A Transition...

I was faithful to my journal for about a month last year, and then I let it slide...for 6 months! After that hiatus, I started the journal back up again, but felt like I needed to account for those lost months somehow. Otherwise there would be this weird, unaccounted for, gap of time. In order to transition from September 2011 to March 2012, I created a spread of pages that gives a very concise summary of those six months. On one side, I listed a few events corresponding to each. On the other side, I chose three unique events and highlighted them with fun papers and lettering.

I have to give a shout out to my good friend, Nancy Burke, who co-authored a lettering book that inspired the writing on these pages. Her book, CardMaker's Handlettering Workbook, with its many  examples gave way to the variations shown in the close-ups below.

It was so much fun trying out the decorative handwriting styles on these journal pages, without worrying about messing up something REAL important, like a layout that I had just spent hours creating! This is one of my favorite things about this type of journaling...the freedom it gives to drag out my creativity and simply play with papers and supplies.