Colours:

* Use different shades of one colour to paint, colour, collage, or otherwise create your image.
* Choose a contrasting colour to highlight certain elements of the image.

Content:

* Create a page around a meaningful quotation, poem, or song lyric.
* Use pages from old books as a base or for collage pieces.

Idea:

* Section a page into four ( Read more... )

Copy the list and fill it out accordingly ( Read more... )

Currents used to be a big thing during the heyday of online journalling and the emergence of blogging. It was usually confined to things like current mood or current music. They were an interesting way to watch certain things evolve over time. A mini record of things, if you will. Here’s a whole list of currents to current about! Copy the list and ( Read more... )

Some folks use the term apocalist instead of bucket list now, and I have to admit that I much prefer it. Current bucket list:

• sing Queen of Hearts with Dave Edmunds.
• actually finishing Douglas Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid one of these years.

I found a really old bucket list on my hard drive. I have no idea when I wrote ( Read more... )

You will need:

• a substrate - canvas, cardboard, cardstock, etc.
• a selection of magazines, books, newspapers, and other printed materials that you can cut up
• scissors
• adhesive

Do:

• Choose images from different fonts and letter styles and cut them out.

In one way or another, we’ve all imagined a place that doesn’t exist. Sometimes it’s fantastical, and sometimes just on the other side of town. Why not bring these places to life, of a sort, by creating your own atlas?

You will need:

• A large-format scrapbook, bound watercolour or mixed media book, or other large book to provide space enough for the ( Read more... )

Old t-shirts, button-downs, tank tops, something else? If they’re no longer usable as clothing, they can be used for something else.

Stain covers:

• You could try to cover the stain up creatively so you can still wear it, either by using fabric paint, markers, embroidery, patches, appliqué, tie-dye, or you could even try bleach art.

Repurposing:

• You ( Read more... )

Not a new craft by any stretch, but still one that can be enjoyable - saving samples of leaves and flowers, and it’s the perfect time of year to do it. Remember it for the fall, too.

Save samples of plants you find by pressing them between the pages of a book and drying them, or by gluing them into a scrapbook/journal and sealing it over with clear ( Read more... )

Mosaic: Use small tiles or broken ceramic pieces to create a mosaic. These can be framed or placed into a shadow box.

Tape: Use washi tape to create designs or patterns on a plain wall, or on a canvas or piece of masonite or cardboard.

Postcards: Collect postcards from your favourite places, or swap them, and frame them to create travel-inspired ( Read more... )

Cut and paste this list to your own journal and respond to each with the first thing that comes to mind, or use them as inspiration for something else - photographs, drawings, fiction, poetry - whatever you like, or even don't. A new list will be shared the first day of each month with a prompt for each day. There’s no order to when, how, or if you ( Read more... )