Collage Play With Crowabout Challenge - Week 37

Another wonderful collage sheet supplied by Nancy inspired me to create this quirky fairytale piece.

All elements are courtesy of Nancy Baumiller and the fonts are : Monaco, Prefix, 3rd Man and Agent Red.

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Stock Photo Challenge 75 - Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Cindy hosted the Stock Photo challenge this week and she chose an image by Idelore at Stockxchnge.

I added a second layer, used the difference blend and removed all but the red and placed the lightbulb strategically!!!

Font : Monaco.

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Mixed Media Monday - Feathered Friends

Mummy I want some!!!

Feathered Friends is this week's theme and this is what came to my very deranged mind.

Credit to Raspberry Road for the birds and book and to Take a Break for the backgrounds.

Everything has been altered in one way or another.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Numbers

Numbers is the theme at Sunday Postcard Art challenge this week and this is what came to my mind. Mmmmmm.

Credit to SparkYourImagination for the background paper, which I layered and blended with a gold paper from Stockxchange.

Font is Agent Orange, again layered and blended into the backgrounds.

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Make a Moo Or Two - Happy

The theme at Make A Moo Or Two this week is Happy.

Well one of these two little girls couldn't quite manage it.

Credit to SparkYourImagination for the children and the Moo backgrounds, and to Valerie Brincheck for the background.

Font used : Justoldfashion

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Fun and Games

I did this for the Collage Play With Crowabout challenge. As usual Nancy provides a collage sheet and then we get creative.

Credit to Nancy Baumiller for the collage sheet.

Font : Justoldfashion.

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Mixed Media Monday - Altered People

Here's my interpretation of the theme of Altered People at Mixed Media Monday this week.

All elements are courtesy of Valerie Brincheck.

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Altered Self Portrait

I hosted the April ATC swap challenge at Digital Art Quirks last month and I challenged participants to produce an altered Self Portrait

This one is my contribution and believe me when I say that this is only the body of my dreams!

Credit to Liana's Paperdoll blog for the body, Effie's blog for the furniture, frame, bottle and picture, Madam Mim for the background. Oh and me.

Font : Palsu

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Sunday Postcard Art - Postage People

A very interesting and enjoyable challenge from Sunday Postcard Art this week where Marion has chosen Postage People as the inspiration for the challenge.

Credit goes to Artsyfartsyqueen for the Abraham Lincoln, Betty Boop and Cat postage stamps. The 'People' are courtesy of Valerie Brincheck. Charles Darwin and the Queen are scans of actual postage.

Fonts used : FG Adrian and Palsu.

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DAQ Quirkle Challenge 88 - Wish You Were Here

The Quirkle challenge at Digital Art Quirks this week was hosted by Donna who challenged us to use 1) a butterfly, 2) something yellow and 3) a triangle in our work.

There's no denying I was stumped this week and got caught up in the triangle bit and eventually this is what I produced.

Credit to Muddled Mind for the face, ATheeC for the body (both free to us at Flickr) and to Valerie Brincheck for the stamp.

Fonts used : Palsu and Vilma Handwriting.

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Make a Moo Or Two - Kiss

The theme at Make a Moo Or Two this week is A Kiss and this is my interpretation.

The statue is one from my own collection of photographs. I added a blue background, duplicated the whole thing and and blended first with multiply and then with a second layer blended with screen. After flattening the whole image I added a posterize filter, followed by an outline filter. Finally I made a drop shadow and added bevel and emboss to give the whole thing a raised edge.

The font is Dakota Handwriting.

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Theme Thursday - Masculine

Clarence is ALL man, except when his morning newspaper arrives, then he gives way to reckless abandon.

Clarence and his wonderful legs are images courtesy of Valerie Brincheck. The chair is cyber surfed and the backgrounds are my own.

Font : Floydian.

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Stock Photo Challenge 74 - Hands

Over at Digital Art Quirks the stock photo challenge this week was hosted by Cindy who chose the hands by Straymuse from Stockxchnge.

This is my interpretation. The map and the lady who shops (both much altered) are courtesy of the very generous Valerie Brincheck from her blog Sum of All Crafts. The shoe and hat boxes are by Kubivet.




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Works of Art ATC Challenge - Starry Night

Across at Flickr the Works of Art ATC challenge this week is inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night.

