Isn’t it wonderful when you find an image that you find to be completely enchanting? What do you do with it? Fortunately, when you’re a collector of boxes, journals, plates, etc. as I am, it’s easy to figure out a way to create a longer lasting treasure. Here are two projects created from a single image that totally captured me.
Secret Garden – Prayer is the name of this journal.
The journal is lovely, it is something that I will write in daily for the next several months. But I decided that I really REALLY liked this image, so I decided to create something a little longer lasting. This time, I turned it into a decoupage plate, a little bit of potichomania going on here…the craze for Oriental porcelain that afflicted the Victorian Era!
Here I worked backward, by placing the main image first and then filling in afterward. This created a really beautiful layered look to the plate. I used a laser image of the main image, then I used some scrapbooking paper and some coordinating napkin tissue that I’ve fallen in love with. I only bought a single package of those napkins. Now I wish I’d bought a whole box full!
The entire time I was working on this plate I played the works of the group Secret Garden. I found their music to be very inspirational and soothing. This project was similarly soothing. Now that the plate is done, I can hardly stop looking at it. There is something simply magical about this piece and I just can’t put my finger on it.