Patience By Kay

Good morning fellow scrappers!  Kay here with my interpretation of this month's challenge set by fellow DT member Denise.  My little word for 2014 is 'Patience'.  Personally, I feel that I need patience in all aspects of my life.  At work, at home even in my crafting.

This page is the start of me practicing 'Patience'.  I have many mixed media items in my stash but I rarely actually do a page with mixed media simply because I don't have the patience for it!  Sometimes, you have to allow time for the media to dry or set & I'm just too impatient to wait!  Yes, even with the use of a heat gun I still feel that I'm losing precious minutes & seconds blowing hot air onto my page!

Tsk, tsk...so yes.  Patience...patience is the key--I feel that I need to slow down, take time to 'smell the flowers' as they say.  I seem to constantly be rushing through life & I think I'm missing out on some really important things.

Here are a few more closeups.

 My cluster is full of many different colored flowers.  I've also embedded a bit of woven net ribbon here and there.  A bit of different colored tulle was tucked underneath the cluster--tulle always seems to soften a page in my opinion.

 This lovely tag was made by our very own Marivic.  For someone like me who apparently seems to lack patience--these tags are excellent for completing a page in no-time.  The tags are so well embellished that I add it & voila!  Half my page is already done!  :-)

My journaling is stored in this scroll which has become my fave way of storing my thoughts.  Here you can also see some of the several mediums I used on this page.  There's some gesso, mists in different colors, stamping & a bit of texture paste.

So what's your little word for 2014?

Now onto the prizes...

Main Prize:

6x6 Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate

 2 tubes of Green and Blue Speedball Block Printing Ink.

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Thank you and we hope to see your beautiful creations this month!