Hi there and sunny new week! Today I'm sharing something I made for PaperArtsy and that was shown in their blog last week. You can see the original post with a step by step here (link). The monthly theme is Tags and the quarterly theme Typography. Tags are, I hope, quite visible in my project as well as typography.
My train of thought lead me from tag books to this, a girl with a tag dress. I wanted the tags to mimic feathers or ruffles. There's also a story running across the tags. Some of them are handwritten, some typed, but there's a short story written about the girl and my thoughts at the time. I love to conjure stories, when I create. I often have some kind of story line in my mind when crafting. It might then represent itself as a form of journaling or some details, but often it's just a kind of part of the process.
If you are wondering, where the name of the piece comes from, there's a Finnish children's story called "Adalminan helmi" in Finnish (Adalmina's pearl). Long story short, it's a tale about a princess by Finnish author and poet Zacharias Topelius. The princess receives a magical pearl as a gift, which makes her more beautiful, richer and wiser each day she wears it. But should she loose the pearl, she looses everything she's gained. The princess grows beautiful and wise, but also cold, proud and arrogant. She then looses the pearl, ends up being a swineherd, learns compassion and in the end charms a prince and receives the pearl back now being not only beautiful on the outside but also from the inside.
I saw the girl as Adalmina, who has learned compassion and gotten a good heart, maybe the day she saw the prince. The pearls I added as the final embellishments refer then to the lost crown and the pearl on it. Like the crowd cheers in the end of the story - the most beautiful thing is a humble heart.
Thank you for stopping by today! Wishing you a beautiful day!
Materials: PaperArtsy, Posca, Ranger
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