Botanicals My stash of dried hydrangeas from last fall’s pruning called to me. What if I slathered  them with gel medium? Would they stick to the page? The answer. . . YES!   Then I drew leaves colored with alcohol markers, grunged  the page edges with a stamp pad, and stamped  the background with text. Emboldened by experimental risk, I created three dried-flower- adorned tags, using book page scraps, part of an old letter written by my grandfather in 1944, and a used  tea bag. Again, these were grunged with a stamp pad and adorned with some gel-pasted botanicals.  Now for a soft pocket to hold the tags, using stamped fabric and batik fabric scraps gifted to me by an artist friend. (Slow stitching is so relaxing.) A napkin adhered with matte medium served as a background.  The whole spread . . .