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.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Believe tag
'Believe' hits home. My mother is a breast cancer survivor. After the surgeon told us to say goodbye to grandmama because chances of coming out of surgery alive were almost none. If she did survive it, going home in a week was a fat chance; if she did make it home, recovery would be slow and difficult. Chances of survival at her age (75), with the type of cancer (stage III) and the type of surgery (full mastectomy)... were against her. Its been 5 years and she lives a full life. This one is for you mom. Simple and understated.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Sun and Moon
Workout for the hands! Sun and Moon people created with polymer clay, a doll armature, fabric spray paint and silk flowers. The Sun has Perfect Pearls kissed cheeks, lips and eyes. The moon was made with glow in the dark polymer with a bit of black embossing powder mixed in. For the faces I used a mold and then altered a little, the hands and feet were all hand made. Leftover ribbons were used for the cape and the skirt. Glossy Accents was used as the adhesive for everything, including the Austrian crystal flatbacks.
Journey
The birds on this card were stamped in different angles with Stazon Timber ink on antique looking wallpaper. Then trimmed and matted with sage flourish paper leaving space below. Printed the caption on vellum, trimmed and attached to the bird layer with brads. Stamped Enjoy the Journey and the birds on a wire on the sage green paper then adhered to base. Using Vintage Photo DI, roghly edged around the base card. Finally, using Glossy Accents, filled in 2 of the flying birds and all the birds on the wire.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Inspire tag
Working my way through the box of word stamps... this is Johannes Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'. I got the stamp and could not wait to use it. The look is baroque and saturated, good match for the stamp image. Here is how to make it:
Stamp 'old German text' directly on the tag with archival ink, let that dry and then use Chipped Sapphire DI to edge the tag. Separately stamp a couple of generations of a 'busy' text on a slightly darker than manila paper (you can see the edge above the stamped image is a little darker than the tag itself) using coffee colored ink. Then over stamp the girl with black archival ink and the word 'inspire' on a scrap. Use pen nibs to lightly color the headband with Chipped Sapphire, the eyes with Bundled Sage, the lips with Worn Lipstick and the cheeks with Spun Sugar Distress Inks. Touch all edge of the girl scrap with Tea Dye using Cut and Dry foam, then adhere to tag. Mat word and on manila scrap, trim to fit inside the girl layer, sand edges and edge with Chipped Sapphire and Tea Dye. Adhere the word to the tag with foam squares. Add a half peal embellishment on the earring and around the tag hole, then thread matching ribbon on the tag.
Stamp 'old German text' directly on the tag with archival ink, let that dry and then use Chipped Sapphire DI to edge the tag. Separately stamp a couple of generations of a 'busy' text on a slightly darker than manila paper (you can see the edge above the stamped image is a little darker than the tag itself) using coffee colored ink. Then over stamp the girl with black archival ink and the word 'inspire' on a scrap. Use pen nibs to lightly color the headband with Chipped Sapphire, the eyes with Bundled Sage, the lips with Worn Lipstick and the cheeks with Spun Sugar Distress Inks. Touch all edge of the girl scrap with Tea Dye using Cut and Dry foam, then adhere to tag. Mat word and on manila scrap, trim to fit inside the girl layer, sand edges and edge with Chipped Sapphire and Tea Dye. Adhere the word to the tag with foam squares. Add a half peal embellishment on the earring and around the tag hole, then thread matching ribbon on the tag.
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