I HAD To Make This Card

This card has been a journey.  I started it last Saturday night, probably around eleven p.m.  I had heard the news about Matthew Perry’s passing, right around when everyone else did, like nine pm or so.  If you’ve been following me for awhile, you know that Friends is my favorite show of all time and that Chandler is my favorite Friend.

I don’t think it really hit me at first.  I felt so……numb, I guess was the best word.  I really wanted to make a Batman card, but I just couldn’t find my Superhero box.  So I settled for Batman inspired.  The colors are obviously Batman inspired, and the gold pearls represent a Batman sweatshirt I saw recently with gold pearls around the outline of the insignia.  It also reminds me of the Batman shaped lights in Matthew’s pool.  The coffee theme is not only a nod to Friends but to Matthew himself.

I've worked on the card in shifts, a bit a day,  until it was finished like an hour ago.

The sentiment is 100% intentional.  I couldn't make a sympathy card, it was too soon for that.  Those words really fit what I was feeling, and am feeling, and they're still accurate today, almost a week later.

I'm sure I'll make other cards inspired by or related to this in the future.  Art is what heals us.  It's definitely what heals me.

Just a few challenges:

• Coffee Lovers Fall & Winter Blog Hop
• DLArt Linky Party
• A Perfect Time to Craft - #11 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #620 Anything Goes 1/5

Thanks so much for looking, and please, those of you that love Friends too, share your favorite episodes with me in the comments.  Thank you!!  Laters!!

Create It 3 Ways IG Hop - August - Sympathy

Hi everyone!  I’m participating in an Instagram hop today called Create It 3 Ways!  Hosted by the lovely @amritapettus, this fun hop will take place the third Saturday of every month!  Super fun.  The theme for August is Sympathy, which may be the hardest kind of cad to make.  For me, I don't want to have to make one when I'm needing it, but it also seems wrong to keep them on hand, know what I mean?

The thing I chose to use on all my cards this month is a Blessings Box from Divinity Designs.  I don't have the subscription anymore, but this box had a Sympathy theme.

I used everything in the box but the stamp sets and the spiral circle for my cards.  That circle just didn't seem compassionate to me.

These are the three cards I created.  I think I like the first one the best.

I just really love this paper and it did all the work for the card, no embellishment was needed.

I wanted at least one of the cards to have a butterfly on it.

I know this cardstock looks like it's Kraft in the photos but it's actually gold shimmer.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #610 Anything Goes 1/5

Be sure to visit the rest of the hop!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping!  Laters!! 

My Heart Still Hurts

Two years today and I still can't believe it happened.  If you're a Gleek you know that today's the anniversary of Cory Monteith's death.  I sometimes feel like I felt after Kurt Cobain shot himself, pissed off and cheated.  But lately I've just been sad, and watching S1 episodes, and I made this.

Unforgetable

I don't know why people "celebrate" the day that someone died.  I know they remember it, there's no forgetting it.  But people have get togethers and masses and things, and I'm always confused by it, a little.  Then I realized a few weeks ago that it's only confusing to me because that's not how I cope with things.  I don't wanna talk and be maudlin and depressed.  I try to remember good things and go on from there.

This day is NOTHING compared to the day my grandmother died, and I have a whole other set of emotions set aside for that day.  But today is a sad day for me, because I don't have to know someone to feel bad for them and to miss them.

A year ago today, Cory Monteith died.  And 364 days ago, at this exact time, I read on FB that he had died.  Glee changed forever that day.  Music changed.  I changed.

Everyone has stuff that they love, and I loved Glee.  The most played songs on my iPod?  All Glee covers.  Glee was Finn and Rachel and now that's broken forever.  No happy ending for that show.

It makes me wonder, a little, why some actors can't behave like adults just long enough to finish a freaking series (see: Gossip Girl) without hating each other so much that the series suffers.

I mentioned before not understanding how other people remember the day someone they loved died.  I realized that I remember things with art and with music.

So today, I'll watch Glee, and I'll listen to Cory sing, and I'll make art.  That's how I deal.  That's what makes me feel better.

Also, I made this.

I don't like sympathy cards, so I made this instead.  My contribution on a day like this.  Hugs to all my Gleeks today.