Hello, Eleanor here, with my latest minibook.
This time I used my Bind It All, and a little fanciful idea of what my ideal garden might include. I have long dreamt of a cottage in the country, with a picket fence and an old-fashioned garden full of wild flowers, chickens, visiting birds and a beehive or two.
For the cover I used acrylic paint and crackle glaze on strips of mount board to make a mock garden gate, complete with latch,
which opens up to show a small glimpse into my dream garden.
Last year I discovered drawing, thanks to IACW and the A - Z art journal, and so I decided to draw some of the flowers in my secret garden, using watercolour pencil crayons:
This months recipe cards, carrot and coriander soup and Sally's chocolate cake, (the garnish on the soup is actually flat leaf parsley, not coriander, as Penny (who is now a house rabbit) snaffled the fresh coriander, and Sally is my sister):
See you next time with another sort of minibook.
Hi from Caz!
As spring SPRINGS I am much more energetic and starting to enjoy doing my monthly layouts again. Winter and it's drearyness doesn't make for great photographs!!
My April 2009 page :)
And in preparation for May, here is my May '08 page.
Don't forget to email in your Scrap Your Man layouts to acreativeworld@hotmail.co.uk. Also all comments this month will be entered into lucky dip draws to win some fab prizes!
Thanks for visiting!
xx
Love those layouts, are they 8x8?
Posted by: Sarah | May 03, 2009 at 08:24 PM