shimmer – The Art of Cobwebs

One of my family members was to celebrate their 7th Wedding Anniversary and I wanted to make them an appropriate card. I found out that the 7th Anniversary can be one of two things: The Copper Anniversary or Wool Anniversary.

For a moment it did cross and entertain my childish brain that I should do a little felting project with some wool tops, and make a couple of sheep and fix them to the front of a card, …. of course that would be …. after I’d done a watercolour bit of painting to the card and done the grass; perhaps with a stream running through the field; some hedging; oh and a TREE! Obviously it would have to have a tree! … and some birds standing in the tree; Maybe Blue Birds of Happiness!! And maybe I should add birds in the sky too, and how about a farmer coming through the gate?!!

But perhaps not. I would probably have gone over the top, [snigger] so I decided upon Copper. But a Copper what? Pot? Saucepan? Wire? Copper what? I Googled and up popped copper wire, coil, strands, mines, even copper piping for plumbers, …. and a Copper Kettle card which I loved, but felt it needed a bit of ‘cobwebbing‘ …. so I designed a card kind of like it, but a leeetle beet different. (say that in a French accent, it sounds so perfect. lol)

tsk tsk … back to the topic Cobs!

Copper, Improving society since the dawn of civilization!

I made the kettle from Copper Mirri Card and ’rounded’ it, firstly by gently manipulating it with a bone folder, and then putting different thickness’ of foam pads so that it held the curve.

Copper Kettle 7th Anniversary 4 — Taken from the side and slightly above, to try and show the dimension which the copper kettle has.

Although I’d printed the ‘Seven Years’ in a coppery colour underneath the Copper Kettle, I wanted it to be almost like hot coals, so with the help of an embossing pen I added some warm coppery Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder, embossed it, and LOVED the way it turned out. I embossed the handle of the kettle with another embossing powder (which I’ve had for donkeys years, and never seems to run out) in a darker shade. Finally … I drew dots and flicks with the embossing pen, so that the ‘fire’ under the kettle threw out ‘sparks’ as it crackled with the heat.

I’d printed some ‘steam’ coming out of the spout which, if you look closely, it says Copper… 7 years… and it’s bendy and steam like.

Copper – It’s Elemental!

The card looks way nicer in real life than it does in these photos. I tried my best to get good photo’s but I failed miserably. These are the best of about 25 photo’s.

I will never get an award for photography.

Copper: The best jewellery to turn your skin GREEN!

But anyhoo …. that’s all there was to it! 😀

Copper: still essential

Happy Sunday! I trust that your weekend has been throughly lovely and that you are getting as much joy out of it as you can. I think we should all treat weekend like dirty laundry. Our aim should be to get that laundry spotless and get every last bit of dirt out. Likewise weekends. Get every last bit of joy out of it. Squeeeze it until it’s exhausted and you’re happily tired.

Have a truly blessed rest of your day. ~

At just 6½” in length, this is one of the collection of smaller wands which I make, and I absolutely loved making this one. It has Blue, Green, a deep warm Yellow, and light Lemon. Lavender, Lilac, Orange, Pink, and a wonderful rich Ruby Red. In total, nine colours. Why 9? …

The number 9 has great meaning:

It’s the number of Universal love, eternity, faith.

The spiritual meaning of number Nine bring us to the very height of vibrational frequencies in this number sequence.

Nine represents attainment, satisfaction, accomplishment, and our success to achieve an influence in our circumstances.

Nine deals with intellectual power, inventiveness, influence over situations and things. Nine beseeches us to recognize our own internal attributes, and extend these abilities out into the world to make a positive, influential difference.

In ‘Angel Numbers’, the number 9 is the number of Universal love; eternity; faith; Universal Spiritual Laws; Karma; spiritual enlightenment; spiritual awakening; Light working and Light workers; charity, selflessness; destiny; soul’s purpose and mission; generosity; a higher perspective; romance; inner-strength; responsibility; intuition; strength of character.

It also resonates with creative abilities; sensitivity; inner-wisdom; high ideals; humility; altruism and benevolence; empathy; compassion; artistic genius; an expansive viewpoint; communication; influence; perfection; magnetism; understanding; forgiveness and sympathy; the visionary; duty and calling; obligation; mysticism; optimism and Divine wisdom.

Nine is the number of the hierarchy, represented by nine choruses of the Angels.

It represents the three divine manifestations in the three planes: world of the spirit, world of the soul, world of the matter.

The Bible teaches us the nine spiritual gifts of God enumerated by Saint Paul:

wisdom,
knowledge,
faith,
gift of healing,
to operate miracles,
prophecy,
distinguishing spirits,
to speak in different kinds of tongues
and the gift to interpret them.

Saint Paul enumerates also nine fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

I could go on but I think you get the idea. Nine is a beautiful, spiritual, fabulous, magical number, and likewise, this wand is a beautiful, spiritual, fabulous, magical, Wand of all Rainbows.

Once cured, I gave the wand a particular finish which is a favourite of mine. It has the finest twinkly, star-dust motes suspended within its particles. You cannot see specks of glitter or anything like that because it’s not ‘glittery’ in that way at all. It’s quite literally the finest of finest ‘dust‘ of a magical type stuff which is just fantastic. I’m convinced it’s the same stuff that sunbeams and moonbeams are made of! This finish made the wand twinkle, shimmer and dance with merriment. Once sealed, I added a collar of rainbow colours of ribbons, and finally, it was cleansed and blessed by the full moon, in readiness for its new owner.

Can you imagine what this would look like inside a glass case, hanging on the wall? Perhaps one of those box type frames – a picture frame with a deep box behind the glass. It would look great against some plain coloured fabric – maybe even black velvet – to really make the colours pop!

Thank you so much for coming and having a look at the Wand of all Rainbows. I found such joy in the making of it. I love this wand and am hoping that you like it too.