I took some time away over my son's Easter holidays and then I had health checks on my tennis elbow, so it's taken a while for me to get back to my Art Journal. I also was unhappy with the first version of the page I had done for Week 11. Week 11's theme was to explore the idea of collection. Since childhood, I have collected all sorts of things, but for the first page in this set, I wanted to illustrate my childhood habit of pressing wild flowers, something that now is not possible to do because of UK Wildlife Laws.
Version 1: I just didn't like the digital pressed flowers or its feel.
Then this Tuesday I found a better background and the page now works :) for me. I still love looking at flowers, but now I just take photos...
Credits:
(I can't now remember the credits for the 1st version, other than the background paper was from Tangie Baxter @ Scrapbookgraphics, Field Notes paper, which I then used cropped for the final version)
Floral background paper - Nancie Rowe Janitz @ ScrapArtist, Paper Wishes paperset inspired by Wish Bliss Studio
Journalling paper - Tangie Baxter @ Scrapbookgraphics, Field Notes paper
Border - Christine Honsinger @ ScrapArtist, So Edgey 4 inspired by Wish Bliss Studio
3D flowers - K & Company, Handmade Layered Accents
Week 15 goes back to April-time and for this we had to consider how nature inspires art and soul. I love photography and love blossom, so had to include this picture I took a few years ago, as it was a great photo. I had to edit the digital frame to fit the photo :)
