Today is a lovely day for love sweeties… there is chilly love, longing for love, love for stamps, art journal love and link love… so grab a cup, lean back and enjoy!
Haiku My Heart Friday
| De koele minnaarDe maan begon te schijnen Cirkel in het gras | The Chilly LoverThe Moon Began To Shine Circle In The Grass |
This haiku was found/written for Haiku my Heart Friday.
Visit Rebecca at Recuerda Mi Corazon to find the list of participants of this haiku circle.
Last Wednesday, I showed you my ‘box of longing’ that I altered to store my index-card collages. For the ones among you that did not read that post, here’s a picture of the box.
Michelle commented that she found the box fabulous (thanks dear 🙂 ) and she said: “Would love to know more about how you altered it – are the words painted on? How did you get that beautiful texture?”
So I made a few extra photos yesterday and here are the answers.
I used mod podge to glue tissue paper on the metal box. The tissue paper was soaked in mod podge. Using my fingers, I covered the box with the paper and created the folds. While the tissue paper was still wet with the glue, I sprayed ink on it. (“Dylusions” spray ink and “Ranger Color Wash” – if I remember correctly the colors were blue, yellow, green, denim, bottle green…)
It was a mess, yes, but the outcome texture is indeed fabulous!
Here’s a picture of the title on top of the box – that Michelle is referring to when she asks about the words.
I searched for sticker alpha’s and stamps to make the title, but couldn’t find letters that were to my satisfaction – so I decided to hand carve stamps for the title myself and stamp them with acrylic paint. The ‘shadows’ were made with a Copic marker.
I figured that after using these for the box, I could cut the letters loose and use them in other projects too. After all, using different shapes/fonts and sizes of alphabet stamps together is fun!
The week does not end without showing you my Chronicles spread.
The Chronicles of Marit – Week 13
Today, I join Tammy “Daisy Yellow” Garcia in her endeavor to promote and revive the fun of blogging. I, too, noticed that social media like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter are keeping people from blogging and reading like they used to… the ‘instant gratification’ that these fast media preserve is addicting but I do miss the ‘deeper’ connections that were made via commenting and blogging…
… so I’m happy Tammy started this mission to spread love via blogging this month.
FOUR POSTS – FIVE LINKS…
- You can read all about it here: Share the Link Love: A Mission Tammy’s blogpost is the first I choose to share and ‘link to with love’ – and I hope you too will join this project this month.
- Second is a blogpost that Kim Mailhot wrote about this same topic a while ago. I agree with what Kim says here and this post is food for thought. I Miss The Old Blogland.
- Old Spaces Made New – a very special post from my dear friend Lea. Lea and I felt connected in a special way from the moment we found each other on the internet. We met in real life almost a year ago. Lea is one of the women I call my ‘soulsister’.
- Â Most art journalers know Kate Crane from The Kathryn Wheel. I was in ooh and aawee over the doodling she showed in this post. More Doodling!
- Â Last but not least, I share a link to Caatje’s Artsy Stuff – because Caatje manages to bring inspiration with every (and I mean EVERY) blogpost she writes!
Hope you all have a great weekend dear ones!
Share some love!
Loving how you put that box together and loveeeeeee your journal page!!
Marit, So happy that you have joined the mission! I do miss the good old days of blogging and remember Kim’s post quite well. So many of us started to blog in the days where the link love was fresh and flowing and we miss that. I shall investigate your links today!
creative and original art work ~ and delightfully written haiku ~ Enjoy ^_^
Great haiku, and your box of longing is so pretty.
Great crafts and haiku.
I’m so excited that you showed how you decorated your box! It really is gorgeous. And the hand-carved stamps add such a great touch.
Thanks for the links. This sounds like an interesting mission Daisy Yellow has started. I’ll check it out.
Sigh. . . the found haiku concept is brilliant. I’m going to give it a go.
Dear Marit… I have been longing to visit with you, and today you found me… and now, here I am, slipping into the comfort of your words, art, and links that feed my soul… I agree that cyberspace is moving fast and I too miss the reading and links of bloglandia. Every chance I get that is not on the computer, I long to immerse myself in my garden and in my art. Thank you for being a weaver of links and what matters. You are my soul-sister indeed and I love you and your beloved dearly…
I had never heard of The Kathryn Wheel, so I’m glad I clicked your link. Those drawings were really lovely. Happy Friday! 🙂
beautiful beautiful haiku Marit!
I love looking at your art!
Thanks for the extra links, I enjoyed each visit.
And as usual…terrific haiku♥♥
Your box of longing looks and sounds wonderful…you remind me that I need/want to decorate my metal box for my altered index card collection so far 🙂
So much to enjoy and click on here … will I ever get dinner ready HAH!
Wishing you a lovely spring weekend…we think it may actually “feel” like spring here in the Wash DC area … the cherry blossoms have been afraid to open in the chilly weather … so they are late for the Cherry Blossom Festival … that tricky Mother Nature!
oxo
Beautiful post as always Thanks for sharing!
Green Flame
The circle in the grass sounds, well, suggestive!
Meadow Flowers
Beautiful Haiku
I enjoyed the links you shared.
marit…i can feel the love here and am thankful for it. yes, bloglandia has shifted and i too miss the deep connections and sense of family and meaningful support that was shared so fervently.
thank you lighting the flame of renewal and encouraging all of us to do the same.
xoxoxox
Other than finding NEW inspiring people, it has been wonderful to re-discover artists that had sort of gotten lost along the way. Thanks for re-introducing me to Kathryn Wheel.
Lovely post! Interestingly, I have moved away from FB etc as I’ve become more interested in blogging!
Love the colors on your box Marit and love how you handcrafted your own stamps you crafty woman you!!!
The box is very pretty, and so is the book haiku. Pretty yellow books for such a “cold” poem… But I like it.
Thanks for the links! Great blog and lovely artwork!
🙂 Loved your stamped letters, and your journal page is gorgeous. Love the colour and energy. Than you for sharing the link love. More links to follow down new rabbit holes!
just GORGEOUS!
xxx from Austria
FROEBELSTERNCHEN FROM AUSTRIA
ART-JOURNAL-JOURNEY
Marit! Love your work! I am inspired to start carving letters, now! Yours turned out so beautifully. And your chronicle page is very inspiring. Thanks for sharing the link love with all of us!