Florence Turnour's Blog

I'm visiting my mother in Oregon, and thinking about dying some fish fabric for her to use in a quilt. Do you like anchovies?

The Blockheads Stamp technique challenge this month is to make a little book, using a string for binding. I didn't want to make a blank book, and it took me a long time of sitting in my craft room, before I came up with a theme. I wanted to use  Lost Coast Designs ' set, " Miscellaneous Anthropomorphs ," and after long debate, I decided they would constitute the 2012 graduating class from I.U. (Institution Unknown). Mini-year book I used my Spellbinders dies liberally to cut the shapes for this project. In the  tutorial , the pages were made by folding rectangles. I did that, and then ran them through the die cutter with a circular die. Otherwise, I used the first technique in the tutorial (thanks, Trisha). I stamped the words on the front using  JustRite 's system to make custom text. The crown is Blockhead's Regal Crown from the crown border (which I couldn't find on the site). To make the brown layer on the cover, I cut a circle with a Spellbin...