December 9, 2010
playing with canvas & iron-ons
Back at the beginning of summer, I left my new baby with the hubby for an evening (yup, he's pretty awesome!) and ran off to attend a fabric scrapbooking workshop taught by Donna Downey. It was incredibly inspiring and just the break I needed from all the mommy responsibilities.
So, I didn't finish the album we started in class, but it inspired me to do a brag book for my mom who had been hinting she needed one. Here's a look at how it turned out:
The album is made from pieces of canvas I cut to size with quilt batting between them for thickness. I used acrylic paint on the front cover and made the letters from gessoed denim. The iron-ons are ones we used in Donna's workshop. I purchased them off her website when I decided to do this project. As you can see from the next picture, the iron-on wraps around the back of the album.
The text on the inside cover says "a lasting legacy" and the intro page on the right is letters I stitched to a transparency which read "A Virtuous Woman: her worth is far above rubies." I was going with the theme of the Proverbs 31 woman, hoping that the book would also serve as an encouragement to my mom instead of being just a brag book.
More transparencies here and stamped on the ribbon tabs is the text "the heart of her husband safely trusts in her."
The page on the left has stamped text which reads "her children rise up and call her blessed." Also, the inside pages are colored with watercolors. It's a little hard to see in the pictures.
The last pages are some stitched page protectors I threw in for extra pictures.
The inside of the back cover has a note to my mom. . .
The whole thing was hand stitched to the canvas cover when I was finished. Overall, I was very pleased with how colorful this turned out. I really pushed myself outside of my typical muted color palette and it was fun! When I was done with this project, I wanted something like it I could keep for myself, so I started a journal with the same style cover. I'll post pictures of it when it's complete! |