some finished projectssome finished projects

I haven’t posted many finished projects lately because I just haven’t had a chance to photograph them. I finally got some time today to set up the photo equipment and take some photos. Here’s a couple of things I’ve been working on in the studio the last couple of weeks:

First up,some new notebooks for 2010 projects:

I used some nice 70lb drawing paper in these notebooks. I buy the large drawing paper pads (18″x24″) and then cut the pages to fit whatever sized book I am making. I had a lot of scrap cut off pages left over from when I made the custom order book here so I used them to make the insides of all of these notebooks. The one in the center in the photo above has a fused fabric collage made from scraps on the front and that one and the one below it in the photo measure 5″x8″.
These ones are a little larger –6″x8″. All of these have 30-40 pages in them and the smaller size makes them a perfect size to use for my Creative Cue drawings.

Another project I recently finished was another bag made using Texture Magic:

black silk velvet handbag

This bag measures about 10″x10″x3 1/2″,leather handles,silk lining,magnetic snap close. Black velvet is impossible to get a good photo of but I think you can see the nice surface texture that this bag has. I really like working with the Texture Magic product and I’ve got a few more projects in mind for it that I’ll share with you once they’re finished…