Princess Bubbles Creates

Please feel free to use this kaleidoscope in your art. It is my gift to you but please credit me if you do use it.

This is a simple accordion fold book that I created a while back. One vellum sheet makes up the pocket pages. I love vellum it's so pretty and delicate looking. I used vellum stickers to decorate the tags that are inside the pockets. I used matt board for the covers. Really a simple but pretty book.

I love my art friends! They're so much fun! Lois invited us over to make art at her house. She covered her fence in plastic so we could staple our watercolor paper to it and throw walnut ink and watercolor paint at it. Oh my gosh, too fun! The picture above is Nancy and Mary Lynn enjoying the fun. These are some of the art papers we created. This is Lois, Mary Lynn and Nancy playing with shaving cream and food coloring. You can get some great marbled effects with these two humble materials. Oh, it was just such fun getting messy with the shaving cream. .

I love making books. I think this one turned out pretty cool. All the dangles hanging off the spine make me really happy. They're so sparkly and pretty! There is actually some foil on the cover but it doesn't show in the photograph that well. This is the inside of the book. The pages are all different sizes. I really like that I stepped outside of the box and made them that way.

I've belonged to the yahoo Altered book group for years. It's a great group. Today is the 10th anniversary of the group. In honor of that we created a flash mob event. The group members uploaded photos of their altered book pages to the group's photo section. Above is the page that I uploaded. Corinne Stubson http://glitzohgirl.typepad.com/ very generously offered to make a book to celebrate the anniversary. We all sent her an original altered page, approximately 180 of us. She is color copying them and binding them into a book. She will send us each a book when all the work is done. I am amazed that she would take on so much work! I'm truly grateful that she has allowed Canadians to participate. I can't wait to see it! In regards to the above page you really can't see the sparkles very well, if at all. It's really hard to take a pictures of glitter. But there is glitter on the white lines coming out of the bottle. It looks better in pers...

Well, I guess I jumped the gun! My book has been accepted to be in Sue Bleiweiss's new book. http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com/ So out of respect to Sue I have removed the one picture of the book. I have left up the photo of the inside of the cover as that won't be in Sue's book. I am so excited!!!! I will be a published artist!! How cool is that!!!

I created this book a while ago and submitted it to two different publications. It was not accepted by either of them. I just can't believe it. I think it's a beautiful book! Why wouldn't they want it in their publication? I painted two artist canvases and used them as the book covers. I also painted the backsides of the canvases and attached some sea shells. The backside of the canvas acts as a shadow box of sorts. The pages of the book are made up of white copy paper as well as pages from an old atlas. I adorned the spine with wires, beads and a small glass bottle that contains some tiny pieces of beach glass that I have collected.