Hey I’ve got another art journaling page oh no it’s not art Journalling, it’s a scrapbook page. I started with scrapbooking but now I use all the parts of scrapbooking that I love in my art journalling. I think about journalling and scrapbooking as very similar. Okay so this is an interesting page. It’s actually two pages. It’s a two-page spread as we used to call it in those days. With my four little kids in it.
An old 2 page spread from the scrapbooking days
The reason I really like this two-page spread, is because I used these photos in a scrapbook page in my very early days, when I first started it, and it was a page I didn’t like. So after a couple of years of doing scrapbooking, I decided I was gonna redo some of my pages. So I took the bits that I liked from the original page and I changed them. I did different things. Sometimes I did different words. In this case I cut the photos up differently and I designed new pages that I really liked!
Now these embellishments, as we call them in scrapbook terminology, they came as a cheap kit, nothing fancy at all. They were definitely not top of the range, or even a known brand. They aren’t great quality, or my favourite colours.
The life lesson – you can change your life!
But what I love the most is the life lesson. You can take things from your past that you didn’t like, that you hated maybe. Maybe that you really detest, and that you try never to think about again. Just like I never wanted to look back at those early scrapbook pages.
And you can rework them! You can take from them what you like and chuck out the rest. And you can make them into something new! Something that you’re proud of. Something that you’re happy with. Something that helps you even.
Oh that sounds so exciting to me! I would love to help you do that! If you’ve got something in your past you need to rework and figure out how it fits in your current life, how to turn it into a strength, that really gets me going! That really makes me want to work with you!
So there you go. That’s my lesson and and question. What have you got from your past that you hate and prefer not to think about, that you could use as a strength, now. I’m gonna let you think about that. Maybe you’ll reach out and talk to me about it.
