First Journal Page!

I just found my camera today, I have already done a couple pages in my journal but I thought it would be lame to talk about them without pictures so here is the first page!  

In the future I am going to take pictures as I go but as I didn't know where my camera was and I still wanted to work on it I decided to just go for it.  

This first page I used soft pastels in the background, I used a redish pink color, an orange, and a yellow.  I put the pink on the outside then colored with the orange then the yellow then I took a spray bottle of water and misted the colors and used a paint brush and my fingers to blend all the colors together.  I also took the pink and ran it more concentrated on the edges of the page.  

Then I took a stencil that I had and traced the outline of this flower thing with a black sharpie then using watercolors I filled in the flowers not really being super careful to fill in all the way up to the lines or to stay in the lines for a softer more loosey-goosey  look :).   

For the words I took some watercolor paper and put some squirts of my water colors in a few different colors all over it and then I misted it with some water and used an old credit card to smear the colors together then I wrote the words out using the Bic pens (which actually worked really well) and cut out the little tiles. I used Mod Podge to glue them down then used Mod Podge over the whole page because it felt a little chalky because of the pastels.  

Overall I am really happy with this page!  I love the colors a lot and it turned out pretty good for my first attempt.  Of course there are a few things I am not a fan of, the biggest thing is that I used green for the word tiles.  Now that I am looking at it I wish I would have used blue or purple the green blends in a little too much with the green "petals"  of the flower in the background so the saying does not really stand out a ton. I still love it and think it is super cute though, just something to remember for future pages- try to think about what is the background and what is the foreground and try to make a noticeable contrast between the two.