The Power of Words- A Path of Positivity Challenge

 I had some time to play on the computer this week and managed to create a digital scene, gathering up images and photos from various sources and working into the finished scene. The optional theme for the POP challenge is the Power of Words - Art/Creativity. I take a lot of inspiration from nature. My mantra is "There is no E-A-R-T-H without A-R-T". What can I say, I'm an English major who loves words!

The background is a photo my cousin took. She lives in Tennessee. The fairy is a free image from the Graphics Fairy. The deer is a photo I took last summer while at my summer trailer. It's very close to four state parks, but the deer was walking in the ravine's creek which flows past my trailer.

While walking my dog around the neighborhood, I spied a village of mushrooms a few houses down, and added them to the scene. Finally, there's a brown bear crawling up a tree in the background. He was caught on camera while vacationing a few years ago in the Smokey Mountains.

I've actually printed my digital picture and put a nice frame around it. It reminds me to keep my eyes open to Mother Nature's own creativity.

The Path of Positivity offers monthly challenges with optional themes. Today is the midway point of the challenge. Make sure you check it out for your chance to win digital images from Scribbles Designs.

A Special Card for a Special Event

 

Between my sister's visit from Germany, decluttering, Spring cleaning, a garage sale and a million other things, I still carved out enough time to create a card for an upcoming wedding I'm attending. I had enough patterned papers left over from "the purge", as well as lace, stickers, and adhesive bling to make this (and many more) card. My paper hoard stack is down to about a foot high now and neatly organized. I found my stickers quickly in the file folder labeled Love & Weddings, and my bins of lace and adhesive pearls and jewels were easily reached in identical bins. However, from design through prep to finished project, it still took me most of the afternoon.

Of course, our dog is on a special meal plan, eating prescription dog food every two hours, which leads to more frequent walks. I also had a video dr. appointment and ran a few errands, but I must say that the time spent creating this card was well spent. I really like the way it turned out. It measures 6x8 inches, fitting into an envelope I rescued from a thrift store find. In fact, except for the paper and stickers, everything else was a thrift find, from the lace to the metallic border.

Here's the inside: