TGIF - Alice In Wonderland ATC

For the Thank God It's Friday Challenge where this week the theme is Alice in Wonderland in ATC format.

Credit to Suzee Que.

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It Must Be Autumn

I've discovered the gradient tool, and I spent a couple of very relaxing hours this evening playing.

So here is what I did with Lumik Scraps blogspot freebie Autumn in the City Kit.

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Theme Thursday - Borders

For Theme Thursday where this week the theme is borders.

Credit to A Crafter's Corner and Suzee Que

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Three Muses Challenge 23 - A Peach of a Pair

It's Marie's turn to host this week's challenge and she has chosen the theme A PEACH OF A PAIR.

It could have been a pair of anything but this is what my Muse 'told' me to do.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck (free to use).

Thanks Marie for a great challenge.

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Gothic Arches - In the Style of Lord Federick Leighton

For the first challenge of the all new Gothic Artches, Nancy has chosen the painter Lord Frederick Leighton as her theme.

Here is my entry.

Credit to Suzee Que for the lovely lady.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Edgar Allen Poe

It's Edgar Allen Poe at Sunday Postcard Art this week, and I here is what my muse said to me. Ha ha ha.

Credit to Wikimedia, Honey Designs, Vanessian Vintage and CAJoline .

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Something Completely Different - Halloween

Tammara at Pixel Music tells me there's an inchie Halloween challenge across at Something Completely Different.

My very first Inchie. Ta Da.

Thanks to DBS Designs.

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DAQ - Artist Studio Challenge - Paperdolls

Marie aka Ozstuff is hosting the new Artist Studio challenge across at DAQ this week and her theme for this week is Paperdolls.

Credit to CAJ Designs, Granny Art, Eifie, and Madam Mim.

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Three Muses Challenge 22 - Cockadoodle Cluck

Bev is hosting this week's challenge at the Three Muses and she's chosen the theme of Cockadoodle Cluck and says anything goes (but just pop a chicken in there somewhere).

I had such great fun with this one so thank you Bev.

Credit to Granny Art and Honey Designs for the elements.

The font is Olli Compolli.

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Altered Works of Art Challenge - Chris Mars

Jayne aka PeppaPig has a new challenge at Digital Art Quirks and for week 4 asked us to alter a piece by Chris Mars.

Here is what I came up with which is definitely tongue in cheek!

Credit to Granny Art for the rag dolls and the chairs, and to Playing with Brushes for the background.

Here is Chris Mars' original work.









Great fun.

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Texture Mask

Credit to Wiebelwuppie for the fibre texture and Honey Designs for the face. I combined luminosity and overlay layers and finished with a tile filter.

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Sunday Postcard Art - Halloween

It's Halloween this week at Sunday Postcard Art.

Credit to Digicats for her Faangtasia blogtrain freebie.

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Postage Stamp People

Marie (Ozstuff) hosted the DAQ challenge earlier in the week and chose Postage Stamp People as her theme.

Credit to Granny Art for the chicken, Pixel Music for the postcard, NumbBumm for the speech bubble. Mona and the crown are in the public domain. Font : Palsu

Ah and here she is again. Mona just couldn't make up her mind on the look she preferred.

DAQ October Bookmark - Remembrance

Here is bookmark No 2 for the October challenges at Digital Art Quirks. The theme for this one is Remembrance.

I chose a quote from Wilfred Owen's poem of the same name. The background image is Harry Patch who died aged 111 earlier this year but who was the last 'Tommy' to be involved in the First World War. Wilfred Owen is, of course, the foreground image (both images by Dover). The poppies, symbol of remembrance are courtesy of Granny Art blogspot.

Font is Isle of the Dead.

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DAQ - Halloween Bookmark

Victoria recently hosted a Halloween bookmark swap and this one is mine.

Credit to Designs by Silky, Digicats and Disyas Designs all who created for the Faangtasia blogtrain. Thanks ladies.

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Three Muses Challenge 21 - Long Ago and Far Away

It's my turn to host the Three Muses Challenge this week and I have chosen Long Ago and Far Away.

