So's arts and crafts

hello all, Here's my first experiment with hand bookbinding...under the watchful eye of my good friend Paula...:) Thanks for teaching me :) The covers are made of chipboard covered in gift wrap paper. The book contains 12 signatures sown together by hand. As the idea was to make a cookbook, on the first page I have drawn a sketch of a countryside  kitchen inspired from some card making toppers I have. The signatures are A5, and the cover is slightly larger. This cookbook is a very special gift for my best friend  :) representing the beginning of her new healthy life! :)

Hello, It's been some time since my last post...but this doesn't mean I haven't done anything. Stamperia  has some great wood mounted rubber stamps, which now can be bought in the hobby shops from Timisoara. Here's a  small card I made using my latest acquisition...:) So, the little girl is the stamp from Stamperia, colored with watercolor pencils. I also used some dies from Sizzix for the card blank and for the tag  I used as a background for the stamped image. With so many bright colors(maybe I've gone a bit overboard with it...:)) ) , it's impossible for Spring not to come...am I right?