HTA week 6: "INVISIBLE"

it's saturday, or as i think of it now, HEART the ART day! gina has a brand new prompt for us over at tyggereye art, so of course you'll be wanting to check it out, but first...want to see my page from last week? the prompt was "INVISIBLE". i was kind of puzzled as to what i'd do for this one, but over the course of the week, i kept thinking--FOR SOME REASON, can't imagine WHY--how very much i dislike *SNOW*...and how very, VERY nice it'd be if all of ours would just suddenly disappear! sadly, it did not, but the very thought was enough to spark my idea for a page:

(snowy tree photo taken by me, out my window, on wednesday 2-10 in the midst of a major snow storm; photo printed at 50% tint on plain copier paper, and again at 100% tint on kodak photo paper--the latter formatted as the letters "S-N-O-W" in arial font; transparency: hambly; diamond dust cardstock: paper adventures; dimensional snowflake stickers: jolee's; pen: zig; ink: colorbox)

text reads, "high on the list of things i would make permanently & irrevocably invisible: SNOW (can't stand it!!!)"

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unfortunately, this is one of those times when a photo just cannot capture the actual page. i've printed my snow photo at two different intensities, on two different types of paper, and then layered the hand-cut letters OVER their corresponding spot on the photo, so that the rest of the snow & the tree seem to be fading away leaving just the text. (at least...that was my *intention*...and i am fairly happy with how it worked out!) i tore the background photo roughly to size & mounted it onto a transparency outlined in white to increase the "INVISIBLE" feeling, and finally i popped a piece of glittery grey paper behind this page in my book.

and now i really just cannot wait any longer, i have to go and see the new prompt...want to come with?! ♥

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eta later on saturday: having suddenly become a daily spam recipient, i've changed my settings to dis-allow anonymous comments; i do not think this will effect any of my lovely blogging friends since we are all "registered users" (the next setting up) but if you have a problem commenting, just shoot me an email, and i'll re-evaluate. (i heartily DO NOT want to turn on word-veri...sigh...does anyone actually get *TRAFFIC* from these clearly spurious links??!?!)