Today I'm giving thanks. 
I'm giving thanks because I'm grateful for all my friends who take the place of family who are no longer with me.
And special thanks go to my loyal internet friends, followers, and readers. In many ways, you too have become my family.I'm showing special thanks to all the friends I've made at Art Journal Journey with Suzi as host, who I'm joining with my take on autumn colors. I'm also thankful for Moo-Mania and More because they were the first challenge group I ever joined and created art for. This fortnight their theme is layers, and I seem to have lots of those.
This tribute to Thanksgiving was created starting with a book cover to which I added scrapbook paper, handmade (by me) paper, a dictionary page, a tag, a paper doily, fancy fibers, and various silk and natural leaves and flowers. I scrunched the tag, then added pigment ink to the high parts, after which I stamped (yes, as shocking as it may be) the words onto the tag. This is where my art is displayed for the Thanksgiving celebration. It will sit among the desserts on this Hoosier type free standing kitchen cabinet.
Happy Thanksgiving dear friend! A lovely piece for the day...a wonderful feast of textures! great work...:) enjoy yourself!
ReplyDeleteYour Thanksgiving collage is very beautiful, love all the layers, and the beautiful colours. Even when our lives aren't always perfect, we have so many things to be truly thankful for, you are right there. Have a lovely day, and thanks for being a friend! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteForgot to say thanks for joining us at Art Journal Journey and Moo Mania and More! oxox
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to you, Elizabeth, hope you have a good day. Your book is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving dear Elizabeth! This is a wonderful collage -wow!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for hoining us at Moo Mania & More AND Art Journal Journey Sweetie!♥♥♥
Thank you for being my artfriend in blogland!♥♥♥
And thank you for all the inspiration you always give me!
Love this piece you created! Simply perfect. Definitely can see your floral arranging skills shining through on this one as well. Happy Thanksgiving!!
ReplyDeleteI've got 2 pumpkin pies in the oven and my stuffing(dressing some might say) prepped. Going to my in laws today.
What a beautiful work of at with a special sentiment. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving Day.
ReplyDeleteThis piece is lovely, perfect for the day.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful for the community I've found through your blog and T Tuesdays. I appreciate you more than you can know. Have a wonderful day! :)
a perfectly gorgeous piece Elizabeth! A happy and blessed thanksgiving to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteLovely piece! Happy Thanksgiving to you.
ReplyDeleteI love your wonderful collage! I hope you are having a great day! I am thankful for the way our paths finally crossed - I think they were always going to eventually! I have seen the shopping trip post at last and left you a (rather long ) comment there! Hope you can access your e-mail! Happy, happy Thanksgiving dear Elizabeth! Hugs, Chrisx
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, your display piece is beautiful
ReplyDeleteA realy gorgeous project to celebrate and give thanks. I hope you have had a lovely day.
ReplyDeleteYvonne xx
a great post. Thanks for sharing it. :)
ReplyDeleteHad a lovely family afternoon and it was nice to sit with my husband's 98 year old Dad. Now I'm catching up with my blog world family. Great dimensional collage to give thanks. So sweet and you are right no pressure today, just quiet times with the ones we love. Happy Thanksgiving. xox
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, Elizabeth!! :)
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely piece! I love the colors and textures, and it's reminder. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteI love all the layers and every detail you added is just perfect. I think the dried element are very striking. Hope you had a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteI am thankful for many things, among them you...who is always so encouraging and ready to share techniques and amazing art.
I am knee deep in helping DD pack for the move tomorrow. With 2 other commitments on Monday & Tuesday, it will be a challenge to participate in both T Tuesday and 2nd on 2nd, but I will try!
YES re "I'm giving thanks because I'm grateful for all my friends who take the place of family who are no longer with me"—I feel that, too. Thank you for all your wonderful comments to me during Art Every Day month—they've been bright spots for me on many days!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm now caught up with replying to your comments over at my blog, but just realized you'd technically been commenting as Anonymous, so wouldn't be getting notifications of my replies. So here I am, letting you know that there are some messages for you over there!
I also wanted to thank you for opening my eyes to a new aesthetic—I haven't been good about commenting, but seeing your posts, this month, has shown me that there's a direction my art could go that I hadn't been aware of before. I'm just beginning to experiment with it, so the only place it's at all visible is in the flow/release piece from a couple days ago, but I wanted to let you know. Thanks again!
Love your piece today. The blue on the tag really pops and makes the piece more interesting as it is unexpected.
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