Go Green at Try It On Tuesday

Hi everyone. It is an exciting day as it is time for another challenge to begin with at Try It On Tuesday. For the next two weeks we're Going Green. So use my favorite color, or as  this common phrase in the US goes, Go Green, meaning recycle something into your art. 

I have done both in my art journal page. 

I began by painting my page green, and then with a bit of white watered down gesso as it was a bit too green, even for me. Then I added some scraps of tape just below the middle of the page, as well as some cardboard with the top flat piece ripped off at the bottom. The paint brush was a scrap that came in a box of watercolor crayons that had been laying around for a very long time, and this just seemed the perfect time to use it. I even dipped the brush part into some green paint.

So I created this out of the box paint try in various shades of green, and I created the leaves on the branch from a page out of an old book. I didn't color them with the hopes  the idea that they would be painted from the box was created.  I also added this vellum stamp and postage marks too for a few more details. Can you have enough details? 

And to balance the green, I used pik scrap paper to make the berries as well as a pink butterfly sticker.

The quote is hard to believe but it says "Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."

 I recycled an old fashioned pin as the middle of the butterfly, and filled it with some colorful little bead like material. 

Be sure to check out all the beautiful art created by the other designers on the Try It On Tuesday homepage, and I hope to see your creations linked up there also.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.