Hello!

I have a double journal page spread to share this week featuring the absolutely gorgeous new Dried Botanical stamps from Lynne Moncrieff which I couldn't resist as I'm sure you know how much I love wild flowers.

Step by Step:

My pages were inspired by a watercolour meadow painting that I saw and I just had to try something similar in my journal although I chose to use spray inks and stamping rather than watercolours.

The journal I used has fold out pages and is A5 size but you could use any size journal to create the meadow as the technique can easily by recreated in any size.

The first step was to colour my pages with Flat Matte Sprays. I masked off the top section for the sky with an A3 size piece of cartridge paper and put one underneath too to catch any flying spray! I began with Grass Green at the base, following up with Saffron, then Orange and finally Tomato. The red was to make a suggestion of poppies in the background.

Once the base section was dry I masked this off with the same paper and used Bluebell and Lilac on the top area.