How To Create Clustered Embellishments that Gather Gratitude

 

artful spaces

All season's have their own mood and feel about them. This season, which is autumn here in the NorHem, is one that brings with it a bit of slowing as the mornings and evenings are cooler. The night comes quicker. The candles are lit. And the blankets are getting pulled out for snuggles on the sofa. With that comes, for me anyway, a renewal of gratitude journaling as a grounding practice. 

It's a fresh start of small stories in thankful places that just might start with layers of paper in artful spaces. Clustered embellishments: mini collages that hold the spirit of the page. That's just what we are about this week with a new video sharing about just that. Creating embellished clusters that invite us into a page with our photos, our stories, but hopefully most of all, our gratitude tellings.

Right now these layers are inspired by the colors and textures of fall that I literally am finding most everywhere. Especially on my daily walks through trails of flowers going to seed, tall grasses turning golden, and trees giving up the newly hued leaves. Inspiration being played out on the page is literally inspired by what I am seeing all around me. Which in turn sparks the gratitudes that I am writing about right along side these layers of papery goodness.

In this week's video we are building step-by-step a page of embellished layers that will snuggle right up to a page of journaling. The intention was to add to my GRATEFUL TODAY gratitude journal in a very artful way. The papers and bits chosen were gathered because of the colors of fall that I continue to work in. I have invited a very congruent gathering of color and texture and hue so that all my projects currently have the same feel. I love to create like that. In this tutorial watch how we purposefully build up these elements which also lay a track for creating on other surfaces too. 

Today. What is inspiring you today? What are you gathering this season? What is your heart seeing that you want to visualize on a page? Dig a little deeper into your own soul. Even if the story is hard. Getting creative with it can very often soften the blow that life often brings to our stories. Creativity is such a gentle and slow way to get still and to ponder by way of making. Which then I hope, as always, will render gathered gratitude written on your pages too.

Might I encourage you to take a few minutes daily to reflect. To make. To write down the ordinary things you encounter in your day so that you too might have a body of work that reflects so much of the goodness in your life.

Watch this embellished cluster making video here and be inspired for your own making:

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If you try any of these techniques, I would love to see what you make! Tag me on Instagram @jamiepate so I can cheer you on.

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