the background fabric will be all the same throughout the book and the pics i printed are brown, too – so i thought i might add some color by the text-ribbons and by giving the pics a background frame.
after i had printed the text onto t-shirt-transferpaper, i could measure the length of ribbons i needed. plus i cut out some white cotton a bit larger than the pics.
i colored this with 3 dye-inks: yellow/butterscotch for representing the sun, stars and yellowing nature in fall; green/lettuce for the plants; and blue/denim for sky, water, blueberries…