A Puddle Book

I've bought some unusual shaped beer mats - these were described as 'puddle' shape and I guess that is the best way to describe them.

I covered the front of 4 of them with a pale green paper by K & Co and painted the backs with a couple of coats of pale green silk emulsion.

Then inked the edges with Versa Magic Chalk Ink in Jumbo Java.









I stamped word meaning stamps from Crafty Individuals on the painted sides, using the Jumbo Java again and then lightly stamped single flowers onto the remaining background.










I printed off 3 beautiful 1920s pictures from Joanna Sheen's Fashion Boutique cds and cut them into the same puddle shapes and mounted them on to the papered sides on 3 of the mats.
I punched a hole in the bottom of each mat and knotted green fibres through these.








The front page was embellished with a large decoupage butterfly and flower and a few phrases were lightly stamped on to the background paper.























To finish I punched a hole in the top of each mat with my crop-o-dile and threaded them on to a small book ring on to which I had knotted some brown fibres. My project was complete.