We’re making dimensional pendings using lots and lots of fun materials!
Kit available for $16.95 at CrafTECH University
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We’re making dimensional pendings using lots and lots of fun materials!
Kit available for $16.95 at CrafTECH University
by admin
I was so UBERLY (is that even a word?) excited today when I opened up my email to find the final jacket design of my next book – MetalWork Jewelry by Cico Books (release March 2011)calling out for me to open it!!
A few weeks after signing the contract, I send a few projects ahead of time and a small blad – or sampling of the book is put together to give to the sales team. Inside, there is a mock up of projects and the layout of the book to give the book buyers an idea of the designs that will be featured inside….
Here’s a closeup of the front cover and…
the back cover…..
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In yesterday’s post, I gave you a sneaky peek at the thought process I was having in designing this project.
I generally don’t assemble pop-up’s and Im not a paper engineer in any way, so I knew that I had a challenge awaiting. Which left me a little….well….. apprehensive…. unsure…didn’t really know what I was going to do.
Can you relate? Ever have that happen to you when you tackle even the smallest challenge? Be it creative? or one of those little life’s challenges that lay before you? Feeling a little self doubt, what if I fail….what if …what if…what if ….until you’ve What-If’d yourself right into a creative block or corner and you just want to hide….
Well…I needed to get those WHAT IF varmits out – so I grabbed my art journal and a few things that were laying around and let them go…I painted the paper real quick…wrote down my doubts…or just what came to mind at the time….and pulled them right out of my head! Let go of them…..Amazing how liberating that was….and FUN!.EMPOWERMENT! WOW!..So this got me going….
just look at these ladies…..think they have a little of the “tude” goin’ on??? OH YEAH BABE…I can assure you they do! (I happen to know that the far one on the left is my Great-Great Grandma Sarah McClellan…..so now I know where I get it…)
I think we all go thru moments of self doubt when tackling some uncharted territory…so here’s a little thought.. remember, all you have to do is……………………….
you’ll realize that you are STRONG and you – MY DEAR – are BEAUTIFUL and you’ve come out on top!
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I struggled a little with this project…I’ll admit…but not because of the project…but because I couldn’t decide just how I wanted to make it.
But then something I read on Julianna Hudgins facebook page brought it all together ….she said:
“There will be moments when you wonder how in the world am I going to do this? How will I put one foot in front of the other and move forward without falling? Am I good enough? Pretty enough? Too old? Do I have what it takes? Am I smart enough?
I am here to remind you that you are the most LOVING, KIND, PATIENT and BEAUTIFUL Woman that I know. You are in control of what happens next. Own it, Live it and BELIEVE it!”
And at that moment….I knew….just what I wanted to do……so here’s a peek into my random thoughts about this project…
I feel empowered…..I can do it…..