mini concertina book

February's TV show by Chocolate Baroque featured the lovely rustic fragments set, and I decided to use all the fragments as backgrounds for a mini book kit that  I discovered I had bought and stashed away safely many moons ago.
There were two mini books in the kit by Tando, which is sadly out of stock at the moment, so I still have one left.....

I painted the blanks with white gesso first, then coloured with distress oxide inks - I think I ended up using mainly wild honey for the background and stamping the fragments  and edging with vintage photo.

I stamped various birds ,butterflies and flowers from the doodle birds and doodle butterflies using black versafine ink onto the panels, and two of the larger birds on the covers. One or two highlights were added using a white pen
The covers were glued into place using ordinary craft glue

doodle wreath

I have to admit that the doodle birds and butterflies were not my favourite stamps, but fortunately we don't all have to like the same things, it would be boring if we did!

I  did have fun with the twiggy stamp from the doodle butterfly set and my stamping platform though, and here are two versions. Just using a different size of card made quite a difference to the result - the first card used a 6.5" square as a base, and the second a 7" square. The smaller size gave a more traditional wreath shape, and the larger one came out as a very thin hexagon.

On both versions I used a green ink pad to stamp the twigs

 The smaller card I stamped the butterflies from doodle birds and dragonflies from doodle butterflies on white card using a multicolour ink pad, cut them out and added to the wreath shape.
 The larger card I did the same with the butterflies from each set.