Mixed Media Hanging Art Pocket Cards

I call these collage, altered art, mixed media hanging art pocket cards Tiny Words Motivators. They each feature uplifting, motivational statements and quotes, and a few include scripture references. They all have hangers made of various trims.

This first one (above in green and yellow), Hope, features one of my hand-carved botanical stamps, silk florals and hand lettering. There is also a yellow bird decorative postage-type stamp that I embellished with a real white feather tail. The hanger is green eyelash yarn.

This Peace & Hope art includes my same botanical stamp, a peace stamp that I doodled on and made into a sun and handmade doodle papers. The hanger is turquoise embroidery floss.

For this Creating My Future card, I included sequins, hand-painted text paper, hand lettering, a scripture reference and a purple ribbon hanger.

These 2 declare a similar message, about being positive-minded and attracting the main things that most of us want. For Positive Thinker, I stamped my hand-carved geranium stamp 3 times, added scroll-work doodles, hand lettering and flat-backed acrylic rhinestones. I finished it with a silver and white eyelash yarn hanger.

For Positive-Minded, I used one of my hand-painted Hearts papers, a cancelled rose stamp, textile scraps, flat rhinestones and a gold metallic ribbon hanger.

The Half Full art features another yellow bird (this one doodled) with a real feather tail, tissue paper, doodles, paper-punched tulips, flat metallic embellishments and a sequin trim hanger. The part of the quote that states My leaf shall not wither. Whatever I do shall prosper is from scripture Psalm 1:1.

I stamped, cut out and outlined my geranium hand-carved stamp and collaged it on I Donā€™t Look Backward at the top. I stamped my hand-carved flower pot stamp at the bottom and added glitter. The hanger is white ribbon.

I used a canceled Canadian floral stamp, doodles, a clipped art sun that I embellished, some hand and clipped lettering, gold metallic paper and black sheer ribbon in my I Am Worth It design.

Perspective includes clipped text, tiny flat sequins, superfine glitter, a cancelled lily stamp, a real feather, maroon tissue paper and a scripture reference. The hanger is variegated eyelash yarn.

Dreams has a vertical-stamped dream stamp, a mini tag with a scripture reference, flat rhinestones, hand lettering and a clipped gray and white bird. Narrow white ribbon finishes it.

Silver Lining has flat sequins, superfine glitter, doodles, an umbrella paper punch, and a black sheer ribbon hanger.

For Peace Joy Love, I doodled and cut out a long-necked bird and added to the bottom, doodled a sprawling home and three other birds for the paper strips collaged fence. Again, I used my thrifted peace stamp that someone had hand-carved. I stamped it, cut it out, glued it onto a gold metallic corona that I cut and added it to the design. Orange sheer ribbon is the hanger.

The final one that Iā€™m sharing is Light At The End Of The Tunnel. I used 3 canceled stamps, flat sequins and rhinestones, hand-painted text paper, paper punched tulips and a scripture reference. I distressed the edges with white paint and added a blue ladder fiber trim for the hanger.

Mostly all of my Tiny Words Motivators have paint and/or glitter embellishments and various types of clipped and assembled elements. They all started with collaged papers applied over discarded plastic or cardboard credit-type cards scavenged from different sources. All are finished on the backs with a single piece of craft or hand-painted paper.

This is #18, the final post for my Chameleon Badge! :tada: :hot_face: :confetti_ball:

Itā€™s bittersweet to say goodbye to these posts that spurred me on. When I started at #1, the end was not in sight. Iā€™ve enjoyed it, especially since I was not locked into a time frame to get them done. Iā€™m so pleased that I stuck with it. Now, Iā€™m happy that I can focus on the other activities around the forums.

Thanks for looking, reading and commenting on all of my Chameleon Badge posts! :hugs:

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So many cards! They came out wonderful and CONGRATS on completeing the Crafty chameleon challenges! Thatā€™s such a huge accomplishment!

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All of these are wonderful and inspiring! What a great way to use of those bits of ribbon and yarn, especially the fun fur stuff!

You sure added a lot of nice details to each oneā€¦stamps, shiny stuff, tiny drawingsā€¦

And congrats on posting in all of the categories!! You are a true chameleon!

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Woohoo! Iā€™ll work on officially granting this to you later today. You can always get it again. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

These hanging affirmations are just lovely. I couldnā€™t possible pick a favorite. Beautiful work!

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Very creative and pretty. I recognize some of that novelty trim that you have used for the hanger parts. I have some stashed waiting for a project.

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These are each so lovely and unique. Beautiful work.

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Thanks! To me it certainly is. :blush:

Thank you! I love so much working in tiny spaces using those bits. I have a Pinterest board titled Tiny Space Place.

Really! :dizzy_face: So tempted but nah, Iā€™m too excited about focusing on so much else thatā€™s happening here.

Let me guessā€¦the blue ladder? I have it in black and gold also. Very pretty but not that easy to work with. Thanks!

Thank you! There are about 3 of them that I donā€™t like much. We always have our favs.

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@ArtsyLadyCrafter yes, the ladder and the eyelash. I have both in several colors. They were on clearance at Tuesday Morning a few years ago, and I could not pass them up even though I had no idea what I would do with them. :laughing:

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These are all lovely!

Positive thinking and uplifting words are a balm to the soul.

Congratulations on an amazing achievement, too!

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lol Same hereā€¦I have a bin of such novelty yarns. I keep telling myself to throw them out or give them away, but I just know the minute I do, I will need itā€¦

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Exactly! Hopefully, great ideas like this one from @ArtsyLadyCrafter will inspire me to use them.

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:shamrock: :rainbow: Lucky you! Your awesome project is featured this week! :rainbow: :shamrock:

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Congrats! I keep coming back to admire these. Each one is a small piece of art, full of wonderful little details. YAY!

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Each of these are gorgeous in their own right!

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These are so beautiful, each a small work of art. I love that you used various yarn and ribbon and the sequin string is awesome. Iā€™m really enjoying looking at each of them closely and seeing what you used. I think my fav is Silver Lining with all the sparklies and the greys with peeks of other color. I feel inspired!

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Thanks so much! Thatā€™s why I love altered art and mixed media (especially in tiny spaces), adding those little details can be endless. :smile: But the art stops us itself when itā€™s finished. Good thing too! Iā€™ve been on the verge of ruining many pieces because itā€™s so hard to stop! I get the strength to end it by reminding myself that a new piece is waiting to be started.

Thank you! We canā€™t help, though, but have our favorites. Iā€™m glad that you like something about them all.

Thank you for your kind comments! Iā€™m glad to know that you like Silver Lining. It is one of the less conspicuous ones. Grey is one of my signature neutrals. I like how I added the raindrops under the umbrella and being caught in the bowl (the opposite of what weā€™d normally do) because it is valuable as part of the silver lining. The pink color of the drops symbolize calmness and intuition. You are like me, scrutinizing the work of others and getting an injection of inspiration.

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Great collection! Inspiring, I might have to try these and hang one for my office. Thanks for sharing.

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