After MANY hours of work my Marie altered ephemera book is done!!
I joined a wonderful swap with the Marie Antoinette Mail Art Group. I was given 2 partners that I swapped trims, fabric, images, flowers, charms and buttons with. The second part of this swap is to make a book with these supplies. My partners were Terri and Debi and they both sent me the most WONDERFUL things to make my book from.
I decided to make a cloth book.
Here is the front cover. I just love the vintage well worn look so I tea dyed most everything.
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I have never made a fabric book before so I just kinda winged it sewing on this and that and sometimes gluing it since I didn't think ahead. I just made it look like it was sewed by zig zagging around the edge and then just gluing it on with tacky glue. (no one will ever know right?)
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Here is the inside cover. I used burlap for the underneath piece and free form sewed flowers under tulle then embellished the page.
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Here are the inside pages. This one I used vintage gloves to hold the beautiful tags that Debi made for me. You can see them peeking out the right side. I forgot to pull them out when I took the photos.
The next page is the hankie envelope that Teri sent some goodies in. It was pure white when I received it…….but I wanted it to look old so into the tea and oven it went (Teri I hope your OK with this). It holds vintage postcards.
I just love the way it turned out. It looks “naturally” aged.
Next page I used a vintage postcard I received and a page from a vintage book stamped and embellished.
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This page is tapestry fabric with lots of tea dyed lace and of course Marie……
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……and German glass glitter.
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Let Them Eat Cake…..my second favorite page. I used lots of trims to make a cake.
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This is my favorite page……..the sewing page. I just love the vintage aqua button card and all of the vintage things. I'm not quite sure what the hook is for. It was in a vintage sewing box I found.
Every girl should have a dress form with a pink tulle skirt.
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This page I incorporated the beautiful tags Teri sent me on a lace background with lots of flowers and bows. I just love the tiny bird nest on the bottom.
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The inside last page is a bouquet of flowers in a lace bag. One of my favorite things is the blue heart & pearl bracelet that Debi sent me.
I just love it!!
And last but not least……the back cover made from pink velvety fabric and an ostrich feather.
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Tea dyed lace goodness on the edge of the pages…..
and flowers peeking from the top….these are a few of my favorite things.
I'm pretty happy with the way this book turned out. Thanks Teri & Debi for all the wonderful things and being my swap partners!!
Robin