Workshop Journal Art

The Strathmore Jounaling class by Pam Carriker is finished.  I posted my step one pages here:  http://swallowcliffs.blogspot.com/2011/01/strathmore-journal-art.html
And today the finished pages.  I enjoyed her process and learned some new techniques to adapt to my needs as I journal.  What I found interesting is that some of the pages told me what to write about, some are still blank of writing, waiting for the right time to come.  For the negative spaces I mostly used my own created stamps and found object stamps.

I used some of my art and some photo copies of old snap shots of my Mom... I still miss her!

Photo copies... and broken bonds due to death and torn trust...

Sorry this is turned wrong... what causes this?  Anyway I had the bit of world map which turned into a teddy bear... demanded to be a teddy bear! and how my Mom was my safety teddy bear!

Just collage pieces and a piece of my art (art doll),  I will write about walking the tall fences on our 

block! 

This one is collage, photocopy of an old photo when I was little (left eye) and a pencil self portrait photo copy.  The apple of someones eye came from the collage...  and do you recognize the zebra carved stamp, lol?

Just some collage really... nothing of my own.  You don't have to have photocopies of your old work if you don't want to to try her methods.  Not sure what I will write here yet.

And this is a piece of paper embedded with strings that I made some time ago and just have always wanted to use it for something and never found the right project, lol.  The papers around the edge were justs notes and such I had laying around the studio.

And this was just some a photo copy of some leaves I had in my ephemera stash.  I think this one looks more like what Pam would do than any of them... more pastel looking... It is nice!  Now, I can write how I have grown in 2011!

I am looking forward to March for the second round.   In the meantime, I have been also working on Milliande's prompts.  Daily is a bit fast for me... I have to have time to let an idea emerge.  Now that she is off the Zs I am doing a bit better with her prompts, I think.