The Hornet ~ Altered Postcard

This altered postcard is in the same color theme and style as The Witch I did recently.
I actually put this one together before that for my friend Terry at Pringle Hill Studio but I couldn't show it on my blog because I wanted it to be a surprise and she has been away on holiday. Now she has it so I can share :)

I really love this Hornet Lady, and since hornet's are a part of nature I used other nature clip art in this postcard as a theme.

Enjoy your day :)
Lynn

Altered Postcard Halloween

This is an altered postcard using water color paper for the background, painted and stamped. I had fun doing the border with my pitt pens :)
The main image is called "The Witch" by E. Myerstein , created in 1884. I love his litho's, you may have seen "The Hornet" which is another of my favorites.
The very handsome "Moon Man" is a free digital image created by my friend Terri from
Pringle Hill Studio, you can find it in her Friday freebie post for last week.
You can find "The Witch" at The Graphic Fairy along with the bat, and the mouse or maybe it's a rat, yeah he does look more like a rat, is from The Vintage Moth, both links are in my side bar to the right.
I cut the calderon from a vintage image and painted the bubbles, did the same with the little mask in her hand, and the stars I already had from long ago.

When Myerstein painted this lovely lady, it was to show how people could dress to costume parties, probably a real fashion statement back then and quite fancy I would say :)
You can read more details about the costume and also save the image at the
Wikimedia Commons.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter weekend, and what a beautiful sunny morning it is :)
I altered this postcard for a one on one swap. The background is water color paper, painted and randomly stamped.
The sheet music is from Robin's Nest
Bird and nest from Retro Cafe Art

Soul Journey Altered Postcard

I am finally starting to join in some of the challenge blogs, and this is my entry for the Mind Wide Open challenge for this month, using the beautiful image provided by Gail, and the word prompt was "Journey".
This is an altered postcard, and I printed the image on transparency, then stitched it by machine onto the card. It's the first time I have printed on the transparency sheets and it really does come out nice, but then it's a bit hard to add it to the paper isn't it?
I am still not sure on the metal butterfly but it's stuck there now :)

I havn't been able to create anything for two days now, hope I can get back into it today. I have 3 Easter items to make for a swap and I have creative block all of a sudden. I guess the best thing to do is just start something, anything, and go from there, that usually helps. Wish me luck :)

Be True To Yourself

Fun Friday Challenge at ECS last week was to use the image of this lady. I felt she was comtemplating her dreams, thinking of all the things she enjoyed, like music, travel, writing, flowers and taking care of herself, so I incorporated different images to reflect her thoughts on my background, which was done on a postcard. Then I stamped a post mark and used some chalks to give her a softer look.

Click on this beautiful Old St. Nick image and save the original size. Enjoy creating with it :)