Journal spreads

I've given up trying to maintain any one system for journalling.  I flick from one to the other - art, typed, notebook, smash, scrapbook - at least once a month, so I've decided to just chuck it all into one book.  I'm loving it, although I still need to find a decent glue.  Double-sided tape and cheap gluesticks just aren't doing it for me.

These are a couple of digital pages that I've done and printed.  In between are pages from notebooks, index cards, and anything else I feel like pasting in, but I like these pages the best...

The photos in the first spread I took myself at a recent air show; everything else is from my stash of digital scrapping supplies.

New journal project

This is my compromise to myself.  A digital art journal!  As much as I love the idea of art journals, and as much as I waste hours looking at other people's amazing creations, I just haven't created one of my own.  Too little faith in my own abilities, too little emotional connection to write anything meaningful and beautiful - and inclined to blame the lack of a thousand-and-one art supplies - has meant that I have stubbornly stuck with words.

And even that has been bouncing between mediums.  Now, I've decided to give my digital scrapbooking skills a practical use, and this is the first page of the result.  It's still going to be more words than anything else, but I'm really loving this technique.  I think I've finally clicked on the relaxing aspect that other journalers talk about, but I don't have the grinding OCD obsession with sticky fingers or spills.

For this page I've mixed all sorts of pieces from different designers:

• The alphabet used to create the letters - Tina Chambers from Digital Scrapbook Place
• Flower embellishment - Correen Silke 
• Cardboard embellishment - Meryl Bartho from Digital Scrapbook Place
• Green embellishment - Scrap Girls
• Circle embellishment - Bintys Designs
• Notepaper embellishment - Just Jaimee
• Background - Scrap Girls