Documented Life Project ~ Week 1

 

Better late than never, right?? 😉 I joined the Documented Life Project a little late and so my journal arrived a few weeks later.

Then I was terrified to begin as this is unchartered territory for me and I’ve seen some amazing journaling out there – Alex, is my inspiration for this as I followed her creations last year for DLP. Thank you, Alex!!!

 

 

 

The first week’s challenge/project was to lay down paper to get rid of the frightful blank page. I really enjoyed doing this and then added a bit of paint with a dry brush and brayer.

I am completely anal when it comes to new things so every layer took time. I am sure that there were more steps between these two images that I just forgot to take record of.

The prompt was to be your own goal keeper. Instead of adding in written or stamped text for my goals I made flowers as symbols of growth and prosperity. I also reworked areas from time to time to balance out colour and space.

From here I added the hearts to symbolize my passion for creating.

I wasn’t going to add any text but in the end I did but made it small as a detail. “Follow your heart”. Nothing new to any of us but something I need to be reminded of in this new adventure of mine.

Wow! So colourful! I had a great time getting into the art journaling and for most of this spread I used my fingers to work the paint and somehow I ended up with a moon in there too! It felt so good to be such a physical part of the process.

I am so glad that I decided to take this challenge. I may be weeks behind but from here on in I don’t think it will be as intimidating for me as that first project (I hope!).

Happy creating!

Moongirl