It is Friday again and today I am here to show you my project for the challenge between myself and BożenA. I chose the theme for this one and with all that the world is going through, I felt a good topic would be “Hope” – what inspires us with hope. I really did not know myself at the time how I was going to depict that.
But then it was soon to be Easter and I made some cards for our congregation. I showed them to you in my post called A card with gold foil. This got me thinking and that is when I realized what Hope really means to me. The resurrection of Easter morning gives me Hope beyond what I can see in this current world and so my journal page formed.
I worked on a page in my disc bound journal. The paper for this page is Canson C’ a Grain Drawing paper as I wanted to do the background rays showing the rising of the sun in soft pastels. I created a triangular shaped mask out of copy paper to form the rays. Once I had them all completed, I fixed the pastels with a spray fixative.
I cut a piece of black cardstock to fit the bottom of the page and used a Honey Bee stamps die to create the hillside. The cross is also cut out of black cardstock with a different cross from the same Spellbinders set that I used for my cards. With a small circle die, I cut a hole in the cardstock and then cut three circles of the same size out of grey cardstock. I glued these together to make a thicker “stone” and added some shading with alcohol markers. The word “He” is cut from black cardstock with an alphabet die set. I added some gold glitter washi sheet behind the hole for the tomb.
I completed the page by writing the black words with a Glaze pen and the white words with a white gel pen. I have found that the Milky Pop white pens work the best for me.
I look forward to seeing what BożenA has created for the topic and invite you so see her post. Please leave her a comment there when you visit.
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Supplies Used
 Canson C’ a Grain |
 Soft Pastels |
 Workable Fixative |
 Horizon Borders |
 Crosses Two |
 Circle Infinity Dies |
 Platinum 6 |
 Bearly Art Glue |
 Alcohol Markers |
 Black Glaze Pen |
 Milky Pop White |
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Monica
I love it! So effective. The message is brought across beautifully. 🙂 'Hope' is well portrayed.
Hello Monica!
Your version of HOPE is spectacular! I love how you presented it graphically. Black hill, from behind which bright, optimistic rays of the sun shoot up, illuminating the cross. Yes, this vision of hope also occurred to me, but when I thought harder, it turned out that hope meant something else to me. But I'm very glad that you see it so optimistically and lofty.
xx
Yes FRiday-that is the most asked question in our house lately-what day is it today? lol.Love the journal page and at the moment yes I need help to face tomorrow!
Carol x
A beautiful way to illustrate hope! This is one of my favorite songs.
Love the message and how you potraid it Monica. My computer has died, so I need a little hope at the moment.
Gorgeous journal page and such a great post to remember there is always hope, hugs, Lori m
Beautifully illustrated and very inspiring, it's such an uplifting page x