Do you ever think you don’t have time to create? That it isn’t worth taking time for? That creativity is just an “extra”, for if everything else actually ever gets completely done, and you have nothing else to do? Only a reward you only get to enjoy, if you’ve worked real hard and finished every possible other thing?
I’m loving 😍 this page composition, that I finished today. A reminder of my long espoused belief and motto that we were created to create, like our Creator. That creativity is not an “if-there’s-time extra”. But it is an important part of living a healthy life, and a powerful healer through life’s hard times. That we need beauty in life. That beauty in life can be created from ashes.
I had designed this page in my head, starting with envisioning the Life is Art stamp and the artist girl stamp, for a page in my She Created a Life She Loves mixed media Journal. The other components gradually came into my mind’s eye. But the final touch wasn’t thought of until the rest of the page elements had been made and I was putting it all together. I spotted a fabric label in my stash that I’d created long ago. “She decided she was worth it.” Another great motto, for anytime I’m tempted to think that time for creativity, time for relaxing, de-stressing, healing, can’t be “taken”. That it’s not “worth it.” That I’m not worth it! That downtime is an extra that must be earned.
As I said, I love this page. It carries much deep meaning for me, as a healer, a creator, one making beauty from ashes. Another component I knew I wanted to include in this composition was all the colors of the rainbow, God’s promise to make beauty from ashes.
Let’s walk through this colorful creation.
Click here for video tutorial.
Stamps used:
- Life is Art by Stampendous
- Craft Day by Julie Nutting for Prima— artist girl, splotches, and Take Time to Create
- Fashion Forward by Dina Wakley—She decided she was worth it
Dies used:
- Vault Picture Show by Tim Holtz for Sizzix— filmstrip and viewmaster
- Vault World Travel by Tim Holtz for Sizzix— alpha (Create and Beauty)
- Triple Play Alpha by Bo Bunny— Art
- Alphanumeric tiny type lower by Tim Holtz for Sizzix — from, ashes
- Vintage Labels by Tim Holtz for Sizzix
Distress Inks used:
- Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean, Vintage Photo— splotches. Vintage Photo—edgings of page and Life is Art. Black Soot— edging viewmaster/colorwheel
- Archival Black Soot— Life is Art, artist girl, She decided she was worth it
- Archival Villainous Potion— Take Time to Create, label border
Papers (and fabric) used:
- Lavender paper pad by Prima— page in Journal I added this composition to
- Tea dyed paper— Life is Art
- Black cardstock— filmstrip, Art outline
- White cardstock— viewmaster, filmstrip inserts, label
- Mixed Media stock— all alphas and artist girl
- Tea dyed muslin label tab
Distress Watercolor Pencils used:
- Artist girl: Black Soot, Tattered Rose, Candied Apple, Walnut Stain, Picket Fence
- Viewmaster /color wheel: Lumberjack Plaid, Ripe Persimmon, Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber, Squeezed Lemonade, Crushed Olive, Rustic Wilderness, Peacock Feathers, Prize Ribbon, Shaded Lilac, Villainous Potion, Seedless Preserves.
Distress paints used:
- Art— Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey, Broken China
- Create— Dusty Concord, Worn Lipstick, Dried Marigold, Bundled Sage, Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac
- Beauty— Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Rustic Wilderness, Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint Sketch, Villainous Potion
- From ashes— Black Soot
Put them altogether and you’ve got Beauty from Ashes!
I hope you were inspired to create Beauty from Ashes—whatever that looks like for you. Creating should be our happy place in this world. And we need much more of that. Please share your creations with us; we’d love to see them. Link below.👇
Living Coram Deo & freely whole
SDG!
~ Liberty
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