This time I cut her out of some patterned paper and glued her on some ripped book pages, which were on top of a patterned paper reminiscent of lined paper for learning handwriting. Since I'm supposed to be working on drawing and handwriting right now I thought I would be using that lined paper to write something. After I glued Florrie to the card I suddenly wasn't very happy again. I just can't seem to give her the impact I want. I didn't want to start over because I only had an hour before I needed to leave for work.
I rifled though boxes and file folders looking for bits and pieces that I could add to the card to get some impact. At first nothing was coming so I cut some shapes out of last years ICAD cards and glued them to the right of Florrie. Still nothing happening for me. Now I had two separate compositions and time was ticking away.
I remembered a calendar hanging out on my desktop and found a picture of the US Capitol with rose bushes in the foreground. I cut out the foreground and glued it to the bottom of the card and suddenly I knew that Florrie need a house in that rose garden. Yay....creative juices started flowing again. I painted over my shapes and cut birdhouse shapes out of cardstock. I drew on woodgrain so it wouldn't look so plain. I need a hole for Florrie to get into her birdhouse and because she is not an ordinary bird she needed a heart shaped hole. And the words just popped into my head at that point.
I ran to the computer, typed and printed the words, glued them (that was tedious), and added black trim around all the elements, photogrraphed, uploaded to Flickr, grabbed my lunch, my car keys and got to work in time. Unfortunately, left the fridge slightly open and the dirty blender jar on the Vitamix. Oh well, it's all in the name of creativity right?
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