Happy Holidays

 

Christmas Stew

 

Concertina Handmade Art Book - 'Abandoned Houses'

I crafted this Concertina /Accordion Art Book. I purchased the digitals from three different Etsy Shop sellers; 'CherylFrancisART', 'ArtHouseWhimsy' and 'BuyMyPrintz'. I selected the images I wanted to use and resized and printed on Natural Lokta Paper for laser & inkjet printers. The Pages were created using Handmade Lokta Watercolor paper and I used Hemp Cord for the binding.

The Poem is; (a favorite and also featured on my blog homepage) "The House By The Side Of The Road" by Sam Walter Foss. The Album /Journal has 20 pages and measures 4 x 6 inches. The Book is almost 8 feet long end to end when completely unfolded.

A little bit of page distressing and ink splatter were added for interest.

 

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‘Painted Girl With Bird’ Art Journal

I love these images from 'CherylFrancisART'-Etsy. I selected the images I wanted to use, resized them and printed onto Lokta handmade printable papers, distressed the edges and matted each on off-white handmade cardstock paper. Each was matted again onto handmade colored cardstock papers also distressing the edges. These became the pages of the album. Did a simple binding using hemp cord. The images are so sweet, just a lovely album to flip through. Measures 4.5" x 6"

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Coffee Cafe Journal - Accordion Hinge Binding

Accordion Hinge Binding Mini Journal / Album. Great NO SEW, easy to make pocket size journal. Great Binding method allows you to remove or swap out pages easily!

Finished size measures 5 inches x 6.5 inches. Chipboard covers are digi printed cardstock papers. Journal has 4 signatures each with a cardstock cover and 10 beautiful pages from ''The Wild Poppy 123". Journal Cover and Signature Covers from "Callisto Designs 80". Mini Bookmarks for anchoring the hinges are digitals from "DigitalCosmos85" (all digitals purchased from Etsy sellers and I resized them for my journal) If interested 'Christine M Leung' on YT provides complete tutorial with cutting dimensions.
 

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Giving Thanks ...

 

      

     "Never has the earth been so lovely 

         nor the sun so bright, as today."   

                         - NIKINAPI

             from  "A CHEROKEE FEAST OF DAYS"

                                      JOYCE SEQUICHIE HIFLER

                            

'Oriental Garden' - Mini Envelope Journal

A 4 x 4.5 inch Mini Envelope Journal assembled using tab binding. Crafted 4 envelopes each containing a mini journal and each journal bound with a 3-hole pamphlet stitch. One mini notepad included in last envelope. Journal pages are purchased and printed from Etsy seller "DigitalScrapHelper" which I resized. The Journal envelopes, journal covers & tags were made using Stamperia 'Oriental Garden' 8x8 inch Scrapbook Pad Papers. Each journal has 10 pages. Used Tim Holtz linen tape for tab binding. ('ShabbySoul' on YT offers a tutorial on envelope tab binding.) I used a torn piece of black batik fabric with wood beads as tie closure.

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