M is for Money

Another month and another swap for our Alphabetica album. My partner this month is Abby! Oh yes, the only online artist whom I have actually met in person as regular readers of this blog will have seen in one of my past posts. Abby has dedicated her Alphabetica album to songs and I had to think long and hard about which song I would choose for M. There seems to be a wealth of them but I finally settled on Money, Money, Money, it's a rich man's world, by Abba.

Yes, I know, showing my age here! But it's a song for which I invariably turn up the volume when it's on Radio 2 and I'm driving. Dare I admit I actually sing along?? Fortunately no-one can hear me!!

For this page I collected vintage bills and cheques, foreign money and imitation US bills and put them on my scanner in a nice arrangement. The resulting scan was printed out onto self-adhesive fabric sheet (from Crafty Computer Paper) and cut to 8 x 8" size (we're all using the 8 x8 7Gypsies ring album). I adhered this to a piece of 8 x 8 Timtex and machine quilted around the money etc. using gold sewing thread and my sewing machine. I then looked at my collection to find a rich man and located a likely one on an Altered Pages sheet. I found a vintage envelope with a picture of an hotel where it would be likely the rich man would like to stay and I stitched them on together. The envelope was open at one end and before stitching over it I tucked a tranparency (Altered Pages) of foreign currency inside which sticks out over the edge of the page.

At the top left I alsw sewed on an actual foreign backnote. The text of the song was added, partly using my Dymo writer and partly a transparency (also Altered Pages)

The page was bordered on all sides with gold transparent ribbon to stay with the Rich theme!

I've already thought of a song for N, now I just have to go off and hunt for the necessary ingredients!