Discovery is fun

Hi everyone!

       I think somewhere I have lost my brain.......


    A while ago I was making a tag for TioT 'Create a scene' challenge - I wasn't too happy with it and I left it aside to have a little think about it...While I was brooding about that I decided to make another tag with a canvas style material on it. I cut some material, stuck it to the card with glue and covered in Snowflake Fresco paint....Thinking that I will come back to it when dry, I left it with the other tag and got on with various other things.


          I was working on a few other projects at that time and at some point I made this hanging...

    .......I didn't have any plans to put it on my blog because I really didn't like it very much....it didn't work out as well as I had hoped. So I hung it up and left it....

       A few days later I went to my art cupboard to have another go at the TioT tag that I hadn't liked.....It had VANISHED..!!! and the white painted material tag....VANISHED!!! I hunted for ages through drawers, bags, boxes, even the bin was searched.....

   I asked the kids if they had taken it......"No"....
   I asked husband if he had seen it....."No"
   I got no answer at all from the cat, but I don't think she can open the cupboard doors.....;o)

      So growling away at my stupidity misplacing two potential projects, I sat down to do the beach scene that you will no doubt have seen already...I was happy with it, so all was ok.....but I would like to have finished the countryside scene I was working on....and I didn't have anymore of the material left that I had stuck to the board and painted white.....so I was a tiny bit miserable!

  

      I was thinking about my projects for this month....most of my DT posts are done and I wanted some other things to post and I looked at the little hanging I had made. I had hung it above my computer and well, it had grown on me a bit. I'll put it on my blog.....now how did I make it? It was a while ago now and it was so strange...I really could not recall any stages of making it.

      It was then I noticed something......and it made the quote all the more important to me - because it is very true......

         before I explain what I noticed I'll try and fill you in on what I think I did while making it.....

  I think the wording was stamped with Coffee Archival ink and it was definitely heat embossed. It looks like Stone Fresco paint was used, probably sponging with Mocha Mousse.

      LOL....I do remember making the flowers...because I really struggled with them - DecoArt Crackle glaze is something I am still getting used to and the first lot did not crackle at all....not willing to waste my die cut flowers I turned them over, painted the other side and applied crackle glaze again - and it worked.

     I don't remember sewing....this lack of memory is scary!

(Is anyone else noticing something here?........)

      I don't remember doing eyelets...........

(material background....?!!!)

                                                   Or choosing buttons........

                                 (Yes, that is a painted material background I see.......)

               

      It seems that the white painted material background had got picked up and painted in with another coat of paint - Looks like Stone Fresco paint to me.....and I have NO memory of doing that at all! It is very strange because when I started the material tag I wanted to experiment with texture paste on it and I obviously was in a bit of a 'creative trance automatic pilot' here and totally forgot my original plan.........

        Oh well......at least I know where it went...and it made the quote on the hanging even more appropriate - because I am obviously so disorganised that I don't even know when I am using things - but it does make for nice discoveries!

      And the end of this story? Well the TioT countryside scene never was seen again......You never know...perhaps you can spot it lurking under one of my other creations ;o)

           Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again soon!