This is a project that has gotten totally out of control. It's what happens with a big stack of holiday card boxes and leftover notecards added to a huge stash of found and manipulated papers. Over the years I've made a habit of sending as many...
One of the things I'm enjoying about the Handmade Book Club are the monthly projects. In the club, the monthly projects are usually about learning new structures while over in the free group, Vintage Page Designs, they are theme challenges. This...
I missed my Italian travel adventure in 2020 and again in 2021 (you know why), but I did finally make use of these beautiful fabrics from my last trips to Florence and Naples. The blue and green fabric is from a place in Florence, the Casa dei...
I decided, at least for now, to house the 31 March collage-a-day pieces into their own little handmade box. This one is a drop spine, and I have to admit the collage on top isn't from March first, it is one with the best color-coordination!
These are the last of the black paper collages I've been making every day this month. I found out it's a lot more important to be really neat with adhesives on black paper (yikes!) The next questions is - to bind or to box?
Here's a little 2 needle Coptic book made with homemade bookcloth. I make bookcloth using the Heat N Bond and tissue paper method, and it's a great way to use up the huge stash of fabric I have and give me more color and pattern options. This is...
Here is a color wheel full of found and manipulated papers to keep fueling my March 2021 collage-a-day on black paper project. In addition to the rice papers, some manipulated and some not, there are some ironed-flat plastics and some painted...
I decided March, 2021 would be the month I finally figured out a use for a 6x9 black paper pad I've had hanging around for quite some time. I was originally inspired to buy it because my Atlanta Collage teacher Chery Baird made a beautiful series...