Thursday I went with Anne to "Radio City Rockettes" at the Wang in Boston. WOW, WOW and WOW - fabulous performance.
DAILY HAIKU 2009 The three pieces below represent the variety of approaches I've used over the past year. I tried to NOT use a similar technique in sequence, especially when I created several entries in a single day.
December 11
This is an odd combination of stamping and sketched shapes. I used marker and a uniball "vision" for the lines, added two spiral, the barcode/grass stamp and an ink pad for the triangles. I wrote the text in a cursive style with a gel pen. It's not well positioned.
Let's meet for dinner
strengthen long friendships, toast fiends
we hold in our hearts.
December 10
I still like this card as I look at it a year later. In fact, it's similar to the plan for gifts for my "art group". I used similar motifs in a beach journal in 2004 when Monty (Deezel's predecessor), Ila and I were walking nearly every Sunday at Wallis Sands.It's all pencil. The verse is on a piece of watercolor paper incorporated into the design.
December 9
I stitched a scrap of cheesecloth over the card, tucked in an oak leaf and snowflakes from "All About Paper", added a piece of tracing paper edged with ink and glued the verse written in white marker on black over everything. There are tiny strips of odds and ends under the cheesecloth.
