It's March! paperartsy challenge



It's March!

March 1st brought in a lovely 8" snowfall  with more to come.  I love being snowed in!,  but I'm about ready for Spring....

My Miniature for the PaperArtsy challenge was inspired by Veronica Funk who showed using a children's board book for her miniature.  I happened to have 2 on hand - closed my eyes and picked one - and was off sanding the pages then a good 2 coats of gesso.  Green was my choice for background color all the way thru. 

 

I used stamps, heart sponge, dauber, pens for ink and pen ends for patterns. 

 

 Washi tape was used on a few pages as were bits of thread and ribbon for the tops and sides of the pages.

Attached to a punched paper flower were bead flowers, then the punched flowers were attached with a brad.  I also spent some time making tatted flowers....still new to me is tatting!  I dedicated the tatted flower page to my daughter Katie who's birthday is March 15!

 St Patrick's Day is important to me as I am sure there are many bits of Irish blood in me.  Some shamrock ribbon, a textured paste shamrock made on a punched flower, lovely green sequins and a beaded shamrock on another punched flower decorated these two pages.

 

 Spring was a theme I used freely throughout my book including two pages to the first day of Spring which was my Dad's birthday.  And......

 

........ butterflies flitting over a couple of pages

 Of course there were several tributes to flowers with lots of beads, some buttons and some flower sayings:  "Flowers whisper "Beauty" "Earth laughs in flowers"

 

 I used some fabric on these two pages, yo yo flowers with ribbon stems and a bead for the center. Also, cut out flowers from fabric and stitched lots of beads to the centers

 On the cover and back and many other pages I used textured paste with a flower stencil and also a fern stencil.  There are also some mini silk flowers on front and back that were white and I painted with pastel paint.