Angels

Today I've created a tag for Tag Tuesday.  Please be aware that none of the links open in a new window anymore.

Valerie asked us to use our scraps to create a tag, and these images came out of the waterlogged playing cards and Christmas envelopes I'd saved and dried out.  Even the background was recycled.  Only the thread was new.

It's easy to see I'm having a bit  of tension problem, although the back or bobbin side was sewing well. 

So I decided to sew the two postage stamps in place from the back (where the bobbin side of the sewing showed),

while the playing card was sewn from the front of the tag.  This is actually the back side of the playing card, so I have several of these angel images.

In my haste to make it right, I didn't realize I was sewing the Madonna and child upside down.  I assure you, though, these all came from my now less moldy basement and are truly scraps.

But of course, I couldn't stop there.  After all, it's been awhile since I've actually made any art.

I really want to join Jo from Let's Art Journal who is hosting Art Journal Journey, but I'm truly having trouble coming up with anything for her theme.  I understand the "Poetry" part, although I seem to be better with song lyrics that rhyme than I do poems.   It's the "Motion" part that is giving me fits.  Motion implies movement in some way, so, after some serious thinking, today I've created this entry that revolves around Angels. 

After all, angels have wings, and wings imply movement.

I used a page of vintage sheet music that I found in the basement for my background.  I dried it and added some of my handmade shimmering mists, using the colors that echoed the tag I created.

I cut and tore one of the playing card backs and added an angel to each of the lines to the song.

Some of the mists showed up better than others.

Other materials include a Sharpie and computer generated text.

In case you can't read the lyrics to the Christmas song,

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o're the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains

Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo

Thanks for joining me today at

Tag Tuesday

(Valerie's theme is scraps)

and


Art Journal Journey

(Jo's theme is Poetry in Motion)



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