Journal Pages - Week Two - Collage

A very happy party bird. I think he is celebrating spring.

I have been following Molly and Mcgee with their four little owlets every night before I go to bed. It is fascinating. I think they help inspire this page.

I sewed the image before I glued it to the journal page. It was much easier than trying to sew something to the page after I had painted etc... What cute sisters.

I just loved the hand and the bird is from The Graphics Fairy - thanks Karen.

Don't these two twins look like they have lots of secrets to share?

I am way into week two in my online journal class with Dina Wakley. So far it has been a blast. I have really enjoyed just doing the backgrounds. Then this past week we were to collage on our background pages. Just pick images that we are attracted to, speak to us, and might have something to do with what is going on in our lives. Easy and fun. This week we work on text. That is always the hard part for me.

Online Journal Class with Dina Wakley - The Journal

This is the front and back of my journal I am using in Dina Wakley's journal class. I decided to go ahead and make my own as I was not sure how many pages and what size I wanted. I decided to go big - 9 inches by 9 inches - and she said to use a paper that can hold a lot of paint etc. I went for watercolor paper 140lb. I took a cheapy watercolor pad and cut it to size for the pages. Knowing if I needed more pages I could cut more.

The cover is a piece of cardboard I cut to 9 1/4 inches by 9 1/4 inches. After I cut the back and cover I covered them with dictionary pages - very random. Then I used the first week's technique on them, let everything dry, then sewed around the edges. I then used my coil binder to cut the holes on the cover, back and pages. I then assembled everything with the coil. Voila! a new journal for the class.

Online Journal class with Dina Wakley...some pages

This past week was the first week of my online journal class with Dina Wakley. I have enjoyed her articles in Somerset's Art Journaling magazine so much. I thought I would take the leap and try her class.

So far so good. The handouts are very good and her video is excellent. We started with the backgrounds in our journal adding texture and color. Here are a few of my first week pages. I can't wait to see what we do next week.