I was reading The Decorated Journal by Gwen Diehn last night, and something inspired me to do a journal page about my love of maps. I had done the background for this spread several weeks ago without any idea of what I would put on it. The background was inspired by The Decorated Page, also by Gwen Diehn. I put acrylic paint on plastic needlepoint canvas and put the canvas on the page while the paint was wet. Then I added a wash of color after that was dry. And that seemed like the perfect background for a spread about maps.
As far as the two books I mentioned, I got The Decorated Page from our local library, and requested The Decorated Journal through inter-library loan. Both books have a few good ideas in them, but probably not enough for me to buy them for my personal library. I am going to do this more often, since I have too many books I don't use already.
7 comments:
just lovely!
Great idea, Cheryl! I like to use maps in my travel journals.
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I love what you did with this page, Well done, Thanks for sharing,
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I'm thrilled to visit your blog, it is wonderful. I signed up for the newsletter from Terri Stegmiller. I would love to take the paper quilting class next year. I'm going to add you to my favorites! It's great to have a new blogging friend! Jenna Louise
I have both of those books. Aren't they so inspiring! I too love maps. Great page!
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This is such a beautiful page.
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Love the background and the layout. Maps are such fun! Wooo-hooo!
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