My contribution to the Fun Friday Challenge group this week is a bit of digi collage. I have Paint Shop Pro and am teaching myself how to use it, so this was a good opportunity to put in some practice time with the program.
All graphic elements were previously purchased at Digitals and the postcard image is from the Collage Images group at Flickr.
I used a vintage hat pin, postcard from 1911 and vintage vocabulary card along with getting into old scrapbook paper and sticker stash, so nothing new purchased for this piece at all!
Oh, I take that back! I did buy that little flourish stamp yesterday on a little fun trip to Joann's. They were having 40% off sale on all stamps.
I also bought 6 sheets of a distressed blue damask paper that I will be lining my hutch with and a beautiful rose print I will be lining the back of one of my bookcases with. I'll be backing the other case I use in the family room with this Cavallini & Co. paper.
I'm in love with blue right now and will be bringing the color into my front room as an accent color, so I bought a spray paint to paint a now black shelf and will be eventually recovering some pillows with a light blue toile. I'll, of course, take pictures of all this when I actually start these little projects.
Anyway, this collage piece is part of that "bringing blue into the front room" project and I'll display this collage in that room.
I am absolutely loving the challenge group, it gives me a theme to focus my thoughts on and a deadline to get something done...it also seems to be sparking all sorts of creativity and ideas for my home decorating projects, so I've been carrying around a little notebook to write these things down as they pop into my head. If only there was more time to spend doing all these things! Once again, I wish that sleep was not necessary!
