Serious Play: July 2011

So, we are now halfway through this year-long project. It's hard to believe.

Welcome once again, to an exciting blog hop from the One Little Word class offered byAli Edwards on the Big Picture Classes website.

Here is what we have already covered in this class...

This month, Ali Edwards gave us an assignment where we had to get our hands dirty! She wanted us to get out of our heads, recommit to our word (mine is REALIZE...as in "Just Do It!") and get messy with our hands. She also challenged us to use layers while creating.

Here is my first layer...

Stamped image repeated (Stampin' Up)
Pattern tissue adhered with gel medium
Painted with pink acrylic paint
Marker around perimeter + square patterned paper (Stampin' Up) with roughed edges
Decorative tape found at Michaels
Wood effect stamp (Stampin' Up)
Grey acrylic paint circles
Butterfly image used as mask with Glimmer Spray (Tattered Angels)
Red stamped alphabet (Studio G)

Here is the second layer...

Added a shipping tag (office supply store)
Embossed pink arrow
Here I messed up the painted card, so I replaced it with an inked one + envelope from aged paper
Chipboard 'C' painted with red acrylic paint
Camera stamp (Imaginisce)
Stamped mini flowers (Stampin' Up)
Letter stamps to spell my OLW...REALIZE
Stamped sentiment found at Michaels
Typewriter stamp, cut out and mounted with pop dots

And layer three is the final product...

Stamped words "go girl" (as encouragement to myself to keep going!)
Letter stickers saying 'do it' (Basic Grey)
Heart punch (EK Success) as the tab to hold envelope closed + baker's twine (and a secret note of encouragement to myself inside the envelope!)
Glitter glue on the 'C' (not easily visible here)
Red embossed heart + rhinestone on flash
Trimmed butterfly stamp (Stampin' Up)
Nothing added
Button adhered in center
Nothing added

This month's project was a welcomed change from the writing that has been a strong part of the past month's projects. I love doing this messy sort of thing, but often don't make the time. This month, I really reflected on how I am doing with my word...what I have already accomplished and what I still need to do within the next six months.

Here's to a wonderful second half to this OLW project!

Thank you so much for visiting today!

I am so encouraged when you visit.

To see more June OLW projects, go visit the blogs of the following very talented ladies,

starting with Margie at her Xnomads blog. These blogs go live at 8am PST.

The complete list of blog hop participants is listed below...

Margie http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog

Rebekah http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/

Kelly http://kellyxenos.typepad.com/

Julie Ann http://julieannshahin2.blogspot.com/

Jill http://jillconyers.typepad.com/

Jamie http://jumpgirl.blogspot.com/