Scraping up a storm!

My B&B weekend was so much fun! I didn't have much to do to catch up so I was able to get a little more detailed on my pages. Believe me, my pages don't always look like this! I was really proud of how some of them turned out and wanted to share them. All the pictures were taken while on a trip to the Chattanooga Aquarium in Tennessee. Sorry they are sideways, I don't know how to turn them. if anyone else does, please let me know. Blogger "Help", wasn't.



My seahorses, I tried to duplicate the look of the coral on the pages. I drew out my shapes and then hand cut them. My "critters on a log". Again, the log was hand drawn and then cut. I used chalks to give it some depth. I am thinking about adding a hand drawn alligator skull on the top of the second page. What do you think?

My Penguin page! Torn vellum at the bottom, hexagons cut from vellum for the ice cubes and then the dimension added with a silver pen.

My "jellies." Many, many tiny thin strips of orangey colored vellum cut on a wavy cutter with a deckle edged blade. Many, many strips. Many, many. This one took a while! Lettering cut from the same vellum with a die cut machine.

Oh, but look, it has a secret! It's a three page spread! Hiding behind the orange jellies are the ones that have been turned all kids of crazy colors by the lighting!

Underwater creatures. The left page is strips of the many blues I saw in my photos that have been cut on a wavy cutter. It reminds me of the current maps you see sometimes. I really like the effect. The right side is hand drawn, each piece separately, and then put together. Brought to you by my memory of the Jaws poster.

Here are some close ups of some of the more detailed pages.

I hope you enjoyed my pages as much as I enjoyed making them!