Daisy Art Journal Page Tutorial

Hello friends! Today, I got a new ergonomic desk chair for my studio, and it is a lovely vintage pink, and more comfortable than my old one. I have a sunshiny art journal page to share with you, made mainly with Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Products.

In my grandmother's garden some areas were covered with beautiful white and pink little daisies. They were common daisies, or lawn daisies. She thought they were weed. I loved them and couldn't understand how they could ever be weed. I still love them, and made an art journal page about this humble little flower. On our recent visit to the area where my grandmother lived, I saw that they are still growing in the lawn of the house where she used to live. I did a scrapbooking layout about the same theme last year. 

This page was done in my large Dylusions journal.

When I have leftover paint or paste, I often smear it on pages in my art journals, so I had a base to immediately start working on. The background is first a layer of gesso, then texture paste through Tim Holtz's Ornate stencil, and then painting with yellow and gold acrylic paints.

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Daisy Stem and Peeking Daisy from watercolor paper.

I kept my daisies white and yellow, but you can of course also do them in other colors. Smear Distress Inks on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush.

Die cut grass from heavystock paper.

Ink with an ink-blending tool and then mist with water droplets to create texture.

Adding a bit of metallic shine often gives instant interest to a project, and here I die cut swirls from gold paper, with Tim Holtz's Adorned die set.

Stamp the background randomly with the script stamp from the Entomology set.

Die cut the title from yellow glimmery cardstock and the mat from white paper. Write the rest of the sentiment with alphabet stamps.

Tuck the flowers in among the grass, making them appear to be of different height.

Tusensköna means 'daisy', but literary translate to 'thousand beauty'.

I don't know if you can see the warm shine from the gold paint. I might even have added some foil to the page earlier.

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These sweet flowers would look great on a card, tag, ATC or scrapbooking page too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Tomorrow is the start of STAMPtember® at Simon Says Stamp and it will be a whole month filled of stamping fun, and lots of special surprises.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

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