Journal play time

So I had to use my new Wildflower die by Tim Holtz - the Bigz one...  the individual flowers measure about 6 inches so quite a bit bigger than the regular images.

I cut a few from different papers from my rather large stash (still taking care not to use favourite stroking only pages...)

 I started by sponging lightly some brown shades of distress oxide to get a bit of rough colour on the page, I didn't want total coverage.

I then added some Dreamweaver crackle paste through the Crafters Workshop brick wall stencil and let it dry.  I didn't think it's crackled much, it's a very subtle crackle but it is there

 I added some distress oxides to some of the die cuts (I had done one on plain card stock but added some extra colour to some of the patterned paper too)


 once happy with the layout I glued them down (at least with the Bigz dies they are a whole heap less fiddly to glue than the thinlet wildflowers






Added some stamping (Kaisercraft script) in Peat Moss archival ink and some rings using ground espresso on a bottle top

 Used the smaller of the tattered butterfly die, this was on a different sheet of paper to the flowers that had some mauvey script in the print, so I smooshed the butterfly in some purple distress oxide

edged the border with ground espresso DO and added chitchat stickers for the sentiment