Scraplifting myself

House of Paper is where all my scrapping friends hang out, so, even though I've gone totally digital, I hang out there too and they tolerate my digital obsession. Chiara is hosting a month-long party called Scrappin Down the House and one of the challenges is to scraplift yourself. So this is a LO I did awhile back after my friends Jacquie, Susanne and Karen were in town for CHA in 2006.


I loved the way the skyline and lake met to give me a nice bit of solid blue "background" for the photos.

This one isn't the same type of picture, but I spend a lot of time walking around town and usually have my camera on me and take a lot of pictures of flowers. So, this is my scraplift. Not exact, but the same general idea . . .

Remember

I have joined the Paper Whimsy group on the web and they issue a couple of quote challenges per month, using a particular poem. There are also specific requirements; we all start with the same collage sheet and must use things like a piece of ribbon or trim, a butterfly, a flower. This is my interpretation of this quote challenge.

The tulips on the quote page are digital, but on the 2nd page, the girl on the swing is a cut out from a stamped image, chalked for color and sprayed with Radiant Rain pewter. The butterfly is a bead. The flowers are ripped from a paper napkin. I enjoy stepping out from the flat world of digital art now and then.

Seagull

This challenge is from Artarazzi. I extracted the gull, used a photo mask on the sky and changed the coloration a tad then used the screen blending mode. Background is by Christina Brown Designs. I added the chicken wire and the palm trees (from stock.xchng). The background paper really makes this work, I think.

Sunday Postcard Art

The theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art is Swan Lake. This is my digital interpretation of Odette, a ballerina princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.

Nature

The Saturday Surprise challenge was Mother Nature. The frame is by Vicki Parker, other images started out as downloads from stock.xchng.

Dance

There apparently is no end to challenge blogs! This challenge is from Artarazzi. We were given an image (a painting by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones). I used a really nice mask from Carjazi Designs, used a colored edges filter and posterized the image. I built a background from at least 3 layers and various blending modes that I didn't keep track of!

Misunderstood

This piece was made in response to yet another challenge blog: Art Creations Friday They provided the little boy and we could make anything we wanted with him. He made me think of a plaque my Dad got from his Grandmother that had the worm quote on it. I made the mushroom from a digital kit and the background is by Lori Wiley from her Secret Garden kit.