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.

Quirkle 81 - A Change Is As Good As A Rest

Marie (Ozstuff) hosted the Quirkle challenge this week at Digital Art Quirks. She wanted to see some altered art with a mismatch of heads on shoulders, she also asked for a moon, and a tree made up from paper.

Meet Mabel's sisters Edna and Lily who like to show off their head changing skills, believing a change is as good as a rest.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck for the people parts (free to use) on her blog. Altered Souls for the moon, Booland Designs for the backgrounds (altered) and the dress. The tree is a standard PS shape which I've filled with a postcard from my own collection.

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Famous Artists ATC Challenge - Cuckoos In The Nest

For Artsyfartsyqueen's Famous Artists ATC Challenge on Flickr. This week we were inspired by James C Christensen's The Nest.

This is my interpretation.

Credit to Kubivet for the trees, butterflies, couple with child and flowers, the wonderful designers of the WaterLO Project provided the water, sky, stones and bushes. The nest and other figures are courtesy of Artsyfartsyqueen.


Christensen's original painting : The Nest.

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Self Portrait - Make It Mondays

Here's me showing off my lovely stripey socks, patent shoes and wonderfully expensive crown.

Credit to Artsyfartstyqueen for the legs, arms and crown.

The rest, of course, is ME.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - There's Just One

Week 28 of Collage Play with Crowabout.

Collage sheet was courtesy of Nancy Baumiller aka Crowabout.

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Altered Artspirations Challenge - Postage Stamp

Created for this new challenge at Scrapbookgraphics where this week the theme was stamps. We were also asked to try to make it 'out of bounds' so little Miss Mona appears to be stepping out of the stamp.

Credit to Aprilmouse for the stamp background, Artsyfartsyqueen for the Mona Lisa head, the hat, the pink hair, the bottle and the wine glass. The rest of Mona was Googled.

Postage marks are courtesy of Obsidian Dawn.

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Artarazzi - Challenges 13 and 14

I never managed to complete last week's challenge set by Ozstuff so I've combined the lovely background she chose with the Japanese lady chosen for this week's challenge by Vron.

The Japanese lady appears to be part of a fresco that's peeling away from the wall. Well that's what it's meant to be!

Credit to Art e Zines for the lady.

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Gothic Arch - Mother and Child

The theme this week is mother and child at Gothic Arches.

I was inspired by the Gustav Klimt picture Three Ages of Woman.

I extracted and duplicated the mother and child from Klimt's Three Ages of Woman and used an Overlay blend to brighten the image. I created the Arch background with brushes by Graphicxtras and Vanilla Dreams which I then duplicated and blended again to achieve a pleasing colour. I added the background which is courtesy of Booland Designs. Finally I added a Poster Edges filter to give definition to the lines of the mother and child.

Credit to Freeparking for the Klimt image (free to use) at Flickr.

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Digital Art Quirks - Stock Photo Challenge

This is Mabel Unzipped.

Credit to Kisks for the background and Zip Clix for the zip (both from Stockxchnge). Mabel is part of the family.

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Make a Moo Or Two - Puzzles

Puzzles are the theme at Make a Moo Or Two this week and of course Mabel wanted to get in on the act. So here she is showing how she's transformed when she gets her war paint on. She's such a show off.

Credit to Firestock at Flickr for (the free to use) image of Marilyn. The puzzle shapes are standard shapes from Photoshop.

Font is Ransom.


Oh, and of course, Mabel is part of the family.

Famous Artists ATC Challenge - False Magic

This week's Famous Artist ATC challenge by Artsyfartsyqueen across at Flickr was influenced by James Christensen's False Magic.

Credit to Theeye-cz for the money line, Linder6580 for the archway (both from Stockxchnge). Also to Madam Mim for the 'floor' background. All other elements are courtesy of collage sheets by Artsyfartsyqueen.

Christensen's Original Painting

Collage Play with Crowabout - Smile

Week 27 of the Collage Play with Crowabout Challenge.

As always credit to Nancy Baumiller (Crowabout) for the collage sheet.

Brushes : Vanilla Dreams for the star brush and gfxgurl for the girl brush.

Fonts : Tekton Pro and Ransom.

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Mixed Media Monday - The Written Word

Credit to the very talented designers of the WaterLO Project for all the element other than the angels from the Birth of Venus and they were Googled.

Font : Tekton Pro.

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Gothic Arch - Fantacy

For this week's Gothic Arch challenge.

Credit to Lisbonlioness for the background, to Vicki of A Work in Progress for the purple background, and to Obsidian Dawn who provided the Pixie brush.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Words of Wisdom

I chose a quote by Sir Winston Churchill for my words of wisdom for this week's challenge theme.

The quote is : An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.

I've interpreted it in a humourous way though I think the quote has a much deeper darker meaning.

Credit to Kubivet for the blended backgrounds, J2M for the text path, the crocs and croc sign were Googled.

Font : Tekton Pro.

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Famous Artists ATC Challenge - Burden of The Responsible Man

I created this for a challenge across at Flickr hosted by Artsyfartsyqueen.

This week we were to create an ATC in the style of James C Christensens' Burden of The Responsible Man.

This is my contribution.

Credit to Takeabreak (free to use) for the face and the legs at Flickr. Also to PaperMoonsKitz for the cakes and chocolates, the remaining elements are courtesy of Effie's Designs, and the background is by Madam Mim.

Christensen's Original Painting

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Collage Play with Crowabout - Tea Dance

Week 26 of Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play with Crowabout across at Flickr.

All elements are courtesy of Nancy.

Font : FG Vilma

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Fidget's Freaky Friday Collage Challenge - Week 2

It's week 2 and Fidgetrainbowtree has provided a brilliant collage sheet to get the creative juices flowing.

This is what I came up with. It's called How Big?

All elements are courtesy of Fidgetrainbowtree.

Font used : Rockford

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Artarazzi - Surreal

Marie is the host at Artarazzi this week and she's chosen the wonderful theme of Surreal. So one very relaxing and enjoyable Sunday afternoon later here is what I came up with. I'll call it : When one door closes

Credit goes to 'andthenpatterns' for the tunnel, 'rumpleteaser' for the hand and 'freeparking' for the lady (all from CC Flickr). Credit also to Artsy Fartsy Queen from Flickr for her (free to use) mouths and doors, both from her collage sheets.

The brushes used in the background are courtesy of Neveryph.

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