Hodge Podge Art: Show your {emotion}

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Show your {emotion}

Hey scrappers! Traci here with this week's Hodge Podge challenge.

There is usually a time in my life where my emotions are so intense that I feel a need to really journal about them. Normally I internalize (which my dear friend Kerstin accuses me of all the time...) but recently I've had some emotions that really needed to come out and this challenge was the perfect way to get that done.

This week we're playing for gift cards to Emily's, Holly's, Jacque's and my stores!

Traci's emotion

journaling: what do you do when the system fails? what do you do when the ones who are supposed to be helping you drop the ball? How do 3 adults not see how he got a black eye? how did they miss him being shoved down by a bigger kid? how can an adult take a child who needs them so desperately and whose parents have placed their “world” in their hands treat a child with such disdain? how do you slap and shake a child? how do the witnesses not intervene? how does no one tell you your child may have been the victim of abuse? how does the system not notify a parent for 6 weeks that this incident occurred and that they interviewed your non-verbal child?
and how do you deal with the anger? i picture your sweet face at school being ignored and pushed around by the bigger kids with emotional issues. and I get so angry. angry that the people I was supposed to entrust you with took their responsibility so lightly. so now you’ve been moved, we’ll start fresh in two days at a new school. one where you will hopefully learn to come home and be able to tell me what happened during the day and hopefully one where you will be happy and thrive and get everything your little self needs to catch you up and not hold you back, hurt you, hold you down. and hopefully i can release this anger in my heart, this hate for someone who had so little regard, and release myself from the vengeful thoughts and daydreams so that i can wholly dedicate myself to your new venture.

credits: Papers (also used inside alpha) from Wasabi by Gina Miller, alpha and glossy style by Miss Tiina, date stamps by Amber Clegg, paper towel brush by Rachel Young, grunge frame by Michelle Coleman.

by guest Rachel

Credits: Dr.'s Orders by Pamela Donnis

by guest Phoebe

Credits: Traci Murphy's Love in the Rain, Miss Tiina's Mommy's Girl kit, and Joyce Paul's Paint a Dream kit...staple by Krystal Hartley.

by guest Val

All stuff @ Funky Playground Designs: BG Green Peace Solids Paper Pack, by Leah; elements Delight in Photograph and Graph Papers Cut Out by Eclectic Scraps; Just Wordart 2 by Joyce Paul; Matties Curles by Corina Nielsen

by Emily

Credits: Riley kit by Holly Designs, Border and mad face by Gina Marie Huff, Tape, Bubble and Alpha by CD Muckosky, See Through It Strip-Emotion by Emily Merritt

by Rachel

Credits: Daylight Entire Collection by Rachel Young, Template Single by Gina Miller

by Jacque

fragile labels, broken buttons and paper rips by Kim Jensen
paper by Eclectic Designs by Gabi
painted alpha by CD Muckosky
cardboard alpha by Rachel Solenberg
stitches by Jessica Bolton
glass by Madam Mim
kraft labels by Birgit
coin alpha by Karah Fredricks
date label by Darcy Baldwin
bubble wrap prints by Emily Merritt
other paint by Amy Martin

by Kate

bg paper and stars 'robots and rockets' by emily merritt
clouds 'chasing rainbows' by emily merritt
stitching 'messy machine stitches' by emily merritt
doodled moon 'nativity doodles' by kate hadfield
alphas 'chipboard alpha' by kate hadfield
font by darcy baldwin

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