I'm a retired librarian so my professional instinct is to rebel against cutting a page out of a book! But I did it today for the Ways to Use It challenge - we were challenged to make cards with book pages or print.
I have an old copy of the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. It was discarded from the library because it was falling apart. I found a page in the entries for the month of March that refers to various birds' nests - perfect to use with my stamp of bird, nest, and blossom.
I used mixed media cs for the image as the Zig brush markers work really well on it. And it's a fairly heavy cs so works well when popped up on foam tape. I painted it quite pale first as that's the look I like for blossom, but it looked lost against the book page so went over it all more heavily - and now it looks too bright!
I sponged the edges of the piece of the book page with Distress Brushed Corduroy and then splattered some watered down ink over it.
I'm stamping Happy Easter inside it and give it to my best friend's mother who has invited me to Easter brunch. The dates on the book page are so perfect for it! Ironically my BF's mother is also a retired librarian so I'll see how she reacts to a page cut out of a book!
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