Glue It Tuesday - mini books

hello! Here's what I got for Glue It Tuesday: not my typical collage but a project involving glue nonetheless! I have been working on a some little books and there is a fair amount of glue used, particularly on the smaller purple book.

 I got excellent instruction from Esther K Smith's 'How To Make Books'.  Here is the booklet I made below.

I put together about 4 of those/signatures together and then glued them all back to back. Then I glued the front and back of that little booklet I made to the purple paper.

 

 

I stitched the other book together rather than glueing it all [I just used a tiny bit of glue on the cording but I still "GluedIt!"] I sewed the signatures to the 'spine' which I created by folding the green paper. I added the beads and that is the first time I tried that. I can see how you can get carried away with embelishing the stitching! I had such a good time making these.

 

 

 

 

I was able to get a bit of drawing done the past few days. Mostly working with my markers these days. Time is not allowing me watercolors right now, but soon!

 

I hope everyone has a great day today:)

Lots of SUN & SMILES

Take care,

Fran T xo

 

drawing and writing

I've been doing alot of drawing and illustrating quotes and

 

phrases this week.

 

I have posted a few here!

 

Instagram has become a favorite of mine and I have to admit

I'm a bit addicted.

 

I am sure that will pass though, first it was Facebook,  then

 

Twitter, some Flickr, Tumblr, it

 

goes on and on and I am sure there will be something new.

This is how it looked like when I posted on Instagram, there are filters to modify the way it appears.
This is a filter I like and use often.

 Its amazing how things just keep on changing.

 

     

 

 I find that I get excited and exhausted by it all.

I try to keep up but its impossible. LOL!

 

Well I am off to the art store, I have this sudden

design to make a book.

I have the thread for binding, etc. I need paper

 and a few other things to make it happen.

I found a good video

 

on YouTube and will try it out.

 

 

I may or may not post what I create,

 LOL, it depends on how good it comes out.

 

Happy Saturday:)

 

 

Pages and pages

I had some creative time this past Friday and got to paint/draw, etc on old book pages. I'm using an old Peter Rabbit storybook which is in pretty bad shape.. Its great fun to try and I'm not throwing it away, I look at it as recycling.

I have been painting more in my own abstract style and getting so much pleasure from doing that. Its really freeing and incredibly fun. I am all for realism but those days are gone for me. It is so much less fun to paint that way, for me. I used to really enjoy it but became so incredibly critical of myself and wanted to find out where I can go with my art. Who knows where I end up!