PurpleFuntastick Creations Guest Designer - Tues March 6th, 2012

Hello Friends and Welcome to my blog! :)

Today is my PurpleFuntastick guest designer day!! woohoo! :) I love to see what my guests love to do...and today I have the wonderfully talented Carolyn Phillips from http://messmuddleandfun.blogspot.com/  and today she did a beautiful LO...makes me want to see flowers and well I am ready for Spring...getting tired of the germs going around...sigh...but with this LO it gives me hope yet!! :)


Now Carolyn take it away....

I love Spring, and Spring flowers are my favourites. Snowdrops in particular always lift my mood, they are such harbingers of hope. I took these photos and wrote the accompanying poem last Spring but have only just scrapped it. For the LO I used 6x4 photographs, something I seem to be doing more and more. Because they are the words took up so much space I decided to keep everything else quite simple, so I used a green base layer, edged with white ink, a piece of BG paper down one side, and a contrasting green to offset mat the photos. I then took three pieces of chipboard, painted them white. Watched the paint dry which was – like watching paint dry. Got fed up and used a heat gun! I stamped the green flower on each with olive stazon and then edged with moss distress ink.

 

 

 

The words for the poem are:

In the depths nothing stirs.

Cold, dark, impenetrable.

Buried asleep; dead maybe.

Entombed by hard soil.

Invisible.

.

No light. No sound. No warmth.

Numb now, even to despair.

Alone, ignored, forgotten.

Deep where no one cares.

Ending.

Where none could reach, One did.

A spark of life, one single breath.

The soil now enriched, an earthy womb.

Shielded, protected by loam.

Beginning.

.

Not fighting, pushing, hard or harsh.

The shoot uncurls and finds a way.

Winding though the darkness.

Growth imperceptible.

Hopeful.

.

Past stone, past soil, past mud and mulch.

Following Light’s beckoning call.

Not knowing where, or why, or how.

Irresistibly drawn.

Breakthrough.

.

A shoot, a stem, a leaf, a bud.

Surrounded by winter, named for cold.

Fragility’s strong pure flowers.

Messenger of Grace.

Snowdrop.

love

Carolyn Phillips
http://messmuddleandfun.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolynJaneuk
https://www.facebook.com/CarolynJaneuk

Thanks friends as always for stopping by....and have a blessed week! :) hugs

In His Love,

Be Inspired,

Kari