Summer Blooms Our New TIOT Challenge

   Hi everyone. It's Tuesday, and time for another new challenge at Try It on Tuesday. 

   Thank you everyone who joined our Animals-Real or Imaginary challenge that ran for the last 2 weeks. It was fun seeing what people picked for animals.  For our new challenge, we're hitting the summer season that's going on in the Northern Hemisphere.  Our newest challenge is

Summer Blooms

   I have a journal page to share. It's in my ledger journal, and I started by putting down some rusty colored paint over the page. I was actually trying out the color for another page I was making so on the bottom the paint was thicker and as I worked my way to the top I watered it down some. But those of you who know me know I hate to waste a painted page, no matter what the condition of the paint. 😏

  I then used a small scrap of textured paper to emphasize the flowers. I also used a vase shaped piece of scrap die cut that was laying on my table. It was actually the inner remains of a window that I had die cut.

   I used a sheet of printed paper and fussy cut the 3 flowers. I chose them because they looked like sewn flowers. Then I added buttons with some thread woven through the holes to create the center of each flower.

   I used a grey paint pen to outline the vase and create the stems and leaves. Then I decided to add the little punch out bird. Because I decided to add a bit of pink to the bird's breast, I then decided to make this page really about summer blooms. I used the same paint and an old foam flower stamp to bloom up the background.

   I stamped the quote (TH). The page still needed something, so I used a few plastic number stickers I had to finish it off.

  I'm also linking this page up to Halle's Fabric, Lace and Trims, Oh My challenge at Art Journal Journey.

  I hope you're inspired by flowers and will join us at Try It on Tuesday in the next 2 weeks that this challenge runs. And don't forget to check out the other  design team's creations too.