August So Artful Challenge!!!

So Artful Challenge/Theme: MAPS
The color palette for this challenge is pastel blue, pink, peach, and green!

This is my art piece for the August So Artful Challenge!

Even If I Have To Pawn My Jewels!

 I tried to keep the images and embellishments
 in the pastel colors requested for this challenge
 until I found this beautiful painting
 (at Wikipedia Commons) of Queen Isabella, I!

 I experimented with different pastel 
colors to change the dark burgundy hues 
of her dress but any editing I did just 
kept washing out all of the color and 
detail of her beautiful  face.

So I decided to leave her image, as is,
 and hope that the pastel colors 
in the rest of the piece will reflect
 the color palette in this theme! 

Thank you for this wonderful challenge!
Kym Decker 

Would you like to participate in this challenge
The link: So Artful Challenge

Credits:  The Maps, the Compass, the Money, and the Wooden World Globe came from the Elegant Whispers Digital Kit: Great And Powerful OZ. The Jewels came from Mangel's Designs Digital Kits and Cindy Powell's Digi-Scrap Jewels Digital Kit. The Steampunk Brass Cog came from GPB Steam II Digital Kit. The Two Scrap Backgrounds came from CR Renee Old Daguerreotypes Digital Kit. The Sea Snake, Circle Map, and the painting of Queen Isabella I came from Wikipedia Creative Commons.

So Artful Challenge

The Theme this Week

for the So Artful Challenge is

 "Fall Is In The Air"

Here in Tennessee,

we are having beautiful Fall weather!

It is still quite warm durung the day

but the nights are getting colder!!

I love this time of the year!

There is nothing like the

heady fragrance of an Autumn day!

Here is my entry for this challenge:

Can you imagine this little boy's anticipation

as his mother watches him while

she is working in her Fall garden!

 She has had enough of his shenanigans

for one day and now he must sit

still and ponder his behavior before

he can go back outside to play!

Still, inspite of his naughty behavior,

 he has one foot on the floor, 

waiting until his mother thinks

 he has learned his lesson!!

Thanks for stopping by to take  

  a little peek at my art work! 

 Please have a wonderful day!

Get out in the wonderful sunshine,

 take a walk, smell the air, 

think about how good your life is, 

smile as you head back home,

quickly go through your front door,

and hug the one you love!! 

So Artful Challenge

The theme

for this week's

 challenge is...

"The Art of Travel"!

My Vintage Lady travels on cottony, white clouds

 instead of sensibly riding in her T-Model Ford!

And who could blame her!!

The scenery must be breathtaking from that height! 

Thank you for stopping by

to take a look at my art work!

Want to see more!!

Click HERE:

and view all of the lovely art work

created  by the talented people

 who  participated in this challenge! 

Who knows,

you might become so inspired,

you'll want to enter your own

art work for the next challenge! 

Have a Great Weekend!!

As you go about your daily routine,

remember these three precious things!!!

  

Very little is needed to make a happy life;

 it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door

 that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Helen Keller

And My Personal Favorite!!!

Lead the life that will

make you kindly and friendly

to everyone about you,

and you will be surprised

what a happy life you will lead.

Charles M. Schwab

So Artful Challenge and Free Renaissance Clip Art

 

 
 

    This week at So Artful Challenge

          is a frame instead of a theme! 

 The frame has that Romantic Renaissance

          look that I absolutely adore! 

*Isn't He Beautiful!! 

I found my John William Waterhouse
painting of  Tristan and Isolde and
used it along with some clip art that
 have stored on Picasa. It took
about 15 minutes to do this

and when I finished, I was
rather shocked and pleased
with the results!   

No glue, no paper, only precision

(a bit nerve-racking)and pressing the

 right buttons to achieve what I

 wanted the art piece to look like! 

 I don't have Digital Photoshop!

I have learned to switch back and forth

from one photo editor to another

 to get a few digital results.

So a little hint...

if you love that beautiful digital look

that everyone is using these days

 to create wonderful art...
but are intimidated by

the Photoshop techniques and the price...
 

 Learn how to use your Picasa,
Luna Pics, Paint.net, and the
Paint Editor features that is already
 installed in your computer's program!

 You can get lots of practice with these
 "free editors" before you take the plunge
and purchase a Digital Photoshop Package! 

Someday...I do plan to invest in a digital program

 and want to learn the awesome digi-art "tricks"

   until then, I'm limited but still learning!

A great blog that  has a list of the
Free Photo Editors and great tutorials
on how to use them is the

 Paisley Cat Scraps
Free Blog Layouts Blog site!!

 Everything I  know so far about "digi tech",
I learned from the Wonderful Paisley Cat!!
Click here to visit her site for the
free info and a whole lot more:

HERE IS MY ENTRY:

I don't know what it is about the Renaissance Era

but Romance, Chivalry, Brave Knights 
on White Steads, Stone Castles,
and  Hearts Won and Love Lost,

Immediately comes to mind...

I just can't resist this Romantic Renaissance Era!

Even though I know realistically

(sorry-- to ruin it for you)

that none of us would want to live

 in that era for love or money!!

 But it's nice to think of the Renaissance

 as a lovely romantic world, is it?

