Music

Greetings!  When I was trying to get my printer to work this weekend, the sepia enhanced photograph of my parents that I was trying to print for last week's "Sepia or Brown" tag came out.  Since I had this week's "Music" theme in my mind, the first thing I thought of when I saw it was "harmony."  In music, harmony is the pleasant and/or congruent sound of two or more notes played simultaneously.  That is the perfect analogy of my parents' relationships with each other, their family, and friends.

© Arnoldo L. Romero 2012

Since my parent's photograph was the base and focal point of my tag, I decided to keep it simple.  I used an EKSuccess music note border punch to create the bronze metallic paper trims.  I taped them to the photograph and used a peacock gold stamp to darken all the edges.  Then, I designed an embellishment using a Tim Holtz grungeboard heart and his music note print washi tape.  I edged it with a gold dabber.  I enhanced the heart by sandwiching it between a couple of K&Company rose die-cuts.  As a finishing touch, I added a dot of vintage photo stickles to the center of the rose.  Next, I took a tag and wrote "In Harmony" on it using a brown micron pen.  I glued the latter two items to my tag.  I rounded the top corners of the photograph and punched a hole between them to form the tag shape.  I topped my tag by tying a strip of gold ribbon to it.

I love my tag, because it will be a reminder of one of the most important lessons I learned from my parents.  As it is written in Colossians 3:12-14, "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony."  Have a blessed week!