The Third Man fan book

As those of you who very kindly read and visit my blog regularly will know that I design for Tangie Baxter and Co. Each month I write a blog post for her showing how I use her digital products in mixed media form.    My Septembers blog post was due just after we returned from Vienna, Austria and as I always have to take some art work to do whilst I am away I thought I would combine the two.    I decided to make a The Third Man fan book. The wonderful film The Third Man is one of my all time favourite and it is set in post war Vienna. This film has to be one of the best films ever made, in my humble opinion and so I took this as the subject of my little traveling art book which I worked on in our down time whilst in Vienna.

I made the little book out of Watercolour paper and painted the background using my Gelli plate and a homemade stamp made to look like bricks.

 

For each page I used stills from the film, found on the internet, die cuts I cut out on my Silhouette Cameo and collage pieces from Tangie Baxters digital kit Read all about it.

 

Here are my pages

 

I also used some of the Ranger Distress crayons and white pencil and pen and a good black pen to give the book an arty style.

 

I took the photos, with the help of my Hubby, in front of the famous Prater in Vienna.

 

I added one of my die cuts as an extra page in the book using Washi tape. It is not finished in this photo, I finished it on the flight home.

 

I had such fun with this book and it was wonderful to be in the city where the film was set as I worked on it.

 

The back of the book and the end. It all takes part in the sewers of Vienna!

 

If you haven't seen the film then I really recommend it. It is such an iconic film, beautifully shot with the background of old Vienna. What more could you want? 

 

I love Vienna, it is my favourite city in the whole world, so I can recommend a visit here too.

 

Before I add all the links I thought you might like to see the Prater in all her magnificence without my book in front of her. It is the same giant wheel as is in the film, she is almost 200 years old and still looking beautiful. Yes of course I have ridden on her, a wonderful experience with beautiful views of a beautiful city all round too.

 

 

If you would like to read my full blog post you can find it here-

https://shoptangiebaxter.com/blogs/news/the-third-man-fan-book

 

Find out more about Tangie Baxter and Co and the Art Journal Emporium here-

https://shoptangiebaxter.com/pages/art-journal-emporium Untill my next post, take care x

 

 

Craft Consortium Tell the Bees hanging decoration

For this weeks project for The Fruit Pixie, who I design for,  I have made a hexagonal hanging decoration using the beautiful Craft Consortium's Tell the Bees paper kit.

The decoration itself is a file I cut using my Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting machine but there are all kinds of decorations available to decorate.

 

I used the script paper from the paper pad to make the actual decoration.

 

I used a tiny part of one of the papers to collage the bee hives into the centre of the decoration. 

 

I then used a few of the wonderful sequins to add a little shine to the collage.

 

The little bees around the outside are also from one of the papers, you get a huge amount of bees on one sheet of paper!

 

On the other side of the decoration I stamped the hexagonal stamp a couple of times on the background. This is very easy to do as the stamps are clear, so you can see where you are stamping. I stamped this using the Distress ink Tea Dye.

 

I added some of the little bees that I had cut from the paper. I raised them up on 3d foam. Of course I had to use some of the sequins to add a bit of sparkle.

 

I also added a sequin or two around the outside of the decoration to catch the light.

 

This is such a cute little decoration. You can find all that I used in the shop

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/

 

I hope you liked my little decoration x

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Graphic 45 City Scapes Travel journal

  For many years now I have made myself a travel journal for each of our holidays. I like to make them individual and somehow connected to the place we are visiting. In the next few days we are off to Vienna in our beloved Austria, to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. When I saw the Graphic 45 City Scape papers, available from The Fruit Pixie shop I knew they were perfect for my Vienna Journal.

 

I made the base of my journal cover from stiff card, folding it so I had a deep spine to sew my pages in to.

 

I then covered the outside with the Streets of Dreams 12x12 paper and the inside with the Map the Past 12x12 paper.

 

I then decorated the cover using the collage pieces from the Global Odyssey 12x12 paper.

 

I like my journals to have something to keep the covers closed. This time I used a strip of double paper with a small magnet inside.

 

I added the place and year of the trip using die cuts.

 

On the inside cover I made a pocket from some contrasting card and then used the Impression Obsessions City Landscape layers die, which goes so well with these papers.

 

I also used the stamp sets to decorate the pocket and decorated the top part of the page with more of the collage pieces.

 

 

The first page of my travel journals are always and itinerary page and this time I decided to decorate all the pages using the wonderful stamps. I made a mask to use on every page that covered the middle part of the page. I could then stamp around the outside and over the mask so when I removed it I had a clear area in the middle to write my diary in.

 

For this page though I cut a frame to frame the itinerary.

 

For each of the pages I chose 2 different stamps to use to stamp around the edges using the mask to mask off the middle part of the page.

 

I love to collect all sorts of tickets and bits and pieces while I am away so I like a place to keep them safe. This time I decided to use CD pockets which I stuck to thin flaps I had sewn in-between each page. To decorate them I used some more of the die cuts I had made using the Impression Obsession Landscape layers die.

Some of the pockets I decorated using the collage borders on the papers.

 

All it needs now is to be filled with my Viennese adventures!

 

These beautiful Graphic 45 City Scapes papers can be found in the Fruit Pixie shop here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/city-scapes-698-c.asp

 

The Impression Obsession City landscape layers die, which are 2 separate dies, here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/impression-obsession-die-city-landscape-layers-26740-p.asp