Thursday, March 18, 2010

heart the art: week 11 (fearless)

this might be my favorite HEART the ART page yet! ok, i think i've already said that a few times, eh? :) and truthfully, i love them all, because gina has thought up the best prompts and the pages themselves are soooooo much fun to make!

this time our word was FEARLESS:


immediately i knew i wanted to use a bit of bruce mau's incomplete manifesto for growth. (yeah, i'm still thinking & talking about that!) specifically, point #4, where he talks about *FAILURE* being a positive thing, a sign of being creatively "out there" and continuing to seek & explore NEW ideas rather than--as is often quite tempting--re-creating the same "safe" things that have worked in the past.

how perfect is it that the making of this page is an absolutely IDEAL illustration of what i wanted it to say? because my brilliant first idea of how to do the journaling...which was to use a cool-shaped tag to mask off a bit of glimmer-misted notebook paper...did not work AT ALL! in fact, it was a bit of a mess, see?



but before i even had time to be disappointed about that, i noticed that the tag itself, which i'd set aside after using as a mask, was now the most brilliantly blended combination of colors imaginable! i had to abbreviate the original quote a bit, but i fit in the gist of it and set about with the embellishing & sticking on all those letter stickers. et VOILA!

the only problem with being "caught up" on these (a fun & novel feeling to me i assure you!) is that now i have to wait until saturday for the next one! hey g...can i get a hint??!?! ♥

(materials: patterned paper: prima & a bit of hindi newspaper; letter stickers: creative imaginations; journaling tag: k&co; butterfly: my mind's eye; rub-ons: basic grey & autumn leaves; bling: recollections; pins: joann; spray ink: glimmer mist; ink pads: versamark & colorbox; pens: uniball & micron; stickles: ranger; adhesives: 3m foam tape & tombow monorunner; finished size: 4x6")

11 comments:

  1. wow...that butterfly and everything surrounding that said butterfly is truly magnificent!

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  2. Stunning! Love that gorgeous butterfly!

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  3. Totally wonderful Lauren! This is just gorgeous and soooo creative! Gina does rock doesn't she! Jo x

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  4. What a great page and you got to use the quote you love so much!!! YAhoo! Very cool. Can't wait to see what you do with next week. :)

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  5. Let's have a look at this.... There's color (check). There's black (check). And there's white (double check!).
    You've practically already done the bandanna technique!
    See?!
    Aren't you marvelous?! :D

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  6. Oh, yeah - and such fantastic timing on that gorgeous piece up there!

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  7. oh so cool and oh soooooooo gorgeous!!!

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  8. Wow Lauren, these just keep getting better and better! I am running out of adjectives!!!

    (-: Heidi

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  9. seriously HOT! what a happy little accident that turned out to be, girl! i love the HTA page - that tag is gorge, and i love the letters. the butterfly? yeah, she's PERFECT. and the baubles instead of bling are just so much more subtle and lovely for this page.

    you are the bizzomb. xo

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  10. This is so wonderful. Even your "bad" experiments turn out fabulous. You have the golden touch. I think this whole process just proves your FEARLESS CREATIVITY point. Brilliant.

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