Botanica Obscura by Collage Soup: Moody Florals, Shadowy Botanicals, and Dark Collage Papers for Art Journals and Mixed Media to cut up, tear up, and stick on.

Some gardens only bloom after dark.Botanica Obscura is a midnight garden of luminous florals, shadowy botanicals, delicate butterflies, birds, mushrooms, and mysterious natural fragments — all designed to glow against the darkest pages you own. This is collage paper built for black pages, painted backgrounds, and compositions that lean dramatic, layered, and strange.The palette runs through dusky pinks, faded creams, inky indigos, smoky blues, and soft antique neutrals. Some pages feel soft and ethereal. Others lean dark, overgrown, and beautifully unsettling. The whole collection pulls from vintage herbariums, celestial gardens, antique naturalist studies, and forgotten botanical archives — the kind of imagery that feels like it was pressed between the pages of a very old, very mysterious book.Botanica Obscura is 92 pages of dark botanical collage material. Cut it up. Layer it over painted backgrounds. Tear the edges and press it into a junk journal spread. Use the butterflies small, use the florals big, use the fragments everywhere. Nothing here is precious — it's all made to be transformed.Whether you work with black pages, kraft paper, or heavily gessoed surfaces, these papers were built with contrast in mind. The colors are muted enough to layer but vivid enough to command attention against deep, moody backgrounds.Cut it up. Tear it up. Stick it down. What's Inside92 pages of dark botanical collage papers and layering elementsMoody florals, shadowy botanicals, butterflies, birds, and mushroomsPalette of dusky pinks, inky indigos, smoky blues, faded creams, and antique neutralsVintage herbarium-inspired compositions alongside celestial and naturalist imageryFull color throughout on 8.5" x 11" pages — premium matte paperback formatIdeal ForJunk journals and art journals, especially black-page formatsMixed media and painted surface layeringCollage art with a dark, botanical, or vintage naturalist themeHandmade cards and scrapbooking with moody aestheticsCreative experimentation on dark or dramatically textured backgroundsAbout the AuthorEmilee Stone is the creative director of Collage Soup, an independent maker brand obsessed with fancy collage papers, junk journal ephemera, and art books built to be destroyed in the best possible way. Botanica Obscura is part of an ongoing series of themed collage collections designed for artists who create with their hands.Find UsInstagram: @collage.soup TikTok: @collagesoup Pinterest: @collagesoup YouTube: @collagesoup Facebook: collagesoupbooksVisit our Author page on Amazon to see the full CollageSoup collection.CollageSoup makes fancy collage art books for people who create with their hands — to cut up, tear up, and stick on. Read more