Hi guys,
A quick post to let you know what I've been up to today. Check out "True North Arts " she has a wonderful post about cross-making. What a great idea to make crosses out of found objects from your environment during Lent. I work in a place where they throw out allot of perfectly good supplies and I have saved some to use for my cross.
The cross is made out of garbage pieces of "rag-mat".
I have some old book pages and I will use some of the words that I find interesting or that I am drawn to. At work we throw out allot of the brown wrapping paper so I saved some because I like the organic color and feel of it. I also used a butterfly stamp with gold ink, (I put the butterfly stamp on almost everything). I then used some pen and ink (brown) and distressed the edges with "Vintage Photo-Distress Ink". Then for a finished touch I sprayed the whole cross with "Tattered Angel's-
Glimmer Mist".
I have named my cross....Forgiveness. I have a few resentments and I blame myself for certain things that I feel responsible for in my life,
so making this and meditating during the creation process has made me feel more peaceful with myself. Thank-you Kathryn for enlightening me today :)
If anyone and everyone is up for the challenge...what is your cross that you bear today?
"We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human." Jacquelyn Small
Good Day folks,
As I sit here... it is blowing and a mere 46 below zero with the wind chill. I live in Canada and even for a Canadian that is severely COLD!! I'm thinking the North Pole is warmer. It's the kind of cold where I worry about the deer and coyotes and... I wonder... what temperature does it have to be before glass cracks?
I have been working on my "mini-watercolor tin" and I must say, I really like it. I needed to get some silicone so that I could make in water-proof on the inside. I siliconed around the blister pack that I glued in. Don't use metal glue...it didn't work for me. I siliconed the blister pack in as well, so overall it took about 2 days to dry. I painted it with acrylics and
pen+ink and cut out the heart and flowers out of an old book page. This was the first time I have tried Golden's Fluid Acrylics and Wow!! I love them...you don't need much and the pigment stays true...I knew there must be a reason they are so expensive. Quality. They also have a shine to them that I like. I haven't tried them in my journal yet so I am interested to see if they are sticky when dry. I have heard that some artists say the pages stick when they use it and some say that they don't stick. So I will just have to let you know when I use them in my journal.
I can't wait to put in the liquid water-colors into my mini. I am going to put in the primaries, red, blue and yellow. Then white, black and brown. I think I can mix any color with those. I am not a seasoned watercolorist so if anyone out there knows what colors I should need in this little travel tin let me know.
This is the bottom of the tin and I am not yet done, I want to write a personal note to myself but I am not quite sure what yet. I want to thank Leslie at "Comfortable Shoes" for her excellent video and sharing her way of making these. I want to make a ton of them...but no one paints :(
I then will have to spray the whole outside of the tin and then do allot of coats so that it is well protected from the abuse that I know I will put it through.
The next project I have to finish is the Midori Traveller that I showed you last week. I have all the supplies now and I just have to get it done. I cut mine a bit too small so wish me luck.
"Skill to do comes of doing." Ralph Waldo Emerson
