This is for today's IC, which is a very fun site (thanks, Amy!) and yesterday's MIX-a wreath. Worked out well to combine them. I'm also adding this to the WT earth day challenge, since I used a recycled piece for some of the flowers.
This is a card for my daughter Liz, for Mother's Day and 'just because'. She has been 'in hot water' for several years; for three years, she supported her husband Scott as he went to school to change careers from an academic life to nursing. Then she lived through him getting a night shift as a nurse on the neuro floor. Then Covid happened; she learned to work from home as a mental health counselor to the university students, still supporting Scott as he worked nights. Then he moved to another job working only with Covid patients, day shift. She and Scott have been home schooling my granddaughters for over a year, so when Scott works, she has to use FMLA because she can't do counseling and help the girls with school that day. They tried to get the girls back to live school this winter but their school is small and, because the class sizes have been even smaller and several teachers were teaching virtual only, there was no room for my girls. And, to top it all off, she and a colleague have started a private counseling practice, with the goal of leaving the university counseling this summer. This has added a lot of stress, trying to get the word out, counseling at night after counseling students all day. Then there is the keeping up the house. Scott will have to find another nursing job with benefits, as she has been carrying them ever since he left the academic world. Eleanor Roosevelt was so right...women are like teabags.
I used dies to cut the wreath and the added embellishments with only pieces from my stash: alcohol ink backgrounds and shaving cream backgrounds for the most part. One of the ai pieces is a textured foil tear off from some kind of food container, can't remember what it was, so that's the recycling bit. I added sequins and Nuvo Drops to keep everything kind of shiny and bling-ful, because this is what I was inspired by: https://shopsweetlulu.com/products/s...15859513032798
Underneath the wreath is a tiny dot stencil using DOx inks in lavender, pink and green. I used wc paper because I thought about spraying or splattering something on it but that didn't happen. I hope to see Liz before Mother's Day so I can hand deliver this, with maybe a little tea gift.
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Fri, Apr 30, 2021 @ 8:55 PM
Thought instead of editing my first comment, I'd just leave you another! Don't know if you've given her this card yet, but I know she will just love it. A subtle way of recognizing all she's been through this past year+. I can't tell you how many times I've scrolled up to examine another part of the marvelous card....you must have had such a wonderful time creating it, bfnm!
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Sat, May 08, 2021 @ 8:09 PM
This is amazing, Jean...sounds like it's perfect for an amazing daughter! Love those shiny flowers in your wreath and all the pretty colors. The peek-a-book sentiment is perfect!
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