Dream

4x4 Friday's theme this week: use the word Dream, Inspire or Create on your 4x4.
I chose to dream. Or rather, this lady is dreaming of flowers, of spring, cherishing a handful of earth.

Funny enough, this piece has plenty of circles. Could have suited DCM as well.

FFTT: where was my head?

Fluffy Fatbottoms Twisted Tuesdays! Those challenges are tricky! Mean! Tough! But really great! No wonder, then, that my entry is really not a straight answer to their new challenge: Where was my head? I interpreted the head theme rather freely. Like so:

What's wrong with them?
background Gesso, dye and watercolor. German scrap, vintage face cutouts.
Clicks for huge.

Edit: Oh, dang! Just realized it had to be postcard format! Where was MY head!!!

Forgot your birthday!

4x4 Friday is calling for Men. I purchased a bag of stamps at ebay, the funniest stamps, I'm telling you! How about this: A clear conscience is usually a sign of bad memory. Yep! I forgot your birthday, but my conscience is clear.
Well, there won't be many occasions for using it, but here it fits! On the background another gel transfer - yay, this was fun!

Saturday Stampers is prompting us to show a different point of view (DPOV) by using the same stamp on different pieces. I stamped the funny saying about the clear conscience on a piece of watercolor painted paper, then cut it in three random pieces and used as background on three moo cards.


I also used up the surplus of the musical notes. This version could be used as a greeting, the letters on bottom spell hei - hi in English.

Wednesday Stampers / fall colors

The glorious colors of fall! The challenge this week over at Wednesday Stampers is to use these colors in our artwork. I was drwan towards the muted shades of those colors, and this is the result:


I am

background: reworked Basic Gray paper (Urban Couture Mila), mulberry paper, textile leaf with brad, postage stamp, old portrait, stamp from ebay. 4x4 format (starting to like it!), a wire for hanging.
Clicks for big! Sorry I didn't get the picture face-on, so it shows some unfortunate perspective!

TMTA / Pirates

Oh, the pirates, lurking everywhere! This is my take on TMTA's this week's prompt, Pirates.

A Real Gu--, eh, Pirate

Too bad the photo doesn't show the glitter on her eye patch!

Is this serendipidity, or what!
An interesting looking paper had been lying in the grass for a few days, but only today I decided to pick it up. It's the kind that comes along with candy. The kiddies like to tattoo them on their hands, foreheads or whatever. Lookee, lookee, it's a pirate ship and it fitted perfectly!

Other than that it took me half a day, as in: six hours, to do this. Lucky that it was my day off. (I must be slow?) It grew in fits and starts. My original idea was very far removed from this one.

Gothic Arch / vacation

Here is my take on Gothic Arch challenge: an arch embedded in a 4x4.

Having a Fine Time

My absolute favorite place is Montauk. It is at the very end of Long Island, also called The End. There is a wonderful lighthouse at Montauk Point, and you can walk miles and miles along the white sands. In fact, we once did walk all the way to Amagansett. From there on you could walk to Hamptons, then to Long Beach, then Brighton Beach on Coney Island (Brooklyn) - a trip that takes 4 hours by train. That is the extent of sandy shoreline! I find it world's best kept secret. No need for exotic destinations, not for me.
I toyed with the idea of sprinkling the background with real Montauk sand (which I fill each year in found little bottles from the beach, funny me!) - but in the end I just settled for sand colored textured paper.
This is my happy place. Loved this challenge!