Amanda's layout in Janie's Nature Journal

I have to admit to being overawed when Janie's Nature Journal arrived...just stunning. My pages evolved totally different from what I had planned.  
I used two images, one from Daphne's Diary and another from Womankind, to which I added a gerbera. I wanted to infer my relationship to Nature and my choices of images and words reflect this. Nature - heals, is blessed and brings joy.
I initially created a background using a collaged napkin of Roses and some brown baking paper. I dulled it with some white gesso then used TH's Distress Oxide, Cracked Pistachio to give some colour. I used two Kazazz stamps with Timber Brown Staz-On. Finished with a little doodling.