show & share: 'young cindy' printer tray

Printer trays have been around for years; they lend themselves quite nicely to creative ideas for storage or display, or in this case, altered art. You can find them at antique stores, on eBay, and lately I've seen something similar made by 7 Gypsies. A few years ago I saw one in Ali Edwards' book, Life Artist. I've made a couple more of these, which I will share another time. This is the first one I made, back in 2010.

I found that it helps to unify everything if you start with a theme. Mine is about the many blessings of my childhood. I pondered it for a week or so, not knowing quite where to begin...then I just jumped in and started. I unearthed some old photos and started playing with them. Just looking through old photos stirred up memories, words, phrases, topics, etc. After awhile it got a little easier, as the doing of art begets further inspiration (not, contrary to popular belief, the other way around).

This hangs in my art studio. It makes me pause and smile every time I see it.

I'm going to let the images speak for themselves...

I had the best of intentions to get this post up yesterday as scheduled, but the InLinkz thing took a bit of doing the first time around.

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