This book I'm showing today is made entirely from scratch, and came together over a few days. To start, I selected a piece of gorgeous Michael Miller fabric and some felt that I wanted to work with, and a pile of scrap chipboard pieces that were 5" squares. I had a few themes in mind for the book, but after going through hundreds, no thousands, of photos in iphoto, I decided on focusing on the relationship between Rowan and Molly through the years. I created a folder in iphoto to collect all the photos of the two of them, then decided on the best ones from there. They had to be able to be cropped to a square shape to fit in the book, so that eliminated a few that otherwise I would have picked. Next, I spent hours selecting various quotes that I thought would work with the photos. I enlisted the help of my husband for this part, and together, we found eight quotes that spoke to us. For the cover, I created my own Ali-style digital element in photoshop, using some definitions of "siblings", a bracket, and the words "growing together". Next, all the quotes and the cover title were printed on my new FAVORITE product, Claudine Hellmuth sticky-back canvas. LOVE this stuff. The title element was then die cut with my QuicKutz circles. The inside pages were carefully constructed, and handsewn together. Each quote was sewn to a piece of fabric, then adhered to chipboard pages directy. The "Happiness" quote on the inside cover is a stamp by Stamping Bella, and the initals are cut from "Yogurt" QK alphabet, and hand stitched on. Here are a few shots of the process and the finished book, but for a slideshow of the whole thing, please check it out HERE on 2 peas in a Bucket. Have a great week!
