Journaling with Blackbird Designs

I think my journaling class with Blackbird Designs has to rank up there with one of the best classes I have ever taken. I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting into. They were extremely organized. They had various stations set up, a cutting station with different types of scissors and rotary cutters, a glue station, a color copy machine area where you could copy or resize your pictures you had brought with you. An old typewriter was set up and a table that was full of scrapbook pages, ribbons, fabric, metal letters, stickers, cards of different styles, etc. Alma of Blackbird has journaled for years. She showed us many of her journals. She does them almost in altered book form. Adding things on top of each other and also adding her writing. We were to choose a theme and go with it. It should be something we could write about. Class projects, cooking, stitching, etc. I chose my daughter Mariah’s quilts. I have made her a quilt each year of her life and have written in a book each year things about her. I thought it would be fun to dedicate pages for each quilt, thoughts of that year and a picture of her. I got as far as my cover done. I think this will be really fun to play around with. I am including all kinds of pictures of pages and covers from Alma’s journals. I also took pictures of all the class participants journals, I can’t share them since I didn’t get permission but I am going to hang on to these just to get some ideas. Everyone seemed to go in a different direction. It was a very fun class and I left it really inspired. http://www.dashdist.com/blackbird.html
Tomorrow is all about my class with Ginger Sanchez.