Thinking of You on Die Cut Divas

 Hi,

I am back with another Flower theme inspiration project on Die Cut Divas today. 

It's has been many years since I had the idea of documenting my garden and the flowers in it by the means of a scrapbook album.  Somehow many suns and moons have passed, I just never got around to do it.  But today, today I decided to start, not a scrapbook album, but an art journal.  My intention is to make a page for each of the flowers I have and had.  I am starting with the Pansies.

On a colored mix media paper panel I did some ink blending.  I took a couple sentiment stamps from Altenew Build-A-Flower: Coral Charm and stamped with archival ink.  Next I applied Volume Paste thru a stencil in selected areas.  

While this dries, I die cut and water colored the Pansies flowers and leaves. Adding details with coloring pencils.

Once the background is completely dried, i distressed the edges slightly, then adhered the Pansies onto the page.  To truly make it my own, I hand wrote "thinking of", the meaning of the Pansies in Chinese on to upper right hand corner.

Our April challenge theme on Die Cut Divas is Flowers, and our generous sponsor, Altenew is giving a $50 gift card to the challenge winner. 

Supplies used for my project:

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Pansies Layering Die Set

Altenew Build-A-Flower: Coral Charm Clear Stamp Set

Altenew Watercolor 36 Pan Set

Simple Stories Doily Stencil

Stamperia Volume Paste

Ranger Distress Ink (Peeled Paint, Weathered Wood, Uncharted Mariner, Vintage Photo, Seedless Preserve)

Ranger Archival Ink (Acorn)

Black Marker

Prismacolor Coloring Pencils

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I really like how this turns out.  Now that I've got the flower theme art journal started, I will keep it up and share my future pages with you.  

Thanks for coming over, I wish you a fabulous day!