I went out with a friend for her birthday recently and I bought an old book of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Unusually there is no printer's date in it but it was scribed by someone and dated the 7th January 1910, over a hundred years old, so now I don't want to tear it up or alter it lol. However my friend had some books in her car ready for the charity shop and one was A Country Diary birthday book, certainly not old at all but the illustrations are all flowers and are hand painted prints so I decided to take it off her hands and have a play at using some of the gorgeous flower designs in some journal pages. This is the first one stuck into my nature journal which already had some tissue collage paper glued on it. To age the illustration I stamped with some text and gave it a light coat of watery gesso and distressed the torn edges. I painted some wildflower stems ..... .... and drew round one of Tim's transparent butterflies on watercolour paper, dipped it in some pinky paint washes, glued the two together and covered the surface with glue to make it matte. I also added a crochet die border and a quote. You'd think this would be quite quick to do but as always I overthink everything. I am also sharing this over on the Country View Crafts project blog. xxx Supplies from Country View Crafts Tim Holtz wildflowers die and crochet die Tim Holtz stamps Nature's Wonder Tim Holtz Transparent acetate wings