Free Renaissance
Clip Art

Rules First!

This is a free gift from me to you and  

only to be used for personal
art projects only!

Please do not combine any of these
 images in a collage for
commercial purposes or profit!!

Most of this clip art came from

 my Dover Free Clips File!

 

The link is here:

http://www.dovercards.com/

I made these buttons from this clip! 

 You may use them on for your blog!

Stained Glass Windows

***Courtesy of Dover Free Clip Art

Backgrounds that I have used in my own art work!

I have tinted them in different colors for

various projects that I was working on!

 Please feel free to  use them  for your art work!

  

I designed these backgrounds all by myself!

I haven't used them yet but you are free to

 take them and use them for your projects!

Letters for you to use!

Even Romantic Cards !

Thank you and have a wonderful Easter! 

I will be posting  Easter clip art

at my other blog site:

http://freetrinketstreasures.blogspot.com/

If you are interested, please go

over and take a peek on

 Saturday , April 3

and

 Sunday,  April 4 

to receive the free "pretties"

that I have posted for you!

***Credits***

The image of Tristan and Isolde is

 in Public Domain  and therefore a free image

for you to use in your art work!.

Courtesy of  Wikipedia--the link is here:

http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_william_waterhouse_tristan_and_isolde_with_the_potion.jpg

So Artful Challenge

The Theme this week for So Artful Challenge is

International Women's Week!

I really struggled with this

theme because there are

so many different women I wanted

to use as the subject of my entry.

 I finally decided to do mine on

 Mother Teresa because, not only

was she an International Woman

  but a "Real" International Mother

to all those she came in contact with.

With this entry,  I pay homage to her

unconditional love for all of those

who were in need of her unwavering care! 

Thank you for looking at my art work

 and have a wonderful weekend!

 

So Artful Challenge

The Theme For So Artful Challenge:

"Alice In Wonderland"!

My Absolute Favorite!

BUT....

I had so much going this week

plus I was sick for a few days

and so didn't get to finish my entry!

I had started a mini-book and was

going to alter 12 pages for each of

the 12 chapters in the book

but I only got to Chapter Two! 

Anyway, I am going to turn in

what I have now and then

 go ahead and finish the rest

of the book  later on  next week!

I will post when I finish the book!

 Sorry, Jeanette, but as I am posting

this at 5:56 a.m. in the morning! 

 I'm late ...late...late

for a very important date!!


My Alice In Wonderland Mini-Book
 

 

Front Cover of the Book

 

Dedication

Inside of the Front Cover

 

First Page
History Of Alice Liddell

 

Chapter One

Down The Rabbit Hole

 

Chapter Two

The Pool  Of  Tears

Thank you for visiting me and

looking at my "Alice Altered Art"!

Have a Wonderful Wonderland Weekend!

So Artful Challenge

I'm late!! Very late!!

I spent more time on this challenge then I meant to,

 but it is finished and soon will be posted at So Artful Challenge!! 

I had so many ideas on how I wanted

to do this challenge and worked on a

 few possibilities but the art work just wasn't

coming through like I wanted it to! 

 

So today, I started out with the first idea I had

 (which is the one you should always stick with) 

and finally it started to come together! 

This sweet, spring image was
our theme for  this week! 
 

I wanted to have some "sweet tiny things"

tucked away and hidden among the branches,

so at first, when you look at my entry,  

you do not see them right away

but as you keep looking,

you will start to see what is 

peeking out of the leaves and cherry blossoms! 

So this is my interpretation of

 Cherries:

Thank you for visiting my site and

I hope you liked  my entry !

Have a great weekend!

So Artful Challenge

The Theme this week for the

So Artful Challenge: "Out of this World"

Here is my entry:

 

Thanks for visiting my site and I hope you enjoyed

looking at my entry as much as I enjoyed working on it!!

Have a great weekend!!

So Artful Challenge

The Theme this week for

So Artful Challenge

 was Mardi Gras! 

I found some really old vintage pictures

of men and women dressed up in

"Carnival Fair" with some very

unusual masks on their faces. 

I didn't know that in the early 1900"s,

 instead of wearing the ornate masks

that they wear today,

they wore hoods that covered

their whole head and face 

during Mardi Gras week!  

I looked up the history of Mardi Gras and was

very surprised to find out that it has been

taking place since the late 1700's!

When I first started working with this theme,

 I found myself making a rather large collage,

 (at least 8 x 8 inches)!

 As I worked , I thought  it would make a

great mini-book cover

 if I wanted to return to it someday

and add a few pages to make a

Nostalgic History of  a

"Vintage"  Mardi  Gras!   

So this is the front of the mini-book:

This is the back cover:

This is the frontcover completely unfolded::

This is what the inside section looks like when it is unfolded:

I wantd to make some necklaces out of the tiny beads

I use when I am knitting a beaded lace shawl pattern

but... I can always add them later!

I really wanted a more festive look with the
 traditional bright colors but...
I just can't do anything modern anymore !

If it looks distressed, tired, old,
and needs to be thrown away

then it goes into  my "collection"! 

I am all-vintage now!

Thank you for looking at my entry

and have a wondrful Valentine's weekend!