Word Art, Never Give Up

God's timing never ceases to amaze me. This morning I was really down. Actually, I've been a little down for the last two days. I've been wanting to give up on my creative life. I've been wanting to give up on my store, my website, my crazy ideas along with product development. I've been wondering what life would be like if I stopped designing, stopped inventing, stopped creating... Sounds like a bummer doesn't it?!  This morning I really didn't want to create the things that I had to create. I didn't want to make something with a specific purpose in mind. I didn't want my creation to have a deadline. I didn't want to create for anybody but myself. I decided that playing in my art journal was what I needed. I dragged my feet down the stairs to my basement   art studio and began creating a background. After a few minutes I had a thought. If I was going to art journal then I may as well check the Word Art Wednesday blog so I could print out the weekly bible verse from it.  As I dragged my feet back up the stairs I was hoping the verse for this week would be something I felt like journaling about. I sat at the computer, typed in the address and waited for the page to load. What I saw next almost made me cry. Yes they had a beautiful bible based message that I loved but the Word Art was not a verse but a quote. God knew how bad I needed to hear that, and there it was. So here's to me "not giving up"again..!

This page will remind me to never give up on many things, including art journaling! I think I've mentioned before that this form of art doesn't come naturally to me. For this page I wanted to try a technique that I learned from Christy Tomlinson. Of course when I saw her do it, it seemed easy! I raided my kids crayon box to create a resist, that part was easy since I do remember how to colour! I used a stencil to make some flowers on my background. The next step was to cover the whole thing with alcohol ink. Simple right? Well it didn't quite work for me but I kept telling myself to never give up. After that I wanted to do an image transfer...the first one didn't work at all....never give up! I tried again, this time it worked! Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that I pealed a piece of gel medium that ended up tearing a piece of the page...that's OK, I ended up liking how it looked....never give up!  Well that's enough ranting for now! Thanks for stopping by.