Revel in the Moment Journal – Keep an Art Journal

Journal page from 1/4/2012

My Revel In the Moment Journal page from January 4.

I LOVE this page! It rarely happens that I love a page, but finally here is.

It started out with a minor disaster as the vintage sheet music started disintegrating almost immediately. I had to add a layer of gel medium to hold things together.  It still cracked where it crossed the center so I finally decided that using one of my teabags would help.

I have been saving teabags for a long time without having a use for them. I just love the beautifully textured tea color. Every once in a while I will sit and pull apart the dried bags while watching a movie. I save the kind that are one large piece with a stitch holding them together. (Some Constant Comment, Good Earth and others.)

For this piece I stamped the teabags. The large center one is stamped with Staz-On ink and a woman’s head. It looked so good that I stamped some more bags with dragonflies and butterflies. Then I got completely carried away and stamped white acrylic paint dots on a few pieces of teabag and then sprayed them with red watercolor spray…fun!

I layered gold and white washi tape here and there around the edges. One – to add a little bling and two – again help stabilize the old papers. There was some advertisement across the woman so I just put tape there too. I will use it for a writing space.

The large date text on the left is on another page – another thing I am loving about this journal – the different size pages give another whole layer of interest! You can see the red punched lace, one of the prettiest elements, on two different pages although it is behind the black and white page (below).

Pages 2 & 3 Revel in the Moment Journal

Here are pages made January 1 and 2 for the same journal. [See the red lace?] Since this picture I have added writing, so yes, I do use the pages for journaling also.

What I get most from these online classes is the motivation – the kick in the pants to get out the supplies and create.