and a stamped image under a mica tile - that drops down to reveal



the penultimate page - a gothic window that was transferred to fabric and a lady panel



and the final page - another transfer but this time I also added what remained of the image after I had transferred it



the whole thing folds up like origami - but you had to be careful to attach some of the back panels upside down so that they are the right way when unfolded in the correct order [it was panic stations when I folded it wrong! I though I was going to have to do a load more unpicking, and I'd already had to do quite a bit of that].

As you can see I went a bit frayed edge mad - some of them should probably have been left straight for contrast. I thought Linda & Leandra did an amazing job of letting us play but keeping us on track. Every book I saw was very individual - however I was so involved in my own book that I didn't see enough of everyone elses work.

Sara