Spring Garden Journal Page by Astrid

Hello everyone and welcome, it's great to see you here. Have you noticed the days are turning a little longer? Yep, here in the Northern Hemisphere, Spring will soon be here, - I for one can't wait.

Today I am sharing a journal page, created with thoughts of Spring in my mind.....

Have you seen the cool New Stamps that are now available? I used one of the new sets created by the well know Katie Fox from the Craft Stamper Magazine. She has created 5 new stamp sets, and for this project I used the Encyclopedia Botanica. I also used one of the cool Blue Print Stamps by Tim Holtz, the Classics No 1 In addition I used the following sets and other products for my page:
Journaling Words 2 & 3
Chicken Wire Background
Dylusions Ink Sprays in Lemon Zest, Squeezed Orange, Vibrant Turquoise and Melted Chocolate
Distress Inks in Peacock Feathers and Wild Honey, Pumic Stone, Aged Mahogany, Dusty Concord
Dylusions Stencils Dotted Flower and Diamond of a Border
Archival Ink Jet Black.
Mini Mister filled with water
Kitchen roll, Embossing Ink and white embossing powder from my stash
The page itself was  water colour paper

First I created the background with my choice of colours of Dylusion Sprays, Distress Inks and my two stencils. I played around with it until I was happy with the results

I used one of the stencils for the so called "ghosting technique": You spray water through your stencils, leave it in place for a few moments, then lift it and use kitchen roll the lift of excess moisture. As if by magic the base colour of ink appears through darker colours on the top.
When I was happy with my background I stamped the Chicken Wire background and Blue Print stamps in various places as shown.

The dragon fly from the blueprints was stamped again on smooth stamping paper as were  the butterflies from the Encyclopedia Botanica. They were then cut out, coloured with Distress Inks and adhered to the page. I filled some of the gaps with words from the Journaling Words 2 & 3 sets and the beetle from the Encyclopedia Botanica set. Finally I stamped the word Art Journal and the Garden sentiment on scraps of scrapbook paper, and glued them to the page. The last step was the white stamping (with white embossing powder) with one of the stamps from the Encyclopedia set again.
Here are a few more close ups:

Well, I hope you like my journal page. Thank you for visiting and I will see you again towards the end of the month.