Here are some incredible mini books made by stampers, including many members of the Stampsmith Yahoo group who participated in a mini book swap hosted by Nancy VanTassell.
Patti Gramza's Queen Margaret mini book dolls!
Look at this book Debbie Givens surprised me with for my birthday! Above, closed. Below, open.
These
intriguing fold-out books were made by students in a class of Carolyn Waitt's.
Bryan Hann isolated an image from Italian Playing Cards #2 for the book at
top left, while his wife, Sandy, chose a Shakespeare Heroine for hers at
top right. The others are also Heroines.
Above,
three views of Beverly Brazleton's star book: closed, open and from above.
The center photo shows Shakespeare Heroines Ophelia and Juliet.
Shauna Palmer's book show's off MJ Hopper carvings behind acetate.
Chris Peden's creation shows off the Italian Playing Cards together with LennaLines.
The cover of Debbie Givens' book showcases some of the Shakespeare Heroines.
Above, three views of Kathy Krand's book, using the Heroines and part of an Italian playing card on the left, directly above.
Linda Schultz made a delicate book illustrating a William Shakespeare (above) sonnet. Cleopatra, below:
Yes, those are little coffee filters that Lenna Andrews Foster ingeniously turned into a book, with her LennaLines stamp quotes coming out of each pocket.
Swap hostess with the mostest Nancy VanTassell combined a LennaLines quote and Mistress Ford in her book.
That's
one of the Medieval Tile Designs on shrink plastic that Adrienne Burns used
on her book. Inside, below, one of the images from The Baron's Daughter plate.
Elaine
Akers loves Ophelia and so do we! Above, Elaine made shrink plastic medallions
of Ophelia to adorn the inside and outside of her authentic looking book.
Below, Ophelia also on shrink on a collage tag on Elaine's coffee filter book.
That's Beatrice from the original heroines, also on shrink plastic.
Liesbeth
Molenberg cleverly copied the Art Nouveau alphabet stamps onto acetate, reduced
in size, as a cover for her book (the scan doesn't do it justice.)
Mary
Shaffer's ode to the Shakespeare Heroines uses a small mosaic tile on the
cover and altered office tags inside with the heroines and LennaLines stamped on them, a length of ribbon holding it together.
Mikki
DuChene use an image from Playing Card Wrappers #1 to adorn the cover of
her box (held shut by a stick). Nestled inside the two matchbook boxes are
the Petite Playing Cards, with the band over them and text also from the
playing card wrappers.
Phyllis Harrison used Funtastic Plastic as a base for the Art Nouveau stamp (from the Belles Femmes plate).
Open view of Phyllis' book, left a collage saying Shakespeare Heroines.
Stephanie
Lathrop's French Tarot Cards book catches the eye with a bright background
on glossy cardstock and use of a marble glass on the cover. Inside, the tarot
cards:
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