i was lucky enough to stumble upon this cool love elsie flower-shaped book on super-duper sale a couple of months ago. i wasn't sure how it would be to work on flower-shaped pages...but for the most part i am liking it...and when i'm NOT liking it, i either ignore the shape & paste in a journalling block, or i just make square or round pages and slot them in.
so howsabout some "macro" details from said book of goodness?
i b'lieve you've seen this little dude...once or twice before...i have a couple frances meyer chipboard birds, but mostly i use the same one over and over as a template for patterned paper (in this case a map of moscow)
here are some creative imaginations rubs layered OVER text from an old book. i like the way they are slightly transparent, so that beneath the soft pink flower you can read helpful hints for successful curing of cement
i love these brenda walton alphabet stamps! (also a FAB bargain) sometimes i mix them with other alphas for a fun look; this time i outlined with marker and embellished with stamps & scraps & gems
here is part of the wrapper from the cool pen trashalou sent me...it was WAY TOO CUTE to throw away...plus lately i am hugely inspired by the way elise blaha makes entire minibooks just to save her favorite ads and other "real life bits" she collects (the sentiment is from a cheezburger pic that cracked me up!) 
errrr... I'm not entirely convinced I am not you. It is just possible I may fall outside the category of 'hardly any'.
ReplyDeleteHow fabulous that you have reused that knitted catty picture. I am sorry you had to get the scarred cat! He is a badass that ginger tom!
I love your flower shaped 3 Beautiful Things book! I find sometimes when a project isn't progressing like I hoped I start on something else, and then the right thing does come along, even if it is not in "order" (book cover, then pages). Just like this flower book! It's perfect.
ReplyDeleteI had trouble reading about the cement tips; the pretty pink flower blurred it too much (LOL).I like those CI flowers and your bird, of course!
Keep these pages coming; you are on a roll!
I'm loving the bits I can see....wanna see more...gimme more!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBTW, am as addicted to 3BT as i am to LOLcats...in a completely different way of course!
Mad and I are considering getting some of those iron on transfer thingys to print out LOLcats pics and make t-shirts....Imagine the looks I'd get at uni then...not only with glitter in my eyebrows but a cute LOLcat shirt...of course that may just prove to be grounds for kicking me out of academia!!