Collage

Taking part in ArtGrupa ATC again, this time with the theme Collage. It is so simple, but also difficult as you can make literally anything at all.
I had purchased a set of old playing cards a while back, thinking they might be fun to incorporate in my work.
This is what I did:

I took a poem from a poster and combined it with the figures.

Sing like no-one would hear you,

Love like the was no heartache,

Dance like no-one would see you,

& live like there was no to-morrow.

Sweet fluff

ArtGrupaATC had a very broad theme this time: Badges. The theme could be anything really, as long as there is a badge included. Luckily my order from A Flair for Buttons had just come in. I ordered several designs, but Marie Antoinette'esque ladies just jumped at me and begged to be used.

I started building the cards with some rather romantic tissue papers I had been saving for too long. I
added some baby blue texture paste (Marabou) through a stencil.

Next I built up layers with scrap papers at one spot, added some thread and the badge.

Some decorative crystals rounded up the design. I had most fun finding the words for each of them.

linking to:
ArtGrupaATC: Badges
Take a Word: Old-fashioned

Is this love or what!

I believe it is... as seen in Casablanca. Need I say more?

 This was inspired by several challenge prompts:

More thanWords: Love
ArtGrupa: Couples
SimonSays: Anything goes

A longing for...

When a challenge provides tęsknota - Polish for longing, or yearning for something -  for a cue then it has a wide range of interpretation.

I decided to go with the one that ties in with my occupation of history. On a weekly basis I get frustrated with the sources. For Medieval, even for Early Modern times there just aren't enough sources. 

Week after week I am longing for the opportunity to go back in time and see how a Medieval village really looked like or what the aspirations of Bohemian cooks in Vienna around 1880 were.

This singular stream of time really eats my heart out. I put all my frustration and yearning and longing into these cards. 
One of them speaks to me on a personal level. I always find searching the history - or going back to your own past - is like battling against an invisible wind. 

Entering this in:
ArtGrupa: ATC "Tęsknota"

We have Dreams

The Wings of Dreams is the new theme at this month's ArtGrupaATC. They ask to show hat inspires you?
I didn't go very literal, I am not showing any wings.

Words inspire me - for this I collected random words from a 'cheap' novel and made them into - hopefully - something deep and philosophical...

Each day is like a recurrence of a dream   //    A year is like a candle in a wind.

I chose Amelie as a picture, I find her dream world bizarre but inspiring.

Imagination is like a paradise.

Life is a curious dream.

I link these to: ArtGrupaATC challenge Na skrzydłach marzeń / The wings of dreams