THE POSTMAN CALLED AGAIN. YAY.

I did a little mail art swap with June (aka Junibears) this past week and look at the goodies she sent me.

Not only a lovely decorated envelope but also a gorgeous card too.  

Thank you so much June my friend.

THREE MUSES 70 - VICTORIAN

Bev has chosen the theme of Victorian for this week's challenge at the Three Muses.

Victorian ........ mmmmm .... should I give Queen Victoria a steampunk makeover or may be I should do something with Victorian fashion!   Finally, however, I  settled on the great Victorian Gothic Novel, and what better one than Wuthering Heights by our very own Yorkshire lass Emily Bronte.

A couple of weeks ago I visited Haworth and the Parsonage where the Bronte sisters lived with their father Patrick and brother Branwell.

Emily, writing under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, wrote Wuthering Heights from there, and just behind the church where her father Patrick was vicar is Haworth Moor and the scene where in Emily's imagination the drama unfolds between Heathcliff and Cathy.  Mmmmmmm ...... one of my very most favourite novels EVER.

Thanks Bev for the inspiration.

Thank you for looking.

PATRICK BRONTE'S CHURCH

GhostWorks Texture Comp #20

Texture with thanks to Skeletal Mess

The church door at Haworth is from my own photograph collection.

Thanks for looking.

AUTUMN GLORY

It's Autumn colours at Sunday Postcard this week and so here is my interpretation.  Kind of like walking into Autumn, I suppose!  :D

The Lady is copyright free and is blended with one of my photographs taken in the rain forest of New Zealand.

Thank you for looking.

THREE MUSES 69 - ART ENVELOPE

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

I had lots of fun with this one, especially when I found this shameless young lady taking a dip.

Credit to NumbBumm for the pin and staple, Sherrie JD for the reclining lady, A Crafter's Corner the scroll.  The water and the sky are from my own collection.

Thanks Marie for a very enjoyable challenge.

Thanks for looking.

SMILE PLEASE!

I made this for Nancy Baumiller's Collage Play With Crowabout challenge across at Flickr.

Here is the sheet Nancy provided this week for our inspiration.

Credits for the sheet :

Background/Room by: Nancy Baumiller
Bugs by: jack and cat curio
Bat/spider/framedspookygal/snake by: neefer
Quija piece by: Suzee Que
Deathly girl by: MrsInman
Crows by: MrsInman
Words-Halloween/TrickorTreat/Boo! by: Nancy Baumiller-created in Publisher
Blue Bottle by: Nancy Baumiller (PERSONAL USE ONLY)
Skully by: autumnsensation
All other images by: DigitalCollageImages

Spooky!

MORE LOVELY MAIL

On Saturday morning bright and early,  the Postman popped yet another decorated envelope through my letter box and this time it was from Marie.  Just look at those wonderfully bright Prismacolour enhanced colours that brightened up my day.   And look what came inside ... two gorgeous bookmarks .... and see, I can choose which one to use depending on my mood that day!  Woohoo. 

Thank you so much Marie.

SUNDAY POSTCARD ART

It's 1950s Pin Ups at Sunday Postcard this week.  Here is my interpretation.

Credit to Kubivet, Fidlette Designs and Honey Designs.

Thank you for looking.

LET ME SEE!

This is my entry for the Flickr Photoshop Talent 52 Contest.  http://www.flickr.com/groups/1191989@N25/

Credit to Lunamom58 (last week's winner) for the starter image.   Credit also to Dover for the copyright free image.

Thank you for looking.

TWO LEFT FEET

Alas ...... she knew she would never be a dancer because she had two left feet!

For Theme Thursday where the theme this week is to incorporate three into our collage.

Credit to Terri Kahrs for the lovely background, Fidlette Designs for the curtains and Kubivet for the hands.  The remainder of elements are either magazine clippings or free to use.

Thank you for looking.

LOOK WHAT THE POSTMAN BROUGHT

Look what the Postman popped through my letter box last Saturday morning, a lovely mail art envelope from Bev.   Yipee!  Don't you just love receiving these little works of art through the mail.  I got all excited because not only is the envelope gorgeous but just look what I found inside too.  Thanks Bev,  I love it.  :D  

Mine is in the mail to you my friend.

GIVE US MORE SUNSHINE

I came across a free newspaper last week called the Positive News.  How nice to find a newspaper chock full of positive news ....... I just couldn't resist a browse ...... and my goodness I was rewarded with all kinds of interesting and positive news. 

One article in particular caught my eye entitled Give Us More Sunshine!    Mmmmm .... there is no doubt we Brits at least have had a paucity of said Sun this Summer so the article had to become my  PRINTED WORD for the Three Muses this week.

After clipping and scanning  the news article into Photoshop,  I persuaded  my long suffering  grand daughter to pose with scissors  so I could 'clip' the headline, then to achieve some softness I added one of my own flower textures. 

Thanks for looking.

A MATTER OF TIME

 

It is Bev's turn to host the challenge at the Three Muses this week and she has chosen Numbers as her theme.   

I had great fun playing with layers and numbers and this is my interpretation.  Thanks Bev for a lovely challenge.

Thank you for looking.

COLLAGE PLAY WITH CROWABOUT

I liked the collage sheet so much at Nancy's Collage Play With Crowabout this week that I just had to play along.

Here it is!

Credit to all who contributed to the collage sheet for Week 93 and who are detailed by Nancy on her Flickr group.

Words are my own.

Thank you for looking.

