My customer wanted a card that is Black, White, Silver and lots of Bling. I tell you, it’s not easy to make a black and white card. I don’t have a lot of papers so I just had to use my imagination. Imagine that? And… Black and white is not easy to take pictures of.
I stamped three flower images from my new SU stamp set – Mixed Bunch and cut them out with the coordinating punch. The edges are distressed with Distress ink – Soot. I used CTMH- Bliss as the base paper. The black under the flowers has tiny images stamped with silver ink. (it doesn’t show well in the image). I used a sizzlet embossing die cut for the butterfly. I inked it with silver ink and distressed with Soot. The pin and the big bling buttons are from CTMH Bling Assortment.
This week’s theme for My Four Hen’s project 52 is a wildcard; meaning I can pick anything I want. It’s been a crazy busy week. It was Valentines day. It was My Handyman’s Birthday. My Mom’s companion of 29 years, Mike, has been battling Throat/Voice Box cancer for 14 months and lost that fight this morning.
I noticed a few days ago that this plant that I’ve had for several years has finally bloomed for the first time. I decided to take a picture of it this morning. I believe it represents hope, new found love, current love, renewed love, and lost love.
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by, and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace, and stopped for a few seconds, and then hurried up to meet his schedule.
A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, and continued to walk.
A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally, the mother pushed hard, and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money, but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the most talented musicians in the world. He had just played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, on a violin worth $3.5 million dollars.
Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste, and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?
This morning I’m working on a couple of pages for my Scrap*Life*Journal class. I really love this verse by Stephanie (teacher). And I believe it really is this simple!
The image is colored with Copic markers and a black pigma marker .05. Flourishes and leaves are cut out with my Silhouette machine and attached to the main page.
Yellow and Grey is such a great color combination. I bought this new Close To My Heart set, C1494 – Card Word Puzzle a couple of weeks ago. I love the little flowers and knew I wanted to do something with them.
I cut out the label using Spellbinders Labels 17. I kept the paper inside the die cut and sponged the inside with Distress ink – Wild Honey, to give it a framed look. I spritzed with just a touch of water to spatter it.
I then colored the flowers in with some of the Wild Honey and finished of with shimmerz to give them a special glow.
I found out while reading another blog that the Google Connect that we've all been using for several years to follow other blogs is retiring March 1st. I use it for a quick way to read blogs that I like... I guess like everything we need to move on and change. I created a new Linky Followers for all of you, my friends to link to if you so desire. See it on my right sidebar. (I will remove the Google Connect at the end of the month).
Here is a funny picture I found in my camera last weekend. I must had accidentally taken it when I was taking pictures at a dinner. Kind of funny huh?
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