Small blank sketchbooks to purchase

 

Color Inspirations

Book Covers with Metal Embossing

Embossing and painting metal is an

interesting and fun way to create 

covers for books 

 

Metal Embossing as covers for books

These embossed metal pieces were created using lace, seed pods, dried flowers, and metal screening. Each object was placed underneath the metal and then pressed to pick up their textures. 

 

Embossed Metal and Inspiration

 

Embossed metal

Working with metal, embossing tools, paint 

and various texture materials such as

 fabric and screening.

Inspired by:

Stone Carving

Patterns in sand

Patterns in stone

Hailstone after a storm

Antique French ribbon and metal trim

Plant roots

Patterns inside maple and ash trees

Heavy buckrum fabric used as insulation

100 years ago

Old New England stonewall

Rock formation along the shore.

 

Almost Done! Making hard cover books

Three hardcover books made with handmade papers.

These books can be used for sketching, writing,

 and documenting any kind of project.

Attaching the spine covering to one of the books.

A solarprint made with hand made lace, threads

 and machine lace along with wildflowers.

 

Part 2 Making a hardcover book

Front and back cover of the book seen from the outside. 

The pages are lined up in the middle and can be seen through the spine area. 

 

Putting a hardcover book together

 

Making Hardcover Books

A simple hardcover sketchbook made from book illustrations, handmade papers, and hand painted paste papers. These are all assembled and hand stitched together. 

These are the front and back covers of the book.

On the left is mat board covered in a piece of hand painted paste paper, right side up. On the right is matboard covered in a piece of  hand made paper, showing the inside of the cover after it has been glued. 

These are the pages made from a good sketch paper sitting in a book cradle, waiting to be stitched. Pushpins hold the booklet together and make holes for the thread.