Discovery
My second post this day, but hey – can you blame me?
I don’t get a reward everyday you know!!! (see former post)
This afternoon I finished my LO for the challenge Scrapping out loud! came up with this week. This was their challenge:
“We want to know what 2008 taught you?
Tell us what you have learned from the past year on a layout.”
Yep, and a sketch again!
I tried to integrate the sketch from Scrapping out loud! with the challenge again. My layout turned out to be quite different though, maybe you can see the basic of the sketch but I went from there and did my own thing.
What 2008
thaught me?
Hmmm, a lot.
But I also re-newed an
important lesson
I already learned
(I’m a graduated
arts teacher,
remember?)
and that is to
keep wondering
over everything
I see!
Don’t say the sky is blue, ’cause it isn’t!
Look at it closely: sometimes it’s grey, or purple, or pink
or darkblue, or, or…. and this little poem (in Dutch) tells in a few simple words how amazing this world is if you REALLY LOOK and think about it!
Here’s the translation:
“If you look around well, you’ll see everything is coloured”
I had just the right photo to go with the poem, I had the sketch and I had the flowers so this was going to be a very “fast” scrap…
…so I thought.
Boy, was I wrong!
The felt swirl fitted the page but the colour dissapeared against the background. It looked, I don’t know, boring.
So I decided to “bling” it with metal thread…
Festoon stitches – yeah, that’s it!
(It took me over 3 hours to embroider that swirl!)
And after that, the page itself needed embroidering too – ofcourse.
So here it goes again….
(these stitches took less time though)
And here’s for
the easy part:
flowers!
(Used tiny little
buttons for the hearts)
And now, my fingers itch to start on a mini-book again!
I have plans for a little “OLW” project. Their new Word Up is “embrace” –
and boy do I love that word! My friend Lenny always ends her letters to me
in French (she has a cottage in France… jealous yet?) with “je t’embrasse”
(I embrace you) and I like the way that sounds, so melodious and so sweet!
I want to use that sentence…
Aaahhh… just brainstorming and jabbering away my thoughts to you.
You’ll see what came out when I finish that project but I’m affraid it will take the weekend. I won’t vanish though! I became hooked on bloggin’ and stalking you – can’t miss it a day! See you! JE T’ EMBRASSE
January 15th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Beautiful! 🙂
January 15th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I love it Marit, fantastic pg. love the stitching, the pic, the poem, the colors, love it all! and the embroidery is amazing…3 hrs..wow!!! Also, I can totally see my sketch!
It is so funny… mom went to art school and she was always saying things like..”The grass is not one shade of green” “look at the sky it is not just plain blue…”
have a great day and yes, i am jealous of her cottage in France…
January 15th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Yes….so beautiful! love all the details!
January 15th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Wicked layout! The stitching on the flourish is crazy cool, you obviously have lots of patience!
xo
Lisa
January 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Hey,
Of course I remember Magnum! ACTUALLY, when I was in 3rd grade I wrote a letter to Tom telling him how much my mom and grandma loved his show. He sent me back a signed postcard…I took it for show and tell! Ohhh man, those memories from childhood.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
This is so beautifully done!! Awesome work.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Wow! Amazing stitching!! Great job and thanks for playing along this week!
January 21st, 2009 at 12:32 pm
This is gorgeous Marit, all that stitching especially on your flourish looks amazing hope I can get this one done, it’s on my list….
January 26th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Man, that’s a lot of work! But well worth the time and effort!