Freebie - link corrected

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Misery - sinus/migraine. All the bones in my face ache and right eustachion tube feels blocked. Such fun. Heard there have been blizzards in some parts of the country. Hoping you are not affected. And today's freebie:

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/preview/Public/2019/Art%20Nouveau/ws_AN_25.zip?role=personal

*** Having PC troubles. I was able to download from link I just edited but let me know if you have problems because it isn't coming up the way it usually does.

Today was one of my lunch with retirees days. We went to Applebee's. It was just okay. After lunch 3 of us went to the movies to see a psychological thriller called Greta. Not bad but nothing I'd see again. Cox Communications due out tomorrow to fix phone service and we will be complaining about internet too. It is super slow and freeezes up. My husband is so frustrated with Cox, which we have had over twwenty years, he is threatening to pull all Cox products - phone, cable TV and internet and go with Verizon. Will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings.

More art nouveau today:

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p6wdrk0uavhfnlh/ws_AN_24.zip?dl=0

Here are some more of my challenge pieces:
For March clean & simple challenge, we had to have a patterned paper and plain paper, with the plain paper covering no more than 1/3 of the page. Then we were to take one photo and make 3 small squares from it. We also needed 3 flowers, an ink or paint spotch and a word strip. Here is what I came up with:

For an altered photo challenge, I used a photo of my Mom that I found last year after Dad died. I had never seen it before. She appears to be about 13 and I'd guess this was taken for one of her piano recitals. She is so cute but the background was so ugly. (You can see the original in the upper left corner.) So I extracted Mom and gave her a nicer background.

Connection troubles & freebie

Have had no phone service since Saturday afternoon and spotty internet. Tomorrow tech is supposed to come out about phone. Right now internet very slow - so quick post for you.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vmtr048oi46jyh7/ws_AN_23.zip?dl=0

Some purple for today's freebie

I've committed to doing at least 2 digital art challenges each month but more if possible. I shared my first two of the month Tuesday. Here are 3 more:

That's the pic for the mood board with the addition that if we have a birthday this month that could be used as inspiration too. I chose, green, water, and birthday and here is what i came up with.

The next challenge had 2 parts. First, choose a photo or picture and pull 3- 5 colors from it. since I'm trying to break out of my comfort zone, I used this vintage postcard.

Part 2 was to make any kind of layout using the photo and chosen colors. Here is what I came up with.

And the challenge I completed today was to take a photo or picture and come up with a sketchy effect. Took a cutout from photo of my son and added it to a space background. Ran an action from GrahicRiver that isn't made for PSE (can't find my CS3) and got interesting background but didn't like effect on Jeremy. Took cutout to another window and used PSE's watercolor filter, then added the cutout back to background.

Today I've got some purple art nouveau for you.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6360rw6nz9quw2/ws_AN_22.zip?dl=0

Freebie time

Just spent about 3 hours at DMV to get my license renewed. At least I thought to bring along my Kindle so I could read. Things happening for a change. My birthday is Sunday and I'll be 68, which is why I had to go to DMV to get new photo made. My son and DIL will be here on Saturday for a short visit. Haven't seen them since last May. Additionally, I got a call from my dearest friend, Sandy, who moved from Richmond (just 2 hours away) about 6 years ago after her husband died. She now lives in Georgia. Too far! Haven't seen her for about 4 years now. We are planning a reunion in April. Her older sister, Wanda,also a good friend, lives west of Richmond and hasn't been to Georgia in a couple years. Wanda and I are going to fly into Georgia from our respective locations on April 3rd so Sandy only has to make one trip to airport. Leaving husband here to fend for himself for unknown length of time. I figure about 10 days at least but could be a little more as Wanda and I plan to come back to Virginia when Sandy is ready to drive up and see her daughter. I am so excited! Already thinking about packing lists and so forth.

But back to reason for today's post. More art nouveau. You will surely have enough by the end of this week to do a whole book in art nouveau.
An art nouveau card for the March babies:

More doors:

And a place in Paris:

And Spain:

Today's zip:

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/muweqjsu2n0my7r/ws_AN_21.zip?dl=0

Error in zip 19

Forgot to include cluster. Here is updated zip:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0rxoxej687jb2q/ws_AN_19.zip?dl=0

My challenge entries and some art nouveau (freebie) for you

It's Saturday and my husband and granddaughter are at a Blue Grass concert. I'm supposed to be doing some cleaning and sorting housework stuff. But the day has gotten away from me. I decided I'd do just one of the monthly challenges from Just Art. How long could that take? And maybe go through a little of today's e-mail. Hmm. I first did the card challenge using Asian Ink kit by Rosie Designs.

Looked at some e-mail, then decided to do one more challenge. This one was simple: scrap any Irish quote, blessing, etc. So I pulled pieces from my own Irish kits and came up with this:

Spoke with my husband's first wife on phone about when she was to deliver granddaughter to concert hall. Ordered a new type of 1/4" seam guide for my sewing machine. (The new machine that is still in box!) And sent an e-mail to a dear friend about how long to plan on staying when I visit her next month. Have to get flight set up. And now, here it is nearly 6 p.m.! I get ready to [post today's zip only to find out I hadn't packed it up and zipped it. [sigh!] Got to pull myself together and stop playing. Here is your freebie.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwbxti2yvnd7rgr/ws_AN_20.zip?dl=0

More art nouveau freebie

First, some more beautiful architecture:
Madrid

What a staircase!

