One thing I found out a long time ago: When you're working in a book with many different size pages, you have to make them harmonize. Not make them the same, or even think too much about them. But you do make decisions, for me they happen automatically, which take into consideration the design of the whole, as well as the specific area that's being worked on.
After a section of these, you finally come to a page that's whole, and is not seen from pages in front, or behind it. It stands alone in the middle. And all you have to think about is what's right in front of you. Total freedom. That's where this spread came from. Total freedom. I found the images and took it from there. The book is bigger than the area shown. I didn't get outside to photograph these in time, so they had to be scanned. But you have enough of the spread to get the general idea.
Do you see the part that looks like a seam? It looks like a vertical line on the right hand page, seaming two pieces of the photo together. It isn't a seam. It's a hidden door, thus my lettering, "Hidden Doors".
Here's what it looks like if you open that door:
...A small, separate section. It's hard to detect if you're not expecting it and you don't know that it's there. When I'm ready, that's where the journaling will go. Hidden, but not really secret, because you all know about it now. Scroll back up and take a look at it closed again. There's just a fraction of an overlap, so it appears like a seamless seam, and it isn't a seam at all. It's the image cut, and glued to two separate pages, with a very skinny flap of a page which was the size of the signature sewn in between.
We're now at the half-way point in Traci Bunker's 30 Days Of Get Your Art On, and this is yesterday's spread in the HandBook that I made for FTB.
YAY! Way to go. Something I've learned with scanning or photographing for my blog is "good enough"--I don't spend too much time trying to get it perfect. That way, I know I'll get the blog post done instead of feeling like I need to spend more time on it, and it never happening.
Posted by: Traci Bunkers | July 15, 2011 at 10:28 PM
Love it -- a "secret" passage! Reminds me of childhood and all the hidden nooks and crannies I created for myself. Congratulations on making the half way point!
Posted by: Marjorie | July 15, 2011 at 10:59 PM
I'm really enjoying seeing your journal pages. Love the frames you've incorporated and the hand carved stamps and doodling.
Posted by: Nelda Ream | July 16, 2011 at 03:55 AM
What a wonderful page Barbara. Wow. I need to start journaling in my FTB. Thanks for sharing. I love your pages. I have looked at all of them.
Posted by: Nancy Lynn | July 16, 2011 at 07:11 AM
Wow, you have really been busy! I like that your pages are "guerilla" like Mary Ann's; like her, you have a way of making everything work well together. (Hey, I tried to comment on your latest post, but it wouldn't let me.)
Posted by: Lisa M | July 17, 2011 at 03:29 PM
i LOVE these colors!!!
Posted by: 8west | July 20, 2011 at 07:52 PM