One blue flower

And in that place it was

one blue flower

where he thought there were only

the freesias and the gardenias...

This is my first "altered book" and my first hidden poem. Some years ago I come across altered book techniques and I was completely appealed by the idea to make my own someday. This page belongs to a book in spanish but I tried to make the translation as best as I could.

Here is the page attached to a piece of craft cardstock before I added the embellishments and image for you to see. I started with selecting the words of my poem and draw a line around each of them with a black pen before painting the page with acrylic paints. After everything was dry I cut the page with the shape I wanted and connected the words in the correct order to make the poem. Then I mat it with a deep blue magazine page (a car advertisement), cut a strip of the same paper, punch it and glued to the page. I stitched some glass beads and attached the whole page to the cardstock.

The image is Arianna from Michelle Perkett (her Etsy shop here) colored with colored pencils that I added dots of orange acrylic paint to her hair before cutting it and place it with foam tape. I love to color this image, it´s gorgeous! one of my favorites...

I made another ribbon rose, but this time following this video tutorial, it took me three tries to get it right but now I think I got the technique. I wanted to add some pins but I didn´t have any with matching colors, so I took two and painted glue on their pearled heads and rolled them gently on glitter, tapped the excess and let it dry, and I finished the whole rose by stitching some glass beads on its center too.

I wanted this project to be hung on the wall so I strung some raffia and made a bow on the top. My project is not literally an altered book but it´s an altered page of a book (close?), even though I like how it turned out.
I´m joining the following challenges:
Scrap the Art: art noveau
One stitch at a the time: lace, ribbon and bows
The creative cottage: no cards allowed
Woopsy Daisy: vibrant colors

Aquamarine Geisha

Scrap the Art is challenging us to create something with this image as inspiration

the challenge #9 is called Beautiful Nightmare. I love this color combination! and the DT inspirations are great too!
And this is my take on the challenge

I made a card using this color combo, these gorgeous papers are from Numb BUMM (Kyoto) that I printed out on cardstock. The button is another old button that my mother in law saved for me, the ribbon was part of the packaging of a thick pajamas I got me last winter, so good I saved it! it goes so good with this card.

I colored this cute Geisha from Elizabeth (Softpencil) with my colored pencils trying to match the colors of the paper. I glued a flower rhinestone on the center of the flower and attached it to the card with foam tape.