I started a new board book round robin this week. Our theme could be either Artful Goddess or Home. I went the goddess route and did some muses.
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[image:136:c]Muse of Music. This spread needs something but I don’t know what. I had a real block with this one.
Mom’s big Christmas gift from me this year was a sketchbook. It’s based on a book from a class I took with Beverly Sizemore of B-Line Designs. Wonderful class. hmm… I should go photograph the book from that class and a few others I took around the same time. I knew there was more to add here but couldn’t think of it.
Anyway… Here is my Mom’s new sketchbook…
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It had to be purple… here favorite color and mine.
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At the front of every signature, I laced in either one big envelope or two small ones to hold lose stuff. I also decorated a few tags for her to use where ever she wanted. There are a few more pictures over in my gallery.
A while ago, I was playing around with bleach stamping for my technique class. It was so much fun and I made so many samples, I decided to put them together into a book. I stamped both sides of a piece of cardstock and added several sheets Painter’s masking paper to make each signature. The book has 10 signatures and I used a piano hinge to put them all together.
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