AJC10: Mending me

Taking back my power is still a work-in-progress, but each step adds to the journey - the remaking of me.

Credits:

Background paper: Phoung Ton, Altered Inspired Mini Kit paper
Coloured Alpha: Tangie Baxter, Scratchy Paper Alphabets
Altered word card: Tangie Baxter, Steamer Trunk Elements

AJC10: All the colours of the Rainbow...

This page came from a variation on the idea of using all the paints in the box. The background paper just begged to be used for this ideas, and was the contrast I wanted with the previous page ("Don't"). I couldn't fit "Freedom" across the page, but the L shape seems to work well. The circular piece of paper which I used to record my thought today has different colour threads running through it, but these don't show up with my photographic skills. The white writing was produced using Photoshop.

Credits:
Background paper - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan, Steamer Trunk Papers
"Freedom" metal tiles - Making Memories (I think), from stash
White paper - offcut from stash
"To Choose" - Dyno Junior dynotape

AJC10: Don't - now as a layout

This creative writing piece appeared earlier in my art blog this week, as I needed to record the thought, play with it and refine it before I'd reached the page it was to appear on. The messages at the top should be read with the DON'T as the first word to each line, until "Some rules are made to be broken". These were messages I was left with as my depression has revealed, explaining why on bad days I feel bound/tied up by my past, paralysed to do anything. The good thing about depression is that your mind does eventually reveal these past messages and often reveals ways around still believing this "all or nothing" thinking. I am still on the road to recovery, but each step forward takes me away from the darkest days.

Credits:

Background paper - Birgit Kerr, Echoes from the Past, Love letters paper

"Don't" - Dyno Junior dynotape

"Round the World" and Airballoon elements - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan, Steamer Trunk elements

"Word" card - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan, Week 1 Parcel - I added "Freedom" using Photoshop and its fonts

The words of the creative writing piece also used a Photoshop font.

AJC10: Prologue - page 2

This page follows on from the quotation layout on page 1. I wanted to explain and capture my earlier blog of today, so that the quote tied in with the Art Journal project. I used Photoshop to alter the size of digital art elements to fit into my 6x6ish format.

Credits:
Background paper - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan Steamer Trunk Papers
Altered Word card - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan Parcel 1
Travel Journal book element - Tangie Baxter, Art Journal Caravan Steamer Trunk Elements
"Admit One" ticket tag - 7 gypsies
"Destination Unknown" wooden tag, part of Travel Dipsticks tag set - We R Memory Keepers

Art Journal Caravan 2010 Week 1 - One Word

For some time I've been scrapbooking and having been using digital elements in my scrapbook pages as well as physical embellishments. My last project was a Thank you Album for Brian Kennedy, but I have had several other projects on the go - an small scrapbook album called "The Game of Life" and a scrapped photo album. However this year-long Art Journalling project grabbed my eye.

Week 1's instructions are to find "One Word" to focus on, "a word that inspires all your goals" and then produce a journal/scrapbook layout inspired by the word. I was in the middle of a quandary on choosing my word when my computer crashed off the internet. My theme was to be "Letting Go" but that's 2 words, so I've now settled on an related word "Freedom". Now I'll have to put my thinking cap on for design.

Best wishes, Julie x