Inspiration Journal

The idea behind this class is to create what Paulette Insall calls an inspiration journal. This is basically a journal with pictures of the things that inspire us. Then if we're feeling uninspired, we can just look through our journal to get inspiration.

I have 4 backgrounds painted (earlier posts), and now I've added some pictures (lesson 2) and journaling (lesson 3) about a few of the things that inspire me - flowers, tropical fish, butterflies, trees, and colored pencils. I think that many of my pages will have quilts and/or fabrics on them, but not this page. I'll be adding some more embellishing to this page for lesson 4.

Inspiration Journal - two more pages

I finished 2 more backgrounds in my inspiration journal yesterday - I'm really happy with the red one. The green one is ok too, but my favorite so far is the first one I did in blues and teal. I really need to start looking for images to glue onto these pages now - but it's so much fun doing the backgrounds!

Inspiration Journal, page 2

I finished another page spread today for my inspiration journal. I say finished, but actually I mean step 1 is finished. I'm going to be adding to it with collage and embellishing, but I'm through with the background painting. It's a lot of fun, because if you don't like the way it looks, you just keep adding to it until you do.

Inspiration Journal

I'm taking another online class - this one is from Paulette Insall, and it's called Enjoy the Journey. It's about creating a mixed media inspiration journal. You can read about it here. It's a different type of journal than I'm used to, but I'm having fun with it so far. This is the start of my first page spread - I'll be adding to it over the next few weeks, but I like how it looks so far.