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