For Sharon's birthday, I made an 8"x9" card/booklet
out of paper, fabric and fabric-paper. I had participated in several discussions recently about optimism vs. pessimism and I wanted to do something on that theme. I chose the opening paragraph from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities where he contrasts five opposing statements. I took the 5 postive ones and put them on a page with a large sun. The background substrate was paper-fabric covered with Lutradur. The sun was made of many fabrics stitched on. I also used stitching to provide details. The negative statements went with an old gnarly tree in the moonlight, again made of fabric on fabric-paper with stitching for details. For the covers I sewed a half red, half blue fabric background and sewed on a cardstock title. I attached the two pages by sewing them both to a link of chain at three places. I'll let you decide, "Is the glass half-full or half-empty?"
out of paper, fabric and fabric-paper. I had participated in several discussions recently about optimism vs. pessimism and I wanted to do something on that theme. I chose the opening paragraph from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities where he contrasts five opposing statements. I took the 5 postive ones and put them on a page with a large sun. The background substrate was paper-fabric covered with Lutradur. The sun was made of many fabrics stitched on. I also used stitching to provide details. The negative statements went with an old gnarly tree in the moonlight, again made of fabric on fabric-paper with stitching for details. For the covers I sewed a half red, half blue fabric background and sewed on a cardstock title. I attached the two pages by sewing them both to a link of chain at three places. I'll let you decide, "Is the glass half-full or half-empty?"
1 comment:
On my monitor, the fact that's it's backwards isn't very distracting. I think the tree page might be my favorite too - so twisted! I'm talking about the tree, of course.
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