Friday 31 January 2014

A bit of this, a bit of that....

Homemade little sketch book made from tracker bar boxes and covered with different pieces of recycled paper.

A peek inside.

Oooo and here's another peek inside, a funky bird owl.

First attempt at Basket weaving.

Fabric postcard for my niece Paige.


I thought I'd show you my homemade little sketchbook I made as part of the book binding brief in uni. We had to make three books, one traditional and two non-traditional book. We then had to chose one of the non-traditional and use it as a personal sketchbook.  I made this little book from the empty boxes of tracker bars. The signature are all made using my handmade papers and recycled papers and envelopes. I have picked random pages and added stamps, doodles and little quirky illustrations. I am looking forward to continuing to add to this as the months pass. Yesterday we had a tutorial on basket making. Mine started off fine but then it kind of took on a life of its own and caused a ripple of laughter through out the group.  Today I have made two fabric post cards in between house work. One for Mary my FMQ partner on FB and this little lady for my niece Paige. I think this is one of my favourite fabric post cards I've ever made. I hope she likes it to.

6 comments:

Maria said...

I love all those projects that you've been working on!

Susan said...

Hi Maria and welcome to my blog. Thank you for you leaving a comment. :)

Lin said...

Lots of goodies Susan - I love the book and super page glimpses. The basket was planned like that wasn't it! And I am sure Paige will adore the postcard. xx

Susan said...

Hi Lin, haha yes that is how the basket was meant to be ;0 xx

Caz said...

Love the little sketchbook!

Susan said...

thanks Caz it was really easy to make and I am enjoying doodling random things in it. X