Sunday Postcard Art

This is my Birthday Postcard to Sunday Postcard Art . I want to express how much fun I have had joining in the weekly themes and seeing so much beautiful art from so many incredible, inspiring artists around the world. I have only been blogging since February of this year and discovered this site in late March, but have met many wonderful new friends and look forward to their weekly contributions. The themes are varied and challenging and they really get me off of my artistic duff-so to speak. Thank you SPA for an inspired format to help me gain confidence with my blog and my craft. I hope you continue to grow and bloom. Happy Birthday!

Journeys

This is an altered book I made and these two pages are entitled "Journeys". The pages are hand painted and map images (tissue paper) are applied and then gone over with shimmer paint powders. I handmade the envelope and all tags with decorative paper and rubber stamped images. I love making altered books - this one is pretty thick- but getting a nice patina with age! This is my entry for "Altered Books" at Saturdays Workout.

Altered Ancestors

This is a collage made from a black and white photo from the late 1920's of my Grandmother Doris when she was dancing with a modern dance group the "Denishawn Dancers". I scanned the photo into Photoshop and added a solarized and soft light effect to add color and highlights. I also imported images of middle eastern towers to carry the theme of the dance and costume she is wearing. She was quite the bohemian and always inspired me with her exotic tastes and love of ethnic dance. This is for Inspire Me Thursday's theme "Altered Ancestors"

Purple and Green

I love the colors purple and green - alone and combined together. There is a coolness and warmth in combination that I am very drawn to. This is a collage that I made from a journal page of a stamped mother and child (Madonna) with an imported photo of a stained glass piece that I made to give it an "old world" effect or looking through a window kind of feel. This is for Wednesday Stamper theme "Purple and Green"

Desert Bloom

This is for Think Monday Think ATC "Wild Animals'" theme. Being a holiday today I had a little time to make an ATC. Its a new size for me and was fun!

Feather Dance

This digital collage is made from Art Nouveau bird patterned wallpaper(background), Lunagirl images and peacock feathers that I scanned and digitally colored. The theme "Feathered Friends" is for Mixed Media Monday.

2 Can Play

This was a fun digital collage I made for SundayPostcard Art's theme "Numbers". I used 2 antique playing card images (Dover) and color altered them digitally. The background is from a journal page I had made that worked well with the piece. I added decorative scanned paper for arch and crowns using the cookie cutter tool (PS). I added numbers to represent playing cards. Easier said than done!