2018 #2 Seth's NEW Fresco paints: Bobbin Book with EAB {by Ruth Mescall}

2018 Topic 2: Seth's NEW Fresco Paints

 

Ohhhh I soooo love this!!! I'm sure you will too, Ruth always has such gorgeous ideas! Enjoy! ~ Leandra

Hi everyone, Ruth here today, and I'd like to share with you a little labour of love that I've been wanting to make for ages. I've had a wooden cotton reel in my stash that I thought would be perfect for a 'spool album'. I first stumbled across this idea a few years ago in the form of the beautiful artwork of yoko kimura and taking inspiration from there I thought  the honour of using Seth's new paint set 3 (FFSA03) in beautiful blues and green and Alison Bomber's wonderful word stamps would be the perfect combination. These are the stamp sets I've used EAB01, EAB02 and EAB03

It may be small, a less than 3 cm width strip to work with but you can still pack a lot of detail in......bit tricky to photograph too!

First challenge was how long do I make it and what substrate, I chose to use Khadi paper or a cotton rag paper as I needed something that would last and not fray away, and curl but not crease. An A4 piece produced 7 strips and I used them all! 

The front and back are different, the buttery yellow with white and blue splats allowing for future journalling provides a  perfect contrast to those gorgeous blues and greens. I loved how they blended together. The blue tones  could be the sea or a night sky against the hills and the yellow is pure sunshine.

Start at the end....once the strips were painted and stitched together I used some double sided tape to adhere it to the bobbin. I chose the final quote first as I though after reading the mini vignettes it would be a time for quiet contemplation. 

As I mentioned earlier a bit tricky to photograph a 200cm x 3cm strip however the the unwinding bobbin shows off the quotes and colours well. I chose background stamps to work with the quotes such as a music stave, flowers or leaves and used these additional stamp sets. ESN13, ELB27, ELB29, ELB30 and EEV 06.

My secret weapon was a stamp positioner as I couldn't afford to make mistakes. The zigzag stitching joined the paper but I also used straight stitching to separate the chapters.

 Archival stamping and a few gold splats just enhance the spaces between....and aren't those paint colours beautiful? 

 ..and finish at the start, a great quote to begin the story and all tied together with some turquoise cord.

Having made one I want to make another with Alison's other themed stamp plates and may try using an old fashioned clothes peg (?dolly peg) as a base and use collaged stamped fabric instead to give a wider base to work on. And of course I've loved working with Seth's new paints and can see that sea green, night sky effect appearing again...frequently! 

Hope you enjoyed the story and are tempted to create one yourself. Ruth x

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