A loaf of bread...

We've all heard the old saying

'A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou.

But did you know that phrase came from

a love poem.

"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" 

This is the challenge that was set over at the Soartful Blog and this picture was provided for inspiration, here is my take on quote and picture:

 The photograph is one of my own from Montelcino in Tuscany, Italy.  There are a couple of overlays from the Scrappin' Cop, the vintage couple are a freebie from Art Freebies Blog, various digital elements from designers at Scrapbookgraphics.

Bamboo Geisha

The Soartful Challenge this week has provided us with a bamboo background to alter.

I combined my background with some oriental images courtesy of Art Freebies to create my 'Bamboo Geisha'.

 If you are interested in working with digital images come along and join in on the new forum Show & Share Art

Over to you...

On Bubbly Scrumptious blog, Kathy Black has come up with a little challenge in the form of a sketch. Regular blog readers will know that I am very fond of Kathy's sketches and as she was in a bit of a panic that no one would take part, I thought I'd better get on with it!

Here is what she said: "This week I thought I'd try something a bit different and lay down a little challenge. Pretty much every day the Team here on BS share something they've made using the various kits and other fab stuff you can buy from Bubbly Funk.
This week though, I'd like to see more of what the people who read this blog are making! So I've come up with a sketch design which I hope you'll find interesting and inspiring to use in whatever way you fancy - it could be for a card, a scrap LO or maybe for the front of a book or top of a box - anything goes - I just want a chance to see the things you make!"

My card uses Webster's pages and an image from Art Freebies, the ribbon is some wired Christmas ribbon that I've had for about 3 years! Oh and a little bit of glossy accents on the cherries.

Come into my parlour...

This is the first Soartful challenge in the new challenge home so maybe that is why Jeanette has chosen the image above as inspiration.

Your inspiration image this week is

'Welcome to my Parlor'

If you join me in my parlour, we can share some tea and cakes, you can kick off your shoes and I will admire your lovely new handbag while we discuss the latest fashions.

Image of woman: Art Freebies
Table, teapot and cake stand: MLE Card, Tealicious
Handbag and shoes: Pixelgeek Designs, TGIF
Dream Word art and Glitter Splash: CottageArts.com

Daring Card Makers - Seaside

The Daring Card Makers are daring us to make cards with a seaside theme. I don't have any seaside stamps or papers, but I remembered this image on Art Freebies, I love the stripy deck chair and the muted colours.

Background papers are from Funky Hand, Shabby Saturday, Enjoy stamp is Studio G.

Bubbly Scrumptious Weekly Challenge - Vehicles

I was just soooo pleased when I checked out this week's Bubbly Scrumptious challenge because I made this card last week for another challenge but when I read it again, I realised it wasn't going to fit the criteria after all! I knew that something would come up soon that was just right for this card but I didn't expect it to be so soon :D

The background has been distress inked over some Tim Holtz stencilly things, printed papers are digital downloads from Funky Hand, vintage accounts paper is from Stampington and the vintage image is from Art Freebies. The 'One Way' stamp is from Paper Artsy and the key came from a freebie stamp on Craft Stamper. The wooden car was a present from one of my boys, don't remember which, to his dad.

Artarazzi Challenge 34

I haven't done the Artarazzi Challenge for a while, bu when I saw the bird image, the first thought that come into my mind was the proverb 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'. I found this image at Art Freebies, I hope no one is offended by the 'arty nudity', but to get the proverb to work I needed to get the bird in her hand rather than covering her boobs, lol!

DCM - Away with the Fairies

Over on Daring Card Maker's Blog there is a Guest Designer Special Dare suggested by current GD Gail - so you can blame her if it fills you with horror, or applaud her if it fills you with joy! lol The new dare is

Away with the Fairies

Now I'm not big on fairies, I don't own any stamps or have any other fairy stuff (apart from the freebie flower fairies like the one I used for another DCM dare). However, the lovely Kaz of Slightly Wonky Crafts had posted some great links for copyright images on Bubbly Scrumptious Blog last week and I had already spied this gorgeous little fairy posted at Art Freebies on Thursday. I used Kathy's Waffle Sketch File, Sketch 14 for my inspiration. The papers are K&Co Madeleine and the stamp is Studio G.