Thinking of LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY I was reminded of Mabel's childhood. Her father Eustace, a very 'colourful' character went to great lengths to merge into the crowd for several hours of drinking and gambling, but Mabel's mother Gertie, a very determined lady, would grab that old shotgun, and with Daisy, Doris and Mabel in tow would search out the old rascal and show him the way home. Ah such fond memories of Sunday afternoon family entertainment.

Credit to Tammara at Pixel Music and Nicole Young for the elements used, and of course, Mabel is part of the family.

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DAQ - September ATC - Flower Power

I host the monthly Digital Art Quirks ATC challenge and for September I chose the theme of Flower Power.

Here is my interpretation.

All credit to the very talented and generous Efie at her blogspot for these free elements.



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Three Muses Challenge 20 - Hair

Marie is hosting the Three Muses Challenge this week and she has chosen Hair as her theme and as no one does Hair more beautifully than Mucha I chose one of his famous ladies for my interpretation.

Credit to SuzeeQue, Caravan Scraps and Granny Art.

Thanks Marie for another great challenge.

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Gone Fishing - Be Back In Two Weeks

Gone fishing ...... be back in two weeks.

No, just kidding, not going fishing at all, but we are taking a couple of weeks' holiday to have some fun, soak up the sun, take in the culture and relax.

See you in a couple of weeks.

Take care.

Three Muses Challenge 15 - Zlightly Zetti

It's Marie's turn to host the Three Muses challenge this week and she has chosen the theme of Zlightly Zetti.

So here I am zlightly zettified.

Credit to Caravan Scraps, Farrah's Design Scraps, Cleome1 (Flickr) and Clix at StockXchnge. The photo is one I took earlier this week, the keyboard is my own and the pigs are public domain.

Thanks Marie for another fun challenge.

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Artists Studio Challenge No 3 - Slightly Surreal

Marie hosted this week's new challenge at Digital Art Quirks and she chose the theme of Slightly Surreal (Autumnal), and I had great fun creating this one for the challenge. Thanks Marie.

All credit for the background and all elements goes to the very talented and very generous Efie at her blogspot. Thanks Efie.

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KIRKSTALL ABBEY - CLASSICAL MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA

Leeds Met Council, here in the UK, staged one of its free events in the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey a couple of weeks ago and this one was an evening of classical music.

The idea of this particular event was to enjoy an evening of music, lightshows and fireworks with family and friends and by bringing along a picnic and a bottle of wine, a great time was had by all.

Here are a few of my photos.

Artists Studio Challenge No 2 - Mermaids

This is Daisy, Mabel's other sister, who married well and therefore was in a position to indulge her every fashion whim. Say what you like, but I think there's something just a little bit fishy about this outfit but Mabel says there is no accounting for taste.

Credit to Clearly Vintage (Flickr free to share) for Daisy, and also to a lovely French artists I discovered, (Cajoline-Scraps at her blogspot), for the remaining elements other than the fish tail which started life as a guppy and was altered by me.

Created for the new Artists Studio challenge at Digital Art Quirks.

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Three Muses Challenge 17 - Windows

This week it's my turn to host the challenge across at the Three Muses, and I have chosen the theme of Windows.

Am I looking out of or into this window ....... I'm not sure?

Credit to Playing with Brushes for the backgrounds, Kubivet for the window, Aprilmouse for the flower, whilst the images of Marcel Marceau are from the Public Domain.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - Week 53

It's week 53 at Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play with Crowabout Challenge.

Credit to Nancy for the collage sheet.

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Mixed Media Monday - Metal

Metal is the theme at MMM this week, so here is my metal man, hope you like him.

Credit (big breath now) Missy Lyn, Truly Toxic, Efie, NumbBumm, Artsyfartsyqueen, Momparadise Designs, Scrapity Scrap and More, and finally Tammara from Pixel Music. Thanks ladies. Border and keyboard are my own.

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TGIF - It's Magic

Created for the Thank God It's Friday challenge where the theme this week is : It's Magic.

Credit to Nicole Young Designs for the backgrounds and word art (altered) and the sparkles (also altered) are courtesy of NumbBumm. The hat was in the public domain.

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Digital Art Quirks - Moo

There's a new challenge across at Digital Art Quirks and this week it was to make a Moo. So here my Mabel Moo.

