little books - post 4 - Julie

My third little book is from Julie, a member of our little mail art group, so it was great getting one from her. Plus, this book is very cool. It's made from one sheet of paper, folded and cut to make a small 4 page book. This is a technique that Lenna pointed out to us when we signed up. I made a few like this but ended up not using them for the swap. For this one, Julie used images and text from an old Danish gardening book and I love the old muted colors and the vintage images. Plus, I love to garden.
I think this one is going in my kitchen some place so I can see it every day. I just bought a new little shelf thing at a yard sale this morning that might be perfect. Julie also decorated the envelope and printed out a note about the book. Enjoy.

little books - post 3 - Sarah

Sarah's book is stitched and beaded and amazing. She went around the entire outer edge of the cover and stitched on approximately 500 beads, by my reckoning. Yikes! I can hardly see to thread beading needles anymore so getting this was a real treat. The covers are soft and bendy but nicely padded, not sure what's inside them. The inside is 3 signatures of what feels like card stock, in white, perfect for a small sketch book. Here are the photos.

little book swap - post 2 - Laura

I received this little book from Laura Hummel. It's FABulous. The papers are wildly varied in size, type, color, style, texture. It's a total sensory treat to look thru, which I've done about ten times since I've gotten it.  Laura is extremely creative and this book will inspire me for some time to come with its diversity. Here are images of the entire wonderful thing.

little book swap - post 1

Lenna of Creative Swaps had a Little Book Swap recently and mine arrived on Thursday - very quick since they were posted from Florida on the 22nd. She made a great slide show of them here.

I sent 3 books, plus one for Lenna. The ones for the swap had covers made from crazy quilt blocks that I pieced but never finished. They were made from batik fabrics and I loved them. I was very happy to be able to re-purpose them for this swap. The inside pages were a variety of pictures from art books, misc papers,

 This is the one I made Lenna. It's pretty small, maybe 2.5" x 3.5", and has pages from old books and hand made papers, very monochromatic. I liked it and plan to make one for myself one of these days.


Next pic is my covers. Two of them had a bit of seam stitching.

3rd photo - The insides of the pink one. Each had pictures and papers chosen to complement the cover color.

4th - The back and front of the green one. I used Tim Holtz tissue tape to bind the books. 

5th - inside view of all three.

I sooo can't figure out how to load photos in effing blogger so that I can type next to each one without the spacing getting all goofy. Is there another free blog place that handles images better??

Next up, the books I received in the swap.