Renaissance Humor

The ‘Bind Your own Book’  round robin that I’m in with some of  the Ten Two Studios gang has been fun!  This is Livia’s book – with a Renaissance theme.  Her  page papers are gorgeous, but somehow I had a silly streak in working with this book.  Livia had the image of the Venetian masks already in her book.   I added the glass beads, the gold scrollwork, and the mask on the stick to the left side.  The butterfly  came from some decorative paper which I bought in Florence, Italy 3 years ago.   The womens’ faces were also already on the right page.  I added the frames around them, plus the Acey Deucy Venetian man stamp, the stamped text and gold tape.

This next spread just struck my funny bone.  The DaVinci paper also came from Florence. I stapled it together and put it in the envelope made with some of my art paper.  The images speak for themselves. I loved the paper Livia used for these pages!  I added some gorgeous hand-beaded silk ribbon to the edge;  The ‘top secret’ tape is from 7 Gypsies.  (Click the images to enlarge them.)