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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Mailmania2 project 2006



This was my project for Mailmania2 project 2006 visit their blog site and enjoy many artist work from around the world .... http://mailmania2.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_mailmania2_archive.html

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Tip-In's

Tip-In's are pages out of a book or text weight paper that has been cut to book size and Altered usually on a theme then added to anothe book (novel, encyclopedia or whatever) ...






More for the up coming swap ....

Tip-In's

Tip-In's are pages out of a book or text weight paper that has been cut to book size and Altered usually on a theme then added to anothe book (novel, encyclopedia or whatever) ... these are some I have done for an upcoming swap ....

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Handmade Books





Okay these are samples of handmade books of mine

Paper Bag Book




I did a paper bag book honoring my parents … Legacy was kind enough to publish it recently ….

Circle Journal


My daughter and I are working on a Circle Journal and haveing a great time with it ....
this is some of my work in the Journal there is a hidden tag with a special message for just her ...

CD cardboard mailer Book

CD book I am doing in Grapevine, TX this July ....

Mixed Media


See I said it takes many forms ... this one happens to be an Altered Puzzle Peice

ATC - Artist Trading Cards


These are some of the ATC's I have done ... I have forgotten to take photo's of the latest ones but I will do that and post some of them later ....

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Altered Dress Form


"Paris Courtier"

As you can see I will alter anything … I decided to do a submission for Somerset Studio on the theme of Paris … when I found this rather plain dress form I couldn’t help but think of all of the wonderful dresses that have come from Paris over the centuries so I decided to take this and make it Paris ..... by adding layers of lace, ribbon, beads, charms & old costume jewelry I was able to come up with something I could see a designer presenting to her client in the mid 1800’s before the dress was constructed ….. turns out they used it in their July/August 2006 issue …… and also on their website http://www.stampington.com/html/ss_ja06_upclose.html

Altered Book - Tunnel effect

“The Proper English Garden”

This is a tunnel effect using 4 spreads in a book … cutting the ovals out of the pages and cardstock to accent the ovals and highlighting an image on the last spread – this one happens to be an Iris …..