Monday 9 August 2010

Another kind of wonderland

Well after posting photos of the Wonderland that is Italy, I guess it's time to share the mini book that we made at the crop on Saturday. The theme was Alice in Wonderland and Karen at Ecletic Keepsakes had prepared an amazing mini book for us to make.
I was a little concerned to find that I was expected to make a book out of a piece of card and 8 pages from an old book, held together with a bit of red twine but hey, what's the worst that could happen?!


Even someone with my poor maths skills could guess that 8 pages of old book, folded into half was going to give 32 individual pages, and suddenly I realised why we needed to bring 16 photos with us! The book is so crammed full of embellishments and pockets and tags and labels that it is not that easy to photograph but I've taken some pictures of a few of the pages.


Karen had brought with her some beautiful Alice in Wonderland stamps, lots of pretty edging cutters, two old manual typewriters for typing journalling ... 3 tables of equipment and ink pads etc and the kit itself was absolutely jam-packed full of papers, alphabets, ribbons, twine, roses - you name it, it was in there. Such brilliant value for money and a great way to spend the day after I got back from holiday. No chance for the post-holiday blues!

9 comments:

scrappyjacky said...

Looks like a gorgeous project....I love anything Alice.

Deb @ PaperTurtle said...

I LOVE this minibook, Deb! Great photos of your vacation here on your blog as well. :o)

Sian said...

We were watching Alice on dvd on Saturday night and I was thinking about all the inspiration there was there. This is a gorgeous mini-album :)

Maria Ontiveros said...

Gorgeous! I love the edge-punched teacup paper on the cover. And congrats for finishing it all.
Rinda

Ruth said...

It looks gorgeous. Seems both you and Denise had a fab time putting the Alice books together.

Jennifer Grace said...

Looks like a beautiful album, I love how all the different elements have come together! xx

Amy said...

That looks fantastic Deb - I could imagine that Karen would have a wonderful array of goodies in her packs!

Anonymous said...

Lovely photos of your holiday and lovely mini. The photos you have put in it go so well.

humel said...

Oh, this is lovely! xx