"You are beautiful!" These are just some of the words we do not often hear. We may never have heard them, even if childhood when it was likely the most true...
I decided to start a bit of a campaign to encourage people with words. I created a card about the size of an ACEO (Art Cards Editions and Originals are 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"). I cannot draw but a sketched a little onto the card and added text. I put each of 5 of the same ones in a little cello sleeve of the same size and plan to leave them in public places where people will find them. I hope they encourage people. On the back it says for them to pass it on and if they want to comment they can comment on this blog. I will try to upload a pic of the first one in the series "You Are Beautiful!"
Thanks for looking! I hope to create more in the "You Are.." series and report back on how it goes. Feel free to comment or to make your own little encouragement cards to leave in public places...
There is a wonderful fashion show planned for this coming Friday, June 10, in Seattle. The charity is Connecting Borders which is a non-profit that benefits Peruvian orphans.
Anyway, the idea came up for me to create something for gift bags for media people and I jumped at the chance to help in some small way.
For the fashion show the models have to"wear" an actual dog in some way - imagine that! So my project had to feature dogs in some way, or at least that is what I decided to do.
Remember the old saying that people begin to look like their dogs? Or is it the other way around? I created an art card with that in mind, and made greeting cards with my collage. It was very time consuming as each card was hand-embellished and had a ribbon on top, etc.
I am going to try to show you a reprint of the card, sans ribbon!
