After being inspired by The Art Journal Workshop, I started work on the inside pages.
I found the book that I disassembled for the covers at a thrift store quite a while ago. When I got it I hadn’t realized that all the pages were glossy which doesn’t work very well for altering.
I still loved the covers and knew I’d use them
in some way.
The inside pages are recycled cardboard from cereal type boxes. I obsessively save them to use as substrate for so many different projects. The pages are all a uniform height but the width is very random. I felt this might give the journal an interesting look.
So far, I’ve slathered leftover paint from other projects on a few pages and completed one from scraps on my table.
The journalling reads:
Forget the darkness behind you.
Turn your face towards the sun and bloom.
Cool book! I really like the cover! Did you use distress inks on it or was it already that color?
Great book to use for this. Looks great! I like your idea of different widths for pages.
Always exciting to start a new project…
Love that you save cardboard too…it’s what we do LOL
I REALLY Love that you are doing something wonderful with yours…great idea about the different widths of pages!
Such an uplifting quote and page Halle!
Happy Friday!
oxo
a great page, and those covers are cool! this will turn out terrific, I am sure. The cardboard pages are a nice change from paper…they hold up to a lot of stuff!
I never seem to have cardboard for pages, but I always appreciate when others recycle it. Those pages are going to be spectacular.
Halle your journal pages looks fantastic (I’ve looked around your blog), great book cover.
Anni