A Digital Dalliance

A couple of days ago, a few of my on-line friends and I were having a bit of fun, bantering back and forth by email about age related woes....me being the oldest in the group, I copped most of the flak!
One of them suggested that we need not fear looking... shall I say, "mature aged" if we have a GOOD HAIRDRESSER!
This got me to thinking that this particular friend must have a GOOD one and asked if it was by any chance known as "The Restoration Centre",  as that would be the place we would have to go to if we were hoping to regain our once youthful appearance!
There we could have all of our gravity affected parts rejuvenated, but at this stage of our lives, it could possibly lead to "things" being lifted too far and we could end up with popping eyes and a goatee....albeit somewhat thinned out!


Soooo...my sense of humour being as it is, I immediately got a picture of the end result in my head and, giggling off into he kitchen to get dinner ready, I decided to put my "head picture" into being...and after spending all afternoon on it...here she is!

Except for the "eyes" and "goatee", which I sourced on-line through Google and compiled them myself in Photoshop, most other images bar the top border, are from Crowabout and the boots are from TumbleFishStudio. The top border is Pixel Music but I apologise for not knowing where I got this collage set from.

An altered Cabinet Card-SteamPunk Style

       This altered Cabinet Card, SteamPunk style, was made for our June Mixed Media swap on Paperarts.

                               There were only four of us in it and we had to use a genuine Cabinet Card.

                            Our ATC theme for June was 1950s Domestic Goddess. This is my entry.
                                       Mona's head on a 1950s Pin-Up girl's body....glasses added.

My Clever Grand Daughter

    My 10 yr old grand daughter loves "arting" with me and has taken to making ATCs using up my left overs.
                                          She actually began doing these when she was 9.
                                                              Click on them to enlarge.

                                                                                                     

Now I am proudly showing them off to the world....and she is very excited that they are on my blog and would love some cawments on them.She uses up my off-cuts very well don't you think?

Another Recycled Jewelry Doll .

"Time to Play"

                                This one is so cute! She is only about 5 inches long and I  
                                          think she would look great as a pendant.

More Arting Attempts!

I cannot believe that ANOTHER month has gone by so fast!...no wonder I am feeling my age...which is all downhill now...LOL.

Altho' it is now JULY, I am only just catching up with adding work done in April!  The ATC swap theme was Bees Waxed Vintage Woman and also one of a Vintage Man. It was a "double-bunger" as there were not many of us in the swap.

           We had to adhere lace to the woman's ATC and a metal object to the man's.

This was my first attempt, which is OK, but NOT ME! Way too prissy!

Using a beeswax candle I adhered tissue paper to a hand dyed background, added the image, some netting and then lace with red "jewels" (which I see now that one is missing) and a gold sticker corner and trim. I gave her a feather and a jewel in her hair but she still didn't look too happy so I put her aside and made the ones below as a "set".

                                   Aaaah!!..now THESE are more me....LOL

We also held a swap of houses of our own theme, using the pattern of Lynn Whipple's, featured in a CPS magazine, Spring 2005.

I chose to make mine in a Zetti theme.

All images have been digitally compilated, using mostly png. images from Crowabout StudioB at DeviantScrap

The birdy in the nest, which is wired to a grape-vine twig, is there to act as a "handle" to lift the roof off the house. The wire goes through the roof and has a plastic egg and feathers added to it for balance. The little "window" flaps either side of the roof have tiny wooden eggs as knobs to raise them. I wired a larger plastic egg to the entrance and made a wire loop on the other side to act as a closure of the walls/doorway.