Category: Art

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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Beaded Blue December Book

This is the second of the series of four books I made using rainbow tie-dyed material as a base.  I adhered thin printed mesh fabric over the top of the base using fusible interfacing.  The nice thing about fusible interfacing is that it’s lightweight and transparent.  The drawback is that it’s very difficult to get …

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Smoke Key Book

This is the first of a series of four books I made all using the same base material.  The base material was a piece of thin tie-dyed cotton that had been part of my daughter’s skirt before it got too ripped to repair.  This cover worked really well because thin cotton adhered to 20lb paper …

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