summer

Happy first day of Summer.

It was 101 here today and we're expecting the same the next few days. Summer is definitely here.

The theme at Collage Obsession this week is Beach Babes.

I found a fun vintage photo.

 Then I added color and images from

Deviant Scrap and Digital Scrapbook Place.

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You can see more at Collage Obsession.

strange little people

This was another great Collage Obsession Challenge.

Rick St. Dennis gave us this sweet and innocent Victorian image to alter this week. Rick said he loves to take sweet things and make them into something not so sweet.

So the challenge theme was Strange Little People.

I can definitely do sweet and dreamy but I also like grunge and a good amount of dark so I took these adorable little children and invited them to play a little Show and Tell.

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I thought perhaps their nanny was having a particularly bad day......

Go and visit Collage Obsession to see more wickedly strange little people.

Now that was lots of fun. Thank you Rick.

collage obsession challenge

This week's theme for the Collage Obsession challenge is ROOM.

And here is the image provided. A surreal, stark and shabby room in shades of grey.

I really like this image the way it is. It makes a great background for all sorts of things.

So I imagined entering this room and finding a strange and colorful fairyland surrounded by these crumbling walls. Complete with it's own curious fairyland queen.

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Then......after a while I thought about how I really wanted to highlight the room more. Maybe not fill it up so much (like I do in my real rooms!).

My favorite room in my house is where my work table is, and right next to that table is an old wingback chair I've had for over 20 years. It has a threadbare brown velvet slipcover I begged my mom to make for me to cover the dusty mauve upholstery. I love my chair. It's where I dream and recharge whenever I can pry my cat Luna off of it.

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And so I made this second digi just for fun, with my version of a wingback chair using my favorite wings from Deviant Scrap again. I love the grunginess of this room and thought all it needed was a pop of color to make a perfect place to dream.

Thank you to Itkupilli for another great image.

Go and visit Collage Obession for more fascinating rooms.

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Artful Bag Challenge ATC swap.