Art Journaling Club – Teaching Myself Teesha 2

The next step in the process, after making the journal and painting the pages is adding borders to the pages. The Youtube video titles are a little random but
Teesha Moore Journaling Collage Part 1 of 4 is the right video for this next step.

I decided to work on this journal on a long road trip and to do the collage when it wasn’t my turn to drive. So I spent a little time before the trip cutting out various patterned papers and magazine pages in strips for making borders. I also stamped some of my hand made stamps onto paper and cut them up for border material. I took 3 envelopes of collage items with me, one of the envelopes was for border patterns. I also picked up brochures and a few magazines as the trip wore on and I tired of the sparse pickings in the envelopes.

As we traveled through the day I was unable to check via computer to see if I was doing it right and my mind went nuts telling me I was doing it all wrong and I would never learn a new method by doing it ‘my’ same old way. But by the time I had done one or two rectangular borders, I was tired of that and the borders began to blossom! On some pages I will be hard put to find room for the central figure let alone the scripting.