quintessence:noun

the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

or

the most typical example or representative

pronunciation HERE

 

Did you know?

Long ago, when people believed that the earth was made up of four elements—earth, air, fire, and water—they thought the stars and planets were made up of yet another element. In the Middle Ages, people called this element by its Medieval Latin name, "quinta essentia," literally, "fifth essence." Our forebears believed the quinta essentia was essential to all kinds of matter, and if they could somehow isolate it, it would cure all disease. We have since given up on that idea, but we kept "quintessence," the offspring of "quinta essentia," as a word for the purest essence of a thing. Some modern physicists have given "quintessence" a new twist—they use it for a form of so-called "dark energy," which is believed to make up 70 percent of the universe.

from Merriam-Webster Online

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I discovered a new challenge site called Electic Paperie, it's pretty awesome, loving all their ideas.

Get Altered Challenge - Using Canvas

 

"The Get Altered Challenge is about exploring your creative journey, about stepping outside of your comfort zone, experimenting with new products, and creating altered and mixed media art."

from Electic Paperie

To me, that's a challenge explanation in it's quintessence .

also entering this in:
PanPastel UK Challenge 1 - Anything Goes
 

So in that spirit I added canvas material to my board. Most of you that know, know I paint on board so this was a fun venture for me to create a wall hanging using canvas material. First I adhered the material to my board, then spray painted it a light pink. Then I painted the 2 red hearts. Next I punched the holes through the canvas and board ( would have been so much simpler to have done this step BEFORE adhering it to the board..::sigh:: ) anyway...I sewed on the flourishes.

The scissors were created by sticking down my metal Flashing tape to computer paper, printing out the scissor clip art onto it, embossing the wet ink, cutting it out and then running it through my Big Shot using a Fiskar swirly embossing plate.

Our Daily Bread - Sewn with Love stamp

Stazon ink

Fancy Pants - buttons ( they are acyually for Christmas, just turned over )

Faber Castell - PITT pen

measuring tape ribbon - misc.

Primo Elite - Charcoal pencil

and

The stick pin was created by Sherry Ellison of Creatology ( who sent it to me as a surprise RAK Christmas present, check out her Etsy store! )