Don't give up

I started this journal page with several goals in mind. First of all the DLP week 6 prompt ( don't stop till you get enough) that ended up turning into "don't give up" and secondly my February tag (12 tags of 2015), for which I wanted a pocket and the text "know in your heart that you are loved" that I didn't get on the tag. Thirdly I decided to try out pink as a journal page colour, so I could fit this in the SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge (red and pink). After finishing the page, the new SimonSaysStamp Wednesday challenge had come (All creatures great and small), and since I have a little fox here, I'm posting for that too.

I started by stamping the spread allover with three different background stamps (a ledger, a letter and one with water droplets. I spread the pink ( and some purple) over the spread with an old plastic card. I cut out some scallops along a scrap piece of card and using my mini ink blending tool applied first gesso and then light green along the edges. I chose a page from an old chemistry book (this has pictures of complex ions with coordinated bonds, and it has me thinking about complex relationships)
I embellished the top edge of the pocket with some quilling strips, sprayed it with some pink glimmer mist and glued it in place.

I added grey around the scallops and since there was grey paint some left, wrote the text on the right side of the spread. After continuing with a couple of different stencils and adding some shadows and highlights I thought I was done and packed the journal away. 

Taking a second look at it, I realized that there was an empty spot in the middle: my writing was too far out in the right. I remembered doing a topper in these same colours and checked it out. It would have been perfect both in colour and message, but didn't fit... so I settled for colouring another little Gorjuss girl. When I look at her I'll remember the "just be you" from the topper too!