How to Use Your Mixed Media Quote Cards for Inspiration
Last week, I showed you how to make these fun Mixed Media Quote Cards.Today I wanted to share how you can use them for inspiration - even for inspiration for your jewelry making!
I started with this quote card. (To learn how to make your own, click here.)I love this quote because sometimes you need a restart. Sometimes even within a day I just need to take a moment to reset and start again. (Not always from scratch, but just to reset myself or my mood.)Ways to use Mixed Media Quote Cards for even more inspiration:#1Use as a prompt in your art journal.
I used the quote and then created an art journal layout with the quote in mind.The technique I used is quite similar to the technique I used to make the quote cards. (See the video tutorial here.)My technique:
- Watercolor all over as the first, background layer.
- Stamping lightly. (I used a flower and butterfly and used them sparingly.)
- I did a little floral sketch. (I learned how to do this type of sketching from this book - Florabunda Basics - that I highly recommend. *Affiliate link*)
- Then a collaged different ephemera - old text, map, scrapbook paper, a photo and wrote the quote on an old library card catalog card.
#2Use as a writing prompt in your journal. Just write out all your thoughts and feelings about the quote.You could pull a card each day in the morning and just free write about it.#3Use the card itself as inspiration for a jewelry design. (Or use an art journal page you created from it as inspiration.)
I actually used the art journal page I created as inspiration for a jewelry piece, but you could use the Mixed Media Quote Card itself.This is something I go into in detail in my Jewelry Design Workshop, but in general look at your inspiration (the card or art journal page) and think about colors and themes and how you could translate that into a piece of jewelry.I pulled the turquoise color from the page, as well as the feather that was a theme in the art journal page.#4You could simply pull the card and think about it or even meditate on the quote.I hope you are inspired to use your quote cards!
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