Cinema Saturday: The Princess Bride

Today I get to Guest Design for Brooke and Sankari's Cinema Saturday Challenge, surprise!!! This week the featured film is one of my favorites: "The Princess Bride" I grew up loving fairy tales and movies, so it was very easy to decide on a project I wanted to create to go with, the book the grandfather reads to the boy. (If you don tknow what I'm talking about, you must go rent this movie! THIS WEEKEND!) I made a book with my paper, ink and sponges, it is about the height and width of a card, as well as the pages inside tellign the story, like several cards within a card! Sitting out on a little table or shelf, it will be mistaken for a real book, let me show you!

The cover started out as a 4 x 5.25" piece of WHITE Gina K Pure Luxury CS! (I printed out the titles from my computer) After stamping on my SU! Baroque Motifs flourish in Memento Black I traced parts here and then and my words with a Krylon gold leafing pen. To age the paper, I rubbed my Tim Holz Antique Linen distress ink directly onto the paper (direct to paper technique). This ink is so blendable you can get a nice smooth color. Then I wiped some scuff marks on it and sponged a bit more on in areas to give it a little texture. The I sponged on some SU! basic Brown around the edges.

The book cover is made with a piece of SU! Chocolate Chip CS 5.5 x 9.5" long. I used my Scor-Pal to score at 4.25 and 5.25" to give it a 1 inch wide spine. You can make your smaller or larger depending on how many pages you want to add. I knew I also wanted to make my pages dimensional so I need room for that. I stamped the flourishes again all over in the brown ink and swiped the pad all over at different angels to give it those leathery creases. Last I sponged the edges with the same brown.

I stamped a few star bursts from the set in Gold Encore ink down the spine and drew some lines above and below with my leafing pen, and adhered my panel to the front. If you look back at the top pic, I also added a few large flourishes punched out of SU! Brushed Gold CS I burnished a little with more of the brown ink, they look so beautiful with the stamped flourishes and weaving them around the edges of the paper like that reminds me of creeping vines in the fire swamp!

Today I am only sharing a few pages of "the book" (I'll keep you posted with more additions later) I printed out more text on my computer in a font that looked like it was written with a quill pen. The long description you see on the left is a quote from the book ( from which the movie was adapted) the father explaining what a great adventure the tale is his very skeptical son. . (you see, the story really does have everything!)

I made the first page dimensional by popping up a page I die cut with an oval Nestabilitie, it frames up this retired SU! castle image from "Provencal," colored with Copics and sponged with Brocade Blue for the clouds. I carried the flourish images through the rest of the pages in the Antique Linen color and sponged the whiite pages with it again, more lightly this time to look like parchment.

And here we are at "the end" LOL! I can't give away any more of this marvelous story except to say that (as you probably would have already guessed) it ends happily. :) This image from my "Hand in Hand" set is also framed up behind an oval window and is fitting for this very romantic ending. (Don't miss this fantastic movie! Watch it with someone you love)

Buttercup's sleeve is pieced with Paper Temptress Candido Incandescent CS, white gold paper that looks like spun silk! Westley's sleeve is colored in with a Black Copic and highlighted with the Colorless Blender. Sunset background is sponged with Antique Linen and SU! Cameo Coral.

I'm inspired now to create more of these books, favorite titles I know my friends love. A faster and practical way to adapt the look of this project without "telling the story" is to create the cover and have it hold some pretty monogrammed note cards inside for yurself or someone else, it could tie closed with a bit of ribbon (I'm sure I'll be sharing one down the road!) a beautiful writing kit for a book or movie lover's desk!

Be sure to check out the other samples over at Cinema Saturday and play along! If you incorporate the movie theme and the PCP sketch challenge this week into one project and upload it in the PCP gallery by next Thursday, you are eligible to win the "Hand in Hand" set, courtesy of Sankari! More details here!