This book is for the BIRDS, part 2

If you haven't seen yesterday's post (Birds part 1) please go here.  I'm also sharing this with Annie (at A Stitch in Time) and the ladies at Friday Smiles, as well as Wendy from Wendy's Art and Craft Journal, our host at Art Journal Journey this month with her theme Having Fun.  I thought Annie and Friday Smiles friends might enjoy seeing the fabric paper book I created, since I showed the four completed pages that had not been decorated or assembled last Friday.  There are no funnies this week, just a lot of photos of a project, now completed, that is really making me smile.

Yesterday I showed the outside cover.  The front cover I'm calling Page 1.  What you are looking at are Pages 2 and 3.

Details of page 2 show birds throughout the four seasons of the year.

Spring,

summer,

autumn,

and winter are represented.

The images are sewn on flowery fabric paper and were taken from an old pocket calendar dated 2014.

Page 3 is represented by cardinals. I thought that was appropriate, since the fabric paper was dominated by a beautiful cardinal, too.

All images were gifted me and have been in my stash so long, I don't even remember who sent them.

I knew I wanted Pages 4 and 5 to be the center pages when I first started this project.  Page 4 is also the only page that has a three dimensional embellishment.

Originally, every embellishment I had planned for these pages was in browns and blacks.

It didn't take long, however, for me to realize all the browns were getting lost in the brown of the page.

Luckily, the calendar I had chosen the Page 2 images for still had more I could use.

First, I attempted to draw around the little bird, but even that didn't set it apart.  That is when I outlined it using variegated thread.

The feathers, recycled from a deconstructed cat toy,

were attached using a glue dot and E6000 adhesive.

The only embellishment on Page 5 was a die cut bird I colored using walnut ink before sewing it in place.

A final look at Pages 4 and 5.

Pages 6 and 7 showed a mixed bag of birds.

Five birds are represented on this page.

There is a swan at the top,

but I couldn't find any images on the internet that even came close to identifying the yellow bird.

The top one in this photo is a woodpecker, and the lower one is a bald eagle.

At one time I knew what this was, but an internet search provided nothing.

Page 7 got the images I had intended to use on Page 5, but realized they would be lost on the beige, brown, and black fabric paper.

Washi tape became important on this page.  I like how you can see the flowers through the tape.

If you saw my Second Thursday Tutorial, you saw the eye was protected by faux Micro Glaze.  I thought the image above the eye looked like a bird in flight.  The bird, gifted, was attached using E6000, because I didn't want to sew it and take away its beauty (since I have no feed dogs that drop and no way to use free motion stitching).

I changed my threads a lot when making this book.  The bird was colored using walnut ink.

The final elements on Page 7 were a new TH Snippet purchased last year with birthday money, and a bird cut out of left over sandpaper.

For Day 19 of 22 leading up to bEARTHday, I recycled or repurposed most of the embellishments I used in this fabric paper book.  There were just too many birds and recycled items to mention!

Thanks for joining me in my quest to recycle items that so many would place in the recycle bin.  Also, please join me at both Friday Smiles and Art Journal Journey.