May 18, 08:56 PM
Week 2: Risk
Finally, a somewhat delayed entry. This is based on a digital collage as a background – it took me ages to find and assemble the images I wanted, for the phrase “Stripped Bare”. I’ve also included a photo of my own head, but with skull super-imposed. I apologise if some of these images aren’t to everyone’s liking – but the theme inspired me.
The digital collage is based on a background paper in the Paint it Your Way collection by Kim Crothers of CreativeSnaps. She was giving it away as a freebie for a brief spell, and running a competition on how we might paint it. The original is purely black and white. I added various tones of orange, of course. Orange for me signafies risk.
The two digital collages were then printed onto paper, and glued into the journal itself. I used an antique gold pen to journal along the black circles on the background, and gold acrylic paint to paint out the white paper edges, and between the spiral binding.
Finally, the shipping tag was simply used for extra journaling, using stamps, paint and ink. It simply sits, tied into the central spiral bindings – as an insert on the double pages.
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