January 2009 archive

Jerome’s Landscape

I was originally going to use one of the etched copper embellishments I made for this, but decided against it because the metal would be too heavy to mail. When I mail letters, I tend to cut extra sheets so I can add a lot more text than the stationary-makers think a person needs, and …

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Haloed Blue Reader Card

I’d made the linoblock of a woman reading for another birthday card for Jane, and the print was still in the pack of cards. I cut it out and placed it experimentally on the blue scrapbooking paper background.  It wanted some kind of outline, and I love the idea of using text, so I took …

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Happy Birthday Jane

Jane’s birthday was the impetus behind all this card-making.  I wanted to make a birthday card for her that was really special.  This particular card was the hardest to make, as it didn’t seem to turn out the way I wanted it to. After I chose the card color and the background scrapbook paper, I …

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Kuchi Red-Violet book

This is the fourth of a series of four books I did simultaneously in which I used the same rainbow tie-dye fabric as a base. For this book, there wasn’t any green and hardly any blue in the piece of cloth I had, which I liked very much.  The front cover and the back are …

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Something’s in the Kitchen

This is the third in the series of four books for which I used rainbowy tie-dyed fabric as the base.  For this one I fused together strips of novelty cotton prints, then stitched in a crosswise pattern to keep them secure.  I knew I wanted some kind of text over the fabric, but I couldn’t decide …

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