Today's Question From The Craft Room: How Do You Measure Your Creative Progress?
Today's question is one that has captured my attention lately. Somewhere in my life I began to believe that progress requires completion of tasks and the faster you can complete tasks, the more successful you are. Where the heck did this belief come from and why have I given it so much weight in my life?! I truly believe it is a bunch of bunk! I have been brainwashed!!!!! True progress only requires that you are living in the present moment - in the now - with your full attention. This is my new measure for my creative progress. If it happens to result in a "completed" project that I can share with you, so be it. If, on the other hand, it results in something that is still in a state of creation - then I can share that with you too. Either way it is all a part of my creativity - my expressing myself - and maybe you will find some inspiration - a seed - to inspire you to live in your own creative moments - your "creative now."Today, my living in the moment resulted in this card. And actually, it wasn't just today - the heart on this card actually began a few days ago when I took a few pieces of wood scraps and glued them together to make a heart and then painted them and rusted them and painted them again and applied some wax metallic finish. It was the heart that then inspired the card. A card whose background began with a piece of Whisper White card stock that got sprayed and sprayed with mixtures of water and ink that I placed in little spray bottles. I then ran the bottom part of the panel through the Big Shot with the Finnial Press embossing folder and stamped the top of the panel with the En Francais background stamp and Pear Pizzazz ink. Next came a bunch of sponging and the Certainly Celery ribbon. I stamped the greeting from Short & Sweet onto watercolor paper with Tempting Turquoise ink and punched it out with the decorative label punch. Next I stamped a bit with an image from Tiny Tags and sponged the edges of the tag before adding it to the embossed panel. I hope you like it!
1 comment:
I do like it - the color is beautiful. I like the embossing and the use of the background stamp on the top. If you didn't tell us how you did it, I would have thought that it was two separate pieces. The experimenting you did with the heart really paid off. It is very creative. Living in the moment - that is a challenge in itself. I find I want to do so much that sometimes it stops me from doing anything. I have to make myself realize that.
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