I'm a great believer in fate. I'd seen the Sketchbook Challenge for the month of August was Journeys and it reminded me of the difficult emotional journey I'm going through at the moment and I was tempted to enter but sooo busy. Then while on a much needed 4 day break in Dartmouth with my hubby, I found a little folder which I thought would be ideal to keep my stamps in. It was a very old, fairly small, knitting binder with all sorts of very old fashioned patterns and basic knitting info. As I'm not a knitter (bout the only thing I don't do!) I had planned to give the insides away as I can't bear to throw crafty things away. However once home I looked at it again and it seemed just perfect to use as a base for an Art Journalling folder as the papers were of a card consistency and I liked the idea of upcycling the whole thing which cost £1.50 in a charity shop to begin a new creative life!
This is the first art journaling I've done since I attended the workshop by chance in July and only spurred on by the challenge. I'm calling it my emotional journey. I started it yesterday and finished this morning. I written very personal things and questions inside the tear shapes and around the question marks.
I started using by painting over the pages with white gesso. Then I used stencils of teardrops and question marks to paint through which I created on my Cricut Mini. Then I sprayed cosmic shimmer sprays through a background tear stencil which I placed over the other designs after masking them off. Once all was dry I did my journaling then went over the large tears with glossy accents to make them look wet. Very therapeutic, I'd highly recommend it - and thanks Sketchbook Challenge for inspiring me!
The front of my bargain binder
The two pages underneath my journalling
Suz
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