This is my interpretation.

I tried my hand at a bit of digital daubing which I then swirled with the smudge tool, altered and added the castle from my own photos, and finished with a grain filter.

Van Gogh made it look so easy ..... but it wasn't!

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Make A Moo Or Two - Quote

This week the theme for the challenge is to use a Quote and I've chosen a quote about time.

The Charlie Chaplin image and background were duplicated and blended with a colour burn to give them brightness and depth. I inserted a clock image between the two other images and blended it with a pin light at 50 percent to keep time in the background. All images are courtesy of Kubivet.

Fonts used : OldiesButGoodies and Apple Gothic and added a drop shadow to both to create definition.

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Skinny Cards - Sorrow

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for the lady, and to Lucretious for the red background and to Poisynn for the green background both from Stockxchnge.

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Gothic Arches - Home is Where The Heart Is

This is my interpretation for this week's theme at Gothic Arches.

The images are all from my own photo collection.

The font : Celtic Hand.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Pierrot

Here's my interpretation of the Sunday Postcard Art challenge this week.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for the lady, and the background and the frame (both much altered) are courtesy of Numbum.

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Stock Photo Challenge 71 - It Might Have Been Her Easter Bonnet

Kimmie is hosting the Stock Photo challenge across at Digital Art Quirks this week and she chose a photo of a tree for us to work with.




If Lily had been more organised this would have been her Easter Bonnet.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for the lady, to the designers of the WaterLO Project for the background, flowers, ladybird. Thank you also to Cabrantes from Stockxchnge for the stock photo.

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A Crush on Daisy

I had a good time just letting this take me where ever it wanted to with the images I'd made available.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck who gave most of these images (free to use) on her blog - The Sum of All Crafts.

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Make a Moo or Two - Home is Where The Heart Is

Marie is hosting the Moo challenge this week and her theme is Home.

Here is my interpretation.

Credit to Lorie Davison and Baers Garten from Scrapbookgraphics, also to NBK at nicnic.blogspot, and Stephinette's blogspot and Julie Marie's blogspot for the backgrounds and elements.

Font is Petitscript.

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So Artful Challenge - Hands

This is my artwork for the So Artful challenge this week. The theme is hands.

Credit to Katie Felix for the hand template, Becky Wallace for the background. The sewing elements including the pattern are courtesy of Janniscrap Designs.

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Artspirations - Challenge 6

At Scrapbookgraphics this week we were asked to take an 'altered self' to a dream destination, so here I am in Paris.

Credit to Tangie Baxter for the body of 'me', Rachness provided the flavour of Paris. Yep and that's a snap of me taken with my MAC's camera.

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Artarazzi - Challenge 18

A lovely image has been chosen this week from the artist Boris Vallejo as inspiration for the challenge.

I chose to make layer and blend and then place inside a gothic arch. The background altered to blend with the altered image is one of my own.

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Stock Photo 70 - Digital Art Quirks

Kimmie hosted the DAQ stock photo this week and she chose a picture of railings. As soon as I saw it I knew it had to be transformed into a hat or crown. Mabel agreed and thought George would be an excellent model. So here we are.

Credit goes to BoyMK for the stockphoto from Stockxchnge, the backgrounds (altered) and George (also altered) are free courtesy of Valerie Brincheck.

Font is Palsu.

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Original stock photo

Collage Play With Crowabout - Nothing is ever what it seems

Week 31 of Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play with Crowabout challenge over at Flickr.

I used all elements on the collage sheet to complete this one.

Font used : Prissy Frat :Boy

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Mabel's Journal - Scrapbookgraphics

Across at Scrapbookgraphics this week the challenge is to create a book cover.

Mabel said she thought I should show you her journal and so here it is.

Credit to Mighty Nice for the background and corner. All other elements, other than the photos and ephemera, are courtesy of Irene Alexeeva. The photos and cards are from my own collection.

Font : Prissy Frat Boy.

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Artarazzi - Challenge 17

Tacey hosted the challenge this week and gave us a lovely image of a seagul to work with.

Credit to Scrappy Smile for the Statue and the skyline. The lovely designers at the WaterLo Project provided the sky.


Thank you to Tacey for the original image.

