Another SB page - my favourite place...

Well, that didn't take long did it - one Scrap Book page and I'm hooked.... to be honest, these photos that I am about to share here, I've longed to do something with ever since I took them in 2008! You may recognise it as it's the photo I use to link to my photography blog..

So this is another page inspired by Pam for Paperartsy - though much less fussy and busy, you'll see why

 It was a cold, crisp sunny November morning - I had my zoom lens at it's maximum extension to bring the fountain close - and the sun was shining on the water droplets.
I am ridiculously proud of these photos and have tried ever since to recapture them.


I spent ages finding the right colour paper from my stash - again it's the back of one of Tim Holtz's paper stacks, and is a kind of bluey-green watery colour.

 I wanted a flourish die, or stencil but didn't have one so in the end I used the mini paisley swirl stencil and used part of it in the corners, rotating the stencil in each corner.  I used Lake Wanaka Fresco paint.

the sentiment is from Penny Black and says "Within your heart, keep one, still, secret spot where dreams may go" and for me, that's here at Kew, by the Palm House lake.

I added some dragonflies (Hero Arts) in Cornflower Blue archival ink and some watery blue dew drops at the corner of the sentiment.
I know I haven't been doing this SB thing long, but I don't think it needs more... !

Linking this at the Paperartsy challenge again and also at the Pan Pastels challenge where the theme is "anything goes, or use a stencil" - well i've done both!