the wonderful world of oz

after all the fun we had creating on alice in wonderland, i asked kym decker if we could do the wizard of oz. she agreed! for my soul's dark imagination: we're off to see the wizard.

images include freebies from kym's blog, pixabay, and from retired mischief circus, the "oz" kit by marta van eck.

love to all.

follow the yellow brick road

this week's three muses challenge: marilyn made me think about her difficult life, from farm girl to screen star, in the end hoping to find home. so i placed her in oz.

the marilyn image is from pixabay, everything else is from mischief circus (which is closing sadly): mostly marta van eck "oz" and others also. 

love to all.

dreaming of oz

 for sunday postcard art: poppies

girl from designs by aymara, remaining images from marta van eck

love to all.

"the tramp"

the theme at sunday postcard art this week is charlie chaplin. i remember seeing some of his movies many years ago and i was curious about his life so i read up on him. he was a talented and controversial figure, he grew up in poverty and definitely played out those themes of poverty using his persona "the tramp" in his movies. i found several images of charlie chaplin on pixabay that inspired my contribution to the challenge this week.

for the first one i wanted to give him a happy and hopeful background -- charlie chaplin had a really tough life, living in workhouses as a child, having his mother committed to an asylum. i put him on this yellow brick road background from marta van eck's "oz" with happy bits from retired tumblefish studio kits. the charlie is from gerhard gellinger on pixabay.

this one is a bit more somber, although i also used one of the marta van eck "oz" backgrounds but i turned it black and white. this charlie is also from pixabay by mohammed hassan. there are some other images here, a rose, dragonfly, etc., i forgot which kits they came from.

love to all. 

will dorothy survive the sands of time?

uh-oh, when the sand runs out the wicked witch will be back.
but dorothy doesn't seem all that concerned.

for take a word: "time"

images from multiple artists and kits at mischief circus with some freebies from pixabay as well.

love to all.

statues

the "statues" prompt at tag tuesday for this week stumped me.  in the end i made 2 tags -- one that failed to meet my aims and one i like regardless of whether it met my aims!  this tag which i feel pretty good about uses a favorite stamp from stampers anonymous.  this stamp is reminiscent of a statue or bust and i liked the effect from stamping it on a combination of dictionary and designer paper.

somehow she seemed to want to wear a lace veil so i gave her one, along with some other simple embellishments.

so, on to the tag i made first and which did not meet my expectations.  i have a photo i took on my cell phone of a dancing lion.  my friend and i debated if the lion was meant to be from wizard of oz.  we couldn't decide. but for my tag i attempted to add some wizard of oz elements (from a gecko galz collage sheet).  it just didn't come together as i wanted it to.  i'm sharing it anyway since it is all about the journey anyway.

happy rest of your week; love to all.