The February colour challenge (Moline)

As promised I am showing you the inspiration for my February A-page-d-day-journal. It will be totally different. More girly and fresh and spring-awaiting. Whilst writing in my January journal I already made a colour test on one of the pages:

And this is the mosaic I made with Flickr-photos:

1. ~ Happy weekend, 2. Today Felt, 3. what is to be is up to me, 4. 02 | 15 | 2011, 5. breakfast at leopolds, 6. {M}, 7. shelf, 8. may 11/31 - on Explore ♥, 9. Untitled, 10. Untitled, 11. birthday pie, 12. i love fleas, 13. Sewing Kit Gift, 14. Licca, 15. Untitled, 16. September, 17. Roses, 18. peek at upcoming online workshop fashion styles recorded, 19. Untitled, 20. Singer Print., 21. snowing, 22. pretend i'm there..., 23. Anna Williams, 24. Saturday Morning Muse, 25. Pink Marshmallow, 26. urban vintage, 27. number the tea cups, 28. Mini Eggs, 29. fox sparrow, 30. Luxemburgerli

I gathered paper and ephemera and put it all in little baskets and made a nice heap of paper. I chose the colours of the pages first and then trimmed them, punched the holes for the rings and added the dates. Before writing on them I already embellished some to make it more easier to fill the space with words. I first dreaded finding words and writing something on the blank pages. but when there is already something glued to it or the pages is divided by paper scraps it is much easier. I am not writing a novel but only jotting down some daily rummagings, isn't it?

So every evening I sit down and write something or make a small scrapbook page. Some days it is so easy because you have some scraps from the day, receipts, postcards, letters, children's scribblings etc. And if there is still time left I add some extra pages or continue embellishng the following days.

To share something of this fulfilling and liberating process I will put some goodies in the shop for you to make your own little pages or just to use the colours I am using for your little projects. There will be a shop update tomorrow and I'll show you a bit of the work-in-progress and the paper mess in my studio.

I leave you here to have some homemade chili and garlic bread with the children and a sleepover guest of our son whilst dear husband is house hunting in freezing cold Seoul. This leaves me home alone without him but also with the opportunity of nighttime crafting (not to mention the nice task of decluttering and organizing cupboards and corners of our house for the move...)

Have a wonderful Sunday and see you soon!

Yvonne

3 Comments

The mosaic is utterly lovely! Busy time, so much to do and the best part is you are totally enjoying the ride :-) Got to do some decluttering and organizing over here too!

Posted by: madhu | Sunday, 20 February 2011 at 11:22