This art journal page started with a very practical intention: my drawers are overflowing, and it’s time to use what’s already there.

I began with a soft watercolor background and built the page slowly using book pages, hand-cut shapes that resemble leaves and twigs, bits of gauze for texture, and a test stamp from my Mix, Match and Create stamp set. Nothing was chosen to be perfect—everything was chosen because it was waiting to be used.

This journal isn’t about finished masterpieces. It’s about movement, layering, and letting materials finally become part of something instead of staying stored away.

Sometimes the most freeing creative decision is simply this: no new supplies allowed.