Creating a book a month : Shine

I began the year with an Intention to create a book a month : small and gorgeous, mixed media and stitched. This one's taken me 3 months but I have focussed on a different part of the process each month, and I needed to take this relaxed approach. 

In June, a friend gifted me Joanne Sharpe's lovely online class Art Sparks 1 : Words and Watercolour. We started by playing with watercolour to create base pages

and I shared in July how I had begun to put them together

I wanted to include stitch in some way and had more fun later that month creating stitched embellishments

Now in August I've finally been inspired to finish my Shine book. I love it and am so glad I took my time. 

I promised I'd share how my new uniball pens worked. It was really fun to use in combination with my Faber-Castell Brush pen to create this lettering - very smooth application and very black. I will be using again.

Here are my completed pages

Art Sparks 1 : Words and Watercolor is very reasonably priced and includes watercolour play, lettering, and bookbinding. Joanne's already produced Art Sparks 2 : Color. Collage. Concertina, and Art Sparks 3 : Pockets full of posies with more coming I believe. 

Hope you are inspired to create this month.