Birthday Book for CHW - SHHH It's a Surprise!

Collecting goodies for CHW's book in a project box

Book board cut to size: 9" x 11.5"
Paper from Pat - perfect for the cover!






Covers weighed down and drying ...

Inside covers

Book cloth, inside cover and outside cover


Pages and photos...

So much fun opening packages from Katie...

Janice...

Lila...

Luci...

Elisa...

Needle Felting Journal

Under the excellent tutelage of Jeannine Stein, I entered the world of yet another medium!

An Artful Journey 2011

Two multi-media soul-mates and I ventured to "An Artful Journey" (www.anartfuljourney.com) in Los Gatos, CA for a near perfect three days of creative bliss, studying with book and paper artist Albie Smith (Albie-Smith.blogspot.com). Flesh-colored leather sofas in our cottage at www.presentationcenter.org, rain, snow, sunshine, ortega chile scrambled eggs: from the ridiculous to the sublime!



Paste Paper






French stitch binding






Painted bookboard with gesso

Kelly Kilmer's Triptych Book

Inspired by a wild and wonderful day at Studio Soliday. Kelly Kilmer orchestrated a crazy, messy day,generously turning us loose with her bags and bags of art supplies and tricks! Made a book in class, then came home and created this. I'm pushing myself here to work with a palette that I don't usually play in. Not sure whether I like it or not, but the process was great!

Trying to create a connection between the cover and pages. Two more covers to play with this weekend while the manly men are watching the Superbowl!

Stein/Smith/Kahn Inspiration

Sherrill Kahn/Mixed Media + Jeannine Stein/Kevin Smith's woven 'X' stitch = this: