nature book

 

I made a little book featuring several of the stamps from the  Chocolate Baroque shows last month  - it didn't quite go to plan, either in making it or posting it!

The first pic is of the covers, I used grey boards from Tando covered on both sides with some designer paper that had been around for ages, overstamped with the nature words strip on the back and the F is for on the front. 

 I tried a concertina fold that was shown by Di Oliver on a Tando show to add the inner pages, and discovered that I should have a) recorded the show so didn't have to rely on my memory and b) left a gap between pages  - but too late, as it was well stuck down by then. I found that out when trying to open it flattish to take the photo - you can see the epic fail on the next pic, but at least I know for next time......

The inner pages were a mix of inked and brusho backgrounds , and I have shown as many as possible , but not in order as blogger kept losing the pics - sorry, but I gave up trying to sort them out, if it's simple OK, complicated, no way 

Most of the colouring was done with pencils, both watercolour and a cheaper version of polychromos 

I did enjoy making the pages , and even assembling them straight , just not happy with  the obvious mistakes!