Dear Liza,
Once Ruthie Inman got us started on her May Flowers project, we had some more paper-collecting to do. White with black text, black with white text, and red with any color of text.
I started with the background, made of dozens of bits of white and off white with small black text.
I like the way the tiny lettering faded into the background.
Then the fiddly bits need to be dealt with. Cutting red, black and blue bits to fill in the bike, tire and some last minute orange for the basket tested my scissor skills. That done, it looked like a proper bicycle. Proper, but too plain.
I trimmed the flowers from weeks ago so they fit better, placed, placed, and re-placed them around the basket, and finally glued them down. I like the way they spill out! A few leaves cut from the same painted text topped it off.
I finished it by putting the spokes in the wheel, and was very happy with the results. Now, on to the next project!
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 