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Book Page Flowers

Posted on April 23, 2023April 22, 2023 by Leen

Hello my friends and welcome back to the craft room and todays Book Page Flowers post. This is a continuation of last Sunday’s post where I made my own clear gesso. If you would like a refresher on that post, or if you haven’t seen it yet, check it out here: DIY Clear Gesso. The original inspiration for this project came from a video by Ceri Griffiths and his video How to Create Easy Book Page Art. Let’s get right into to day’s post. 

The Book Page

For this step, you can use any type of book page you desire. For today’s project I am using a page from the Janet Evanovich Plum Lucky book. To tone down the text, I  started by adding a light layer of Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress paint over the page.

Photo of a page from the Janet Evanovich book Plum Lucky.
Photo of a page from the book Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich with a layer of Tim Holtz Picket Fence Distress Paint.

At this stage you can still read the text, but it is muted. In the next few steps the text will fade farther into the background.

The Flowers

Time to work on the flowers. I am using the Spring Peony stamp set by Honey Bee Stamps and Black Soot Distress Archival Ink with my Misti stamping tool. Because the tissue paper is so thin I added a piece of copy paper underneath it. 

Image of the Spring Peony stamp set by Honey Bee Stamps, Archival Distress Ink in Black Soot and the original Misti stamping platform.

This tissue paper I’m using is from some packaging so mine is pretty wrinkled. This will add a nice texture to the final project.  

Pieces of tissue paper stamped with images from the Spring Peony stamp set by Honey Bee Stamps with Black Soot Distress archival ink.

In the original video tutorial, Ceri used a glue stick to adhere the stamped tissue paper to the book page. I’ve never had much success with glue sticks so I ran the painted book pages through my Xyron machine. 

The book pages after running through the Xyron sticker machine.

After adding the tissue paper to the book page I added a light layer of my DIY clear gesso and set them aside to dry. 

The Book Page Flowers with a layer of DIY clear gesso over the top.

Coloring the Book Page Flowers

To add color to the floral images I chose to use my AlteNew Watercolor Essential 12 half-pan set and two Royal & Langnickle Zen brushes in size 2 and 20/0. The leaves were colored with a combination of Forest Glade and Citrus Burst. I added a bit of darker shading with Emerald. 

AlteNew Essential watercolor set with the leaf images from the Honey Bee Stamps set Spring Peony for the Book Page Flower project.

The flowers were colored with a combination of Citrus Burst and then I added a bit Warm Sunshine as an accent color. To color the stems of the flowers I used a bit of Water Sprite from the Glitz-sea water color set by Jane Davenport. 

Altenew Essentials watercolor set, the Jane Davenport Glitz-Sea water color set two Royal & Langnickle watercolor brushes and painted Spring Peony flowers.

The Finished Book Page Flowers

Here is a before and after image of the flowers. You can see that the book text is still visible under all of the layers. It’s not the focal image of the flowers though, just an interesting addition. 

Before and after of the Book Page Flowers.

Thank you so much for joining me in the craft room for today’s tutorial. This was such a fun project to work on. Join me next week when I use these Book Page Flowers on a card project. Until then, have a fantastic week!


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