#creative bug

When I decided to star the scrapbook, I thought I could finish the 25 page album in the month I had before I left France, in between packing my whole house… and life. Little did I know it would take me between 4 to 6 hours to decorate just one page! She got the book 2 years later… and that was the last time I touched a scrapbook! LoL!

Then this summer, I started learning to watercolour a leaves and flowers with Yao Cheng at Creative Bug and I wanted desperately to paint a flower wreath, but my painting skills were not good enough…yet! 😉 So when I saw the Scrapbook challenge at Altenew, it was the perfect opportunity to create a flower wreath AND use almost all the Altenew flower stamp sets I have!

The roses come from Vintage Flowers, the leaves from Freeform Greenery, the pink peonies from Peonies Bouquet, the long leafy stems & camelias(?) from Blooming Bouquet & the yellow freesia & sentiment comes from Fresh Freesias. They were all coloured using my Zigs Clean colour real brushes & a water brush.

I really love that I get to use so many different stamps at the same time and as it didn’t take me 4h to do this page, I now look forward to doing more scrapbook pages!

I also want to share a pic of my daughter using my stamps and inks to decorate her school book. She didn’t choose the easiest stamps to start with and she did it all by herself so I’m really proud of what she created! She drew the elephant on her own btw.

I also want to share my progression in my water colouring course with Creative Bug.

Lets say the roses are all leaning towards me which is why they have such big heads!! LoL! I used Windsor and Newton paints and DaVinci Casaneo brushes.

Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think of my painting efforts. Your comments always make my day!

P.S The beautiful lady beside me is my closest friend here. We met on Facebook before I arrived in Germany and because of her, coming to Ulm was like coming home. So my first scrapbook page I’ve made here, is for her.

I’m sharing this at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge – Anything Goes

 Addicted to Stamps – Make your mark

 Use your favourite Stamps – Altenew is certainly one of my top three favourite brands!

 The sketch layout for the Altenew challenge

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