Fly

Think Monday Think ATC has the theme "fly" this week. This inspired me to introduce you to Cassandra:

Only in her dreams Cassandra could fly as free as a butterfly.

Rose dreams

Gothic Arches has such a lovely topic this week that I just had to create a gothic arch with roses. I used one of my photos of the Da Vinci roses in my garden.

Surreal

The Three Muses are getting surreal this week. Marie wrote: "If I were asked to give a one-word definition of surreal, it would be 'unexpected'."

Talk about the unexpected effect eating those strange mushrooms had on Josie. Suddenly, she felt like a doll wearing a mushroom cape going to a ball with fish friends.

Free

It has been some time that I last created something in the inchie format. Small World Of Inchies & Twinchies has currently the theme freedom which inspired me to work in the tiny format again. For the background I used an image provided for the new Soartful challenge, even though you don't see much of the original picture after quite a bit of layer blending work.

Geisha

Art Creations Friday offers a lovely background for its new challenge. For me it has an oriental touch, so I came up with this digital ATC:

Mysterious

Artarazzi provided the image of a vintage woman who turned out to be a really mysterious lady after all:

Steampunk Babe

Art Creations Friday provided the image of a lovely vintage lady who happens to be a real Steampunk Babe:

Up Up And Away

The Three Muses take us up up and away this week. So here's my little vintage butterfly girl on the verge of flying up up and away:

Heal the World

Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough
For the living
Make a better place
For you and for me

Happy Independence Day

Isn't July just bliss with all those opportunities to celebrate?! Happy 4th of July!

Contentment

Mind Wide Open celebrates its first anniversary -- congrats! Of course, there's another great challenge this month for which I came up with this dragonfly-winged garden fairy who happens to sit on one of the Da Vinci rose blossoms in my garden being perfectly content there:

Happy Canada Day

It's a reason to celebrating, eh?!

Wild Thing

The Three Muses have come up with yet another interesting topic for their challenge blog -- wild things. So what's the ultimate wild thing after all? Somehow, that made me think of Mothman, a creature that was seen in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967.

Doors

The Three Muses have come up with another interesting theme which I simply couldn't resist -- doors. My first image takes you to Taos, New Mexico. I took the photo of a store door and digitally enhanced it.

The second image is another altered photo which I took a couple of weeks ago at the cemetery. I like how the open door is beckoning in the distance, offering a safe haven.

Free fall

At Artarazzi the guest designer Kelly provided one of her photos of an interesting architectural structure. It inspired me to a free fall.

Midsommar

Sweden is celebrating midsommar today. At the local IKEA I made a flower wreath which I later wore on my head. I wish everyone a trevlig midsommar!

Thanks for the blog comments and emails

This is for all of you who left a comment on my blog or dropped me a note via email -- YOU ROCK! :)

Go West Young Mona

By chance I found a new challenge blog called Three Muses which welcomes all art styles. The first challenge is nothing small -- Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Of course, I had to take Mona to the American West.

Trapped in Wonderland

Art On The Darkside has the topic mirrors this week. Naturally, I thought of Alice in Wonderland. For my digital collage I combined two of my photos taken in February and June.

Wish

Mind Wide Open has a new challenge for June. Gail provided a lovely collage image as well as the word prompt "wish."

Kathleen looked out of the window, watching the beautiful dragonfly with its delicate wings. How she wished to have wings like that. She would fly high in the sky and on to all those exotic places out there.