Saturday 12 April 2014

Altered Domino Books

A box of cheap dominoes provides lots of scope for fun making altered dominoes and turning them into covers for little books. These are concertina-style books with lots of inking and stamping on the folded pages.





The covers are decorated by heat-embosssing in gold and adding gilding waxes, and ribbons are glued between the covers and end papers.







Here's another one...








It's a great way to display some of the smaller and more unusual stamps in any collection.

17 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness what a fab idea , these are gorgeous and so different

    have a lovely weekend
    Lorna xx

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  2. Very nice, I wish when I tried stuff like this it looked as good as yours

    Melanie (Scents&Sentiments on Docrafts)

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  3. These are absolutely beautiful. I would love to try something like this.

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  4. What a pair of stunning pieces of miniature art work!

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  5. Oh my word - these are just incredible.
    Caroline xxx

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  6. Oh wow, these are just incredible miniature projects! Very clever.
    Heike xx

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  7. Wow they are brilliant and a wonderful idea . I never would have thought of doing this. Thank you for sharing. Jackie

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  8. What a cool and inventive project, Maddy, but, wow, you must have the patience of saint for all that detailed work. Hope your eye is still mending, Maddy, it can be a very slow process.

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  9. Wow, Brilliant projects...love the all the images and your design is fab...Joolsx

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  10. Fabulous -love these little books
    Linda x

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  11. Fabulous projects, just hopping by.

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  12. Amazing work, you must be so patient working with these but they look stunning

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  13. This is gorgeous Maddy. I was sort of wondering would you ever make a domino book. Kinda weird, I know. But I have wondered that before, lol. This is amazing. I love the gilding look. Lee x

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  14. wow just love them Maddy... very clever ... well done ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  15. These are amazing little booklets.

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  16. these are absolutely brilliant love the embossing and colours,images on the pages
    carol x

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  17. Wow what a fantastic project love the embossing and images on the pages, so pretty. Love Alison xxx

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