AJC10 Week 2 - my week in journalling

The theme this week are to produce a stylised "Weekly Based Journal Calendars" influenced by the artist Geninne. The instructions were to "Think outside the box, how can you implement an "idea" from her and make it your own" and the Verb of the Week is "Accept". Geninne's journals involve a lot of drawings, particularly of birds, and dividing the page up with black marker pen lines.

This is my work-in-progress for this week. The idea of doing a calendar did scare me as I didn't feel that I currently do enough to fill a diary, although my thoughts can fill my day without anything else going on. So this is why it says "Sometimes my life feels very small... but my journey has only just begun"; a journey of letting go and of discovery, to learn who I am. The layout is also my first try at including some digital elements, other than just photoshop fonts, on the background paper - the flags at the top and a splat in the middle of the page.

Credits:

Background paper, bird, journal labels, paint splatter, flag set - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan week 2 parcel elements

Word Card altered - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan week 1 parcel elements

Air Balloon, Around the World sticker - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan, Steamer trunk elements

Follow your Heart - Tangie Baxter, Journal Anthology elements

Calendar day squares - from a 2009 freebie calendar I got from a magazine

AJC10: Back of the January divider

To match the front, I used the same altered background paper and the airplane appear on the back of the "Ticket to travel" Tag. The heart shape I distorted using photoshop to produce a longer shape.

Credits:
"Follow your Dreams" and the painted heart elements, from Tangie Baxter's Journal Anthology
(As before: Background paper - Tangie Baxter, Journal Anthology papers no. 11, Arrow tag, part of a six pack of Keychain Coasters to which I added 2 further punch holes - Maya Road, "Ticket to Travel", part of Travel Dipsticks tag set - We R Memory Keepers, Ribbon - freebie)

AJC10: Start of the Journey - January, only way is up

Today I've managed to catch up with ideas, so I've been able to put several pages together, and get my computer working to upload the photos I had taken onto the gallery for the Art Journal Caravan project. I wanted to do a divider for each month and found some chipboard arrows that will fit my scrapbook and its theme. The idea came to me a few days ago - I've just been waiting until I got to that bit of the scrapbook. I took some of the colour out of the original paper download using Photoshop, because I wanted it to be pale to contrast with later pages. As a child I found it difficult to get strong colours mixes for my Art lessons at school so favouring watercolours. The use of the lighter palette is reflect the prospect of breaking free from the past, hence the crossing out of bound, here being seen as bound with shackles.

Credits:

Background paper - Tangie Baxter, Journal Anthology papers no. 11.

Arrow tag, part of a six pack of Keychain Coasters to which I added 2 further punch holes - Maya Road

"January" Metal embellishment - Making Memories (I think)

"Ticket to Travel", part of Travel Dipsticks tag set - We R Memory Keepers

Ribbon - freebie

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