Garden Altered Book - Bluebell spread

Further to my previous post, I have been playing around with the Bluebell page. I decided the painting of the bluebell wood over both pages was too overpowering, even though I painted over it with some pearl paint, so I painted it all out and started again.... I then painted a similar Bluebell Wood but only over a half page. Click on the pic. to read the writing underneath. The bluebell on the right hand side is actually a pressed flower with grasses. I can't really decide what to fill the empty space with yet, but will come back to it. I also have to decorate the 'inchies' when I find the right embellishments.....
I have an awful lot of little bits of paper in all my Cloth Paper Scissors and Quilting Arts Mags. that are earmarked for me to try stuff out, and the spread below is one of these ....
This is a pressed flower, the Musk Mallow, and I had a go at the article written by Elli Woodsford in Issue 3 of Cloth Paper Scissors. She uses silk cocoon strippings to trap the pressed flowers. I now have to think of something for the other page!

My Garden Altered Book - second spread - Foxgloves

Right then - here we have Foxgloves, from my garden. The page on the left is all pressed flowers, and the patterns inside each little 'challice' show up beautifully. I don't know how long they will stay though, I don't know anything about pressed flowers and preserving the colour or softness. Maybe in a month or so they will have dried up and fallen off. There must be something I can buy, to coat them with......
On the right hand page is a foxglove 'challice' I made from silk, and Foxy's dancing slippers are, of course, inspired by Annette Emms. She is blogging now, and you can find her here. Wonderful stuff!

Last month I pressed a Bluebell, I have loads in my garden - the native type. Also have some spaniards, but wouldn't dream of throwing them out.....

Anyway, I've started a spread for the Bluebell by painting this. It isn't finished yet, and I only want it to be a 'background' so will have to soften it somehow. I'll post again when I'm finished. Oh! decisions, decisions!!

My Garden Altered Book - First spread

Well, this is my first page in my Garden Altered book, from my last post. I think I will probably stick to wild flowers that are in my garden, for the moment anyway. I have lots of them - some people call them weeds - but as they say, weeds are only wild flowers growing in the wrong place. This seems to have taken me ages, and even now not all the spaces are filled, so I will probably go back to it. I haven't quite made up my mind for the second spread yet ..............

Click on the picture to make the poem bigger so you can read it.