Hi Everyone! I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the theme for Art Journal Journey for this month. This is my first time as a Guest Designer and I would like to thank Elizabeth and Bleubeard from Altered Book Lover for inviting me along.
For my theme I chose "Type" because I have a fascination with the typed word, or rather the patterns people make when they do "fancy writing" using the various fonts on a typewriter, or, as we use nowadays, the computer.
When I first left school I trained as a shorthand typist and as time went on I became secretary to the Production Manager of a large company. From the beginning I loved typing and worked hard at the exercises given to me by my teacher until I eventually could type at over 90 words per minute. Not as grand as it sounds as some people type at 150 wpm.
Today my journal page is traditional containing two of my favourite things, rubber stamping and some stenciling - plus I love colouring although I am no colourist.
All images are rubber stamped on a reverse image stencil with some stamped words and numbers. The flower and flamingo images are by Aall & Create, a favourite company of mine. The typewriter image was stamped and embossed and the flowers were coloured using Inktense Pencils. The letters spelling 'TYPE' are diecuts from a very old Spellbinders set but I thought they looked like the typewriter keys on the old machines.
I would love you to join me at Art Journal Journey during the month of August - the word 'type' does not have to include a typewriter or anything to do with the machine. If you look in a dictionary it will tell you
n person thing or event serving as an illustration symbol or specimen, a letter or other character used in printing: collection or fount of this; execute on or use a typewriter."
Remember also it can be used as both a verb as in "he typed the words ..." and a noun "they produced the type of perfume she loved". Hopefully that will give you some more ideas. See you there?
