On Saturday, since I didn’t want to turn on the quilting machine, I started digging around for something to do. I’ve let myself get a little off track with my daily art project idea — I’ve still been doing things, but haven’t gotten away from creating something that was a completely finished project each day. I grabbed the Winter 2006 issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors and was reminded how much I liked the tiny purse shaped books that were on the front cover. So I made a couple.
These 3 are based on the patterns in the magazine.
The artist is Debbie Crane. She challenged herself to make a miniature purse book every single day in 2004.
Aren’t they cute? Hers are even cuter.
Here’s another one based on her pattern. I think this is my favorite, with the pearls. The pink is actually fabric fused to Fast-2-Fuse interfacing.
I’ve experimented a little bit, too, with some different shapes:
My paper cutting and gluing technique need some work, but I’m having fun trying out something completely different.
And they are just so dang cute, I can’t help myself!
(I’m so excited to be able to post pictures again, I couldn’t help myself with all of these! They are all clickable, so you can view them larger if you choose!)
These purses are too cute!!!
These are really cute! Looks like you have have of your Christmas gifts done for the year!
They ARE so cute – I love the polka dot purse. I might have to dig out this CPS mag…