Tuesday, May 24, 2011

#15. Margaret Garrood: little book swap!

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
making her books in another post here.

Beautiful! Thank you so much, Margaret.

8 comments:

  1. I am slowly running out of ohs and ahs and wows to use! Just fantastic again, love the beading! Hugs, Valerie

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  2. Margaret .. so beautiful. Love the colour and the vibrancy of it all. hugs, Donna

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  3. So 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.

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  4. Lovely, lovely! Can you stand receiving and handling all these wonderful little books? So exciting.

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  5. These are just wonderful. The beading adds the icing on the book (cake) LOL... Enjoying all the great creative books sent in. Jo~Ann

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  6. Wow, they are all so pretty, love the beads & stitchery!

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  7. Margaret 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!
    Hugs,
    Terri

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  8. my mouth dropped when I saw these-exquisite!!!

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