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Mini Photo Album, Brag Book- Lavender Cosmos Sunprint with Fuchsia and Pink- for 4"x6" Photos. Cover- 5"x7"- includes purchased photo book- Holds 36 pictures. The front cover of this album features one of my sunprints of Cosmos flowers and ferns over a pastel painted fabric in pinks, lavender, and blue. The spine is covered with a piece of hand dyed fuchsia fabric, and the back of the cover has a shimmery pink fabric. The ribbon for the closure is decorated with a glass bead, and wraps around a bright gold tone button to hold your album closed securely. The Cosmos sunprints are accented with Derwent Inkense colored pencil to add extra color.

My sunprints are created by painting fabric with acrylic textile paints. Fresh or pressed leaves, flowers, shapes cut from foam sheets, or other items are placed onto the wet paint, then the fabric is put in the sun to dry. The drying process causes the prints to form. The paint under the objects wicks out from underneath along with the water, as the fabric around the objects dries. There is no way to know exactly how a print will develop, due to variations in drying conditions, application of the paint, type of fabric, etc. No two will ever be alike, because the paint won't dry exactly the same way twice.

Moms and Grandmothers everywhere love to brag about their families with pictures of their loved ones. This photo brag book cover will keep those photos safe in a stylish and pretty way. Small enough to slip into a purse, and large enough to hold 36 photos. The cover has pockets inside to hold the covers of the photo album.

If you have your own favorite little photo book or notebook that you would like a cover for, just contact me for information about special orders. There is a photo showing this album with two others in mostly pinks.

Being a grandmother myself, I like to carry pictures of my grandkids with me to show off. I was bored with the plain look of most photo brag books or albums, so I created my covers to make them look much nicer. The book covers are made using a heavy interfacing as the base material that results in a very durable, reusable cover for your little album of pictures.

I have also designed covers for many different sizes of journals, composition books, in addition to the "brag" books for photos. The final photo is of a group of some of other covers made in this group.

cotton fabrics, fuseable web, thread, sunprint, yarn, mini photo album

All of my items are made in my smoke free home studio.

See more of my other items at http://www.andrusgardensquilts.com/, or see works in progress and inspirations on my blog- http://andrusgardensquilts.com/blog