Today starts the last week of January and the final week of Junk Journal January 2025 Challenge. This Challenge has been an exercise in “showing up and doing the work.” Travel and long, busy days as a fabric rep sometimes leaves me tired and uninspired… that’s when the commitment to the process kicks in. Paraphrasing Picasso, “Exploration and creativity happens, but they must find you working.”
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| Day 21 prompt: map |
Here are a few of my favorite journal pages and spreads from the month that started off somewhat mediocre, but turned out very well.
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| Days 6, 7 and 8 prompts: embossed, tuck spot, and antique. |
After prompted to use tissue paper on this spread, the tissue paper was used again on other pages.
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| Days 20 and 21 prompts: tissue and map. |
On the recommendation from a friend, I experimented with solar paste, a new-to-me art supply. It was used along with a stencil to create the medallions on the left-hand page of this spread.
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| Days 17, 18, and 19 prompts: fragile, bright, and bubble. |
William Morris is one of my favorite printers, typographers, and designers. The aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement resonates today as much as it did back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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| Days 24 and 25 prompts: line and modern |
