Finding My Jam

Mixed Media Canvas

New set of cards

I was working on a set of 100 cards this week (it will probably take a couple of weeks to complete because I had to order more double sided tape).  As I looked at them I realized this is my Jam, what I am called to do.  I love designing the fronts but also finding the papers to use as the base so that the colors match.  It is just so much fun and so rewarding.  I am going to take a few months to build up stock and then try to sell some.

There are two types of art featured in this blog.  The top photo is a mixed media 12x12 canvas that was made using cloth scraps, gesso, cheese cloth, fiber paste, collage and acrylic paint.  I love painting canvases.  Many are hanging in my home.  Some I have given away as presents for birthday and Christmas.  Someday I may try to sell them not too sure or confident about that.

The second photo as I said before is a sneak peak into the lasted cards I am designing.  I have said this before, but I have been making cards since 1984 and they have evolved over time.  I have some ideas on more things to do, collage with napkins, watercolor painting, the skies the limit.

When I first started making cards, they included poems.  In fact that was the reason for cards in the first place.  I wrote poetry for years and after a dear friend suggested that I should make cards and put my words in them it was an eye opening experience.  For some reason I stopped writing as if I could not paint and write,  Where that thought came from I do not know.  I am thinking that I may make note cards and cards with poems/special words in them.

My cards with words were unique because I would interview the person giving the card to find out about the person getting the card and then write a poem specific to that person.  Not sure I have that in me now, who knows.

There are so many options, but I just know that I have finally my Jam.

until next time, pilgrim
Stay home and wash your hands.