AUGUST ATC SWAP - WHIMSICAL CLOCK

Hey, look what I received from Jayne (PeppaPig) in my mail this week.  This gorgeous ATC was our swap for August.

See the original http://pigsinpink.blogspot.com/ here

Our September swap theme, chosen by Miss P, is altered Mona ........  mmmmmm .... what will we create.

Thanks for looking.

THREE MUSES 66 - NATURE

Marie is hosting the Three Muses challenge this week and she has chosen NATURE as her theme.  Here is my interpretation : two crispy apples and a juicy orange for my lunch ...... mmmmmm ....... three of my five a day!!!

Credit to Nicola Young, Efie and the ladies of the Water LO Project for the elements.  The backgrounds are two of my own layered and blended.

Thanks Marie for a great challenge.

Thanks for looking.

SLEIGHT OF HAND

Created for the Flickr Art Uni International Magical Landscape Competition. (See side bar.)

Credit  for the original image

www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/4932014918/

Also to Marcee Duggar from DigitalScrapbookPlace.

Thanks for looking.

ON THE DARKSIDE - SPA

Nan is guest host at Sunday Postcard Art  this week and she's chosen : On The Darkside.  This is my Darkside interpretation!

The photos are from my personal collection.

Thank you for looking.

THREE MUSES 65 - ZETTI

It is my turn to host the Three Muses challenge this week and I have chosen THE WORLD OF ZETTI.

Meet Venus a self made woman, a celebrity in her own right and a lady who knows her own mind.  She likes the boots but if you ask me I think she's sulking about the hair!

Venus is mostly my own work, though I did have a little help from Botticelli and a little more from Terri Kahrs who provided the background.  Thanks Terri.

Thank you for looking.

SEEING RED

The theme this week at Mixed Media Monday is Seeing Red.  Here is my interpretation.

Credit to Nicola Young, NumbBumm, CAJoline and DesignsByKristi for the elements.

Thanks for looking.

LOOK WHAT THE POSTMAN BROUGHT

Last week my Postman popped both of these wonderful decorated mail art envelopes through my letterbox and both  little beauties on the same day too!!!

I inspected them, felt them, shook them, turned them this way and that but I didn't open them because each was so unique and gorgeous and I couldn't bring myself to spoil them.

Can you believe I didn't open them until the following day and when I did all kinds of wonderful goodies were tucked away inside.

Bev, Marie and myself decided we should have a little mail art swap and this was our very first attempt and so without further ado may I present  the wonderful gifts I received.  You can tell who sent which by the postmark but just in case you can't make them out Bev's envelope is the one above whilst Marie's is the one below.

Enlarge them, they are gorgeous.

Thank you so much to Bev and Marie.

THREE MUSES 64 - WHEELS

Bev has chosen wheels this week as her theme at the Three Muses and this is my interpretation.

I used one of my own photographs of the New Year celebrations of the firework display on the London Eye together with a Botticelli Angel (copyright free) and a wheel from a boat and then played with layers and blend modes until I had created wheels within wheels.

Thanks Bev for challenging me to think outside the box!!!

Thank you for looking.

MAGIC MUSHROOMS

This week at Sunday Postcard the theme is Mushrooms, so here are a few mushrooms of the magic kind for your amusement!

Credit to GWDesigns, GrannyArt and HoneyDesigns for the elements whilst the textures are three of my own blended with luminosity, multiply and pin light.

Thanks for looking.

Whimsical Clock was the theme for our August ATC swap and this was my interpretation.  I had great fun making it and was pleased I managed to make the hair for my little lady in ArtRage which I am trying (very slowly) to teach myself. 

Most of what I used for  this were magazine clippings with one or two bits appropriated via the net.

Thank you so much for taking the time to look.

MONA JOINS THE CIRCUS

Make It Interesting ~ Challenge #2

Original image with thanks to  JoesSistah

Mmmmmmm ...... Mona is on her travels again!

Credit to JoesSistah for the Harlequin and PareeErica for the background.  The font is Fontdinerdotcom.

Thanks for looking.

THREE MUSES 63 - DOORS

Marie has chosen DOORS as her theme for this week's challenge at the Three Muses and here is my interpretation.

Credit to Dover and to Efie for the elements whilst the textures are my own.

Thanks Marie for a great theme.

Thank you for looking.

SUNDAY POSTCARD ART - HOUSES

The theme at SPA this week is Houses and this is a view of one of my most favourite seaside towns in Yorkshire, here in England : Whitby.

Also

EXPLORE Worthy, challenge #1 - COLORS OF SUMMER.

The photos and textures are my own.

Thank you for looking.

THREE MUSES 62 - LOVE IS BLIND

Mabel's choice in men was sometimes a tad suspect so when she introduced me to Mr Gater I admit to feeling a teeny tiny twinge of apprehension and I hoped we would never have to utter those words : Love Is Blind!

Yes, it's my  turn to host the Three Muses challenge this week and as you can see my theme is LOVE IS BLIND.

Credit to Dover Samples, Efie's Blogspot and Ruby Blossom, whilst Mabel, is of course, part of the family.  The fonts used are Humbug Icing and Cookie, and Hootie.

Thank you so much for looking.

MERMAID

It was Jayne's (aka PeppaPig) turn to choose a theme for our July ATC swap and she chose Mermaid. This one is my swap to her.

Credit to Efie at her blogspot for the mermaid (that started life as a ballet dancer), also the bubbles, the eye and the hat.  The background and the mermaid's tail were created by me in ArtRage and the whole thing was put together in Photoshop.

Thank you for looking