Quiet Book - Page 2: Ribbon Sensory Animals

And now onto page 2! 
For the second page of the quiet books, I ended up making two different versions of the same idea - an animal with ribbons as a large sensory feature for the page. 
For the "Girly" version, my inspiration was a jellyfish applique that I had seen that was so cute.  I figured out how to adapt the idea and use ribbons as the jellyfish's tentacles. 

I hand embroidered on the jellyfish's mouth and eyebrows/eyelashes and the googly eyes are the sew-in kind.  I love how cute and playful the face for the jellyfish turned out! 

I also had to add in some seaweed to the background of this page.  After all, jellyfish do live in the ocean!

For the "Boy" version of this page, I went with a dinosaur!  I'm quite impressed at how well the shape of this guy turned out considering I free-hand sketched him out.  I used lots of different ribbons for the dino's spines along his back.  I'm hoping the little boy who gets the book with this page in it loves it as much as my Little Bear loved it.  Needless to say, I wasn't able to do much work on this page while Little Bear was awake.  

For a little extra 3D feature to this page, I figure out how to sew the tale so that it was free the swing about. 

And for extra details, I sewed a bunch of orange spots onto the dinosaur.  I'm pretty sure this dinosaur doesn't fit the profile of any dinosaur known to man, but I still think he is pretty cute!  I also had some fun with the sun in the corner of the page by adding in some stitch lines. 

Both of these pages were so much fun to put together.  This was a page where I had so many different ideas of what I could do that it took a while to narrow down which animals to actually do.  But, I am really happy that the jellyfish and the dinosaur were the two that I ended up going with. :)