Friday, November 21, 2014

Journal 52, Week 47: Wise Words


For Week 47 of Journal 52, Chelle's prompt was Wise Words.

I immediately went to the internet to find a few good quotes.  As I was collecting them, I realized many of the ones I picked had a garden or flower theme.

I don't own any of those fancy dies that cut realistic flowers, so I had to make my own. 

I was able to use my 3" punch on some of the quotes (note the bird punch contains the week number)

but others didn't work out quite so well.  The "tulip" I free hand cut was originally going to be a poppy, but I messed it up, so had to turn it into a sad tulip.

I used both my new white Gelli pen

and a black Micron pen to doodle around the circles.  I added the flowery washi tape to signify flower stems. My usual substrate is a used file folder that I painted a rather dark gray.

Thanks as always for your positive feedback on my J52 entries.  They are always appreciated.  I hope you found a few of these words of wisdom were uplifting and you plant them in your own garden of happiness, too.


For Day 22 of AEDM,
I shared my latest entry for Journal 52.

14 thoughtful remarks:

voodoo vixen said...

Love all the quotes and I noticed the garden theme even before reading your explanation... which is good going for me as its getting late here! LOL Love the colours and circles with all the borders, very nicely done!

massofhair said...

A garden of wise words is one i would enjoy sitting in Elizabeth, thank you for the internet version!

Some fabulous quotes, love your tulip, it is a happy tulip as it is different to all the others...

Thank you for your comment about double entry for Q&L lol. I really enjoy the challenge within the challenge so far i have been beaten three or four times i think, for most of this years entries i have used both words. Enjoying the education along the way:-) xxx

Rebeca Trevino said...

you know how i love quotes . . . i may have to use one of these in my 'scrabble art' pieces . . .
have a great weekend E!

Jennifer McLean said...

this is really gorgeous Elizabeth. I love all the little sayings. They remind me of my quotes book where I collect wise words.

Divers and Sundry said...

I love the flower garden idea and find your quotes encouraging. thx! :)

pearshapedcrafting said...

Love your garden, the doodling really makes a great frame for those lovely quotes! Chris

Craftymoose Crafts said...

Lovely and colorful flower garden--great quote choices, too!

Halle said...

great quotes to go with your page.

Jo Murray said...

Lots of inspiration on that page Elizabeth. I want to see one with cat quotes for Bleubeard

Vicki Miller said...

I am a fan of using quotes, too and these are wonderful!

johanna said...

your garden-of-happiness quotes are so well planted! i love this Project!

sally said...

I don't remember seeing your name on the journal 52 feed but then there are rather a lot of us! Love your eye candy tree & I'm having a stroll scroll through your blog!

Sally (krazy Jayne )

Cindy McMath said...

Elizabeth I love the quotes and sayings you chose. The one that resonated with me the most is that we are responsible for our own happiness. I'm trying to make that more of a priority.

BJ said...

Gosh you are still going with this one - well done you. I have just about kept up with the tip-ins for my mini DLP although the pages are nothing to do with the DLP prompts but some are for the Journal 52 prompts. It's a pretty fat little book now, jolly glad the pages are sewn. I'm definitely a sewn spine look out person now. I have been doing notes for the various on-line courses in an Ikea notebook but being glued the pages are falling out here there and everywhere. I just bought a little plain page notebook from our local supermarket (Asda) and horrah found the pages SEWN. Will be getting a few more next time I visit, jolly useful I must say. BJ