My inky travels along life's rocky road

Thursday 6 March 2014

Quotes & Lyrics - Age



I am sorry I was unable to visit anyone's previous entries for the Quotes and Lyrics Challenge but I've been away and we had to postpone our return due to a death in the family. This might go some way towards explaining the subject matter of my entry for this fortnight's challenge. Marriage and age were the 2 words we had to choose from. There has been a lot of publicity recently regarding the centenary of the start of the First World War and I remembered part of the poem 'For The Fallen' written by Robert Laurence Binyon which is quoted as part of the Remembrance Day ceremonies.

'Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.'

The image is of one of the British war cemeteries in France. I wanted to keep the background colours light and used wild honey and spiced marmalade DIs with a small crackle stamp. The sunrays are a Craft Concepts embossing folder coloured with watercolour pencils and the punched sun reminds me of the sunsets I saw last week in Mumbai when the sun resembled a vivid orange ball gradually falling into the sea. The poppies are from a stamp set I bought from Lakeland many years ago, coloured with Coloursoft pencils.
Edited to add: I've added some birds to the page (Crafty Individuals) which I had thought of initially but forgot to do before scanning last night. I wanted to represent the souls of the dead flying free .

13 comments:

  1. What a thought provoking quote and page. I was struck by how similar all military cemeteries look, whether in the US, France, or other countries. Only the names change.

    I am sorry for your loss. I hope time will help heal all the pain you may be experiencing at the moment.

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  2. I am sorry for your loss - but glad you represented this so beautifully in your art - I nearly chose this quote/poem too - it's beautiful whilst being so sad too.. but I couldn't have done it such justice so am glad I chose again... a stunning piece of art. xx

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  3. WOW - so moving, beautiful verse and super artwork to go with it. Sorry to hear of the loss in your family right now, HUGS BJ

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  4. I am sorry for your loss and hope that the passage of time brings happy memories back.

    Your art work is lovely and intense. Beauty out of sadness. Thank you for stopping by my page.

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  5. A beautiful and moving piece of art work. Love all the images you have combined in this and the pastel colours you have used.
    So sorry to hear your sad news however I did like the image you captured of the setting sun.
    Lynn x

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  6. Your composition is excellent and I love what you did with the embossed sunray. Sorry to hear your sad news. .

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  7. Sorry to hear of your loss. Your journal page is beautiful, impossible not to find the quote moving I think and you've chosen lovely images to go with it - the addition of the birds was perfect.

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  8. Beautiful tribute, the birds do look so right on this! Sorry to hear of your loss, the quote sums it all up! Chrisx

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  9. Sorry to hear your sad news. I love your creation this week - you've neatly slotted the photo into the scene and those poppies are gorgeous!

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  10. Beautiful page and quote. Sorry to hear of your loss xx

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  11. Sorry for your loss... A fitting and beautiful tribute. The birds and the sun ray are perfect and your composition is stunning :-) xxx

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  12. A beautiful and moving page. Sorry to hear your sad news.

    Maggie

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  13. A wonderful page, love the sun raises.

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