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Tomorrow, I’ll be sending out round robin my book to start it’s journey around the USA with a final pit-stop in Canada before returning home to me in before the end of the year.
I’ve completed the cover, the sign-in page and 2 spreads.
Yes, the photos are blurred…your eyes aren’t giving out. :)
After a little nudge…I thought I’d show some of my pages. Some of these have been shown on the blog before quite a while ago. The rest were made in my pre-blogging days.
I’m only showing my pages as I didn’t ask permission from the others to display their work.
Please forgive the weird formatting…not sure whats up with the pictures and why they won’t go where I want them!
I started this AB years ago with a few tip-ins from a swap. I love quotes… It seemed like the perfect theme. Alas, I ran out of steam on the project. It was set aside…forgotten. Recently, I’ve had the drive to finish those UFOs (unfinished objects) sitting around basically to free up space and cross things off my on-going list.
I asked my good friend Elizabeth if she’d make a tip-in or two for me… She came up with the idea of hosting a tip-in swap on abc_alteredbookclub. Sweet!
Just look at the end result! A completed book! Well, truthfully, there are spots for 3 more quote pages if they were glued directly down but for all intensive purposes…this is officially crossed off my list!!!!
Found this great looking book at the thrift store and knew it would make a fantastic book purse.
I reclaimed the handles off a super ugly purse from the same thrift store and dug through my fabric stash for the lining.
I went ahead and listed it in my Etsy store a little earlier today.
I cleaned up my art zone a little bit yesterday…enough to do a quick page in an altered book.
I used some of the scrap laying around the workspace for this page. I still need to get to work on some similar themed swap pages.
I also started work on yet another attempt at a braided rug. Things are going much better this time around… *quickly knocking on wood*
The morning sky was pretty so I thought I’d share it with you. The photo was taken through the glass of the patio door. Way to chilly to stand outside for a lousy photo op for me.
While the kids were gone at a birthday party today, I got busy making a cover for my ABC 7th Anniversary book.
One little issue…I miscalculated when I was going to punch the cover with my Bind-it-all.
UGH!
But look…amazing what sins a little lace will cover right!?!?
I’m still having a hard time getting back in the groove of making art on a regular basis. I want to but then I sit down to do it and nothing comes. I decided I needed to do something different. Something experimental. So I grabbed a book and started slapping down some paint. I added what ever felt right at the moment. I didn’t even wait for the paint to completely dry. I just made art for the sake of doing it, not for what my end result might be. It was very free and very fun. I’m positive I didn’t spend more than 10 minutes on each one.
I don’t know if I’ll go back and add actual journal entries in these pages or if they are done but who cares right!?!
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