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QUIRKLE 83 - Digital Art Quirks

Bev hosted the Quirkle challenge this week at Digital Art Quirks and asked us to create something using : vintage, a bottle and white space.

As always I don't know where this came from but here it is!!!

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen for the bottle, Suzee Que for the girl and the merman, (all free to use) from Flickr. The water is courtesy of Kubivet and the crown of Tangie Baxter.

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Art on the Dark Side - The Bench

The theme this week is the Bench courtesy of Larparmit from Deviant Art. I've mixed, layered and blended this with the remaining images, all courtesy of Takeabreak (free to use) on Flickr.

Larparmit's original image.







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Gothic Arch - Here's Looking At You

It's an open theme at Gothic Arches and this is what came to mind. Sooooo Here's Looking At You!

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen for the face. Background is my own.

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Mixed Media Monday - Stripes and Dots

Stripes or dots is the theme this week and I couldn't resist a little bit of both.

Credit to Stmarygypsy (free to use) at Flickr for the lady. The backgrounds are my own.

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Make A Moo Or Two - Egg

With Easter on the way Eggs are the theme at Make A Moo Or Two this week.

Credit to Booland Designs for the background, to Suziee Que for the Jester (free to use) from Flickr and to Boliyou for the egg (also free to use) at Flickr.

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Stock Photo 69 - Digital Art Quirks

Kimmie is hosting the stock photo across at DAQ this week. She chose the checkered background and I found it very inspiring.

Credit to Mattox at Stockxchnge for the stock photo, the two ladies are courtesy of Stmarygypsy (free to use) at Flickr, all other elements are from Artsyfartsyqueen also (free to use) at Flickr.

Original stock photo





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International Earth Day - March Journaling Challenge

Cindy has been the host for the March Journaling Challenge at Digital Art Quirks this month and she chose to make International Earth Day the theme.

Credit to Flaivoloka for the stock photo (much altered with distort filters) from Stockxchnge, Calydel for the Singing Ringing Tree (free to use at CC Flickr).

Brushes for lightbeam, flowers, text and moon are courtesy of Obsidian Dawn, Seishido and Axeraider70.

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DAQ Quirkle 82 - Wind Power

Bev is hosting this week's Quirkle at Digital Art Quirks. She asked us to use an alternative transport, a map and a quote.

This is how it turned out and it was great fun.

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen for the body parts and the fish tail, Effie's Designs for the umbrellas, handbag and bottle. The wings are by Fantacy, the text path by J2MT, and the map brush is 500ml.

Font : Black Jack.

The quote reads : What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody else's dream. Woody Allen.

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Famous Artists ATC Challenge - Wide Awake

Inspired by Salvidor Dali's painting 'Sleep'.

Credit to Artsyfartsyqueen for the lady, and to Sailor and Lula for the backgrounds.





Dali's Sleep

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Make A Moo Or Two - Yesterday

Yesterday is the theme for this week's challenge and that made me think about my family history research.

So here are some of my yesterdays set out in postcards and images.

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Gothic Arch - Spring Equinox

For the Gothic Arch challenge.

Credit to Aprilmouse and to Kubivet.

Font : Black Jack.

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It Was The White Rabbit ......

There's a new challenge over at Scrapbookgraphics called Altered Artspirations hosted by Tangie Baxter.

This week the recipe was to use : one heart, two wings, three vintage pieces, four stars and five words to make up an altered page.

Never liking to follow the main stream this is what I came up with.

Everything you see other than the font is courtesy of Tangie Baxter.

The font is Lucinda Handwriting.

There's more .... I just received notification that it's been chosen as a Studio Stunner across at Studio Tangie Creative Team blog and I received a $5 voucher to spend at Studio Tangie. Yaay.

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Collage Play With Crowabout - Oddly Familiar

Week 29 of Nancy Baumiller's collage challenge : Collage Play with Crowabout.

Credit to Nancy for the collage sheet.

Fonts used : Agent Orange and Black Jack.

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Stock Photo 67 - Fused Glass

This week Cindy hosted the stockphoto challenge at Digital Art Quirks.

I used a Photoshop shape to segment the photo, then duplicated and multiplied. I added a drop shadow to the shape and used the photo again as the background. Finally I added a glass filter to get what I hope is a fused glass effect.

Credit to Promobuild at Stockxchnge for the photo.