Every month the Facebook group Bea’s Mixed Media and More gets a new moodboard — and May’s number five, curated by Marie Linder (Mixed Creativity by Marie), was a dreamy, romantic ode to pink: lush roses, feathers, a soulful girl with a cat, and soft dusty rose tones throughout.

I took all of that… and made it louder.

Starting with Color

My background began with watercolors — a vivid hot pink as the dominant hue, with a whisper of yellow pushing in from the edges. I wanted energy. Movement. The kind of pink that doesn’t apologize.

Building the Layers

From there, I pulled out my gelliprint stash. Layer after layer, the page started to breathe. Orange. Ochre. Deep green. The textures gave depth and a slightly raw, organic quality that I really loved against the bright pink base.

Gesso helped me pull it back in places — creating that hazy, lifted quality in the flower stencil areas.

The Focal Point: My Girl Stamp

The heart of this page is a girl — stamped from one of my own designs, originally demonstrated as a postcard at a consumer show. She felt too special to stay in a box, so she found her place here, surrounded by blooms and color.

Her soft purple hair, her quiet expression — she balances all that bold color beautifully.

The Roses & the Quote

The roses came from a book — carefully cut and layered in. And the quote — „Die Schönheit der Vergänglichkeit” (The Beauty of Transience) — came from a magazine clipping. It felt right. May is fleeting, blooming, impermanent. Beautiful because it won’t last.

Watercolor pencils finished the details, and a few gesso highlights brought everything together.

In case you want the stamps, you can find it here
And now enjoy the video