Expedition #6: My Examples

So how did your week go? Did you actually try journaling, then decorating your page afterwards, even just once?
How did you feel about the journaling? Do you feel anything after doing this process? Relieved? Productive? Cleared?

What color pen/s did you use? How did you like using your pen choice? Was it easy to write with? If not, did it affect how you were able to spill your ideas onto the page? The first pen I picked to use was what I thought was a light purple color... but it turned out darker than I thought. I wasn't sure how the darker ink would work out with writing on top of it. The second pen, a thin, lime green, crayola marker... turned out to be dried out as you can see below. It got lighter and lighter as I spilled down the page. I am not too hip on using a marker. I think I have been spoiled by some of the smooth writing ball points and gel pens... but the experience still was fine.

When it came to jotting down notes about what I wrote, I have to admit that the lighter the pen the harder it was for me to read and pick out what I wanted to focus on. So as the week went on, I actually would put a star beside a line or section I wanted to note as I wrote it. Starring the section didn't seem to take away from the flow of the journaling but helped me locate what I wanted to note after I was done will the journal spillage. So, I think I will continue to do that.
Next came decorating. On this page I chose to tear out collage elements that I liked and glued them on the page with a cheapie glue stick. Not a whole lot of thought. Just grabbed a handful of magazine images, picked a few out that seemed to go, than arraged them on the page. Glued them down. It took maybe 15 minutes at the most.
The main image... the girl in the left corner... seemed to blend in a bit more than I wanted. I grabbed a red water soluable crayon, outlined some of the collage pieces, including my girl image... then smudged it really well with my fingers. And it made it pop out of the page a bit more. Then I took my black waterproof pen and my white uniball ink pen and doodled, did my lettering and added the things I decided to write down on my scrap paper. And of course HAD FUN!

To be honest, my loudmouth inner critic, tells me this is a really lousy page... the lettering is just terrible, it is too busy... on and on. Again, your inner critic will probably often tell you that any artsy endevour you do is not good enough! The truth is it doesn't matter. I will alway like looking at the pictures I chose to add to my collage... that's why I chose them. The rest was all fun! It really is okay to have fun... And you have a memory of your fun to boot! Looking at the page makes me smile. I journaled and have an fun, funky, interesting page. A page that will remind me of the important things that I journaled about. A page that is so much more than a page filled with written journaling.

This is my doodle page. I took my black brush marker and started to doodle some flowers, quick. Not much thought. I even added the my Hybiscus Happiness zen doodle design in the middle (I made it up myself).

Again, I grabbed my scrap sheet and added the items I wanted to remember on to me doodle page.

It could have been done. But I decided I wanted to take a little more time to unwind, so I got out the crayons and...

I hope you tried Expedition  6... and if not... maybe decide now to give it a try! Please, I would love to hear from you! Make a comment below and let me know how it went!
Tune in tomorrow for Expedition 7!

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