The Empty Page Journal

 

This page was a bonus class for this month. One thing that I really like about Lindsay's classes is she shows how to make your own journal fodder without running out to buy rubber stamps or stickers.

For this class, we used circle designs from the January class that Lindsay had for us to download. These were cut out and painted with watercolors. Another sheet of mixed media paper was put down to paint the circles. We didn't have to be careful how we painted, just slapping color down not only on the circles, but on the background paper.

Then the circles were glued to the background and wavy flower shapes cut out. These were glued to the journal and then doodled and decorated to look a bit more like whimsical flowers.

Lindsay had a Spring Blooms saying for us to letter using a dot technique and a line technique. I decided not to use use the lettering for this page. While I like it, it seems to me rather than using my own voice, I'm copying her work. 

Instead, I found some short quotes about flowers and wrote the quotes as stems for my flowers. I also made a photocopy of one of the pages to test coloring in the leaves. I decided I like the spread the way it is and didn't color in the leaves..

I'm enjoying the fact that I don't have to finish a page, but can keep going back and adding detail if I want. That was something that never occurred to me before. Most likely because I worked small, I've always been able to finish in one sitting. It's freeing to know that there's not a completion date/time for the pages.