Page 8 in my product manual turned into art journal. The paper I chose for the background is one I decided to use as is, since the colors were all in lines and not many of them, they are better serving the whole page in the background. Using my favorite glue, wood glue, I seem to be getting better at this business of sticking whole pages on to an art journal! But I can't help it, it just belongs there :)
Cutting the excess paper, even though last time I thought that using a cutter would do a faster job, I didn't mention that grabbing the cutting mat and then putting all the stuff away again takes longer than using the scissors for "snip snip" action is way faster! More efficient and I can live with the imperfectly cut areas, as long as I believe that practice makes perfect!
The white border was too much of a contract with the colors on the page, black, green and blue, so adding some yellow to brighten it up yet dim the white down… yes, upside down, like an upside down cake, this is what that sentence sounds like. Anyway, busy fingers, on we go!
Grab the book text paper that had some paint on it and gluing we go. Not following any particular pattern, just glue here and there and see if we can get glue everywhere!
If you watch the video, you'll notice, as I glue the pieces, that first there appears to be a hedgehog in the top left corner… later on a bear sitting on it's behind….then I saw the elephant that was reading the newspaper……. the image kept changing as I went along and while I was glueing those pieces I didn't' see any of those forms!!!! Interesting thing is, that the way the light hits the page for the camera is different from the way it hits the page for my eyes, so what I see is totally different.
From my angle I saw that little bear with very very long hair, standing with his back to the wind and nothing but laughter on his mind! I went about outlining him with white acrylic paint from a tube and thought that would also be nice to write the text with. It seems fitting, since his hair also appeared like little flat sails.. don't know where the quote came from, but it just came out! And if it fits, it fits!
Using red acrylic paint for some strips on the border to add some color and voi la, it's done!
Happy journaling!
You can enjoy the whole creative process here:
Supplies used: (in order of appearance)
- Recycled product manual
- Masking tape to protect the spine
- Recycled paper with mopped up paint
- Wood glue
- Acrylic paint
- Recycled book text paper that was used to mop up paint
- Permanent marker
- Acrylic varnish to seal the page
