Books. Cakes. Design.
I’ve had this blue polka dot cover ready to be made into a book for a while. The trick has been figuring out what to do with it.
Then, I came up with an idea: A custom-made journal with tabbed sections!
I used this retro leaf motif for the inside paste pages. I loved the way the [...]
Yesterday I posted Sam and Candace’s wedding guest book. Today, I’m featuring the books I made for their groomsmen.
I LOVE making lots of books at once. It’s so satisfying to make an entire collection, knowing that although they are alike, each book will be given a different home.
I made six books for Sam and Candace: [...]
Last year, I had the privilege of working through a 12-week program called The Artist’s Way with two amazing people, including Sam DuRegger. Because the journey of AW inspires you to take action in making your dreams come true, it’s no surprise that many things changed for the three of us in the group. My [...]
After getting a book of her own, Amy asked me to make a similar sketchbook for Taunda: an 8.5 x 11 hard-bound book with blank pages for sketching and journaling.
Taunda’s favorite color is purple, so I started there. I found some pretty cotton fabric in lavender, with a dark purple crackle effect.
It made a perfect [...]
The following is a project I did in college for my Experimental Bookmaking class. We were to use the Venetian Blind binding technique and here’s my result, a book that commemorates all the trips I’d made to different parts of the world at that time.
The covers were made from .5″ foam core board wrapped in [...]
For Christmas, my friend Sarah wanted some custom-designed photo albums for the women in her family. I was exciting to take this project on, as I’d never re-covered existing photo albums before. Below are the final results.
To start, I found several inexpensive albums that held at least two hundred 4×6 photos. Needless to say, I [...]
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s time to start considering a thoughtful, handmade gift for your sweetie. ((I can help!))
Two years ago, I made this book for my (then) boyfriend, who is now my husband!…not that the book caused that transition, mind you, but I’m sure it didn’t hurt either.
It was a [...]
I’ve had this huge roll of amazing black and white paper for a few years. Although I’d brainstormed about it, I’d never made the time to turn it into a book. I finally got the chance to do so when my friend Cindy Beall asked me to be a part of her “Week of Awesomeness”, [...]
This past Fall, I was flooded with orders for personalized journals. It was great fun to be so involved in so many people’s gift-giving for 2009!
I got a great email from a woman I’d never met before. Her name is Peggy and she wrote: “My children are grown and married [...] for Christmas I want [...]
Since I was already in the process of making a book for Ann, my friend Amy asked me to also make one for her friend Erin as a Christmas gift. Amy went to great lengths to find out all of Erin’s favorites…Amy even went so far as to create a survey for Erin to fill [...]