Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Three Muses Challenge 48 - Music, Music, Music



Marie chose Music, Music, Music as her theme for the Three Muses this week and as you can see I just couldn't stop at one entry.

Above, Marilyn sings her famous Happy Birthday Mr President, whilst below, the Musician plays on the piano keys and imagines the music he will create.



Credit to Texture Vault, LostandTaken, Casandra, SuzeeQue and ArtsyFartsyQueen (all Flickr free to use), Efie's blogspot, Marilyn was free to use and I also used a number of my own pieces, photographs and documents as textures.

Please enlarge for a better view.

Great theme Marie.

TFL

Monday, 26 April 2010

I FEEL PRETTY



For the Mixed Media Monday theme of I Feel Pretty

Credits

Joes Sistah at Flickr, Efie at her blogspot, whilst the background image is one of my own.

TFL

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Sunday Postcard Art - Oriental



The theme this week at SPA is Oriental and here is what I was inspired to create.

Credit to Dover free to use, SkeletalMess and Tanakawho.

Thank you for taking the time to look.

Friday, 23 April 2010

Wish You Were Here



Credit to Art Creations Friday for the image of the little girl and here is what I did with it. The background is one of my own photos and the child's bucket was from the internet.

Thank you for looking.

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Hats and Crowns and Wings and Things



This week it is my turn to host the challenge across at the Three Muses, where the theme is HATS AND CROWNS AND WINGS AND THINGS.

Here is what the theme inspired me to create (can't seem to get out of this surreal thing)!

Credit to Joes Sistah at Flickr, Honey Designs, Granny Art and Efie (all at their blogspots), oh and the Crown Jewels were cyber surfed.

Thank you for looking.

Monday, 19 April 2010

Collage Play With Crowabout - In Memory of Suzee Que



Susan Criser aka Suzee Que was a very generous and talented artist who will be sadly missed.

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Art Creation Friday



I fell in love with the image this week at Art Creations Friday and so I just had to have a go.

I used the original image together with a texture by Playing With Brushes and one by LostandTaken.




Thanks for looking.

Saturday, 17 April 2010

Sundary Postcard Art - Springtime



This week's theme at SPA is Springtime and this is my Spring Dawning.

Credit to Joes Sistah and Numb Bumm.

Thank you for taking the time to look.

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Three Muses Challenge 46 - Maps



Bev has chosen the very interesting theme of MAPS for this week's Three Muse challenge.

Mabel, who has been very quiet of late, saw this theme and thought she would have a go and this is what she came up with. Ah that woman!

Credit to SuzieQue and CAJ Designs, whilst the bits and pieces of passport are mine, and of course, Mabel is part of the family.

Font : Actiols.

Thanks Bev for a great challenge theme, and thank you to all those who take the take to look.

Mixed Media Monday - Hello Dolly



Here's a little bit of fun I created for the theme of Hello Dolly at Mixed Media Monday this week.

Credit to Nichole Young for the lovely checkered floor and Dreams Fulfilled for the curtains. The remainder is a composite of bits and pieces from the internet.

Font : Actionls.

Thank you so much for looking.

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Three Muses Challenge 45 - Bye Bye Blackbird



Marie is our host for the Three Muses Challenge this week and she has chosen BYE BYE BLACKBIRD as the theme. My Mr B Bird has taken me at my word, donned his most favourite hat, bundled up his belongings in his spotty hankie, tied it to his stick and is ready to fly. I loved this one Marie.

Credits to GrannyArt, Efie at her blogspot and Honey Designs.

Font : Brother Bear

Thank you for taking a look

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Sundary Postcard Art - Bunnies



Bunnies is the theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art so here's my little contribution!

Credit to Playing with Brushes, Valerie Brincheck ( both Flickr free to use), Irene Alexeeva and grannyart.blogspot.com. Font is Chalkbook.

Thank you so much for looking.

Friday, 2 April 2010

Abbey Music



Late last year I attended a music festival at Kirkstall Abbey, the music and the lighting effects were fantastic. What can I say, I was inspired.

Credits : Photo is my own, the lady is a Dover image.

Thank you for looking.

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Three Muses Challenge 44 - You Are What You Eat



This is my entry for the Three Muses challenge theme of YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. It made me think of Alice In Wonderland and how what Alice ate changed her completely ...... many times. This, of course is what happened when Alice ate the mushroom!

Credit to Joes Sistah, Granny Art blogspot, Irene Alexeeva and SusieQue. Alice (much altered) was from an image I found on the internet.

The font is : Whatshappened.

Thank you for looking.

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Sundary Postcard Art - Time for Tea



Here are my two ladies gossiping over their tea, created for the Sunday Postcard challenge of Time for Tea.

Credit to Lost in Wonderland, CAJ Designs, Granny Art blogspot and Efie's blogspot.

Thank you for looking.

