This is the page I made for Shelly.....her theme was "Vintage & Birds". I received a box of vintage doilies so I embroidered one in variegated cotton to use a background. I had a piece of vintage silk from an old coathanger of my grandmother's and I ironed an iron transfer for the flapper and gramophone onto the silk. I machined those pieces onto the doiley using rayon thread & a decorative stitch on my machine. I embroidered the flapper using a variety of threads with pigment pen highlighting her legs, arms, gloves, face & hair. The gramophone was embroidered in cotton floss. The birds were very faintly stamped on and I embroidered them using a thicker silk thread.

I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out & I think Shelly was too.

Frances, from Australia, wanted her pages to be "In the Garden".  I thought she might like to walk along a path in her garden and view a variety of flowers.  I mixed hand embroidered, silk embroidered and purchased flowers with embroidery on top for her garden. Shelly from south Florida, USA

Tea - Page from Francis

 This is the front of the page I received from Francis. Those are pictures of some of her favourite teapots, photographed and printed onto fabric.

This is the reverse with a ride at the amusement park called the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.Even the little note has a small teapot charm which is so cute.
Thank you for a beautifully personalised page Francis.

This page is the third page of my book.

Page for Shelly

Hello Shelly,  Your book page is on its way with the title 'Love vintage' hope you like it and I'll post photos when I hear it has arrived. Frances

Tea - Page from Teresa

This is the pretty page Teresa made for me. I love all the embellished teapots and the little tea labels.
This is the second page in my book.
Thank you for the little fabric cutting and the packet of little goodies Teresa.

I'll do a post of the page I received from Frances next week. I'm trying to pace things.
Hope everbody's having a great weekend.  

Theresa's theme is travel.  She has been travelling and I saw a fabulous article in this summer's issue of Quilting Arts magazine featuring  mobile campers.  I made Theresa one I would like to have to take the FL Keys.  Shelly

flower page for Francis by Cobi

I like to wrap the page like it's a little present.

 Francis asked for pages with a garden or flower theme. I love making and working with flowers, so this was right up my alley. I made the background fabric from 2 pieces of hand dyed cotton which I cut in strips and then braided together again. Alle leaves and flowers come from my stash. Flowers are folded in 3.

This is the backside of the page. I enjoyed making this page but it took so much time that I fell behind making pages. But I'm working on it.

funky bird by Helen

 Again a funky bird, this one is from Helen. Very funky and again totally different from the other funky birds. You ladies are doing a great job.

funky bird by Esther

 How about this funky bird made by Esther. How funky can you get. Again a lovely and fun page. Thank you

funky bird by Maya

 This page is made by Maya. Theme is funky bird. Two absolutely funky birds, I love them.

Tea - page from Helen

I ought to have introduced myself in my first post but since that didn't happen I'll do it now.

my name is Maya and I live in Southern India. I'm a part of this delightful group and my theme is Tea. I love tea. 

 This is the first page I received from Helen in South Africa. made with tea bags and cut outs of different tea pots. There is a golden shimmery fabric on the top and therefore the details of this beautiful page could not be captured in the photograph.

Helen sent me a tea bag of Rooibos tea, so I got to taste this tea for the first time. Helen also sent me a postcard of Table Mountain which will go into the pocket on the back of the page and a lovely piece of  fabric with prints of blue and white china teacups and teapots. I plan to make the cover of the book with this fabric.

I've received two more pages. I shall be posting pictures and details of the pages next week.   

Vintage Bird for Shelly

This is the page I created for Shelly.
The theme was Vintage Bird. The vintage got a tiny bit bling but It was a page which came together with not much prior planning.

page for Francis

The page I made for Francis is still working it's way through the mail system. Here you can see a bit of the backside of the fabric shining through. Front will be revealed upon arrival.

page for Sue

 Susie's theme is "what I like to see". I had many idea's for this page. I love to see my family and pets. I love trees, fungy and flowers. I love chocolate and cherries. And what to think of books, knitting yarns and such.
Finally I decided to go for colors. I love my fabrics, either hand dyed or bought. I love embroidery.

Working abstract is something I'm still learning, but I'm getting the hang of it (at least, I think so). Here you see the lay-out, the base onto which I built the page. 

 I searched my sheer fabrics with the help of my kitty.

I picked some hand dyed cottons too. I started out with some blueish-greenish fabric and added colors to that. In the end I had to drop the initial fabric, but I'm happy with this combo.

I had a lot of fun with embellishing with various types of embroidery floss and beads.
But I don't think this is what Susie was expecting.