A fishy tail

 

 

A Fishy Tail

I created this ticket book with a Funky Fossils die, I used backgrounds created with  paints, alcohol inks, distress crayons, gel pens and dura-lar film. Totally inspired by Kate Crane. She happens to be the designer of these fabulous whimsical stamps too. I have used one of her stencils on the background all products are available through your local PaperArtsy stockists. On that point I want to add that I am in no way paid by PpaperArtsy, everything that I use is bought at full price by myself.

Please check out Kate Crane she has fabulous videos on YouTube and on her Facebook page. She inspired my journey into whimsy and using more colour in my artwork. Which has indeed led me on a journey of discovery.

I had hoped to include a short video on here however I just couldn't get it to play once uploaded. So sadly I am going to add it to my Instagram page instead. If you are not a follower then head over to Instagram butterflywings_beautifulthings to find me there. 

It shows  the completed ticket book where you can see all the pages together I do hope you will pop over there to have a look. 

I want to say a massive thank you to my talented daughter that turned my basic photos and short videos into a wonderful video.

The spine is bound with coloured thread and had handmade paper beads plus a couple of colourful acrylic beads on it. I have seen this binding method in many places recently especially on Instagram and thought I would have a go myself. I wanted to create a knotted handle (I haven't seen this anywhere) so I began the binding at the front of my book instead of at the back page as I have seen a few people do . (Anne Young )https://youtu.be/I5fIww3VQgI?is=kbv459S9fcz_ltKF has a video on it, I have also seen Pascal Daily on Instagram.

In the meantime here are some close ups of some of my favourite parts.

Notice the stickles on the fish, I love a bit of sparkle. Dura-lar film with alcohol inks add to the watery effect.

Snippets of vintage accounting pages stamped with mini  pattern stamps.

Doodles and embossing add to the finished page on this one, I really love this whale, it was my first Kate Crane stamp set! I felt it was fitting to start and finish with him.