Don't Eat the Daisies...

I saw a link on twitter to the Crafters Workshop blog with some stencil ideas. (thanks Steven!) Now, I didn't use any of the techniques or even Crafters Workshop stencils, but it did spark my imagination.

Several months ago I bought a couple of Prima stencils (Donna Downey line) and this one I haven't used before...

I took my moleskin journal and some distress inks - squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, shaded lilac and mowed lawn and applied them with my blending tool through the stencil.

 then I added this leaf (Dylusions) in black archival ink

 and coloured it with watercolour pencil, taking care not to disturb the distress ink too much!

Stamped "don't eat the daisies" (Jo Firth-Young for Paperartsy) up the page

and on the other page, too, stamps also by Jo FY.

I thought it needed something else, but something subtle, so took a couple more of Jo's stamps and using a grey ink, added them to the pages too. Hope you can see them!!

Hope you're enjoying your Bank Holiday Sunday, if you have one, and if you're able to!