WOYWW!

Cigar box (decoupaged and painted) to hold.........
... all my green cards that I collected over the years!




Maybe 1 of yours is there!!!

Thanks for helping me celebrate a BIG holiday in my life!!!!!!!!!
http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2011/03/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-93.html

3 Muses! fish!

I know some of you have seen this picture, but it is a favorite of mine and it does have a fish!!!

That is my grandmommie, Grace !

She was irish and had a great sense of humor!!!

http://thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/threee-muses-94-fish.html

Crazy amigos!!!

The fairy tale I remember loving to hear was The Billy Goats Gruff!!!

I found these puppets on a google site. Puppets for a theater presentation in Edinburgh, Scotland.

http://crazyamigochallenge.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/sprookjes-fairytale/

Blue Monday!!!

Photoshop painting using a parasol image from google. I love anything Asian.
http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/2011/03/blue-monday-spring-break.html

Creating backgrounds using your art and photoshop!

So this is what I started with, a photo of a bush in our garden!
PS= photoshop

put the image on PS and dropped in some colors using paint bucket

soft light and pin light

dropped a few more different colors to various ares with paint bucket
more paint
daisy and rose special effects paint brush with different colors
Used a ink filter
changed to black and whiteartistic filter

I just play with the tools available and see what happens. You can change this one background in hundreds of ways by simply using your filters or brushes. I am self taught, so the tech specifics are unfamiliar to me. I just like color and try different patterns. You can always click "undo" and start again.

Hope this mini tutorial was helpful.
Be sure and enlarge the images to see the changes!

Collage Obsession and Take a word!

Painting by Winslow Homer
http://collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/collage-obsession-many.html

many!

http://takeaword.blogspot.com/

green

Soartful/ 3 young ladies!

the real housewives of ...
http://jeanette-soartfulchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/three-young-ladies.html

SPA/ 1

http://sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/number-1/

One is lonely!

image from

http://magicmoonlightfreeimages.blogspot.com/2011/03/attitude-free-images-for-you.html

4 x 4 friday/ house!

google clip art image and then off to paint with photoshop!!!
http://4x4friday.blogspot.com/2011/03/4x4-friday-house.html

Image from magic moonlight!

One more!

http://magicmoonlightfreeimages.blogspot.com/2011/03/attitude-free-images-for-you.htm

she has some really special freebies plus a selection of wonderful collage sheets!

the Artful bag/March Embellish it!!!

4 1/2" x 7"

2 sided bag

1

2I simply added different pins to the bag.

I have been collecting flower and bug pins for 25 years. I used to wear a pin on my "blazer". That's out now, but I think "pins " are back!!!







http://frostedpetunias.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-artful-bag.html

Art Creations friday!

I put the little guy in one of my flower pots!
http://artcreationsfriday.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-108.html

bloggers challenge / birthday!

background paper from Top Hat, head from catalog, jacket from J Peterman Co catalog, pasted head inside jacket, hat and confetti and words by photoshop!

Party on!

http://www.lisasomerville.com/2011/03/bloggers-challenge-they-say-its-your.html

theme thursday/ hats

simple "assemblage", party hat for plastic pig

6 1/2" x 3"

http://themethursday.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/thursday-challenge-hats/

Play Date Cafe

Based on an original watercolor I painted. Copied to photoshop and added some colors, then printed it out on satin copy paper and added the butterfly and the words grow!
http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/2011/03/play-date-cafe-challenge-pdcc72.html

Free images from Divas D'este!!! And a prize to win!

Here is your egg, Yvonne!!!
Here is what I did with 1 of them!

If you tell me how many chicks there are and how many "hidden " easter eggs and you are the first to comment, I will send you a vintage paper easter egg!!!

(hint, the hidden eggs are purple, yellow and blue)

guess due by March 17th!!!

Just click the link!

While you are there, check out their collage sheets!!!

http://www.divasdeste.com/new.html

One Powerful Hour! green, green, more green

I colored an ink black and white drawing from Dover.
http://onepowerfulhour.blogspot.com/2011/03/green-green-and-more-green.html

One Powerful Hour!

I found this image on google!
http://onepowerfulhour.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-like-lion-out-like-lamb.html

Finishing up some projects!

61/2" x 4 1/2 "
11"x14" with mat paper, pressed flowers, paperwhimsy image

I am entering this one in an upcoming juried art show

4"x 6"

paper, flower collage

5"x7"digital background printed on paper

image and embellishments pasted on

Tuesday taggers/ women

Madame Marie Curie

digital painting printed on card stock

http://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2011/03/womens-day-tags.html

crazy amigos!!! 3 Muses

Paperwhimsy image

lace, buttons, paper collage

http://crazyamigochallenge.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/knopen-kant-buttons-lace/

http://thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/three-muses-challenge-spring.html

Tag Tuesday!

Image from Divas D'este

(Link on side bar)

http://kardkrazy.blogspot.com/2011/03/tag-tuesday-surprise-me.html

whimsical wednesday!

the Stork's tree!
http://dthaase.blogspot.com/2011/03/whimsical-wednesday-wk-16-extended.html

Inspiration Ave/ black, white, and pink!

http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com/2011/03/black-white-and-pink-is-this-weeks.html

Collage Obsession / pets

Meet Simon our rescue dog. He is 3 1/2 years, mixed breed. when we first got him he slept in a crate in the laundry room at night. then the crate was in our bedroom and he slept there at night. Well, what can I say........

"simon says"!!!!!!!!!!

http://collageobsessionchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/collage-obsession-pets.html

Take a word! birdlife

I colored a free image from Dover!
http://takeaword.blogspot.com/2011/03/take-word-19-birdlife.html

Soartful/ country lane

A lovely country lane photo was selected for this challenge!
http://jeanette-soartfulchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/03/country-lane.html

A special site for you!

A face from magicmoonlight!

I posted the link below, some beautiful faces for you!

It is a splendid place to bookmark!!!

http://magicmoonlightfreeimages.blogspot.com/2011/03/beautiful-faces-free-collages-images.html