Keep A Journal

I'm so pleased that The Documented Life Project has decided to publish their weekly themes on Saturday instead of Sunday. Due to the time difference I now find out around 6pm on Saturday what the theme is and that means I can work on it during Sunday morning which is usually my creative play time. I have promised myself not to spend too much time on this endeavour (I simply don't have it available!) and this way I have a time limit set for myself. Do it on Sunday or else!

Anyway the theme this week is: "Write a secret message and then paint over all but one key word"

I'm also using things I have already and there is a box in the studio with bits and pieces that I think might come in handy.  No one could have been more amazed than I was to discover the card with the Keep a Journal (yes, I know that's 3 words, but hey, I've always been a rebel!) message on it in that box. I think it came out of one of the journals I bought recently. I was going to take a picture of my shelf full of yet to be used journals but it would have been too shaming!

However the card was just the thing and so very (almost spookily) appropriate to put in the 2014 planner. The card was stark white so I took it and painted it with a variety of paints, including gold. I put a small frame over the words Keep a Journal (from Jennibellie) and then layered it up with a paint sample card, a vintage painted book page and the painted paper background and sewed around the edge of the card to hold everything together. I used black thread and also sewed around the little frame. Strips of a transparency and the edge of painted drawing paper were also stitched on as shown.

Finally I tipped in this piece with matching washi tape from the bottom. I'm hoping that by not tipping in continually from the side the journal will bear up better. Don't ask me to explain this, it's just a feeling I have. By the end of this year I will find out if I was right.