Our sponsor this month is: Createful Heart Designs
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Prize: 3 images from the shop
Note: The theme doesn’t have to be taken literally. You may use any word or phrase out of it for your project.
Find inspiration in the song or rhyme:
Swing Song
Swing Song is a motion poem featured in Ms. Richards' collection of morality tales and poems, The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories (1881).
As I swing, as I swing,
Here beneath my mother’s wing,
Here beneath my mother’s arm,
Never earthly thing can harm.
Up and down, to and fro,
With a steady sweep I go,
Like a swallow on the wing,
As I swing, as I swing.
As I swing, as I swing,
Honey-bee comes murmuring,
Humming softly in my ear,
“Come away with me, my dear!
In the tiger-lily’s cup
Sweetest honey we will sup.”
Go away, you velvet thing!
I must swing! I must swing!
As I swing, as I swing,
Butterfly comes fluttering,
“Little child, now come away
’Mid the clover-blooms to play;
Clover-blooms are red and white,
Sky is blue and sun is bright.
Why then thus, with folded wing,
Sit and swing, sit and swing?”
As I swing, as I swing,
Oriole comes hovering.
“See my nest in yonder tree!
Little child, come work with me.
Learn to make a perfect nest,
That of all things is the best.
Come! nor longer loitering
Sit and swing, sit and swing!”
As I swing, as I swing,
Though I have not any wing,
Still I would not change with you,
Happiest bird that ever flew.
Butterfly and honey-bee,
Sure ’t is you must envy me,
Safe beneath my mother’s wing
As I swing, as I swing.
First I prepared the background, writing words to the poem on a piece of white cardstock in Micron (waterproof) pen. I then sprayed this with various colours and blotted them with a paper towel. Once dry I cut this to a circle and added squeezed lemonade Distress Ink around the edge. I added this to a white square card blank.
The image is Momma Bird & Littles printed three times and each print sprayed with a different colour and blotted with piece of kitchen roll. When dry I die cut the green version to a circle, and added squeezed lemonade Distress Ink around the edge. I glued this to the centre of the other circle. I cut out the blue version around the littles and adhered it in place. I cut out the Momma from the orange version and added that. Finally I added penwork scribble around the outer circle, then the foliage die cuts which had been sponged with squeezed lemonade and three yellow/green puffy embellishments.
Hope you will join in the challenge...
what a fun piece of art! and i love the inspiration poem. great job!
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