Hi , this week I have been playing in my journal and have a double page spread for you ,as my step by step guide .
The first step was to choose a catalyst collage paper , this one from the Painted Gaze pack appealed to me . There is lots of “empty” space to create on in the centre .
Next I trimmed the white edge off and cut the paper down slightly to leave a border of my page showing . The paper was then glued down over lapping the centre of the page .
Next I used Inkables from set 15 across both pages to link the blank side of my journal page to the catalyst collage paper . Picking colours from the catalyst collage paper I used Mermaid Lagoon and Spiced Marmalade distress inks
Next using some flowers and scraps from another catalyst collage paper in the same pack . I added to my background , keeping the flowers to glue down later when I had decide where they would fit best .
My next step was to add more interest to my background with stamps from the Journaling Essentials #9 using distress ink Barn Door and Black Soot . Looking at my page I was unhappy with the straight edge of the catalyst paper against the journal page , so with a black pen I scribbled a doodled line over the join and in various place on my page . Then added a bold stitched border.
After this I stamps out some leaves from the Journaling Essentials #7 stamp set , for this I used distress ink Mermaid Lagoon, laying down some ink on the white card before stamping the leaf over the top , this gave me a tone on tone leaf .
Using the cover sheet from the Painted Gaze catalyst collage papers I choose this design and mounted it on to black card and added a stitched boarder frame, creating a small photo style topper .
Taking this sentiment from the Hand Written words 1 stamp set I stamped on to a piece of old paper keeping the distressed colour palette .
The last step then was to glue everything down to my page in a design I was happy with .
Thank you for taking a look this week
Happy crafting
Calee
These are the products I used for my journal page :
A while gel pen for highlights and details and a black sharpie for doodles .
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