Just Giddy

Pale Shades of Winter

I'm finding it almost impossible to find time to blog, so please bear with me as I catch up on a few things off line... I have really good intentions and many things to share...

These frosty days of winter in Eastern Idaho remind me of the cold, cold scenes from the movie, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

This piece I created some time ago but it seems somewhat appropriate for this time of year. The blossoms offer hope of Spring to come, framing the little angel girls with their buds of white.

Notice the background script; handwritten knitting instructions for Marguerite's Mittens, January 1929. In an earlier blog I scanned in George's Gray Sweater and Arthur's Brown Mittens, Age 4 1927. Free images for you!

***You may use my free images in art you create for yourself, to sell or to give away, but PLEASE, do not sell this image in a compilation of images such as a CD, printed sheet or download. Thank you for respecting this request. 

Below are the images I used in the composition - created in Photoshop. 

Man, I sure miss playing around with Photoshop - note to self, get back to it SOON!!!

Take care my friends!

Rebecca ~ justgiddy

 

Christmas Mini Banners

Don't you just love this time of year! For one of my Yahoo Groups, InThisHouseandGarden, we had a Christmas Mini Banner Swap. This is what I came up with, not traditional in a red and green way, but an "Old World" concept with Dresden Wings, tinsel, paper fabric I made for the background, scalloped pink satin blanket binding I cut with my antique pinking machine and an impish image I scanned from an old photo. Then I formed a little wreath from leafy garland, dusted it with "snow" and added a reddish-pink sugar berry.

Maybe it's the Pixie Hollow influence that made me do it, after all, I do spend a "little" time on Disney.com with the granddaughter amassing points for wardrobes and furnishings. If you have never visited Pixie Hollow and flown around with your fairy, you have missed some special joys of youth available on the internet today. Try it out but don't blame me if you get hooked!!! 

The very best part of the swap is the nice surprise in the mail when they all arrive from the host. 

Here are the beauties I received today!!!

Thank you to Suzanne Myers for hosting and for your beautiful Red Cardinal banner. Also thank you Socrates (Sox), Joyce Roberts, Debby Podgorski, Kathie Swanson, and Terri Nickelson-Williams! These are all so wonderful and put the biggest smile on my face today!!! 

Can't wait to hang them for everyone to enjoy this year. I just LOVE the banner swaps...

rebecca

This Glorious Time of Year

It has been AGES since my last post here, so I have decided to give you a few image freebies to use in your art or anyway you would like (except do not sell individually or in a compilation of images for sale).

I love this one...is Santa on his way?

A Christmas Angel - Proud Mother

George's Gray Sweater - endearing...so sweet...

Another knitting card Arthur's Brown Mittens, Age 4 1927...

If you would like some more images to play with, check out my link to free images in my blog (there are 2 pages of thumbnails).

Hope you are having a glorious winter in the N. Hemisphere and summer in the the S. Hemisphere.

It has been COLD, COLD, COLD here in Idaho, so summer sounds pretty good right about now...

Rebecca