The Breakfast Club

Happy Monday!

Here's a digital I struggled with for the last week to try to get the figure shadows to move down the staircase in a zig zag fashion....finally gave in and turned it into a long term goal :0)

The Breakfast Club

Image Credits:
http://www.deviantscrap.com/ for
Bird - Art Dollies and Shoe - The Thing Finder - Holliewood Studios
Figure - Fro Fro and Car Scene - City Limits - Tumble Fish Studio
Background - Alberto Giralt

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Sunday Postcard Art - Roses

Image Credits - www.DeviantScrap.com

Tumble Fish Studio - angel, frame, arms, clouds, circular doodad

Holliewood Studios - Art Collies - rose hat

Renee Pearson - word art

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New Fabric Skinny Page - Dove - practice piece

I've wanted to create a predominantly white page for a long time and a couple of weeks ago, I finally found the opportunity to have a go.  This page hasn't found a home yet, and it may not as I really am fond of  its overall softness.  What I'd change next time around is the dandelions going to seed as they ended up looking more like just balls of ??? on stems!!  And I'd change the stitching around the dove wings too.   Come to think of it, I would also add more calligraphy words to add interest to the background, or maybe more layers of fabric... oh no....it's  not finished yet.   And I still might add  a poem off to the right side.    Practice is my best friend! 

Here's the macros, followed by the final cloth collage and the original digital piece. 

Image Credits:

www.DeviantScrap.com - Love and War - Holliewood Studios - the dove

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"Alberto"

"Alberto"

Image Credits:  Landscape and sky background - with permission from  Alberto Giralt - Spain

Paper Whimsy - fish kite

www.DeviantScrap.com for the following:

City Lites by Tumble Fish Studio - background houses

Teddy Bear Tea Party by Holliewood Studios  - Teddy Bear

Tommy Town by Clementine Design - kite string, tail  and spool and far right tree

Figures - personal stash recolored

Moon - adapted from a Boticelli painting

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Phew - DeviantScrap has me hopping!

I was in for a delightful surprise this weekend as new packs were FLYING into Deviant Scrap  from Marsha's Tumblefish Studio and Nancy's Crowabout Studio B! 

Marsha unveiled her City Limits pack full to the top with outstanding images of buildings, street scenes and borders to boot!

City Limits - Tumble Fish Studio   http://www.deviantscrap.com/

The Housing Market - all images - Tumble Fish Studio

On The Edge

Image Credits - Building - Tumble Fish Studio and Door, Love and War - Holliewood Studios

Background - NASA

Tribute to Alexander McQueen

 - one of my favorite British fashion designers, who sadly passed away this past February.  Image Credits - model - from the www, Clouds, large wings  and Street Scene - Tumble Fish Studio

On the Edge

Image Credits - Figure - Mrs. Insman - Flickr, Buildings - recolored by Tumble Fish Studio

Tailgating Mail Art

Image Credits:  Figures - Library of Congress, Sheep and little girl with dog - mine,

Street scene - Tumble Fish Studio, Squirrel, Racoon - Spring Faeries - Holliewood Studios, Car - Clementine Design

Followed by Nancy's Funky Dolls .....and I felt like I was back in kindergarten with all of these doll parts to play with - perfect for an Exquisite Corpse project~

 

Crowabout Studio B - Funky Dolls

Ms. Zetti Auditions

Image Credits - Funky Dolls - Crowabout Studio B, for all Ms. Zetti participants and top signs,

Male Figure - House of Congress, Background, border and pink crown - Art Dollies - Holliewood Studios,

Pedestals - Tumblefish Studio

The Secret

Image Credits - with the exception of the key (Renee Pearson) and hand - personal stash,

all other images - CrowAbout Studio B

Last but not least, three Zetti ATC's -

Shattered Hearts

Image Credits - Crowabout Studio B - background, words, frame

Holliewood Studios - Love and War - heart

Figure - Dover

Let Me Be Your ATC

Image Credits - CrowAbout Studio B with the exception of the black and white border and figure - personal stash

Sweethearts

Image Credits - Crowabout Studio B, figures - personal stash

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Mermaid Skinny Pages for Cat

Another project completed  and almost ready for the mail.  All that's left is for me to complete a written portion that I will enclose this time inside of the actual two pages.

