Hello! It has taken me some time to post photos of my book because I continued to get ideas and wanted to do yet another spread in my own book before sending it off! My hope is that all of the participants; Shauna, Ann, Linda, Cynthia and Pilar can add scans or photos of their own artwork in our books to this blog. If that is not possible for them, I will play 'catch up' (or anyone in the exchange could) by scanning the artwork as it moves along through the RR. Without any further adieu, here are lots of photos from my 'Love Letters' book for the ABR RR; I did four spreads plus the intro/sign-in and cover . . . I just could not help myself! This book contains copies of actual love letters; I will also show you a sample page. The cover had a book jacket which I removed. I cut out one of the images and one of the love notes from the jacket and attached directly to the cover, and used StazOn inks for stamping.
The sign-in page. Click on the photos for a better look.
Sample page from the book with a copy of a love letterwritten by John Keats.
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Lenna's 1st spread with a letter to her husband Steven, writtten recently. Click on the photos for a larger picture.
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Lenna's 2nd spread includes an email from her husband Steven in response to a postcard she sent him when they were courting . . . .
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The 3rd spread reflects upon lenna's marriage to john foster from 1978 to 2004 and their two children.
There are cards and letters from the past in each envelope. You can click on any photo for a more detailed view.
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The 4th and last spread contains a Thanksgiving card with a romantic photo of steve and lenna that we sent to ourselves just to have a record of it. It was really a love letter to our family, celebrating that we found each other and how thankful we were. There is also a hand drawn card by steven to lenna as well as and an old french postcard with a note in french on the back.
If you have any questions on how I did anything, please leave me a note in the comments section and I will get back to you as soon as I can. I will be away from my computer July 14th - 22nd, but look forward to finding Shauna's book in my mailbox when I get home. whew!
2 comments:
I have a copy of this book. Will look forward to seeing all the art work.
I, too, have a copy of this book. And also the second one that goes with it. And I have another one on letters home from Civil War Soldiers. All interesting books. Even though I too, am an Altered Book artist, I had not thought of using this for this purpose. We just celebrated our 52nd wedding anniversary in June, and wish both of you many happy years together.
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