Well, I couldn't find where to put my header? Oh dear, this new learning curve is not friendly enough for me. Yesterday's post had photos so large it was unbelievable but then I found the plus and minus signs so I learned one little thing. Just found out about headings thanks to today's post.
Anyway, today's Journal page is one I found rather difficult "What appears to be the end is usually the start of a new beginning". A nice enough quote but how the Dickens do you illustrate that one. Bang goes the story I thought! And I wanted to add a tag to join in with AJJ's challenge by the lovely Alison.
Well, I was stuck with the quote and my other half suggested (probably because the page next to it was a jungle one) that I had someone coming out of the dark into the light. So that is what I tried.
First of all a darkish green DI was swiped over half the page and then a yellow one on the other half. I had to blend them in a bit with my Distress Tool and then I went to my drawer for some leaves. Not a one left! Right, stamps. Could I find those leaves? No! I hadn't time to turn the place upside down so I drew some - and some fantasy flowers and 'shrooms for the other side. I did decide to put an arrow to show the way the figure was going - from dark to light.
I already knew which figure I was going to use and so the body came out but which head would fit on a page this way round? Only one - so that was it. By the time everything was stuck down I could not see enough room to do my writing so the tag problem was solved. I typed the quote on a piece of orange card, edged it in black, stuck a paper ribbon on the top and voila! My page was done. My story?
"Agatha had been feeling particularly low, her novels had not been accepted by the publisher of late. Was it a bad patch she was going through she asked herself, afterall her first novel had been a big hit. True, she had not been feeling very well and so she had not spent as much time reading the newspaper as she usually did, her knitting had taken precedence over everything else as she sat there in her little cottage. She had, however, made one more attempt at getting her latest novel published, a particularly gruesome one that had lots of twists and turns in it.
It was the morning of the 6th August and she heard the letterbox go. Could it be? Surely not. It was all in her mind, she could not be successful again, surely. She walked with small timid steps to behind the door to see what the post man had brought and sure enough there was a brown envelope addressed to her in an almost familiar script. It did not necessarily mean it was good news but she bent and picked it up and as she opened the envelope she saw that it was indeed, from her publisher. Yes, the story had been accepted and was to be published and she was to attend a book signing in the nearby city. Oh what a wonderful feeling the young Agatha experienced - and suddenly the sun began to shine.
What appeared to be the end was certainly the start of a new beginning as we all know - for Agatha."
So hopefully, you my dear reader, will love doing journalling, making tags and including pockets in your journal. You do? Great! Then join in with Alison's challenge over at Art Journal Journey. See you there.
