Buttons!

This week both FFTT and Mixed Media Mondays (MMM?) have challenged us to use buttons in our artwork. I have a lot of beautiful, but really dimensional and bulky buttons. My favorite to use on flat(tish) collage work are these old underwear buttons from Germany. They are just round cardboard discs clad with white linen, simple and to the point. An added plus: they come on a pretty printed card.
I played around and made these tags. (Lately I have been making just tags, but double sided, so you can flip them. Possible use? Bookmarks, I guess. Or carry-along pocket art?)

I made two tags, but gave the second one to my sister before I had a chance to take a picture. Eventually I will show the second one here. Two tags for two challenges, fair enough.

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FFTT/ a very wicked witch

Yes, it's that time of year again! Spiders, webs, ghosts, oh my!
And since Fluffy Fatbottoms Twisted Tuesdays is challenging us to make a wicked witch, I'll show them a wicked witch - yes sirree!

I have been reading Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale. Do you know it? If not, you should definitely pick it up. It was published 1985, but it has remained eerily accurate in mapping out things to come.
In my picture below the witch is a woman, as per convention. Though who the real witch behind the happenings in this book may be - my guess is as good as yours.

A Wicked Witch

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

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Fluffy Fatbottoms Twisted Tuesdays - a new challenge. The first dare is "Fish out of water".

Here is my take on it. Format 4x6", post card size. Only I can't think of any fitting occasion for this card. Well, maybe Bat Mitzvah or any other girl becoming woman kind of event. Only, though, girls want to be reassured, not made wistful.
And this woman is certainly that. I can't decide whether she's a fish transforming into a human, or a human longing to be a fish. And what happens if she can't make up her mind?

Song of Freedom (Transformation)

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