Handmade books

 A sample of some hand made books I have Made

 

 

 

 Recycled hand made book.

The cover is brown packaging painted with 

acrylic and colored pencil.

 

 Inside the cover lined with scrapbook paper scraps. 

The hard cover is the cardboard back of watercolor paper pad.

 Old acrylic paintings are painted black on the back

and folded and bound as signatures inside the book. 

 

 

This cover is repainted water color paper.

The calligraphy is written on scraps.

 The pages are recycled junk mail envelopes.

 The envelopes are marked with doodles, in white colored pencil.

 

The pages are out of order: this is the inside cover and 1st page.

 

I place cut-outs and stickers that I call trinkets

in the top of the envelope. 

The signatures are sewn with a long stitch using black and white baker's twine. 

 

 

100 day project: Single signature journal

 

A work in progress, the cover is hand drawn, and the spine is 

reinforced with clear sticker paper.

 Pockets from recycled painted packing paper

I love stuffing them with tags and drawings.

 

More pockets and doodled pages.

 Junk mail envelope, painted and lined. I love

simple pattern on pattern.

pocket in use

From my rug design series. I used black and white

bakers twine to sew to signature together. 

 

The other side of the envelope, with a pocket.

 The back side of the envelope, with more hand drawn flowers.

The last page is hand drawn with double pockets.

 

More pictures of the items stuffed in the pockets will be here

when I complete them. 

100 day project more pages from journal

 More pages from journal:

 More pages:

 This journal is a work in progress. I am still working on the cover.

The tabs are: heal, joy, faith, fortune, create, luck, heart and action.

I will post the tags, and the contents of the pockets. 

100 day project pages from handmade journal

 

First pages of journal: Full of pockets because I love pockets.

 Journal with stuffed pockets.

Journal with flap open.

 

I will be posting my projects as I practice documenting my work.

Here is a journal I am working on:

This journal is made from recycled paintings and junk mail envelopes.

The pockets are scrap papers painted black.

 

Center of the signature is a print of a colored pencil collage set I made.

The signatures are sewn with baker's twine. 

I present a journal that I created from over painted water color paintings, 

with painted paper recycled packing papers, recycled art 

and empty junk mail envelopes

 

The cover has a pocket with affirmation cards 

and a sheer organdy ribbon tie closure.

 

Journal pages with pockets stuffed with affirmation cards, 

and cards you can label with your own words. 

 

The pockets and backs of pictures are hand doodled 

with simple symbols.

 

The pages are copies of my paintings, cloud designs. 

Each page has a pocket. There are 5 signatures one page with 

a tiny insert. The signatures are attached to the single 

thickness spine hand sewn with black and white backer's twine.

The finished journal is embellished with charms, painted pages, 

and paper-doll angels.

There are tucks, papers for journaling.

 

This journal was such a joy to make, challenging me with

new ways my artwork is changing, and the surprising (to me)

forms that it could take.

Pink Junk Journal

 

 Most of this journal comes from junk envelopes,

 the kind that you rip open or they have safety liners, 

odd unmatching sizes, or there are just too many of them.

In order to use the envelopes in a meaningful way, 

I painted them black and hand drew simple doodles on them, 

turning the trash into signatures.

The pockets are from painted brown paper, 

that lines the shipping boxes.

I made tags printed on tea dyed paper, tea dyed cardstock.

The cover is made from acrylic painted 140 lb watercolor paper.

The signatures are sewn with bakers twine. 

Foliage is cut from texture card stock, and jewels 

and charms are clipped to the pages.

 

The inspiration for this book and the rest in the series 

 am making are the medieval manuscripts from the  century.

junk journals

 

 

Paper bag junk journal 

this journal is made from brown paper that stuffs

and pads boxes for mailing. It's my favorite junk journal making material.

 

 

 

 This journal is my composition junk journal. The embellishments

in this journal are leftovers and elements from abandoned projects.

I'll post more pages, and eventually a video.

These are shapes I explored in a class by Julie Hamilton.

I used a thick sharpie marker, and colored them digitally in Inkscape.

 

 

I printed them on tea dyed paper. I cut them on a scan n cut. 

In another post I'll show you my cutting challenged method.