Daily Journaling Week 6

I'm following the prompts of the original Documented Life 2014. Week 6 : Open your Pinterest board and be inspired and at Life Documented 2017 HERE it's about layering. 
I have my own Pinterest board of quotes to inspire me for SHINE (my word for 2017) so thought I'd get something from there. I also decided that I would add a flap to my journal spread this week because we started with a long weekend (Waitangi Day here in New Zealand today) and I wanted more space to journal my week - it's a flap of watercolour paper this time. I recently purchased a few more tombow markers for my collection. I had the 4 colours on the right so the 6 on the left are a nice complement to them.

I wanted to use them this week for a really cool water brush lettering technique I saw on artistsnetwork HERE. I decided to do a month heading - this is tombow markers blnded with water brush in progress

and I just kept going!

Open the flap, and I just used masking tape on this side since I'm going to be layering over it. 

Layering : 1. Paper

2. Brayered green-gold paint and gesso - ♥

3. Tape and paint through stencils

4. Collage plus words of the quote - I finally got to use the lovely flower off my summer perfume box (lined up the crease on the box with the fold on my page) 

Here's the quote complete :

I filled in the first page with this long weekend - here's the spread with the flap closed. You'll notice I added some doodling with a black pen to finish the tombow marker lettering.

and I've got plenty of room in the middle page to journal Tuesday-Friday this week.

This spread was inspired by the work I did with Succulent Stacks in the last post. You can see all my posts about this project HERE and my Flickr album HERE