The Last Two Pages.

The light was very strong when I took these photos and seems to have washed out all the colour. Both these pages have quite a pretty pale green and creamy honey colouring. The sweet cicely leaf was picked from the garden a few weeks ago and pressed. It is sandwiched between tea dyed paper and acetate then fastened to the page with bronze coloured paper fasteners. The initial letter is cut from a scrap of kid leather and stitched to a piece of gold painted fine gauge canvas. I painted the edges with acrylic medium and dipped them in gold embossing powder, then heated it to melt it. I found that by not heating it long enough to melt the granules completely I got this rather nice textured finish. I am debating whether to add any other small embellishments to this page if I can find or make something suitable. I think it needs a little something in the top right corner.

Another 'washed out' page. This is chervil and I wasted a lot of time last evening unpicking the embroidered piece after discovering I had fastened it to the wrong page. It actually looks better than this photo and here again the delicate colours are lost. The text at bottom left is from a colour photocopy fastened to the page with running stitch. The capital letter is actually the card template I made to cut the C for chamomile. I couldn't find a nice letter C anywhere so decided to treat the cereal packet template with gold embossing powder and it worked a treat.

I now have to work out how to fix all the pages together and then put them into the cover. I shall probably use the Sinatra technique for this and 'do it my way'! I have made a start on the cover but it isn't worth seeing just yet.