Another nesting book...

 I have been enjoying my book about nests a lot, and on the way through started to create some more pages that could possibly be used for another book.

The pages are all grey, which I like, and I imagined a really soft book, so I was hoping to be able to get white wording onto the pages (not the black of the typewriter).

As much as I love white, softness and there, not there looks, even I knew this wouldn't look good or be legible for most folk.  Sometimes subtle is tooooo subtle. Although I tried all sort of pens and inks and pencils!

So I checked again with the black - and really it was too stark and demanding. It didn't feel as if it reflected the quietude of nest building.

So all the pens and pencils I could imagine came out and off we went again. Luckily for me B now has a lot of grey pens and I could test quite a few.

As much as I loved the very fine 0.1 pale greys, when you stepped away from them you could barely read them. In the end the warm grey 0.3 was the best choice. Not as harsh or stark as the dark greys and blacks; but legible unlike the light greys. It felt like Goldilocks I tell you!

And here are the grey pages with this beautiful soft emboss of a nest. The bottom card is true to the light and colour; the tilted one is far darker than the real thing, but offers a look at the embossing.

And so i set up a template to start writing...

And began...

There have been some dreary days here and there, but I brought these bright flower inside recently and they were rather cheering!