Monday, June 10, 2013

Step by step journal spread

It's been a while since I did a step-by-step of a journal spread. You know, those posts where I show you how a spread comes into being one bit at a time. Well, I have a new one lined up for you, so let's go!

It's a spread from my White Book. The White Book measures 25x25 cm. (10x10 inches). Of course I started with white pages, but I'm sure you've all seen white pages before so we'll just skip that. ;-)

First I applied some opaque watercolour with a piece of sponge. Green on top and brown at the bottom.

Then I went through my image stash and picked out these two black and white magazine images.

I put my trademark dashed lines around the images with a black brush pen.

I added some brown washi tape with a flower pattern.

My eye fell on this Eiffel Tower tape and well, I just had to add it and put dashed lines on the side.

I now added some thinner green tape for a bit more colour.

I got out a brown paint marker and added dots on the sides without tape.

I encircled those dots with a black glaze pen so they would stand out more.

Time to go to my sticker stash! I added these brown butterflies.

I took out a circle template and drew two rows of circles in brown paint marker on/over the sides of the photos.

I coloured the circles in with green coloured pencil.

Then I went through my stash of magazine texts and added two of them to the spread.

If there's room I always like to add a label for the date, so I put one on the top right and embellished it with markers.

To wrap things up I added some smaller stickers. These are scrapbook stickers and the green squares came with a calendar.

With that I considered the pages finished and ready for writing. Here are some close ups:





I hope you enjoyed this view into my process. Just so you know, I never know what I will end up with. I don't plan my pages. It really goes like this, step by step. I'll just start with a background and then take it one thing at a time. That always works for me. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Wishing you all a wonderful and artsy week!