New Book - The Gift of Friendship

 There are few things in life as precious as

"The Gift of Friendship"

and

in my desire to create a book around this

I decided to work with some of my eco-dyed paper

and create a little book honouring this theme!

 

The front cover incorporates the use

of some felted organza with layers of cotton

and silk

 

 with pages of the natural dyeing from my

garden plant - Plectanthus, 

some dyed silk (gifted from my lovely friend Jo Kinross

in New Zealand) along with a dyed doiley piece using

infusion pigment and tea with a pearl button.

 

 

The embroidered fabric sits opposite

a stamped piece of text over a tea bag!

 

 

More collaged pages with quotes upon layers of vintage

dress fabrics, dyed mohair with little

pieces of very old embroidered

silk so fragile and it came apart in my hands!

 

More stamped tea bags and another stitched tea bag

dyed with olive green infusion pigments. 

 

 

 

 

"Pray - my cheek to your cheek"!

 

 

The leaf impressions are so soft and subtle

creating their own unorganized composition!

 

 

What could be more beautiful than creating with all of these

natural and, in many cases, neutral colours!

 

 

 So much so that I'm linking up to 

Simply Neutrals Tuesday -

the linky party now which comes to us monthly

so don't miss this opportunity to share your

neutrals with all of us over at

Wen's blog this week!

Thank you all dear readers for the gift of your

friendship by coming to visit this blog

and saying hello and leaving a

comment when you feel

you can!

I'm so grateful to you all!

Suzy xox