Bluebell Woods

Photograph altered with Artistic Filter, Palette Knife
Coppercurls Designs: Paper Blenders and Botanica elements

Image of the Week #15 - Macro

Moss

Lichen

The theme for Image of the Week #IOTW at Truly Madly Kids this week is MACRO.  I love to take Macro shots, particularly of the plants and insects.  I was torn as to which of these recent images to share in the Linky but decided on the moss as the lichen is rather more difficult to distinguish.

And here are a couple of older macro photos that I particularly like.

Ploughed and Harrowed in the Spring

Our fields have been ploughed, harrowed and re-seeded for the first time in over 60 years, so I thought it only right that I recorded this event in a digital page.

PTON Art Mask for Scrapbookgraphics

Paper - PTON add on for Scrapbookgraphics

Butterflies from Outside my Window by Snickerdoodle Designs

Wood Anenome

I'm hoping to do a little more digital scrapbooking and digital art again.  I've joined the Just Art Forum and this layout is for the mini-challenge using overlays created by Robyn who runs the group.

Robyn Littlejohn - Pretty Edgy overlays
Coppercurls - Paper Blender 04
Digital Crea - Golden Sun vine element
Designs by Mozz - Nanum paper 7

Sunshine Images - Seagull in the Sun

I took this photograph in Funchal, Madeira at the top of a tower overlooking the Marina and captured the seagull against the bright sun and fluffy clouds.  I took it on my Sony Cybershot HD, no fancy camera, no complicated settings, just the right moment.

I'm entering this into the Sunshine Images Linky at Truly Madly Kids

Game of Thrones Birthday Card

You can leave your hat on!

I dare you to use any kind of head gear on your card: party hats, helmets, woolly hats, crowns, fascinators etc.

Thanks for the inspiration Daring Cardmakers!

This is a bit of a cheat of a card, a few stick on crystals, honestly, I know you can hardly see them but they are there, and some gold pen around the edge to frame this image from Game of Thrones, the favourite tv series of my eldest son, whose birthday was at the weekend.  So much for my huge efforts to locate a suitable image (including some headgear) he didn't even recognise it and only 'got' it when he opened his gift, which was a t-shirt from the same programme.  

It doesn't half make you feel old and granny-like when you have no idea about what they are watching, the t-shirt was only right because I consulted my younger son on the details!

January Blues

It's Blue Monday today according to many of the media pundits, when we are all supposed to be at our lowest ebb after Christmas.  Over at Daring Cardmakers, they are having the January Blues too, but in a much nicer way - as a prompt or dare for a card design.

January Blues

You are free to use the title however you want; it could be a "just to cheer you up" or "sorry to hear you're feeling blue" card,  a card with shades of blue as the main colour, or something else inspired by the heading.  Lets chase the January Blues away with some quality time spent getting creative!

This simple card is made with a couple of free papers from Simply Homemade magazine (not recent), a butterfly image from a pad of images I've also had so long that the front page has gone, so I know not from where it came, a ribbon from my ribbon box and a Papermaze greeting.