The Summer Journal

So last summer I kept a journal/scrapbook. It was made up of photos, mixed media pages, ephemera and some plain old scrapbook pages.

I kept it from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

This year I decided to do it again-only to start a few weeks earlier.

I also decided to try to make it more journalistic and less scrapbookish.

Well, I love to scrapbook and my pages are pretty journal-ish anyhow.

I call my scrapbooks- scrap-journals- because my style isn't too traditional.
Here's the title page for the book.

I made these letters by die cutting them on paper first, rubbing them in embossing ink and then embossing them. Oh forgot to mention, I colored them green before embossing.

Really like this brand of embossing powder.

So you can see I began by using some Dylusions spray ink and some stencils. Assorted colors and patterns.

Gave me messy fingers making this page and it was a blast playing with all these colors and textures and assorted materials-paint and inks and die cuts and papers. Even used a gelli print in part of the big flower (Sizzix Framelits). I painted the other parts of the flower very lightly, rubbed off the excess and then sanded the paper. I don't know if you can read the fortune cookie fortune but I think it is a appropriate prediction.
So I hope.
And I

Think this background would make great fabric.

Well maybe not the blobs.

I have learned that I am artistically motivated by color.

Maybe why I love scrap-journalling in the summer -because there is so much color.

Everywhere in summer.It is just plum-dum

COLORFUL!

Ha-ha.

Till tomorrow!