Look On The Bright Side Page

This is another page taken from my Teesha Moore Journal Swap, the original page artist of this page is Annie!

Annies page is painted bright yellow and orange and features lots of lovely sunflowers, I dont know about you but to me sunflowers represent all things positive and bright! I decided to use the sunflowers as my inspiration and wrote on the words 'look on the bright side' in large lettering and went from there.

I added borders and lines and dots here there and everywhere! I also drew some small freestyle suns to fill in the gaps then I finally finished off the page by writing on various words and stuff which came to mind from the theme I was going with - reasons to look on the bright side.

Heres my page:

Normality Is Boring Page

Another page from my Teesha Sketchbook stash, this one was created originally by Rena!

To begin with I went round with a black pen and I added lines, dots and borders to the design to make it stand out, and added some white highlights too.

The words 'quirkiness is everywhere' were already on the page so I decided to use them as my jumping point. Thinking to myself, the words quirkiness made me think of things outside of the norm - which gave me the idea for 'Normality Is Boring' - so I wrote those words on the page and I was away! The other words kinda followed on naturally with the theme. I just kept going with the doodles and swirls till I felt it was complete:

A Perfect Cup Of Tea Page

Another page taken from my Teesha stash of journal pages, original page design artist is Rebecca. I loved the simplicity of this page and decided to use the Tea theme as my inspiration. What makes a perfect cup of tea? A very good question as we are all different and we all have different preferences, heres mine!

Whats YOUR perfect cup of tea?

Life Is Too Short Page

Heres another page taken from my Teesha Moore Journal Swap, this one was also created by Maggi too! This page had a party theme, I decided to use that as my jumping ground for my creativity and went down the 'life is too short. lets party' route.

I like this page because Ive used some of my favourite John Lennon lyrics on the page:

After All Is Said And Done,
You Cant Go Pleasing Everyone,
So Screw It.

You cant put it better than that can you?! It is so true, a sentiment I now live by!

Heres the scan of my page:

Imagine Page

I recently took part in a Teesha Moore Style Journal Page Swap on our Swap Group, we each had to create blank decorated journal pages in the style of Teesha Moore. In return we recieved gorgeous artwork created by all the participants of the swap. We are supposed to now bind these pages and make them into a sketchbook which we can use.

I decided to start decorating my journal pages first prior to binding them so that I could work on them in stages and also to allow me to work freely without the bindings or other pages getting in the way.

Here is one of the first pages I decorated, which was created by Maggi, I decided for this project Im undertaking Im going to use the main journal theme for my inspiration when I do my journalling.

Here is my 'Imagine' Page: