winter woodland scenes

for the sunday postcard art: winter woodland wildlife theme 

images from fusion dream print and retired mischief circus kits.

love to all.

happy solstice and merry Christmas!

posting a little late on december 21, as i welcome the first day of winter on this shortest day, longest night. and for sunday postcard art: merry christmas open theme, i present these sweet little beings. 

it has been a busy weekend with christmas around the corner, but i'm grateful for time for art! images from fusion dream print and retired mischief circus kits.

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be careful out there for there be dragons

for my soul's dark imagination: there be dragons 

images from pixabay and retired mischief circus.

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hello november

for digital whisper: hello november

images from fusion dream print, retired dezinaworld, and retired mischief circus kits.

love to all. 

harlequin

for digital whisper: harlequin 

images from pixabay, and retired dezinaworld and mischief circus.

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faery home

for sunday postcard art: fantasy house. there's no fantasy house quite like a faery house. images from retired mischief circus kits.

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opposites attract

for conjuror of dreams march image challenge and shabby soda pop spring fairies. 

free images thanks to conjuror of dreams (leprechaun) and shabby soda pop (faery). the rest is retired mischief circus kits goodies.

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kissed by a frog

for digital whisper: kissed by a frog

images from retired mischief circus kits and designs by MandN.

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a fantastical scene

 for sunday postcard art: unicorn

images mostly from mischief circus enchanted forest collaboration.

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doorways to other worlds

for take a word: doorway

images from cryztal rain "altered reality," itKuPiLLi "altered reality," eena's creations "la vie boheme," and miles beyond the moon "cirque (retired). all from mischief circus.

images from tumblefish studios (retired), miles beyond the moon (retired), itKuPiLLi (blue elephant, fantastical steampunk, butterflies).

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fairy in a flower

for three muses challenge: flowers

images from holliewood studios, cryztal rain and itKuPiLLi.
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blues and greens

here are three creations in response to the take a word challenge to use mostly blue and green.

backgrounds on 1st 2 are from the la isla bonita paper pack by gecko galz with remaining images from dezinaworld (retired) tumblefish studios (retired) holliewood studios (fractals) and itKuPiLLi (butterflies). tiny hearts background on 3rd piece is from my artistic adventures.

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digital dreaming

i got some images from iTkUpiLLi ("celeste" and butterflies") and did some digital art dreaming....

enjoy; love to all.

book stories, some digital play with dezinaworld

"oh mr. rabbit, mr. rabbit, what is in this potion? why are you always looking at your pocketwatch? and where are we anyway?" where are they indeed?  what is the mad hatter doing? and why is there an emu outside the window...?

i submit this digital creation for the dezinaworld cheeky challenge "book stories" challenge this week.  all images in this fully digital creation are free images provided by dezinaworld, specifically from the "alice," "garden" and "backgrounds" offerings.  in addition to the background there are 7 additional images incorporated into the creation.  i do love the alice story and it is fun to add a little bit to it!

enjoy; love to all.

fantasy, in blue and green

at tag tuesday our prompt is "blue and green" and at cheeky challenge the prompt is "fantasy."  i've made two tags on the theme of "fantasy," liberally using the colors blue and green.

the fairies are all from gecko galz, a collage sheet that was a freebie during a blog hop a couple years back.  the background papers are also from gecko galz.  i added flowers, dots, brads, washi and other goodies.  

enjoy; love to all.

being for the benefit of mr kite... (long post, song at the end!)

there is a song from the beatles sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band album called "being for the benefit of mr. kite."  the song has a circus/carnival theme in its lyrics and sound.  i love this song.  it turns out from my research that the song was based on an actual circus poster john lennon had in his collection and mr. kite was a real performer.

now why am i telling you this?  i love the unruly paper arts blogozine and facebook group. one of the recent swaps that was set up by our community muse Danie was a fiction/fairytales/fantasy postcard swap.  i love all things circus and decided to create a postcard with a circus theme.  i also really wanted to dig into some wonderful circus stamps from catherine moore's character constructions which i'd bought long ago but not yet used. i do love her stamps!  so here is what i made.

this postcard probably looks simple but there is a lot behind it.  there are multiple layers.  i used a technique i learned from sharon rogers in a post she provided at the unruly paper arts blog.  i started by covering the postcard base in designer paper and then arranging a wide variety of bits and bobs of other kinds of papers and thingies around the postcard then appling a light coating of watered down gesso.  from there i used a variety of spray paints and stencils to create additional dimension to the background.  there is a strip of polka dot washi tape at the bottom to make my little circus "road.'

the circus images are stamped onto vellum which i then adhered to the prepared postcard base.  i nearly messed the whole thing up because i did not stamp with the proper ink and after 24plus hours the vellum still wasn't dry.  i asked for help on the UPA facebook group and got the simple but brilliant answer -- use clear embossing powder and a heat gun to dry the stamped images.  it worked like a charm and gave the final piece some nice punch (which doesn't show so well in the scan unfortunately).
well, that is the very long story of this piece.  and, oh, back to the song -- in making this creation the song popped into my head and that's why i'm sharing it here!





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the fantastic and the strange

this clown finds himself in a truly strange landscape of curious individuals-- what should he do? where should he go?

our prompt at tag tuesday this week was"the fantastic and the strange."  while this didn't turn out exactly as i was imagining, it is still certainly strange and a tiny bit fantastic.

images are from a variety of companies including:
alphastamps, dezinaworld, octopode factory, itkupilli, lunagirl, and moonlight journey.

love to all.