I spotted the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge and it was just the prompt I needed to use some new stash! I had some of the lovely botanical Collage papers from Tim Holtz which hadn't yet been used - I'd had great fun with the Christmas papers but had yet to try and use the botanicals.
I started off with a piece of TH watercolour card stock and added some liquid gel medium and some papers from an old Postage Stamp book I found whilst clearing out some old books. It has loads of images of old Commonwealth stamps in it dating back to the 1970's and is a great book for collaging. I then covered them with a thin later of Diana Wakley White Gesso and let it dry - who am I kidding? I dried it with a heat tool lol!
I took some of the papers from the Collage set and gently chose the pieces I wanted with a wet aqua brush fixing them on with the gel medium. I used just Speckled Egg and Peacock Feathers re-inkers to colour in the flower and some Rustic Wilderness Distress Crayon for the leaves. I added some extra interest with an old TH script stamp in the same colours. I added a butterfly from my stash and coloured it with the same colours and added an old arrow brad to the middle of the butterfly. I used the sentiment Spring from an old Stamp and the In My Heart from TH and added some old lace.
We are back in lockdown here in the UK which means staying at home for the next month or so - seeing no-one, friends nor family and only going out for essential shopping. My piece came about as I, along with so many others, are looking forward to the spring when maybe the worst is behind us with Covid and the warm weather means we can get out and about more. My muted colours are not particularly spring like as I think they reflect the somewhat sombre mood I find myself in.
I'm also adding this into the following challenges:
I'm delighted that this piece won at the Path of Positivity challenge and I was gifted a digital image.
