Hello, paperjournals!

[snowsurrounded]

Okay, so in the spirit of things like the Community Participation Meme and Three Weeks For Dreamwidth, I'm going to try to kickstart this comm a bit. Wondering if people would be interested in things like weekly themes or challenges, or anything like that?

Anyway, here's some pictures from my not-very-artistic journal.



The actual journal. It's sort of tiny, smaller than A5 size I think.


er. I may have been feeling a bit moodswingy that day.


I don't know why, but I really like this page. The text is from chopping up an Ancient Greek textbook, which was kind of cathartic. (I hated learning Greek.)


POINTLESS DOODLING FTW.

Comments

[surpassingly]

Hello, new member here!

I think weekly themes would be nice, as long as we could still freely post non-themed stuff.

Your journal looks so pretty. I really like the second inside pic, too.

[snowsurrounded]

Hello and welcome, new member! :)

Oh, definitely people could still post whatever they wanted - I'm basically happy with anything people post here as long as it's at least a tiny bit related to journals, heh.

And thankyou! <3

[marlenanke]

I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DOES THIS YAY[/caps]

Yes, I think challenges or just periodic themes of some sort would be nice. I like the idea and I think it would encourage creativity at least among some of us. :)

[valley]

I love your journal! I usually don't go for pink, but this one is beautiful!

I'm mostly a text writer and I don't post pictures or topics very often myself, but I don't object to periodic themes. It would be nice to see some more activity, and maybe themes and other posts will inspire me to be more visually artistic (or something).

[lizfu]

This post was the tipping point that made me join this community <3 I love the textures you add to each page. Which brings me to the question: What type of paper/texture/textured paper did you use in the third image?? It looks really cool :D I'm dabbling in making journals (bookbinding, making covers, etc.), and I think whatever you used would make an interesting cover.

[snowsurrounded]

Wow, thankyou! <3

I think the third page is... ripped-up magazine pages glued down, then a couple of layers of gouache paint over them? I love gouache. I've been messing around a lot lately with different textures and colour effects - so glad someone liked it!

[lizfu]

Also, I would be interested in the idea of weekly themes. I'm not sure how much I would participate, but it would be really cool to see what people do with each theme :)