Little positive book

Recently, I have been really enjoying watching crafting videos on Youtube.  I watch art journaling and also junk journaling and one of my favourite junk journaling sites is The Paper Outpost.
I watched one on little books made using book pages and decided I needed to give this a go.  The link to the video is here
I changed mine a little as I made the covers from scraps of Kraft card and they are 5 cm x 5 cm so are small.  I also wanted them to have positive words in them and had great fun raiding my stash for stamps as well as printing words out too.

 Here's the front cover...

 and the back.

 I used book pages for the pages and then had a lot of fun decorating.

 I coloured some of the images with watercolour pencils...

 ...and added black watercolour crayon around the words, using a little water to smudge the colour out.

Although they were a little bit fiddly, I really enjoyed this little project.

I ended with happiness - we'd all like that, wouldn't we?

I also watched CreationsCeeCee who inspired my Pocket Doodle book last December.  She has been using up watercolour pages and I thought I could use up gel print pages, to make these bookmarks.

The link to her video is here  

Both of these are destined to be part of a birthday present for a work colleague who is very artistic herself, so I think she will like them.