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Bleubeard, Squiggles, and Elizabeth wish all our readers, followers, and lurkers who live in the U.S.A. a safe and joyous Independence Day. Let freedom ring.
Friday, July 4, 2025
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Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog dates back to July, 2005
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New Release: PaperArtsy Stamps2 years ago
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Bleubeard and I welcome you
Art, including the journey, background techniques, sewing on both paper and fabric, new experiments, photos, failures, and successes will be shared on this site. I have removed my e-mail address until such time as I can get it to work again. Thank you for understanding. You can always leave a note on my blog and I will visit you.
Please check out my Previous Collaborations link above to see what projects I have been involved in over the past 12 years. Current and ongoing projects only are shown below.
Occasionally, Silent Sunday will showcase photos of my home, neighborhood, or community. A picture is often worth a thousand words.
Feel free to drop by every second Thursday of the month for my Second Thursday Tutorials. They are interspersed with my other Tutorials found at the link page above.
Please check out my Previous Collaborations link above to see what projects I have been involved in over the past 12 years. Current and ongoing projects only are shown below.
Occasionally, Silent Sunday will showcase photos of my home, neighborhood, or community. A picture is often worth a thousand words.
Feel free to drop by every second Thursday of the month for my Second Thursday Tutorials. They are interspersed with my other Tutorials found at the link page above.
Click on any lesson you might have missed or want to review
- The AB Class Syllabus
- Lesson 1: Finding the right book
- Lesson 2: Supply list and prepping pages
- Lesson 3: Prepping cover and front pages, creating a niche
- Lesson 4: Glue and Gesso
- Lesson 5: Design Principles (Part 1)
- Lesson 6: Design Principles (Part 2)
- Lesson 7: Design Elements
- Lesson 8: Color and paint
- Lesson 9: Backgrounds
- Lesson 10: Magazine images and frames
- Lesson 11: Pockets
- Lesson 12: Folded Pages
- Lesson 13: Windows and Doors
- Lesson 14: Zippers
- Lesson 15: Decorative Edges
- Lesson 16: Fabric
- Lesson 17: Polymer Clay
- Lesson 18: Students choice: Transfers and Pop-up
- Lesson 19: Bringing it all together
- Lesson 20: Decorating your book cover
- Epilogue: Future ABs
Three of my completed altered books
Word to art by in 2025
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I will create the art, critique things I feel are important, and put pen (and sometimes glue) to paper, or fingers to keys, while Bleubeard will mostly watch, supervise, or sleep.
Music that inspires me: my steel drum friend, Joseph Peck
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4 thoughtful remarks:
Happy July Fourth to you my friend.
And I just noticed, congrats on being a top pick over at Creative Artiste. That was a super page and what a nice honor for it.
...Elizabeth, I wish you a Happy 4th of July.
Happy 4th!! :)
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