Debbie Downer

Mother's Day just isn't what it used to be since my Mother died.

It's been three years and I felt like I was going to okay, but I wasn't.

I spent time making Mother's Day cards and gifts for the wonderful and loving

women in my life, but when Sunday morning came around, I found myself

to be melancholy, foul tempered, and even inconsolable at one point. 

Man, I hate that. I hate being such a Debbie Downer. It's really not my style.

But it happened, and it will probably happen again next year.

So I decided to drown my sorrows in my art journal.

I began with two Stampotique stamps I have yet to ink up yet,

'Tetewea and L'il Tatawea'.  

They remind me of a mother and daughter, so I felt they were fitting.

And my Mom and I are rather dark and weird, so it works.

I colored Tetewea in sepia/YR Copic tones to give the feeling of 

an image from the past. I used a frame die cut and doodled on it using

 a Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll pen.  

Then I did a bit of journaling. Nothing too deep,

but it gets the point across that I miss my mom. A lot.

I gave L'il Tatawea red hair like mine, and colored her to match those

hideous background papers I was trying to use up. I actually like the way

they all work together now in this layout.

Lastly, I stamped out 'Daniel's Hearts', colored them using

red and black Copics, and then fussy cut them all out to scatter

around the layout to covey all the love that is still there between us.   

I'd love to enter this in the following challenges:

Stampotique Designer's Challenge -SDC243 Motherly Love

The Dark Attic Challenges - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion challenges - 311 Anything Goes

Left of Center - Witches or LOC (mine is more LOC)

Polkadoodle - Things with Wings