12.09.2011

Christmas 2011




To all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...

11.28.2011

Digital Whisper Challenge - 127 Cozy Christmas



Credit for the background goes to mchasesteely at Deviant Art...Thank you!







Here is a updated version, thanks to my friends at Digital Whispers for the great ideas!

10.24.2011

Digital Whisper Challenge - 122 Cat



A spooky cat that is king of the castle...

10.18.2011

Collage Obsession Weekly Challenge - Alter Egos




My grandson as Captain America one of his Alter Egos... He is going to be Captain America for Halloween.

Digital Whispers - Digital Challenge 121 Portraiture




Credit goes to Lisajen @ Deviant Art for the picture of the women here...

10.16.2011

10.15.2011

Spooky and a little kooky self portrait...


A piece I did for Creative Souls Spooky Self Portrait...

10.14.2011

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...


This is a piece that I did for Creative Souls  ' Through a Glass Darkly '  October Challenge...

10.13.2011

First Collage Oct 2010 - Just getting started...

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Halloween...


Having fun making halloween collage's with my grandson as part of the celebration ...

10.08.2011

I am feeling so creative...


Blowing Bubbles...


O.K. this is a big deal, I finally did a piece in my Photoshop Elements using layers! I have been piecing my work together in Microsoft office, saving it and then putting it into Photoshop to add a filter or to add contrast and that type of thing. I reworked my blowing bubbles piece and made some changes then I used PhotoFrame Pro to finish the piece... 

9.01.2011

Dante and Virgil in Hell

A painting by William Bouguereau with a little twist...

8.30.2011

Soartful Challenges Weekly Challenge - Bathing Beauty

Our family goes to the beach every year, you can't get a more relaxing vacation...We live in North Carolina and have spent many of those vacations at the Outer Banks, a beautiful place to relax! This year we went to Holden Beach , NC. So grateful that the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been.We are keeping all the people hit by Irene in our thoughts... 

8.22.2011

Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo was at the Last Supper.....

Soartful Challenges Weekly Challenge - Lady in Waiting


My Lady in Waiting is Sarah Churchill Duchess of Murlborough (1660-1744). She was on the court of Queen Anne of Great Britain. I used a letter of Sarah's she had written and the lady in the background is Queen Anne. I found the images on Wikipedia.....

8.17.2011

Collage Obsession Weekly Challenge - Glass

I used the moon as my inspiration on this piece, turning the the drinking glass into the vase with the earth inside... 

Seeing The Light


8.16.2011

Soartful Challenges Weekly Challenge - Mae West

" I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." - Mae West 

8.05.2011

Soartful Challenges Weekly Challenge - Veiled

This challenge was a picture of  Gloria Swanson. I think she makes a beautiful rose...

8.01.2011

Collage Obsession Weekly Challenge - Gluttony - the next deadly sin

Now this was a challenge! I feel the need to go back and do the first one which was Lust...

7.31.2011

Under the Sea...

Thinking of the beach...

7.25.2011

Education is a must...

I did this piece thinking of my daughter a teacher laid off her job because of budget cuts...

Collage Obsession Weekly Challenge - Color - Honeysuckle

“In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum.”

7.22.2011

Collage Obsession Weekly Challenge-Sunset behind the scene

Looking from the inside out...

Inspiration Avenue's Weekly Challenge-Gangs of New York...

This is my piece I did for Inspiration Avenue 's Weekly Challenge...The theme is wings!

7.18.2011

Swans...

Awe being young,  looking through the eyes of an old swan...

Sands of time...