Boot!

It strikes me that the title Boot! should have been a Terry Pratchett title.  Alas, he died before he could finish it. I've recently finished another Pratchett called 'Wee Free Men' which was utterly brilliant and I was delighted when my favourite characters Esme Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg turned up at the very end!

Obviously, from the picture, you are patently aware I am digressing, so I had better divert back to the main point of the post.  I've had a little bit a of time this weekend to prepare a few posts for the week, so, I hope I may be here in spirit if not totally in mind!

It was WOMOTM's birthday last week and I decided I had exhausted the 'camera' angle for his birthday cards and instead plumped for a walking/hiking angle.

I decided to create a 'walking boot' so I googled "Walking boot colouring template' and looked at various 2D plain ones on the screen.  I then using a nice piece of clean food packaging, created a basic boot shape by drawing it roughly.  I then added some extra bits of black card to make the heel and stuck it below and added some brown paper details on top.  

You can see below, I attempted some sort of 'stitching' on these elements by using a paper-piece (essentially a large needle on a long stick) to pierce holes in the brown.  The silver lace holes were drawn on in silver gel pen once I'd drawn some black bootlaces in Sharpie (none-too neatly)

For the background, I found a bit of old atlas to use as the background (I would have used the Lake District but all the interesting bits were obscured beneath the boot).  Finally, I made some photo corners out of the rest of the food box and embossed them with an old biro and went over in white pen.

The final touch was just to pierce some tiny holes all around the black base card.

I'm pleased to report that WOMOTM liked it (hurrah!) 

It was not too difficult to make this- the only tricky part is lining up and measuring all the different materials that collage on top of the base boot so they are neat and exact.

What do you think?  Suitable for a Wise Old Man Of The Mountain?

Linking to Creative Mondays with Claire Justine

xx