Mexico

Look at the stained glass in this sun room (?)

Today I have some clusters for you and have included the individual elements in the zip.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nyku58a00krnhmj/ws_AN_18.zip?dl=0

Flu popped up & some free poppies

Bad pun in header but hubby and I have been down with the flu or something like. We were out Tuesday from early morning to afternoon on business, picked up some lunch and came home. Both of us felt extremely tired. I slept about five hours and when I got up, my husband had already made and consumed his share of dinner. I wasn't hungry at all but so thirsty. Before long, my husband was complaining of flu like symptoms. He got through it all in about 24 hrs or less. I didn't. Today is first day I've been symptom free just a little weak as might be expected. But enough about that.

Today's zip has a poppy theme:

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbjxy2awl1yfqm5/ws_AN-17.zip?dl=0

Another gloomy February day and freebie

I'm not complaining about the gloom really. February seems to be when we get the worst weather - cold and snowy. Today it's just a matter of changing temperatures and light drizzle. Yesterday was 72! Today 40. Going to be a quiet day devoted to some house cleaning with a break to watch VCU basketball - provided it's locally televised. It upsets me that the local networks will show games from less than stellar basketball colleges out of state and not run some of the games from Virginia Commonwealth University which is only about 2 hours away. Hubby says it probably has to do with contracts with various networks.

Anyway, I thought I'd share something a little different - but still art nouveau - with you today. I love the old postcards about birthstones and such and find it interesting to see how what we think of as designated birthstones and birth month flowers have changed over the years. My favorite of these are the cards I'm going to show you today. these originally had verses on them but in most cases the copies I have were redone as posters without the verses. I should have started this in January but didn't think of it then so today I'll give you January and February.

And here are some purple doors:

I wouldn't have thought purple would be such a popular door color.

And today's zip:

Link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/677vfklw5cbe0xl/ws_AN_16.zip

Problem with Blogger. I put in link as usual but it refuses to show up. I have typed in link below where Blogger should put it so I can post this now. Just copy and paste link into yur browser until I can work out Blogger's quirk. Thanks

Happy Valentine's Day & freebie

Hope today finds you happy. I imagine many people will be going out to celebrate Valentine's Day. From today through the weekend, it's going to be busy in restaurants everywhere. We decided to avoid all that and will be eating in. After you've been married for awhile, you put less emphasis on holidays.

Anyway, today I have some sweet pink for you:

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3o86qabv0t9dvb/ws_AN_15.zip?dl=0

Month nearly hald gone! Freebie

Hard to believe February is almost gone! Finished up root canal yesterday and doing well today. Still, being a little careful. Had lunch with my retiree group today. Did not like the Mexican restaurant we met in; don't much care for Mexican food anyway, but this was poor and service bad. Still, we had space to sit and gab and we did for about 3 hours! I'm running late starting dinner so will just make this short today.

Just realized I'd already given you this journal card -- oops!
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gxjdpiasiwxnz9j/ws_AN_14.zip?dl=0

Not the mood, just the color - Art Nouveau freebie

We've been looking at some art nouveau style architecture lately. Isn't it amazing how beautifully detailed the designs are? Especially when you think that those designing and building during that period did not have available all the tools and techniques we have now. I don't know about you, but I'd rather live in a house with character instead of the dull geometric boxes we mostly have today. Still, along with all that beauty, I'd definitely want modern plumbing (it could be beautifully designed, couldn't it?) and a mostly modern kitchen. Today let's look at a few art nouveau doors. Since blue is the color of the day, let's start there.
This one is a church door:

Here's one suitable for my zodiac sign, Pisces:

Love the colors but not so keen on fish.
Here is a metal gate going into a complex:

Another door with detail around the door:

One more:

How's that for fancy?

And today we have:

BTW - for those who commented on the journal cards. Let me confess that most are vintage post cards of the era that I've cleaned up and/or altered.
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/osbttqfyftqyayu/ws_AN_12.zip?dl=0

Hope my friends in cold places are warming up. Hugs to all.

It's a vry gloomy Thursday . . . and Art Nouveau freebie

It's been raining here most of the night and most of the day so far. Quite gloomy. Had planned to go out to the grocery store but since it's nothing that can't wait, I'll go by tomorrow after I see pulmonologist. Will spend some of the afternoon today doing more decluttering. I know there are a ton of various plastic kitchen storge containers I can bag up for thrift store and I'll get some laundry done too.

What I have for you today is purple. Most of what I've found in art nouveau tends to be mauve or a light, grayed purple. Irises were very popular during this period, as were most flowers, so I made sure to include some.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yzhz1d7rzfx5g3/ws_AN_6.zip?dl=0