heart the art: week two

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"i ♥LOVE♥ this one!" she said, modestly.

ok, but here's the thing: i am always thrilled when i am on someone's blog and they've made something extraordinary and they are, as my dear friend/look-alike kristin scott-thomas often says, "chuffed as ninepence", and they SAY SO! because i think we're all realllllly quick to point out our shortcomings and artsy disappointments, but not nearly as willing to be proud and excited and just a teeeeeny bit braggy when we've got it right.

saturday night i made a page for prompt two of gina's wonderful HEART the ART journaling project that she is hosting this year on her blog, tyggereye art, and while i didn't have a clear *picture* in my head, i did have a very strong vibe of what i wanted. which can be kinda tricky. but not this time. see??!

(patterned paper: basic grey, pink paislee, vintage sheet music, core'dinations whitewashed cardstock; kraft cardstock: hobby lobby; journaling labels: jenni bowlin; cardstock alphas: creative imaginations; tree branch & velvet brads: doodlebug; scalloppy tags: k&co; inks: color box; pen: sharpie; adhesives: tombow monorunner, uhu gluestick, sewing machine)

the prompt, as you may have surmised, was "SOMEDAY..." which i think is rather awesome because there are just SO MANY ways you can go, both in terms of subject and visually. but again, i didn't really have to think very hard about what i wanted to say, i used the first thing that popped into my mind, a subject increasingly close to my heart.

text reads, "SOMEDAY...we will be home-owners! maybe 2010 will be our year? (we are SO READY!!!)"

the weird thing is that almost everything on here was a leftover or a pre-cut: the clouds were from the core'dinations blog hop, the deer was an extra from my last blog header, the little journaling labels and the tags which compose the treetop were in a little baggie that i cleaned out of my traveling supplies box, the brads are doodlebug xmas ones...and so forth. i just kept grabbing up stuff and moving it around...and then i made like 14 trips to the sewing machine to attach each layer separately...et voila!

can't wait for next saturday, now!