The Three Muses Challenge - Altering Mona

I have given Mona an extreme makeover - a makeup job, new blingy clothes, new hair style. I have overpainted her in ArtRage which is a digital painting program. The image was Googled and the frame is by Lorie Davison at Scrapbookgraphics.

Psssst! The Secret's Out

There's a brand new blog. It's The Three Muses where each Wednesday Taluula, Indybev or Ozstuff will be challenging you to create something inspired and interesting.

We know that each of you will have a preferred artistic medium so whether you like to work with paper or paint, fabric or digital, we'd love you to join in. After all, part of the fun is to see diverse interpretations on a theme.

You can find us here at The Three Muses.

Mixed Media Monday - Lace

The image is grainy but it is one of my favourites because it is such a beautiful face.
I have dressed her in lace and added a metallic butterfly. All lace is from Jen Ulasiewicz of JenU Designs. Background and butterfly from Irene Alexeeva. Image - I have had it a long time but don't know its source.

Sunday Postcard - Vintage beach girl

Thanks to Donna and Mandy for their postcard challenge. My beachgirl is from a collection by Tangie Baxter at Scrapbookgraphics. Background and frame by Lorie Davison SBG and waves by my friend Ruth Davis at E-scape and Scrap.

Art Creations Friday - Caught in the Act

I added the lovely head from Art Creations to the body from Lunagirl collages. The little boy is from Lisa's Altered Art. The cat - I am not sure about. All greatly altered. Background by Madame Mim at Catscrap.

Thank God it's Friday - Dreams

Thanks for the great challenge. My "Dream" is a digital picture which took quite a lot of steps to reach the final product but I had fun. Bits and pieces were Googled or collected over the years from goodness knows where. Everything altered greatly.

Theme Thursday - All about the Hat

Thanks for the challenge! My lady with an exaggerated taste in hats comes from a collage sheet by Maya at Scrapbookgraphics. Stitching Berna Datema also of SBG.

Soartful Challenges - Tongue Twisters

Thanks to June for a fun challenge. Ladies with smelly socks are from a collage sheet by Maya of SBG (altered). Legs in socks and sneakers - Googled. Background Fiddlette, Scrapartist.

Mixed Media Monday - Lotsa Layers

Layering can be seen to better effect on enlarged picture!
Thanks to Diane for a great challenge. I had a lot of fun with this but lost count of the layers. I would guess at least eight. Overlays by Berna Datema and Katie Pertiet. Cardboard edge pieces by Windgefluester.

SUNDAY POSTCARD - PARTY - CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FIRST YEAR

While we are celebrating Sunday Postcard's first birthday, spare a thought for my great-aunts. Ada and Elsie were non-identical twins (except for their short-sightedness) who lived in hope of joining the "in-crowd". Sadly, because of their prim, proper and spinsterly appearance, they were never invited to parties and languished on the vine, so to speak.

Photo of Ada and Elsie a very scratchy old but interesting sepia from Flick free images - greatly enhanced and coloured. Curtains and balloons from New Life Designs.

Thank God it's Friday - Architecture - Lilli Marlene

Thanks for the great challenge. I have taken an old photograph and added some layers to it.
The image is from Lunagirl collage sheet. (Worn overlays Berna Datema and Manuela Zimmerman both of Scrapbookgraphics).
Some (ahem) younger bloggers may not know the song "Lilli Marlene" which begins "Underneath the Lamplight" and is about a young woman who is waiting for her soldier sweetheart underneath the lamplight. I think it was very popular during WW1 - not that I am admitting to being alive then!!

A Moo or Two - Musical Instrument

Thanks for the challenge. The image is from a collage sheet by Maya at SBG, the background is by Madame Mim, the sheet music, hat and music notes are by Ikscrap.

Art Creations Friday - Forever blowing bubbles

Many thanks to the Art Creations Friday ladies who always find wonderful backgrounds and images for us to work with. This one suggestion bubbles to me. The image is a Flickr Free, the background from ACF. I used some digital tricks to add the bubbles. The software picks up reflections from the original picture so if you look closely you will see parts of the lady in some of the bubbles.

Theme Thursday - Tags

Thanks for the challenge. The image is a freebie from Art-e-zine, the stamps by Katie Pertiet.

Mixed Media Monday - Feathered Friends

My feathered friends are pink and grey cockatoos or "galahs". They are large birds with beautiful colouring and they abound here where I live. They graze like sheep in the grass in parks and roadside verges - great flocks of them. I treated them to some altered art so I hope they will forgive me. The papery bits and pieces are by Fiddlette.

Gothic Arches - Garden Sprite

Thanks for the challenge. The sprite and part of the background by Lorie Davison, flowers added.

Sunday Postcard - Numbers - Lady Luck

The theme for this week's Sunday Postcard is numbers. The image is a freebie from Outsider-Artists. The dried roses are by Trish Jones and the background is my own.

Art Creations Friday - Wistful girl

Many thanks to the Art Creations ladies for this beautiful image. I have made a collage for her background. All bits and pieces by Irene Alexeeva at Scraporchard.

A Moo or Two - Happy

Vintage image from Flickr free, crown from Lisa's Altered Art, hand and background Irene Alexeeva.

Theme Thursday - Numbers

She should look worried as she is wearing a dead fox! The Animal Protection Society may not approve. Maybe her number is up!!
Image from Outsider-Artists freebie.