Spring is in the air.

For this page, I wanted beautiful bright colour,

but it needed to be muted down because,

spring is naturally not as vivid as summer. 

So, I scraped a layer of gesso over the page,

then set to work with stencils to create the background.

I used Dylusions paint in;

Peony Blush, Pure Sunshine, Postbox Red

& Cut Grass through TCW stencil,

Mini Patterns.

 Next I added Peony Blush

through the small flowers, on the Dylusions 

Dyalog Stencil Doodle It

 To tone this down further, I added

white gesso through the large flowers

on the same stencil.

While wet, I added touches of gold foil.

At this stage it looked a hot mess! 

I wanted a little more colour back in so,

I brayered Pure Sunshine onto a large

flower stamp. (Can't remember the brand!!)

I then stamp again over the top,

brayering Cherry Pie paint.

My focal point is large & matches all the colours

in my spread. It was on the back cover

of an issue of Daphne's Diary.

All that was needed for this was a bit of journaling

& the Tim Holtz Quote.