February Inspiration Challenge

This challenge turned out to be more challenging than I thought it would be at first glance. I started to just give up because I had trouble figuring out coloring and style of the flowers - which is what inspired me. I am glad I stuck with it because I really like the results and I learned a thing or two too. Thank you @weaselwatchr for the challenge.
This is the book cover that took me on a journey.


This is my take based on the cover.

 

When I saw this book cover, I knew it was what I wanted to do -- had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to make the "holes" though. I ended up making multiple layers of the grungy paper and merging them together, then I just used the magic wand to select a few of the rough areas and removed them.

 

Going to try to create a page with this book for inspiration:



My Page:

 

This was a lot of fun, Danica! I used a book cover from one of my favorite authors, Elin Hilderbrand.



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