Marie (pink)

This digital collage measures 8 X 10 inches, and is for sale as an instant download in my Etsy shop, AJoyfulStudio, for only $10.00 ~ I've already had a lot of interest in the other ones I did, so if you want one please hurry! xo

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The Seeker

Digital collage Textures courtesy of Shadowhouse Creations

New Item for Sale in My Etsy Shop

Newly listed, with more to come soon. Digital downloads for 9 separate ATCs, featuring vintage beauties Cleo de Merode, Maude Fealy, and Dolores Costello. Please visit my Etsy shop regularly to see what's been added, and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! xo

For the Take a Word Challenge - Blooms

Here is my entry for this week's challenge at the Take a Word Challenge blog; the theme is "blooms". For this piece I combined a photograph of the beautiful Dolores Costello (flickr images), with a postcard (also flickr images) and did some layering and colorizing in Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. Please visit Take a Word to see more artwork by the many talented participating artists. Wishing everyone a beautiful week ahead! xo

For the Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - White

Here is my submission for this week's Sunday Postcard Art Challenge - the theme is "white". The ballerina image is courtesy of e-vint.com; texture from Shadowhouse Creations; hyacinth photo from flickr; and I colorized, combined and altered everything in PSP and PS.

Please be sure and check out SPA for more white submissions this week =) xo

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Some New Art

Feeling a little down and slow due to the weather, I think - I wish that spring would come in full force ... the flowers and trees were already full of blossoms and then it snowed, and now we have more snow expected tomorrow. But, I don't mean to gripe - I'm sure that spring will get here in due time. Perhaps the weather is why my art is a little bit darker this week, I don't know but I'm okay with it. It all balances out, and balance is always a good thing =) xxoo

~I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls~

Last Year's Flowers

A photo I took in our backyard - altered in PSP and PS ... hope we get lots of these little beauties this year =)

For the Echo Challenge - Flight

For the Echo challenge ~ the topic is Flight. Please visit the

Flickr Group to see more photos =)

Textures are courtesy of Shadowhouse Creations; photos taken by me, at home, on Christmas morning 2010

Remembering ...

These days are always difficult - it was five years ago today that my wonderful father passed away. He had been ill for quite a long time, with prostate cancer, and we all knew that his time here on earth was almost finished. We had lost my mom six years earlier on Mother's Day to lung cancer, but Dad had stayed busy and remained upbeat, his silly wonderful self, up until the last few days of his life.

I did this picture last night - I don't know why, but I was compelled to look back over my blog during 2006 and earlier, and read some of the comments Dad had left on here. He was such an encouraging person - if he knew you had an interest in something he would go out and buy you tons of books, or supplies, etc. on the subject and give them to you. He was always interested in learning something new, and he is actually the person who got me interested in photography to begin with. Anyway, when I came across the photo of these flowers I knew I wanted to use them in a collage. I remember the day my mom and I bought them - they were to go on her piano, and they did, and they were lovely!

To say I miss my mom and dad would be quite an understatement. They were my friends, my cheerleaders, they believed in me and always encouraged my interest in art. So this photo is for both of them, with much love ...

Flower Princess

Digital collage ...

Another way to look at loss ...

Perhaps God is a poet
Who writes with words
Of flesh and bone and leaf and flower.
Every hour of every day
Words pour out of the poet's heart,
...And every word is beautiful
And true and worth telling.
And when each poem is perfect,
And there is no more which ought to be said,
The poet gently takes the words
Back into his heart, where
They are safe forever ~
And then begins again.

Author Unknown

Lady With Rose

Digital Collage - image of lady with rose courtesy of The Sum of All Crafts blog.

Venetian

Images courtesy of Creative Commons on Flickr ~ created in Paint Shop Pro. xo