Time for this month's CHA Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop! This month the theme is Journaling. I love journals. I love buying them and dreaming about how I will fill them with thoughts and plans and musings. But I never seem to get past the first entry in a new journal because once I close the covers of the book, it always seems to end up hidden and forgotten under a stack of more pressing items all vieing for my attention. So my journaling never gets very far each year. However I do love love love to make To-Do lists and I love to organize anything and everything! So this year I decided to make a sort of recipe box in which to keep all my intentions and goals for the coming twelve months. This way I can organize and shuffle the cards around and then pull out and display specific cards which I want to focus on that day.
I've also had the Cat in the Hat on the mind a lot lately so I wanted to play around with the colors from the book - orangey red, blue, yellow and lots of black. Remember how the Cat in the Hat opens a box and Thing 1 and Thing 2 leap out to cause havoc? I love that image! So here's my 3-D journal of sorts - all inspired by Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat!
Ready for 2012!
This was a simple hinged wood box which I gessoed and then decorated with Copic markers. Super easy. The great thing about outlining everything with a black marker is that it hides all the boo-boos and really makes everything pop.
Look at all those cards just waiting to be organized!
I cut cards out of super heavy white chipboard. Then to make the fun top edges, I used a Fiskars stencil and craft knife on half of the cards and an Accucut scallop die on the rest.
Intentions on the Left, Goals on the Right
Once the cards were all cut out, it was time to start the writing. It was so much fun - like coloring in a coloring book! Using the Copic markers, I wrote really simple thoughts on the front of each card and then wrote the details on the backs. That little character with the hat is me and the little bird who cracks wise is my smart aleck inner self.
Drinking 64 Oz. Every Day Is Not That Easy
This project was a blast!! Now I have a place to keep track of all my plans for the year, play with markers, draw fun little characters and I can keep adding cards and reorganizing. Now that's my kind of journal!
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