This was started well over a year ago, I wanted to make a little, shaped book, it would be bat-themed, it would have dingle-dangles and ribbonny bits. I made a template, got all my stuff together and began. Typically I ran out steam about half way through and stashed it in a drawer; I always do that, I’ve a Halloween album lurking somewhere that’s even older than this.
For some reason while I was cutting out a sticker sheet this afternoon I got a mad urge to dig this out and finish it off. I’ve a lot more supplies than I had when I started so I managed to get it all done within a couple of hours.
Please to excuse the excessive watermarking, I was going to post the pictures individually but realised that there were just far too many so I ended up combining them to save your browsers, you’re welcome ;)
Click on the images to embiggen.
For some reason while I was cutting out a sticker sheet this afternoon I got a mad urge to dig this out and finish it off. I’ve a lot more supplies than I had when I started so I managed to get it all done within a couple of hours.
Please to excuse the excessive watermarking, I was going to post the pictures individually but realised that there were just far too many so I ended up combining them to save your browsers, you’re welcome ;)
Click on the images to embiggen.
The pages are all cut from old food packaging, two pieces stuck together to make it more sturdy. They were then covered with decorative papers and the edges were inked up before sticking on the various bits of stuff that make up the layouts.
Most of the images used are from The Graphics Fairy, I’m not sure where the labels came from, I just googled I think. I have a mini tag punch for the little tags, then just poked holes in the page and wired on the beads.
The words here are all related to bat symbology, dream meanings and the bat as a totem animal. I downloaded a font as I don’t have one of those label makers sadly. If I did it would be like that episode of Dexter’s Laboratory where he and DeeDee label the whole house.
I love the way the ink looks on this linen effect cardstock. The bat’s breath label is one of my Halloween labels.
I think the rhyme is Cornish, it’s like one of those superstitious verses to ward off bad luck like saying “Hello Mr Magpie, how’s your wife?”
Airy mouse is a nice name, in Yorkshire a bat use to be known as a flittermouse, which shares the same Saxon origin as the German fledermaus. See, it’s not all cutting and sticking this, you know .
Airy mouse is a nice name, in Yorkshire a bat use to be known as a flittermouse, which shares the same Saxon origin as the German fledermaus. See, it’s not all cutting and sticking this, you know .
I am partial to black feathers, but boy do they ever fly about the place, I almost dread opening the bag.
I am pleased that I finally managed to finish this, I hope you like it.
Happy Wednesday.
TTFN
I am pleased that I finally managed to finish this, I hope you like it.
Happy Wednesday.
TTFN