A sweet vintage mini concertina book

Welcome friends to my blog today!

Well you all know how much a fan I am of making books.

 This one was inspired by the wonderful Caterina Giglio.

 She has an excellent You Tube video on how to create

 one of these mini concertinas!

Go check out her video here: https://caterinagiglio.blogspot.com/…/mini-fabric-concertin…

 

This little book requires simple sewing skills

 

and you can choose any theme, words, buttons, ribbons, laces, cards and findings that you so desire!

 

 

The beautiful metal heart and the holy card came

from Rhonda of A Little Bit French Shop - Thank you so much

Rhonda for these! 

 

 

She really has a beautiful collection of kits at the moment 

which would be ideal for creating one of these

little concertina books! 

I used a lovely vintage cut lace linen tray cloth

for mine which I dyed with Parisian Essence

to achieve this color but you may

also use tea, coffee or natural dyes

for your little project! 

 

 

My poem here I printed and backed with

a tea bag giving more depth of color!

 

 

Whatever theme you choose it needs to be

what is meaningful for you

or 

it can be just a little fun piece 

 

where you can use up your precious little

pieces of scrap laces and doilies!

I know it will be one I will make over again for sure!

♥♥♥
Thanks Cat for all of your wonderful inspiration!!! 

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Now I'm going to link this post up to

 Simply Neutrals Tuesday No. 47

and if you so desire

you can still link up any of your neutrals post

for another week before it becomes No. 48

Many thanks to all of my new followers and to anyone

else who loves and appreciates the items

I create! Enjoy!!!

Love and hugs,

Suzy xxx

Simply Neutrals No. 46 - Little Felted Lace and Silk journals

Dear friends

some of you may have already seen my post on fb

about these little felted lace journals.

 

 So here on my blog you can get to see more close up images

of the artwork

 

 where you can get a closer look at the layers,

 

 the stitching used with my sewing machine,

 

 

 

 some of the vintage laces used

and the silk tops over which I have

embellished with embroidery machine stitching.

 

 

 The inside pages were left blank with botanical

stamping and washi tape

used to add interest!

 

 These little journals are now all sold 

but 

I am in the process of creating a new four

which will be in my Etsy shop

sometime this week so keep checking!

I'm linking this post to Simply Neutrals Tuesday

which is open for the whole of the month of

July.  

Wishing you all a wonderful week my friends!

and

Thank you all so very much for your continued support of my artwork!

Love and hugs, Suzy xxx

 

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

 

Journal "Listening for Wisdom"

This is my latest book entitled

"Listening to Wisdom"!

I have for many years - dare I say about 50

 been a follower of the most wonderful

Persion Poet, Rumi

and I have devoted many of his quotes

to a journal I have just completed.

 

 

 So many elements have been added to this book

including a rusted finding for closure with string,

  many images from daVinci's artworks,

 

vintage ledger papers, vintage music papers,

 

 collaged and patchworked fabrics,

 

dyed vintage linens and laces,

 tags,

 

scrapbooking papers,

 

scripted fabrics, machine stitched quote by me,

 and a variety of plant stamped pages.

This journal has now been listed in my Etsy shop

 

 

If you wish to make your own book using my style of bookmaking

then visit Creative Workshops

here

to find all the details of how you can enrol

and follow along using your own particular theme and style.

Thanks all for visiting and I wish you many happy days

creating or just feeling happy and contented 

within yourselves!

Suzy xox