Crafting with limitations and disabilities is possible. With this blog, I am creating a record to show how I am overcoming my disability and using it as a motivation to become a better crafter. I hope my story helps others who may be in a similar situation. My tools, my hands. Crafting with limitations and disabilities is frustrating and can be very painful. The most important tool we CAN use is our determination. Click on a picture on the slideshow to view an enlarged image.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Love tag
Today I completed the tag for the last word stamp in the box. Love: a lover's kiss with a symphony of music notes in the background. A tag within a tag, inking, crystals and gossamer ribbon..... such is love.
Beauty tag
Almost done. This was a stamp I have been waiting to find a place to use it. Water colors, metallic watercolors, beads and ribbon. Took longer to dry than to paint. I love it.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Journey tag
My all time favorite stamp! 'Umbrella Man', traveling vibe, map, numbers, a few metal pieces and layers of distressed inks... vintage Holtz!
Stamp coastline map on tag with Timber Stazon. Using DI and cut and dry foam, color map with Broken China, Bundled Sage, Vintage Photo and Mustard Seed. Over stamp 'umbrella man' with black archival ink. Edge tag with 'map tape'. Stamp 'journey' on same tape, adhere to card stock, trim and mount on tag with foam tape. Add metal elements to 'Holtzerize'.
Stamp coastline map on tag with Timber Stazon. Using DI and cut and dry foam, color map with Broken China, Bundled Sage, Vintage Photo and Mustard Seed. Over stamp 'umbrella man' with black archival ink. Edge tag with 'map tape'. Stamp 'journey' on same tape, adhere to card stock, trim and mount on tag with foam tape. Add metal elements to 'Holtzerize'.
Truth tag
Almost done with the box of words.
How do we visualize truth? guarded from wrong doers? or caged in by the same?
How sad we cannot just bust open the gates of truth and freedom.
Let people be, let the truth be our moral standard.
How do we visualize truth? guarded from wrong doers? or caged in by the same?
How sad we cannot just bust open the gates of truth and freedom.
Let people be, let the truth be our moral standard.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Explore tag
Another tag! Using Espresso, Meadow and Sail Boat Blue alcohol inks I did the 'polished stone' technique on glossy paper, selected a good section, adhered to my tag and trimmed. Stamped the tops of trees with Stazon Forrest and flying birds with Stazon Ultramarine. Stamped 'explore' with the same color on a scrap of polished stone paper, trimmed and matted with dark blue card stock. Edged the entire tag with a Le Plume navy marker. Using Sail Boat Blue ink I colored and heat set the metal bird charm (Tim Holtz) and added a peach flatback crystal to the eye. The speckled effect is created with Denim Stickles rubbed very thin across the tag with the pad of a finger. Mount the caption with foam squares, thread matching ribbon through the charm and then the hole in the tag.
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