Beauty

Theme Thursday is Beauty. I went a little unconventional, I think. With Memorial Day coming up, my mind is on the men and women who have served our country. So to all our Veterans, Thank You! You are my definition of beauty.

The Star Spangled Banner sheet music I picked up some time ago on a public domain site. The Uncle Sam and Statue of Liberty images are from Suzee Que. The Arlington and Iwo jima images are my own photos from a trip to DC.

A bird in the hand...

...is worth 2 in the (rose) bush. The theme at Theme Thursday is hands. Here is my interpretation:

The beautiful dove card and the bird (in the hand) are images from The Graphics Fairy and the hand is from my own postcard collection.

Grow old with me

The Three Muses challenge this week is: relationships. Here is my entry:

Both images are from Antique Images.

A quote from Rabindranath Tagore

It is time for Theme Thursday. Today's theme: butterflies or butterfly wings. I went online searching for inspiration and came across a quote by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Never heard of him? Me neither. So more online searching, and I found out he was a Bengali poet, playwright, novelist, and musician. He was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. His words "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough" were so perfect for today's challenge.

I'll send you a postcard...

This week is not off to a good start. Ever have one of those days when you just want to run away from home? This is it for me. So I decided to join these ladies on a world adventure. I'll send you a postcard.

The postcard background is from my own collection. The globe, women, and eiffel tower are from The Graphics Fairy. I colorized the globe and the women in the car and all the images were layered and filtered in photoshop. I am linking this to Brag Monday at The Graphics Fairy where you can check out all the wonderful things that get made with her images.

When I grow up...

I started working on a collage series I am calling "When I grow up". Here is the first panel.

I am linking this to Brag Monday at The Graphics Fairy. This adorable little boy is cut from one of her images.

First Collage

Do you know how sometimes you see something and then there is a loud "click" in your brain and everything comes together? Well, I saw this quote and that happened to me! So here is my first collage using digital images. I think I might actually use this as a mockup for a card. I think it could be cute. I love the quote. The bird and top hat came courtesy of the always generous Graphics Fairy (see her link in my sidebar to the right). The diving girl and seashells are available at my website, http://forget-me-never.com/. The sky background is from a really neat site with tons of free backgrounds. It's at: http://grsites.com/archives/textures/.