he made the world more wonderful

for three muses "musical instrument"

images by openclipart except butterflies which are by itKuPiLLi.
listen to this "what a wonderful world" sung by the brilliant and beautiful louis armstrong and have hope for the world.

love to all.

america

time and busyness has prevented me from playing along at tag tuesday for the past few weeks.  but i am joining in this week and the prompt this week is "america."  at first i thought of using any number of patriotic images on collage sheets -- i have so many of them.  but then i thought of taking a different approach and i thought of what things are distinctly american,  which then left me thinking what did they mean by "america" anyway?  north america?  south america?  central america?  united states of america? but i directed my focus to the united states which is where i live.  so i decided my tag would be a tribute to jazz music which originates in the united states.

i have a wonderful stampsmith stamp of louis armstrong which i decided would be my focus point.  i stamped it and lightly colored it with colored pencils.  for the tag background i used a couple different designer digital papers from gecko galz on which i printed some sheet music -- the famous "what a wonderful world" and also the word "jazz" which is a digital stamp from the stitchy bear "all that jazz" collection of digital stamps.  i added some musical notes stickers and a stamped a few stars.

i hope you enjoy.  love to all.