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get messy: season of fairytales week three

September 9, 2017

I am officially State-side! And if you’ve been following me over on Instagram, you’ll know that I promised you a late Get Messy Season of Fairytales Week Three recap on the blog when I get back. Well, here it is.

I absolutely love how these pages turned out! I love how they look yes, but I really love that I created these pages while I was traveling. I’ve never really been able to keep up with art journaling on my travels, unless I somehow merged it with my travel journaling like I did with my Europe 2016 travel journal. But I kept a separate travel journal this time and while working between the two was a bit more time consuming, I’m glad I took my Season of Fairytales art journal with me.

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I took a very small stash of things to use in my art journal. So this first spread is reflective of that minimalism. I love how this came out! It’s so soft and wistful. I used a white doily as my center piece and layered and an old book page ripped from an Alice in Wonderland book. I then layered this bird image I got from a Daphne’s Diary magazine over it. I added some fine pen scribbling in the background and sprinkled a few heart stickers about to embellish the page. I added a title journaling that reads “escape to a world of make believe,” which is then accented by a phrase sticker that says “right where I want to be.” Love how simple and fun this turned out.

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For this next spread, I used a model image that I ripped from a Harrods guide map that I got when my family and I went to visit the mega department store. I just loved her floral shirt, which is saying a lot since it’s a very bold shade of yellow, but something about it was so attractive that I fussy cut the model out to use in this spread. I layered a book page and pink doily behind her, adding pen scribbles, circle stickers, fabric and washi tape to embellish. On the left side of the spread, I left the pattern page intact how I had made it in the journal and just added my journaling.

she don’t need saving

I’m not a huge fan of using images of models that are looking straight on. I don’t know what it is, but something about the eyes bug me. That’s why I usually go for images where the head is tilted or sunglasses or hair covers their eyes. For this one though, I used a phrase sticker that reads “I’m fine, thank you” to cover the model’s eyes and the sentiment just worked out perfectly to add on to my overall statement.

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With this last spread, I kind of did two pages next to each other. They work together color-wise, but I don’t think the two statements really go together and it wasn’t my intention that they do.

On the left, I cover the page with an old book page from that same Alice in Wonderland book and simply added this title piece from a Dear Lizzy ephemera pack that reads “the dream is real.” I thought that was so fitting on top of that Alice in Wonderland book page, given the premise of the story.

On the right, I left the floral page how I had made it for the journal and layered a white doily on top. I then took this silhouette of a man’s profile that I got from a Daphne’s Diary magazine and layered it on top. I added a butterfly over where the two edges met and then my journaling with a mixture of stickers and handwriting, which reads: “someday my prince with come” straight out of Snow White. I embellished the page with a few glitter heart stickers just to balance the glitter bits out and that’s it. I’m surprised how well this page came out because I struggled a bit with the placement of my journaling. But I’m really proud of this page too!

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