Using Line to Create Movement

Oh, lawsy daisy!

That's what my very southern grandmother used to say when she really wanted to say something else but couldn't in front of her two granddaughters.

Oh, lawsy daisy!

After ruining a lot of expensive paper and much exclaiming of lawsy daisy, I decided to make my mother-in-law a get-well card. A kind muse whispered in my ear, "Create movement with line."

That muse could have showed up sooner, is all I'm sayin'.

Then this card happened.

The branch comes from Papertrey's Turning a New Leaf and has a gently curving stem that was perfect to illustrate the point of line creating movement: your eye follows the line that flows under the sentiment. The branch is stamped twice, with the awkward intersection covered by the raised panel.

I positioned the branches to move up and to the right in order to portray moving from sick to well as a rising action. It's saying my mother-in-law has a hill to climb after surgery, but she can do it! The sentiment is positioned to the right also to emphasize the rising, optimistic movement.

The focal-point sentiment is static, level, stable. The line of the branch shows growth, movement, progress. The tension between the two is nice, I think. I particularly like how clean this is...just paper, ink, two colors, two white layers, great pop of color.

Why, oh, why didn't that muse show up sooner?

Lawsy.

Supplies
stamps: Papertrey 
ink: Ancient Page amethyst, Memento Luxe black
paper: Papertrey white
accessories: glue, craft foam