Quiet book: piggy bank & purse

Piggy bank:

This page has a pretty simple concept of putting money in the piggy bank. 

I found a piggy bank  quiet book page that I liked on Pinterest. 

On one side she had a cute pig that you could put coins into. Then on the other side of the page, there's a pencil case bag that catches the coins. 

I decided to combine the piggy bank page with a purse page like this one 

I thought instead of having a pencil case on the backside of the piggy bank page, why not have a purse there. Then the money can go in the piggy bank and then it goes in the purse and can be spent lol! (lol I know, I know that's the opposite concept of saving!)

For the piggy bank page, I traced the pig from the one page because I thought the pig was cute. 

I cut a slit at the top and reinforced it with Pellon. I also made sure to sew it to the inside of the purse page on the back so that when the coins go in, they fall into the purse on the other side. 

I was going to use juice tops like the other website. I bought the frozen juice just so that we could have the juice tops for the coins but Hubby recycled them before I could grab them. So I ended up getting play coins instead. 

I couldn't get a good picture but you can see the inside of the purse (the brown and red) when you open up the piggy bank. 

For the purse, I didn't want to just make a generic looking purse. I modeled my purse after the LV neverfull- only the best for my Koala! 😉

I initially thought about making this page into a weave page. 

But to make the neverfull look realistic, the strips of felt would be too thin and probably wouldn't survive as a weave page.

I used dark brown and tan felt which I cut into thin strips. In retrospect, I wish I used a regular brown rather than the tan because I think that would've matched the color of the real purse better. But I didn't want to redo it. 

I then took the strips and weaved them together to make the checkerboard look. Then I sewed the pieces to a piece of Pellon.

When that was done, I set that aside and worked on the inside on the purse. On the inside of the purse I made the slit from the piggy bank look like the zippered pocket of the inside of the purse. And of course, since the Neverfull is lined red, I put red felt on the inside and sewed that all down. 

This is what it looks like from the top looking in.  (I didn't snap a picture of what it looked like before putting it all together.)

 I then sewed that checkered pellon piece to the back page of the piggy bank. 

Somehow the purse ended up slanted on the page which kind of bothers the OCD side of me but it was too hard to redo so I left it. 

I added accents to make the purse look realistic- leather trim and metal rings. 

The page looks pretty bare to me and I keep thinking I need to add something to the background but not too sure what to add so for now, the page is done.