I really latched on to the notion of equal opposites when thinking about this challenge and so went pretty hard with that theme for this little notebook.
The front cover(s) are a Rorschach style paint treatment cut along the fold. I used white, pearl, and gold acrylic paints on black cardstock which I glued to a chipboard shape from stash that I had cut in half.
I used white with a black die cut on one side and black with white on the other.
Then I really got into it for cutting the letters by using lowercase serif font for the “pro” and uppercase sans serif for the “CON.” I also cut the “pro” with the striations of the gold paper going horizontally and the the “CON” with the striations going vertically. And placed “pro” on the top left and “CON” on the bottom right.
I was not liking any of my black & white printed cardstock for the inside back cover, so chose a grey and then the arrows indicating a cycle made sense to me for solstice and for the idea of opposite equals, etc.
I put a lot of effort into getting the cardstock I’d selected for the back centered just so and then missed it by one! D’oh! The meaning of the winged heart is… well not related at all, but each of those embossed dies were some of the few right-to-left symmetrical dies that I have and I liked the texture, so… they there are! And since the design of the paper leans to the left a little I made the winged heart lean to the right just a little. It’s still balanced!
Everything was from stash. YEY! I used my Bind-it-all to bind it and painted the o-wires with gold spray paint. I used my Sizzix Big Shot to cut the letters, arrows, hearts, “bubbles,” and wings. Various pigment ink pads on the edges and tops of things, some markers on edges, too.