Lots to Do Challenge

This week the Lots to Do challenge was a free week to do whatever you liked.

I have been wanting to do a jigsaw book (love jigsaw shapes in my stamping) since I received one from a friend so here was the perfect opportunity. I have a dear friend with a birthday coming up very soon so this is her birthday card - hope she likes it.

The whole thing is held together with those ring things (don't know what they are called) and I tied some ribbon on them.

This is the front cover and it has a piece of real jigsaw which I covered in utee and then wrapped wire and beads around.

To begin with I had some large jigsaw pieces so I chose one that had a flat base rather than the piece that slots into it. As it was going to be a birthday card I thought it should stand up. Then I cut my pages by drawing round it on cardstock and then on scrapbook paper. Long task which could have been made much simpler had my head been in gear.

Each page of the book is one piece of cardstock with a piece of scrapbook paper on either side. Hope the glue holds out!
Some of the images I stamped directly onto the page, others I stamped onto cardstock and cut out glueing them down later.

At first I was going to leave them simply stamped but with the lips painted in red - then I started with my Twinkling H2O's and that was it, they got coloured in a bit more.

I tried to do some background stamping that was a different topic on each page,

and I tried to incorporate some suitable wording on a couple of them.

I love the flourishes on this one - they are the Llewellyn Bowen stamps I bought a while ago and hadn't used - will use these flourishes more now.

Quite a few of my ladies are from Non Sequitur
as are some of the background stamps.

This is the last page in the book. I have not shown the back cover as it has a personal message on for my friend.
Hope she likes it - and you do too.