Tia's Tips: Reserving a notebook or journal for just your personal favorite quotes/meme's/poetry is another wonderful way to get inspired when creating. I keep a 5x7 inch spiral journal for only "Quotespiration"! I don't want to have to thumb through journal entries or other personal notes, I know this journal keeps only those sayings that are inspiring to me! Then when I've created a card or want to create for a certain occasion, I can go right to my notebook. I have in the past, purchased sentiment inspiration books, but it is filled with work selected by someone else. It's still a great tool, but my Quotespiration book has work selected by me and is mine-all mine!
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Image: Sunflower Coffee Cup - https://klmdigitaldesign.com/shop/ols/products/sunflower-coffee-cup-digital-stamp
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The Project:
I manipulated this digital stamp, Sunflower Coffee Cup, which originally is just the two-stacked cups. I duplicated and flipped the image to create a grid of cups to color. Loving any opportunity to 'color the rainbow', I knew I had enough cups to do so here. I wasn't sure what sentiment I wanted to use, so I turned to my handy-dandy 'Quotespiration' book.
It's nothing glamourous-I have more important tasks at hand! But it sits at my desk ready when I need it! Whenever I get cards-and I think-I love that saying! I am quick to jot it down. A few years back, I was reading a book where the author had funny internet memes and t-shirt sayings at the start of each new chapter. They were so hilarious, I could instantly see a card being made to fit the sentiment, that I went back and wrote each chapter's saying in my book!
I jot-down sayings on post-it notes, or sometimes a slip of paper, until I can make it more permanent. The last few pages in the back I have dedicated to puns! Because who doesn't love a good pun? Their pun! (wink-wink).
So hidden away in my treasure-trove of words I came across the beautiful and insightful words of one of my favorite Sci-Fi authors: Ray Bradbury! Yes, I know he has written in many other modes, but I love him most for both his Science Fiction and Fantasy writings. This quote of his slipped in beautifully among my rainbow of cups:
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out".
After die-cutting out my image, I attached it to a stitched-die cut piece of black cardstock with yellow brads. (I love when I can use scrapbooking embellishments on my cards!) and then popped that panel up with foam tape. The black cardstock felt stark against my card front, so I added more rainbow color with a piece of design paper.
This image was colored with Copics. I adjusted the exposure of the lines to gray-scale, so once printed I can achieve the no-line look. I edged each cup in a darker shade than what I filled it in with, here is the list of my colors used:
COPICS USED:
Pink: R81; R85
Red: R37; R35
Orange: YR07; YR04
Yellow: Y17; Y15; Y02
Green: YG17; YG13
Blue: B29; B24; B23; B21
Indigo: B37; B39; B97
Violet: B23; V05; V06
Sunflowers: E23; E29; Y08; Y18; Y11; YG63
Thanks for following, I hope that creating (whatever that looks like for you) is a way you can let your beauty out and into the world-it needs it!
-Tia