This week's Challenge over at Rosie and Linda's Awfully Big Art Adventure is to make a sign of a challenge or goal or message for the year ahead - a bit like a New Year Resolution - but much shorter .... I don't make NYR's because they are doomed to fail and I, therefore, fail and I can't be doing with that. I like this idea of one word though.
The idea for my word - PATIENCE - started while I was doing something else. It went wrong and I didn't have the patience to start all over again. I have also been just a tad impatient over the last couple of days because of my poor little sick car; and there have been a couple of times at work where, perhaps, a little more patience would have been a good thing.
So here's my Sign, which I will hang in my craft room/office, over the computer ....
The background is a mix of Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks all swiped, sooshed and sprayed, over the Tim Holtz Timeworks Mask. I just love the stamped image, which is salvaged from the failed piece (see above). It's Waiting For Mr Right from Lost Coast Designs and the four ladies are sitting there waiting so patiently .... The letters of the word are cut using the Abigail alphabet with the Quickutz Revolution and then scuffed up a bit with an emery board. I used bright colours for humour. The clock face is from the Artistic Stamper's Time and Keys Plate. The whole thing is mounted on a piece of card that I was messing around with walnut ink. All the edges have been tattered with a Paper Distresser.
The idea for my word - PATIENCE - started while I was doing something else. It went wrong and I didn't have the patience to start all over again. I have also been just a tad impatient over the last couple of days because of my poor little sick car; and there have been a couple of times at work where, perhaps, a little more patience would have been a good thing.
So here's my Sign, which I will hang in my craft room/office, over the computer ....
The background is a mix of Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks all swiped, sooshed and sprayed, over the Tim Holtz Timeworks Mask. I just love the stamped image, which is salvaged from the failed piece (see above). It's Waiting For Mr Right from Lost Coast Designs and the four ladies are sitting there waiting so patiently .... The letters of the word are cut using the Abigail alphabet with the Quickutz Revolution and then scuffed up a bit with an emery board. I used bright colours for humour. The clock face is from the Artistic Stamper's Time and Keys Plate. The whole thing is mounted on a piece of card that I was messing around with walnut ink. All the edges have been tattered with a Paper Distresser.