  I have left one of the short sides open as, when they are sewn together with one side open, there is  a nice deep pocket and I thought it would be fun to have a secret little 'envelope' to add a few thoughts in it...fun for those exploring it in the years that come.

 Grandchildren maybe, or who knows where these little pieces of art I send out into the world will end up when I'm long gone...I often wonder if they'll end up at flea markets or garage sales or estate sales.... all of these altered books we collect over the years.

 I know I'll be sharing them as magical little parcels of wonder with my grandchildren and passing them onto my daughters when I leave.

The woman I am sending this to is a sweetheart, and was my truly secret santa this past Christmas.  She sent me a beautiful book of Maggie Taylor's whimsically beautiful art, gift wrapped equally as special.  I don't know if she fully realizes what a gift she gave me when it arrived ...  a memory I will treasure for a lifetime.

  It was a wonderful surprise.  So,  I've been looking forward to the month in our project that was the time for me to create a page for her.  Her name is Cat and her blog is http://www.catworx.blogspot.com/

Image Credits and the before photos can be found here

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FREEBIE Friday

From the Library of Congress - double click to enlarge and right click "SAVE AS"

Would love to see how you use it!

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Girlfriends...et al

"Girlfriends et al" - digital collage

Image Credits in part:  from www.DeviantScrap.com, Tangie Baxter, and Holliewood Studios - kits TeddyBearTeaParty - hats and ArtDollies - Background, goose,  and bird

This collage features 3 young girls from  Magnificat, by Boticelli (1490)   I decided to add the major portion of the original painting into this collage.  It's in the upper right hand corner, inside the far right tree.  Here's the original painting -

I created this reflecting back on a situation of a very kind person who was so sweet to me and wanted her to know how much she is loved.  And now I hope to stay clear of my passion for these digital collages and instead focus on other tasks at hand,  like visiting other people's blogs and spending some time in the yard, considering we are finally experiencing some warmer weather!

Thanks to everyone that visits here for your encouraging and generous comments!   If you also post your work on a blog, you'll know as well how much it is appreciated.  I'll be back in a few days.

This print is now available on etsy at http://www.twodresses.etsy.com/

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Fish Lullaby - adapted from Raphael's St. Catherine of Alexandria

I made a different version of this for Marsha of TumbleFish Studio as a 'pretend' cover for her memoirs...just playing. I can't recall right now the name of the master who painted the fabulous figure...if you know it, please leave a comment so I can leave credit.

Image Credit UPDATE - Thanks to Linda, a wonderful artist, great friend, and art history expert, who answered my question as follows:
"St. Catherine of Alexandria by Raphael, she is looking toward the divine light rays coming from the sky and she is leaning on the wheel of Martyrdom that have been rounded so as not to hurt as much - apparently..."

The other image  are available at www.DeviantScrap.com and the heart, background and wings are HolliewoodStudios - Love and War, and Art Dollies, the Hat and Fish - from Tumblefish Studio

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New Tumblefish "Take" on an old Sunday Postcard entry and The Codtail Dress

I stumbled across an older digital postcard I had created for a Sunday Postcard challenge a couple of weeks ago and decided to add a few additional images from one of Marsha's kits  from Tumblefish Studio http://www.deviantscrap.com/    Here's the updated version that has the 'divers' as well as the SunnySide and Sparkling images... more fun!

And the above digital collage was a fashion update exclusive featuring Fish as the 'new black' - I obviously had fish on my mind quite a bit when I created these two - now how could that be????   :0)

The second collage is made up of elements from Tumble Fish Studio as well and  plus the chest and the dress form come from The Thing Finder by HolliewoodStudios, both at http://www.deviantscrap.com/

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