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Three Muses Challenge 43 - A Nice Cup Of Tea



For this week's challenge at the Three Muses I chose the theme of A Nice Cup Of Tea and this is what I was inspired to create.

Credit to Joes Sistah, Efie's blogspot, CAJolines blogspot and Irene Alexeeva.

Thank you for taking the time to look.

Sunday, 21 March 2010

Collage Play With Crowabout - Week 71



For Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play With Crowabout. Great fun.

Credit to Constancet2009 for providing the collage sheet to work from this week.

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Sunday Postcard Art - Steampunk




Sunday means Sunday Postcard Art and this week the theme is steampunk. Wow this was soooo much fun to do.

Credit to Vintage Printables (Flickr free to use), Granny Art's blogspot and Effie's blogspot, and Irene Alexeeva.

Thank you for looking.

Friday, 19 March 2010

Collage Play With Crowabout - Week 70



I thought it was time I visited Nancy at Collage Play with Crowabout and this is what I produced from the elements for week 70.

Credit to Nancy Baumiller for the collage sheet.

Thanks for looking.

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Theme Thursday - Masculine



The theme is Masculine over at Theme Thursday this week, but George refused to participate since he simply does not DO masculine. See what I mean?

Credit to Bits N Bobs at Scrapingbits.blogspot, Valerie Brincheck, Playing with Brushes, CAJ Designs and the font is Trash.

Thanks for looking.

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Three Muses Challenge 42 - Incognito



My theme, for the Three Muses this week is INCOGNITO, and this theme made me think of masks and masked balls but in the end my imagination took me in an entirely different and probably dark direction.

I wonder if this bride realises her new husband is not all he seems to be? Oooh scary!

Credit to A Crafters Corner blogspot.

Thank you for looking.

Friday, 12 March 2010

Three Muses Challenge 41 - Newspaper



Great theme this week Bev, and I know I haven't done it justice, (jet lag and all that) but here is my 'newspaper' man anyway!

Credit to Efie for the background and to the unknown artist who created the man I spied in a shop window and photographed knowing I would use him sometime soon.

Thanks for looking.

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Three Muses Challenge - Oh Man



Ha ha I had such great fun with this theme and here is my take on OH MAN. I would like you to meet Herbert who found he really could do two things at the same time.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for Herbert, the WaterLO Project ladies for the background and the font is MV Boli.

Thank you for looking.

Monday, 1 March 2010

More Travels Around New Zealand

As the sun set on Whatuwhiwhi


Wonderful Pohutukawa trees on the beach at Whatuwhiwhi in Doubtless Bay



Waiting for the sun to rise. We were evacuated to the top of a hill at Taipo Bay because of the Tsunami


Reflections of a swimming hole - Coromandel



First sight of the sea - Coromandel



Sunset over Greymouth

I couldn't resist this shot when four people brought their chairs down to the beach to watch the sunset.





Aaah wonderful

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Three Muses Challenge - Architecture



Gayle suggested architecture as the theme for the Three Muses challenge this week. Thanks Gayle I had great fun with this one.

I used an image of a keyboard by Lusi at Stockxchnge for my architectural designs and together with a few bits and pieces by Irene Alexeeva this is what I finally came up with.

Thank you for taking the time to look and when I get back from New Zealand I promise to get back to commenting on everyone's work too.

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Three Muses Challenge - Nature




I loved Marie's theme of Nature for this week's Three Muses Challenge, and even though I am in the 'back of beyond' somewhere in New Zealand with a dodgy internet connection I couldn't resist having a go.

Credit to Sassy Imagination, Crafters Corner, Granny Art, Tangie Baxter and Joes Sistah.

Thanks Marie.

PS Please accept my apologies for not commenting on your blogs whilst I'm away. I promise to catch up when I return.

Saturday, 13 February 2010

DAQ February Journal Page - Solitude




Across at Digital Art Quirks, Marie aka Ozstuff is our host for the Febuary journal prompt, and she chose Solitude as our theme. Thanks Marie.

Here is my interpretation.

Credit to Dover Publications for aspects of Mona, and to Joes Sistah for the background.

Thank you for stopping by.

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Three Muses Challenge - Postage Art




Woohoo my first challenge piece in ages. This little holiday postcard is winging its way to you with good wishes from New Zealand for Bev's great challenge theme of Postage Art at the Three Muses.

Credit to Pixel Music for the postcard and postage backgrounds. The On This Day stamp is tagged BVA LYA Wornseals Special, so if anyone can put me right on who I should credit I would be most grateful. The two blended beach photographs are my own.

Thanks so much for looking.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

More Pictures From New Zealand

Bluff part of the furthest most south city in the world


Our Campervan - true or false


Bruce Bay

A long beach where people passing through had each made a 'sculpture' and left their name and where they were from.




Our Campervan - true or false


More Lake Te Anau



Mr T doing boy things.