Multiples - 365+1

Scrappin Cop - Grunge overlay, Trees

 

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.

Dioressence

The Soartful prompt this week is 'Fragrance' but rather than use the image provided, I decided to use an image related to the first 'proper' perfume that I was given, Dioressence.  My dad travelled a lot in his job and came back from trips to the US in the 1960's  and early 70's with a transister radio, a cassette player, at a time when these were unknown locally,  and lots of lovely dresses for me and my sister.  As we got older buying clothes was not such an easy task and so he started to buy duty free perfume in the airport or on the plane.  The first bottle he bought for me was Dioressence.  I loved the smell of Lily of the Valley, although it always made me sneeze!  Pefume still makes me sneeze, but I continue to wear it. 

The image is from a vintage Dioressence advertisement, which I have chopped, duplicated and generally messed around with! Over that is a scribble overlay from the Scrappin' Cop and underneath a pic of lily of the valley.

When a woman smiles, the dress must smile with her

It's digital challenge time again on Soartful  Here is what Jeanette posted on the challenge blog:

Here is a beautiful image of vintage
fashion. I was looking for an image showing fashion finery that
could be used as an Easter theme or not,
which ever way you wanted to go.
Dorthe had posted this in the Freebie section of June's (Dezinaworld) new
Show and Share Art forum. I promptly got in touch with Dorthe and
asked to use the image here at Sorartful. She very graciously said
yes. I think the colors in this are gorgeous.

So have creative fun with this lovely Easter finery (or not) image

 

 

And here is my interpretation of the image:

The brown paper, chalked frame and snapshot album are all by the very talented Scrappin' Cop.  The ribbon, bow and border are by Laura Boetto of Digital Craft Cottage.  The stamps and postcard are from Grannyart.blogspot.com and the kiss is from Digitreats.

Oops!

I haven't done the Soartful challenge for a few weeks, but I'm back to my usual challenges and this is the cute little image that Jeanette has provided to inspire our digital art works.
My Oops is courtesy of The Scrappin Cop for the(overlay and vintage slide and MLE Card of Digichick for the tea stains from the Tealicious digital kit.

Mucha Sunrise

This is the gorgeous background that Jeanette at Soartful has provided for the challenge this week.

Here is my version. I've used a Mucha image from Last Door Down the Hall, some of my own sunrise photographs with a couple art masks, one from PTon and the other from Sine. The text and the border are from Cottage Arts and it is finished with a watercolour overlay from The Scrappin' Cop.

Pogonip!

Jeanette at Soartful, has given us an interesting challenge this week here is what she says:

"One of the pretty things that I remember about the icy cold was seeing
what the Washoe Indians called pogonip. That is a heavy frost that

would accumulate on the branches of tress. Beautiful."

The image provided was very pretty and I didn't wan't to mess about with it too much so I have used some blending modes with some of my own frosty branch photos, then added a few frosty branches from Lisa Bowman's White Christmas Kit for Digital Craft Cottage and a sanded overlay from the Scrappin' Cop.

Playing with Masks

No, not for Halloween! I have had some digital masks for some time, but never really knew what to do with them, however last night I came on a great tutorial on Shimelle's blog. It was a glorious day yesterday and I took a few photos at Castle Loch on our way back from hospital visiting. I am really pleased with the result and think that mask may be my 'next favourite thing' lol!

Background paper & stitches - Pineapple Plantation Designs
Art Mask no.4, tag and string- PTon Designs
Chalked Border - Scrappin Cop
Paper Butterfly - Sugarplum Paperie

Journalling reads -

The Castle Loch at Lochmaben,
is only a few miles from my home.
It takes it’s name from the Castle
that was home to the family of
Robert the Bruce, the Earls of
Annandale.

The castle is in ruins and not
visible from the loch.

24th October, 2009