I'm following the prompts of the original Documented Life project 2014. Week 7 : Draw one shape - repeat - add colour. And once I read the prompt from the blog for Life Documented 2017 HERE it was pretty obvious what that shape should be (Valentine). First to gatherings....I'm not really a Valentines day girl, but seem to have lots of pretty heart shapes!
I really liked Lorraine Bell's layering of hearts in 2014, so began by layering some heart papers and stitching them to a backing which will become a flap for this week. They are only stitched through the middle so still dimensional :-)
Then time to start layering - I decided to use spray paint - large stencil is one I cut myself
Here's the inside flap finished - loving the found words too
I also thought 2 stencils layered and sponged might be cool....
and it is ♥
Here's my main page of repeating shapes
And the entire spread open
and with the flap closed
It looks like it's overlapping here, but once flattened to close it's fine - loving the look of the journal blooming already ♥
Lesson learned - the flaps attached to the outside edge close quite well without adding too much bulk, but the ones done in the centre of the journal (as I did in weeks 3 and 4) make it harder to close.
Wishing you a week filled with love ♥
You can see all my posts about this project HERE and my Flickr album HERE
February means back to school here in New Zealand. I am very lucky to be a school librarian working part-time in a private school. It's the perfect mix of professional development, balanced life style (limited hours and school holidays off), and another chance to be creative (remember Craft Club in December?) A creative girl needs to art up her work diary. This is my 4th year now and it's fun to look back. In 2014 I was inspired by the original Documented Life project and using all the washi tape to edge pages ;-)
In 2015 it looked like this - used my {new then} moonlight pens
Last year I went in a different direction and printed out a background from an art journal page to use on my cover - loved this too ♥
I was still using sari ribbon for my bookmark
This year I decided to use my own art again and make sure that SHINE (my word of the year) is also part of my work time. This art is from December last year
And I included one of my current fav washi tapes - gorgeous soft turquoise with lovely gold dots for some more shine ♥ I've used it to stick together the holiday weeks so my diary is divided into school terms
I decided to do something different for a bookmark as well. Each term I have slightly different priorities and the times classes visit change. Decided this year I would include a flap that will do double duty as a bookmark
and also so that I can write a priority list and stick it down on the card so I can see it out to the side of my week without it floating around as a loose piece of paper
I didn't have to paint new card for this - it was one of the ones I considered when I made my Inner Work Journal cover HERE.
So none of this took a lot of time but it makes me happy that I am including my art in my working day.
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
I really liked Lorraine Bell's layering of hearts in 2014, so began by layering some heart papers and stitching them to a backing which will become a flap for this week. They are only stitched through the middle so still dimensional :-)
Then time to start layering - I decided to use spray paint - large stencil is one I cut myself
Here's the inside flap finished - loving the found words too
I also thought 2 stencils layered and sponged might be cool....
and it is ♥
Here's my main page of repeating shapes
And the entire spread open
and with the flap closed
It looks like it's overlapping here, but once flattened to close it's fine - loving the look of the journal blooming already ♥
Lesson learned - the flaps attached to the outside edge close quite well without adding too much bulk, but the ones done in the centre of the journal (as I did in weeks 3 and 4) make it harder to close. 
