Member Handmade Books

Handmade books, accordion books, book art, and more from our readers and community members.

Found Words Book

The book is made using painted and distressed Lutradur for the pages, TAP (Transfer Artist Pages available though the Interweave store), a variety of fabrics lace and embellishments. The entire book can be seen at https://www.pinterest.com/pin/407646203747609315/ 

Mini ArtBooks: Matchbook-styled!

Mixed-media illustrator and designer, Martice Smith II, demonstrates a simple way to recreate a matchbook style design for miniature artbooks. Follow along as we create beautiful, handmade books with a variety of decorative cardstock, sketchbook papers and a stapler. See the tutorial, here: Mini ArtBooks: Matchbook-styled!

Feather Studies Handmade Book

I made this 6 x 6 book to document my efforts to learn how to draw feathers. I included pretty vintage feather images from The Graphics Fairy for inspiration, and added pockets to hold tags and a variety of papers for sketching. I love the natural beauty of feathers, and I hope that through practice,…

Handmade Stab-Stitched Book – Athena’s Book – Cover

A friend of mine loves to journal but hates boring pages. So I created this stab-stitched book for her, containing scrapbooking paper pages, papers I decorated with paint, and some purchased handmade papers. I added a few additional details like doodling and stickers to make the book a little more special. The cover is a…

Handmade Flag Book – Maria’s Cards – Cover

I have a friend who sends me handmade cards on a rather regular basis. I decided to honor her with a little flag book containing some of her cards. Her favorite color is pink, so I just had to create a pink book with a pink ribbon closure. I used a 3-D sticker on the…

Handmade Book – Coloring Book – Inside

This is the inside cover of the coloring book. It is one of my own photos. I reduced the color saturation to almost nothing so that I use colored pencils to color in the photo. The whole concept of this book was to test out the idea of creating my own coloring book using my…