I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to write, all the art journal pages I want to fill, all the fabric I want to sew together and all the craft materials I want to explore.
/iHanna (inspired by a John Burrough quote)
The crusade challenge in March was about restraining yourself, simplifying your journal pages, being a bit minimalistic and leaving some space blank…
Do you know how hard that is?! Very!
I’ve started a practice notebook, for wee collages, but other than that I am going in the opposite rout right now, as you can see from the art journal spread here. It’s crazy busy!
I started with a b/w magazine headline, You can turn the page, in the middle left page, and then just filled the whole spread with little bits of this and that. Busy busy busy – but super fun to throw together.
I like the fringe that is sticking out from the page:
And the details of the tape, magazine bits, papers, and images;
Making a page like this is a great way to use up those tiny pieces of paper that you have laying all over the place. Try it sometime, and let me know how it goes.
I whole-heartedly agree with your quote Hanna….never enough time to create!! I have a similar quote on my watercolour website. your collage is yummy!!! thanks for the close up pics….it makes all the difference to be able to see the gorgeous details
I am drawn to examples of minimalism that I see, but I tend to end up with pages more like these! I love the busy-ness! I was inspired to shamelessly imitate your postage stamp postcards, Hanna…if you want to check it out, please visit today’s blog post at http://andria-drawingnear.blogspot.com. Thank you for your inspiration!!
I love the pink chaos of this overflowing page. xox
I absolutely love this! I think your collages are fabulous!
Love your opening quote! I find that when I’m trying to go to bed, I suddenly have some ideas and want to keep doing things, but I know it would be crazy living! If only we could get lost in time :)
I am indeed a person who has little bits of this and that laying aroung… I might throw them on my next ‘chronicles’ page indeed – thanks for the inspiration!
i would whole heartily agree with your quote. there is never enough time for all the projects and ideas to completion.
Hanna – great spread! Love all the activity going on. Love the quote “you can turn the page”!!!! That is exactly what we said when talking about a Minimalism page….there are always more pages in a journal! Love the NONrestraint :)
Love taking scraps and tiny pieces of paper and making paper pages.
Really enjoy looking over yours, nice work :]
I have several embarrassingly large boxes of snippets and ephemera. I like sparse pages, so I have tons of stuff I haven’t used. But while I swear I like sparse pages, I admire people who make visually interesting pages, too. I love these pages you did, the color somehow pulls me around the page. I’m not ready to turn it over yet!
Så glad man blir!
Hanna, I so tire of being late visiting your wonderful pages. I have told my boss that from now on, I will continue to get to work on time, after the shower, the dog walk, the lunch-packing, the half hour commute, but that I am going to read your site before I start working. It’s just the way things have to be.
So of course, I was placed in the middle of the room so that my activities could be more closely monitored.
Wow this is beautiful. I think I might make a fun, super busy collage this weekend just to use up my bits and pieces if nothing else.