Summer

Let me just say that I’ve never really felt this lost while I was trying to work in a very long time.  Saturday, we had our design team crop over at the store, and I thought, I’d make Christmas cards.  I brought all my Christmas stuff.  I made a great big mess.  I couldn’t make a card.  5 hours at the store, and I didn’t come out with one card.  Nothing.  I was so frustrated.

So I came home, and I pulled out a photograph.  I remembered that I’d been wanting to try a technique that had lots of “flags” underneath a photograph.  I don’t remember where I saw it.  I think it was a Scrapbook Trends magazine.  I pulled out the scraps from my Little Yellow Bicycle Splash line…  And out popped this.

Summer 2012

I loved the word “summer” that came with the embellishment pack.  I put it down, and the color just wasn’t right.  So, I used my Jenni Bowlin paint dauber and painted it blue.  Nope.  Blue was not the color.  Then I used my Tim Holtz whitewash stain over the blue.  Nope, that didn’t do it either.  So I went back to my Jenni Bowlin paint daubers and used my malt ball.  Wow, not it looks like the Summer is burned into the grass, which I love.  You can see it, but it doesn’t distract from the LO.

I decided to outline the photo in white pen.  I thought it needed to stand out just a little bit more.  That’s when I realized that the photo was placed crookedly.  I couldn’t figure out why everything seemed just a bit off kilter.  Yeah, an 1/8th of an inch off.  But, I love it.  I really do.  I love the flags, I love the kite, I love the little quote.  I love that it’s not perfect, and that it is still me.

Comments

  1. great job, gwen!  i love the flags and especially the orange paired with blue!

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