MY WORD FOR 2015

ACTION

 

I was inspired to choose 'ACTION' as my OneWord365 for 2015.  I decided to do an art journal page for it and before I got started on it I found this site called Art to the 5th Academy.  They have a challenge called The Documented Life Project.  I decided that this would be perfect for my 'ACTION' page.  The challenge was to use book pages in your creation.  I have a book I had picked up at the thrift store that I have been using for pages in my journal art and it was ironic that as I went to tear out some pages the headings on the chapters jumped out at me as being perfect for my page.

 

Here is how my page started -

 

 

Next I trimmed everything off neatly to the size of the page.

 

 

I then colored over the background pages using Distress Stains.  I used Distress Inks over each of the individual thoughts I wanted to add and collaged them on top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then coated the whole page with a layer of Mod Podge to seal it. 

 

 

Now to add my 'word'.  I went to my collection of letters and chose a nice sized font that would fit on top without covering any of the important parts. 

 

 

Then, I covered them with black Enamel Accents. 

 

 

Finally, when I woke up this morning they were dry and I added them to complete the piece!

 



 



I hope you have enjoyed the steps of my creation and I hope that I will do well taking 'ACTION' on all of these thoughts this year!