This week's journal entry was inspired by the following prompt:
Journaling Challenge: Live your adventurous dreams on paper. What would you love to do, or at least try, if you had the courage to live more adventurously? I would, for example, like to live on a houseboat or a train wagon.
Art Challenge: Try a method or material you’ve never worked with before. Be adventurous!
I approached the challenge pretty literally. Interestingly enough, I've explored this topic before in other journals, but I decided to create something new. My fantasy adventure is kinda funny but I would love to mine for gold. My husband and I watch all the Discovery shows, we've watched documentaries...we're both super fascinated by the whole thing. Lacking all experience and knowledge I don't intend to actually pursue this line of work, but I do like daydreaming about it.
On the left side I chose to just do a bit of abstract embroidery. This is something I've wanted to try for a while. I've sewn on layouts and such but never embroidered. For a while I hunted for a pattern, but eventually gave up and created a freestyle design of my own. I wanted to recreate the look of little gold nuggets below ground. I really loved it and can't wait to do it again.
The right side is just a line from one of my favorite songs by the amazing Jill Scott. This song came out about 10 years ago and I still listen to it all the time. It's all about freedom and whenever I listen to it I can't help but feel...golden.
Details: The background is by Crate Paper...I think it's a little bit on the older side. The right side was written by me, but I based my type style on the Emmascript font. I used a fine tip gold Sharpie paint pen so it would show up on the dark paper. The bits and pieces at the bottom is a tiny strip of kraft/shiny gold paper for which I do not know the source, a tiny piece of gold polka dot washi and a small gold banner tab that I got in a Studio Calico kit a few months ago.
7 comments:
Ha mining for gold! That sounds fun!!!!!! Love your writing - I thought it was vinyl cut from a cameo or cricut. You fooled me girl!
Love the embroidery! I want to try that, too. Did you poke holes in the page before you stitched? It seems like it would be easy to bend the paper otherwise.
I love this so much! I thought it was pretty the second I saw it, but hearing the explanation makes it even better. I adore the little gold "nuggets"! That's a cool adventure to want to have!
Those pages are so interesting and very different to anything else I have seen. The golden nugget stitches are so organic, I thought this was about coffe at first. So creative,
SO GOOD! The embroidery looks like seeds to me. Just lovely.
Whow. I love these pages. The gold and stitching is amazing!!
You know you could plan gold mining as a vacation. They have places where you could go and spend a few hours. I've done it before and though it was really neat.
oooh I really love how the embroidery turned out !! I think I may try using some thicker thread in the future now that I've seen this. Also, I love the song that has your quote in the chorus :) great pages!!
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