It’s almost hard to believe how quickly each week seems to pass by. But yay for Thursdays!
This community is so encouraging and heartwarming – I’m so thankful for all your sweet comments on last week’s art journal pages. You all continue to inspire me to create and make things.
Unlike last week’s pages, this week’s pages were a case of having a good idea with not-so-good execution. My idea of these pages definitely looked much better in my head. But as I’m often reminded, art journaling isn’t meant to be perfect. So here are my imperfect pages this week. Embracing imperfection all the way.
Beauty of Holiness:
I have to admit, what you’re seeing is really version 2.0 of this page. I originally did something different and wrote a whole paragraph for this blog post about not loving the page and trying to roll with it. But I just could not settle with how much I disliked it. So I pulled the page apart and did it all over again. The patterned heart and gold sequins are part of the original page though, which I do like.
Although I’m not totally in love with the page yet, I think it’s growing on me because I definitely like it much more than I did the first version. Plus, I love the colored background, which I wouldn’t have thought to use if not for my original page. Mistakes can sometimes be good things.
The idea of using my Dymo label maker came from seeing Kathleen’s sneak on Instagram. So credit has to go to her for that one. While my Dymo font definitely doesn’t look as cute as hers, I’m glad for the reminder to take out my dusty label maker again.
Wish:
My lack of stamping skills are very apparent on this page. But I wasn’t going to re-stamp an entire page just because it didn’t look perfect. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I used some tiny wood veneer stars from Studio Calico to distract from my imperfect stamping. And I thought that the stars tied in nicely with the theme of wish. I also adhered the 3×4 card with washi tape and included some hidden journaling underneath.
In the end, I actually don’t mind this page, imperfections and all.
Get Messy is an art journal challenge where a gang of crafty vixens are sharing art journal pages we have created to practise our skills and push past our creative limits with hopes to inspire. We share our pages without restraint every week, and once a month we create around a prompt. Go check out these crazy talented ladies who are creating pages who each have a unique perspective and style. We will be sharing our work around social media so follow the hashtag #getmessyartjournal.
I think they both look great, we are always our own worst critics. I felt exactly the same about my pages this week too. Also loving your ‘ain’t nobody got time for that’ comment, ha 🙂
Thank you for your sweet comment, Keshena; so glad I’m not the only one! And well, there’s always next week to make pages we really love (:
These pages look different than the previous ones but I like them a lot!
okay, I was a little bit confused. I thought I was on another blog while I commented 🙂 haha
Love your pages.
Haha thank you. Glad you stopped by, Andrea! xx.
That’s an awesome piece of art. Congratulations for the good work! ^CP
As much as this art is about embracing imperfection, I am with you on tearing it apart to get it right! I have done that before too. For me, it is not so much about letting go of imperfection, it is more about getting a good feeling about it. If it is not sitting right with me then it feels incomplete. So I have no trouble working it until I reach that feeling. That is part of the learning and growing process of creativity!
Such a good point, Cindy! I’ll definitely have to remember it for the future when this happens again (: