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30 Days of Creativity — Day twenty-eight.
30 Days of Creativity: The goal is to create something, anything, for every day of June.
Today I made a stamp out of a tiny cork from a bottle, and used it in my Wreck This Journal to make a scale pattern. The gaps in the scales are because I accidentally split the cork while carving it, it was really crumbly and the X-acto knife kept snagging more than I was trying to cut.
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Wreck This Journal: In progress part VI
Cover this page using only office supplies.
Glue random items here.
Tongue painting: Eat some colorful candy & lick the page.
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Wreck This Journal: In progress part V
A place for your grocery lists.
Chew on this. (Whoops, apparently gave myself a papercut.)
Make a paper chain.
Create a drawing using a piece of your hair.
For that last one, I dragged a piece of my hair through some acrylic paint — Liquitex Basics if you’re interested — then placed it on the page. Then I closed the book and slowly pulled the hair out from between the pages.
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Wreck This Journal: In progress part IV
Wrap something with this page, and Hide a secret message somewhere in this book.
Doodle on this page.
Write one word over and over.
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Wreck This Journal: In progress part III
Make a mess, clean it up.
Make prints using an ink pad & cut vegetables. (Celery.)
Cover this page with white things. (The greyish bits are actually fake pearls.)
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Wreck This Journal: In progress part II
This page is for handprints. Get them dirty, press down.
Sew this page. (This isn't my favorite but still came out alright.)
Throw something. (Cotton balls dipped in Puffy Paint, dropped onto page.)
Trace your hand.
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My new Wreck This Journal, in progress.
Thanks to Keri Smith herself, I was able to buy a new Wreck This Journal. In case you don’t know what it is, it’s basically an activity book for adults. Each page has a different task, and it’s up to you how to interpret the directions. Finishing this book is one of my tasks for my Day Zero project, so I wanted to share what I’ve done so far. I was going to share the photos on my Day Zero blog, but I originally mentioned it here and it just seems easier to post them here since the layout allows bigger pictures. I don’t really know why I’m trying to explain the method to my madness, but there’s always a method.
Start here.
Crack the spine.
Information page.
An anagram for "instructions"
Drip something, close book to make a print.
A page for four-letter words.
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Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal. Help me buy a new one?
Two years ago I bought myself a Wreck This Journal. I slowly worked on it and came up with some fun ideas, but ultimately didn’t like a lot of what I did and didn’t even complete a lot of the pages. Here’s some of what I did:
Before the creativity began.
Poke holes in this page using a pencil.
Drip something, close the book to make a print. (I used food coloring.)
Write your name in different ways.
Fill this page with circles.
Place sticky things here. (I used stickers after a failed attempt of using chewing gum.)
Collect fruit stickers from fruit you bought.
Cover this page using only office supplies.
I ended up throwing it out since there was food inside (one of the pages says to document your dinner, for example) so I never got around to finishing the rest. But I’d love to own another one. I had the idea that maybe some friends and followers could chip in to help me buy a new one, it’d be an awesome holiday present and you can count on me posting my progress of the new WTJ. I know a lot of you have young children to buy holiday presents for, but there’s no harm in asking!
I no longer need donations, so I’ve removed the Paypal button. Keri Smith herself donated so I could buy one of her books, I’m surprised and very grateful!
Edit on 12/27: I got the new book today and will start on it ASAP!
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