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Monday 20 April 2015

Beautiful Blue Planet

Joan one of the Make My Monday design team has chosen a lovely theme for this week's challenge
 which is:
Earth Day
Earth day is celebrated on Wednesday 22nd April,  it promotes environmental awareness and calls for the protection of the planet.
With this in mind I decided to use recycled materials such as old envelopes and book pages etc which ended up as an art journal page.
 My original idea was to make a recycled card using an old brown envelope and a book page from an old Pears Cyclopaedia. I chose a page about plants, seemed appropriate. I struggled to make the card idea work ;-( so I thought it might make a good journal page. When I checked my journals... I have a few but not often used, it's always something I'm gonna do, if you know what I mean. I found this lovely blue page made many months ago with waste from baby wipes.. beautiful blue planet came to mind..  I love the NASSA photographs of earth taken from ISS (International space station) We live on a beautiful, unique (up to now) planet. The corrugated parts are from a Costa wrap from around a toasted sandwich which I sat outside to enjoy the other day whilst shopping.
These two photos highlight the book page and the recycle information from the Costa packaging
 I think the page needs more work especially something about its inspiration ie Earth Day. 



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5 comments:

Aquarius said...

A lovely journal page - so appropriate for the theme. I've yet to launch into journal pages!

Joan said...

Your page is great!! Love that you used the wrap from your sandwich.

Fliss said...

A really beautiful journal page Suzi with lovely texture.
Good to see you recycling like me too.
Fliss xx

Marina said...

What a fabulous collage! Love all the recycling and the colours in the background are lovely.

Zue said...

this is a great recycling project, makes a wonderful page for your journal

We certainly do live on a remarkable planet, and is worth celebrating.
I hadn't thought of doing anything for Earth Day, maybe after seeing this I might.
Hope you got to sort out your shed.
Sue x