Today's Lesson From The Craft Room: A Little Walk Can Soothe Your Soul
Today, like so many days lately, was a stressful one at work. I finally decided to shut off the email and end my day. I wanted to do some creating, but I just felt all out of sorts. So I decided the best thing to do was to go and visit with Mother Nature. Buddy and I took a walk up to the park - watched a little boy playing t-ball in the park - he was adamantly saying to his brother "You need to listen to me or I will not do this anymore forever!" Oh how I wish that I as an adult could just say those words at work! How fun would that be?! Anyway, the visit to the park - the slow afternoon walk - really put me back together again and gave me the change of pace I needed to be able to walk back home and into the craft room.
I pulled out an old SU! stamp that I had picked up at a flea market - it's called Romantic Rose. Seemed to be the perfect image for aging. I stamped it in close to cocoa on very vanilla card stock and used the tearing edge to rough up the edges. Then I began my sponging with creamy caramel first, then close to cocoa, then chocolate chip, then basic black...and finally a little more chocolate chip for good luck This was a really fun technique! The ribbon and the greeting were the easy part. I hope you like it.
If you're feeling out of sorts, take a little walk...and then come back and visit my blog at www.myfigments.blogspot.com!
Date: Monday, June 29, 2009 GMT Views: 862
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Mon, Jun 29, 2009 @ 6:23 PM
Oh my......this is beautiful! The rose image with the ribbon and sentiment are just perfect! Very nicely done!
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