Credit to Designs by Kelly, Tracy Did It and HBFIC, and the fonts are Kenteken and Palsu.

Mabel, of course, is part of the family.

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Theme Thursday - Flourishes

Here is my entry for Theme Thursday where this week the theme is Flourishes.

I'm not sure what you'll think of this one, it sort of turned out a bit of a dark one, but I have to say sometimes I'm not totally responsible for what my muse supplies. If you know what I mean.

Credit to Truly Toxic, Tygers Tidbits, Sarah Bryan Designs and MomParadise Designs. The stripey bits are my own.

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Collage Play with Crowabout - Week 52

My entry for Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play with Crowabout across at Flickr.

All parts are courtesy of Nancy.

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Three Muses Challenge 15 - Pockets

Bev is hosting the Three Muses challenge this week and has chosen the wonderful theme of pockets.

I had to think about this one for a little while, and then I thought about a pocket full of memories of my youth, so here it.

Credit to Tracy Did It, Sassy Imagination, Designs by Kelly, HBFIC and Bad Girlz Stuff (all from the Funkadelic Freebies Blogtrain). Thank you ladies. The pocket is courtesy of Emacinne at Stockxchnge.

Thanks Bev for the theme.

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August ATC - Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was my choice for the theme of ATC for August at DAQ.

Here is what I created.

Credit to Eifi's blogspot for all the London elements, the Charlie Chaplin images were from the public domain.

Fonts SpeedballNo3 and Snowshoe.

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Thank God It's Friday - Skulls

Created for the TGIF theme of Skulls.

The skull was in the Public Domain, the backgrounds, the flowers and the butterfly are courtesy of NumbBumm, and the glass eyes and the keyboard are my own.

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Theme Thursday - Vintage Women ATC

It's Vintage Women in ATC form this week at Theme Thursday so meet Mabel's little sister.

Credit to Valerie Brincheck, Efie's blogspot and Tammara at Pixel Music.

Font is Euphemia UCAS

Three Muses Challenge 14 - Moonstruck

This week it's Marie's turn to host the Three Muses challenge and she has chosen Moonstruck as her theme.

So here's what that meant to me!

Credit to HoneyDesigns, UrbanFairy, SuzeeQue and Tammara from Pixel Music.

The quote is one by Kathryn Hepburn.

Font is MaryJane Tankard.

Thanks Marie.

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Frameworthy Challenge - Inspired by Turner

Created for the Scrapbookgraphics' Frameworthy challenge which this week is inspired by the British landscape painter Turner.

Credit to Alicepopkorn (CC at Flickr). Here

The hand was Googled.

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TGIF - Funny Animals

I hope a Napolibird is classed as a funny animal!!

Napolibird and all other elements are courtesy of Tammara at Pixel Music.

Fonts are Junior Star and Mary Jane Tankard.

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Happy Birthday Gothic Arches

An Arch in a Tag is the challenge at Gothic Arches. So here's wishing you a Happy Birthday.

Credit to Liz Designs for the text path, Tammara at Pixel Music for the Gothic Arch background, and the elements are courtesy of Minette 143.

Font : BahiaScriptSSK

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Theme Thursday - Halloween ATC

At Theme Thursday this week the theme is Halloween ATCs, and of course Mabel just wanted to get involved. So here she is all 'got up' for the occasion.

Credit to Cleome1 from Flickr (free to use) for the hair and clothes. The three blended backgrounds and the hat are my own, and of course Mabel is part of the family.

Font is Agent Orange.

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Three Muses Challenge 13 - Charlie Chaplin

It's my turn this week to host the Three Muses challenge and I have chosen the theme of Charlie Chaplin.

So I layered, and coloured and blended, added a bit here and moved a bit there and ....... taa daa ..... this is the new Charlie Chaplin. I hope you like what you see.

Credit : All five images of Charlie Chaplin are in the public domain. The artist's dummy is my own.

Mixed Media Monday - Stitches

Stitches is the theme at MMM this week.


Credit to HollyAnn, Mrs Miles, Irene Alexeeva, PillowGirl and NumbBumm.

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