From Essex, UK, we have 4 beautiful and unusual books for the swap, plus an extra one for me from Margaret Garrood -so wonderful! She describes how she created them on
her blog, LibertyBelle. Her book covers are made with painted craft vilene, which I believe is a water soluble stabalizer. Let me show you!!
Such beautiful covers! The beading is gorgeous.
Inside, the pages are painted with Koh-i-noor dyes and hand stitched.
Here is another cover . . . Margaret writes more about
Beautiful! Thank you so much, Margaret.
I am slowly running out of ohs and ahs and wows to use! Just fantastic again, love the beading! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteMargaret .. so beautiful. Love the colour and the vibrancy of it all. hugs, Donna
ReplyDeleteSo many lovely things to look at, but the beading and embroidery in these books really caught my eye. What lovely, meticulous attention to detail. Beautiful work. I have to go visit Margaret's blog now to see what other pretty ideas she's been working with.
ReplyDeleteLovely, lovely! Can you stand receiving and handling all these wonderful little books? So exciting.
ReplyDeleteThese are just wonderful. The beading adds the icing on the book (cake) LOL... Enjoying all the great creative books sent in. Jo~Ann
ReplyDeleteWow, they are all so pretty, love the beads & stitchery!
ReplyDeleteMargaret has really done a fab job creating these wonders. So colorful and she even hand stitched the pages! It is so inspiring to see all the different ways people make books!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Terri
my mouth dropped when I saw these-exquisite!!!
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