Metamorphosis

It's once again time to join Jo at Let's Art Journal, our host this month at Art Journal Journey whose theme is flora and fauna.

Today I have a mixed media entry I created in my large art journal.  

I found the quote on the internet, but it wasn't attributed to anyone.  It reads: "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly."

I used my watercolor crayons to color the quote, but couldn't find a deep blue to match the beautiful color of the butterfly.  Behind my sewn quote, I added a piece of vellum.

I was also having trouble matching the pink background paper I used with the pink in the focal image. 

To make the color difference less noticeable, and to soften the colors and edges, I sewed two pieces of yellow vellum along one side and the bottom of the focal image.

I also sewed a heart doily behind the focal image, and overlapped it with some of my handmade washi tape.

Materials used in this spread include a sheet of pink copier/printer paper, a colored computer generated quote, the focal image, taken from a magazine, two pieces of yellow vellum, a white heart doily, handmade washi tape, and two different variegated threads.

Thank you beyond belief for joining me today, and I hope you'll join me at Art Journal Journey.   There's still a few hours for you to join us with a flora and fauna journal page, canvas, or spread in an altered book.