Journaling Prompt for August

August is always a month of celebrations in our family. We celebrate two birthdays and an anniversary. This year we also celebrated good exam results with our daughter. What have you been celebrating this month? How do you celebrate with family and friends or quietly? We celebrated our wedding anniversary this year with friends at an outdoor concert in a stately home. Have you perhaps visited somewhere nice yourself this month why don’t you journal about a visit somewhere either in this month or in previous months. Try to record a little about the history of the place you visited.

For those that are art journaling looking at a blank page, even with paint or ink on can be daunting at first. How are you possibly going to fill up all of that space. Reduce your writing space by adding boarders to the page. Try cutting out from a book, magazine, music or patterned paper a wave or pennant shape. Colour it in line with the colour you have used on your page and stick it down one side of the page. Doodle a border on and round if you wish. You can also doodle the whole border on another 2 or 3 sides to balance the page. Don’t get too carried away though remember to leave some space in the middle to journal!

Chris and Jackie

Next Crop - 22nd August

We are always looking for different/unusual projects, so for the next crop will be "Altering It!", what "it" is will be up to you.

You will need to bring along an item that you would like to alter/decorate, it could be anything, a household carton, a boring box that needs some loving attention, something that you keep your scrapbooking tools in that would benefit from showing off your talents - so get searching and see what you can find.

You will also need to bring some of the following:
Scrapbook papers to cover your item
Strong adhesives/tapes to stick everything down with
ribbons
buttons
flowers
alcohol inks
distress inks
stamps
etc etc - whatever you think would look good.
Pauline, Chris and I will be available to help you with inspiration and guide you whenever you need it.

Here's a picture of Pauline's alterable item to get you started.

Journaling Prompt for July

Sorry this prompt is a bit late but July has been a very busy month.

I have been thinking about endings and beginnings. July is the end of the school year. This year was the end of school for my daughter and I took the opportunity to snap a photo of her on her last day in the same place I took a photo of her on her first day. What a change! Try journaling about endings and beginnings this month or about growing and changing.

For those that are art journaling I’ve been to an art journaling class at Art From The Heart and thoroughly enjoyed it. A full weekend messing around with paint and paper creating pages from scratch..and I mean from scratch as we had to make the page first with newspaper! This month I would like you to try a monochromatic colour scheme. Try using 3 shades of the same colour. When you use colour in this way think about how we decorate our rooms at home. We usually have the lightest shade on the walls and that is the largest expanse of colour. Next the chairs, carpets etc tend to be a slightly darker shade and are placed against the lighter walls. Try applying the middle colour to 2 corners on the same side of your page and also an area on the middle of the opposite side. Finally we have the accessories which are the darkest shade and are scattered around the room. Use a small amount of the darkest colour to frame your page.

Chris & Jac