Maps Part II

Oh the love affair with maps continues! We made some fun map poppies. Visualize a room filled with map bouquets for the the couple who loves to travel!

 We used the flower pop up design for these poppies (posted in an earlier blog post)

 Then we lined envelopes with maps which were were gaga over! We letterpressed a vintage ornament on sumptuous lettra paper and used hemisphere maps to line moss and gavel envelopes.

 For a more colorful pop, we took vintage map pages and line a variety of colored envelopes. We all would be delighted to get mail that looks like this!

To make these handmade journals, we used the Americas, Globes and Hemispheres maps. At 3.25 x 5.5 inches, they are perfect for taking on a trip to record your journey.

While we didn't make these soft sided mini notebooks, we are crazy about them and the set of 3 for 10 bucks is a great deal!

Andrew Borloz Books!

Our friend Andrew Borloz sent us a couple of great photos of his books. The books on the left are are stencil books he made at Penland. How cool! One day I will get to Penland!

The  books on the right are a photo of the 20 books he made in one week!! Andrew's work is filled with dazzling color, shape and texture. He lives in northern NJ and is a self-employed as a designer, artist, educator, printer and craftsman. His work is so neat and precise--wonder if his degrees--a  BS in industrial design and MA in computer science have anything to do with that that?  Andrew learned these structures from Pam Sussman during her Book Arts Coterie last July.

Pam Sussman is a book arts instructor and the author of Fabric Art Journals, published by Rockport/Quarry books in 2005. This is a terrific book on fabric journals - one of my favorites! She teaches book arts across the country. Check out her blog and her book!

Colorful Japanese Stab Bound Books

The very talented Donna Eyring just sent me a photo of some Japanese Stab Bound Books she is making. Love the bright colors! She said that the had the fabric forever and decided to make a bag to house the books. Each of the books has a different sewing pattern for the binding. So fun and lovely, what a great gift they will make! Thanks Donna!

We love the new Japanese Papers!

The new designs are exquisite!

We love our new Japanese Papers! The designs are exquisite!!

 Here are a couple of photos where we used it on books as well and as envelope liners.