shakespeare

for sunday postcard art: shakespeare

images from pixabay, gecko galz, ameria design studio, and retired mischief circus.

love to all.

 

star-crossed lovers

for my soul's dark imagination: romeo and juliet.

images from ameria design studios, mischief circus, pixabay.

love to all. 

shall i compare thee to a summer's day?

for the three muses challenge "written word" and the gecko galz customer challenge "summer love" -- a cut paste tag for your viewing pleasure --

the background paper is from my artistic adventures, i pasted william shakespeare's sonnet 18 from the web, and the image of the couple, as well as the "i love you" are from gecko galz.

summer love to all!

two weeks of tag tuesday

this week's prompt at tag tuesday is "layer upon layer" and last week's was "shakespeare."  since i didn't have time to play last week i made tags for both themes today.

i layered multiple travel-themed vintage images from lunagirl for this tag.  i added some travel stickers and a traveling butterfly brad!

my shakespeare tag didn't turn out quite how i'd hoped.  in any event the woman in the stars is a lunagirl vintage image, with background paper from gecko galz and the stamp is from a shakespeare stamp set but i cannot see what company it is from.

enjoy.  love to all.

decay, or the passing of time

we have a challenging theme at tag tuesday this week, it is "decay."  i had many thoughts of where i could go with this theme and nothing was resonating.  i started looking for quotes that included the word "decay."  i came across several things but it was shakespeare's sonnet xv that drew me.  the sonnet speaks to the passing of time from youth to old age, the enduring nature of love, and the holding of memories, even the freezing of time in the lines of the sonnet itself.  the sonnet is below.  so my collage piece is less about decay and more of an exploration of the passing of time.  my tag template is based on a version of a gothic arch.

all of the vintage images are from the lunagirl shop -- including the background paper which is digital art by lunagirl's karen -- and then a few embellies (border, butterfly and the flower at top) from alphastamps.

love to all.

SONNET XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
   And all in war with Time for love of you,
   As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
William Shakespeare