Venice Skinny Page

Following on from the previous post I'm also receiving skinny pages in exchange and I've requested that those pages are all dedicated to Venice! And I then decided to make a page for the resulting album myself as the cover of what will hopefully become an inspirational book about La Serenissima. This page was also inspired by the gorgeous Venetian themed collage sheets which have just been added to the Alphastamps website.

For the base I used a commercial cotton fabric (in fact you can barely see it anymore) with musical instruments and lots of gold. This was stitched onto Fast2Fuse and machine quilted with gold thread. To this the image of the Venetian palace (embedded into a fabric-paper collage) from Alphastamps Windows of Venice collage sheet was also stitched with a gold zig-zag. The gorgeous transparency with my favourite of all the Alphastamps new images from the Gondolas collage sheet was stitched on. You can just see hints of the musical instruments fabric through this.

At the top you can see 3 masks featured on a fan (from Alphastamps Paper Doll Fans sticker sheet) and the word Venezia stitched on as well as a mask charm.

At the bottom of the skinny page there is gold metallic gimp and red bells ( both also from Alphastamps) and around the other 3 edges is a very dimensional red/gold cording (Alphastamps). In order to stitch this on it was necessary to remove my machine foot, drop my feeddogs, and use free-machining. Probably better not to try this at home!! Sometimes I actually feel sorry for what I put my sewing machine through. It's very long suffering!