divas d'este new etsy shop

Divas d'Este have a new etsy shop, Urban Renewal Designs, featuring vintage/antiques/junque, unusual jewelry, found objects, old postcard images, and the like. I am a big fan of the Divas' themed image cd's because not only are the images diverse and interesting, the cd's have saved me immense amounts of time otherwise spent on searching for images.

Most of the images in my January journaling posts have come from the Divas' collection. If you would like to know which cd a particular image comes from post a comment and I will track it down.

De, one of the Divas, is a designer and crazy quilter. When she is not adding to the company's collections she makes beautiful handbags.

(Image at left is from the Divas' Girls collection.)

bicycle

It doesn't seem quite finished. Not sure what to do next.

come into the woods

Created in PhotoShop CS4. The flowers and woods are a picture that I took, and the girl is an image that I got from Divas D'Este on one of their great cd's. The purple lace pattern is a photoshop brush that I downloaded from a website -- and now I don't remember which one, sorry.

I decided that I liked the lace over the other images, although I did remove it from around the face using a layer mask.

These collages are great fun to do, and I am getting much faster.

My studio has been a wreck for at least 6 weeks, and I going to spend this week cleaning it up so I can get crackin' on all the projects running around my brain, including printing some of the journal pages on fabric.