I keep coming back to this colour combination of blue and lime green - just love it, maybe almost as much as orange and pink? These are just happy colours for me.
And you can see below how it started out - I am trying to make backgrounds of more than one colour, but I have this besetting sin of always working in tones of the same colour, and its something I must fight against! This page must be a success on that front because I've actually used 3 different paint colours on it - just absolutely bog standard acrylic paint, nothing fancy.
Most of my pages begin with a painted background like this, and then I add collage as the fancy takes me. The bits of black text you can see below are actually tissue paper - I love searching out printed tissue, and when you tear pieces off and put them on with matte medium they dry transparent. I just LOVE the effect it gives.
So then I added some paint pen doodles - which have such great opacity you can even put yellow over blue - and used my circle punches to cut out shapes from colour copies of old journal pages, adding other page scraps as well. Why pay for collage sheets when you can make your own, right? This was a tip from from Teesha Moore and its really brilliant - I use it all the time now.
The page stayed like this for a few days, before I came in again, sat down and got some stuff off my chest. Journalling is such a great stress buster, and even though nobody but me knows what this page is about that doesn't really matter. Revisiting my journals in the future, perhaps I will remember what was happening, but then again I guess its not important if I don't? The point is to get it down on paper at the time, and rob it of its negative power. It works for me, which is mainly why I do it. I don't just journal the negative emotions in my life though, the beauty of keeping a journal is that you can celebrate EVERYTHING, good, bad, average, whatever.
And that left just the final doodly details, which as you know I absolutely adore doing - there's something so restful about it as you drift off into the doodle zone .... I actually listen to talk radio a lot of the time while I'm working, but that's just me, and I can stand a lot of silence and my own company.
Sorry these pictures are a little bit dark - I wish now I'd photoshopped them to lighten them up a touch, but I'm sure you get the idea ...
Thanks for stopping by!
Rosie X
