What is a creative journal?
It is an everything book of pages that reveal one’s journey during a season of time when interests, activities, feelings, and thoughts are visually documented. Here ingenuity and innovation marry the elements of art and principles of design to produce a collection of creative pages. Every page created is organized into a comprehensible theme and then bound or coiled into book form.

Inventors, engineers, artists, musicians, scientists and many writers have used journaling  as a form of creative expression to convey their ideas. The creative journaling and artistic scrap booking class brings forth the elements and principles of design to academically, technically, and intuitively invite the process of creativity.

Elements of art: space, line, shape, form, colour, value and texture

Principles of design: movement, repetition, emphasis, contrast, unity, focus, composition, harmony, rhythm, proportion, perspective, hue/saturation, positive/negative, and style

What is creativity?
Creativity is the ability of imagination to birth something. It is a blessing because it brings well-being and a sense of accomplishment. Elements of art and principles of design challenge the imagination into a place of creating. However, original ideas can be sabotaged by one’s own obstacles in thought or word. Lack of vision hinders creativity while fear disables it. Higher levels of thinking creatively and problem solving happens as the concept of creative journaling begins.