This is one of the books whose cover creation I chronicled in an earlier post.  I started with scraps of cloth glued down on paper (a sheet from a manuscript) and layered washes of color over it in acrylic.  For the final details, I used a mixture of blue acrylic paint and gel retarder and commercially made rubber stamps.  I like to have a tactile focal piece on the front, so I used the buttons with letters on them.  The mixture of letters never seems that great, so it’s a Scrabble-game challenge to come up with a meaningful word.