Happy Birthday to My Mom

My mother, Norma Jean Hazel, would have been 79 years old today.  If she was still alive, I'd have sent her a gardenia from her local flower shop. That's all she wanted for her birthday from the time she was about 60 until she died suddenly at age 71. The tradition started out with me sending a corsage, but she decided that she preferred a simple gardenia blossom that she could float in a pretty crystal bowl.  Gardenias don't last very long after they are cut, but she didn't care.  She sat and enjoyed the beautiful fragrance every year on her birthday.  By the way, in honor of her birthday the challenge at Inspiration Avenue is "Birthdays" this week.  You can visit Inspiration Avenue by clicking on the button in my right sidebar.  We'd love to have you hop over and check out our challenges. 

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Since I didn't send anyone a gardenia this year, I've created a special freebie for you.  You can download my Mermaid Digital Scrapbooking Kit at the links below.  Just for fun, here are two previews.

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  I created the kit as a project at Pixel Scrapper and had a lot of fun doing them.  These projects help me learn techniques to enhance my digital collage skills and the people there are awesome!   In addition to that, you can also get lots of free digital scrapbooking supplies.  If you haven't ever been there, I strongly recommend it.  (There's a button for that on my right sidebar too.)

Please leave a comment and let me know if you like the kit.   I love getting your feedback and always appreciate it when people take the time to comment.  I get really excited when someone decides they like my blog enough to follow it. 

Thank you for stopping by!

Sunday Postcard Art Challenge-Fairies of the Sea

Did you know that mermaids are the fairies of the sea?  These sea fairies were captured on a postcard image, just floating around one day.  Please note that these sea fairies do not have wings while in the water. 

I suppose the caption would read, "If I was going to pay all that money to enhance my starfish, I'd have gone with bigger ones, wouldn't you?"

Don't forget to check out the other entries here..  I know you'll enjoy them. 

Credits for image components:

Beth Rimmer, Courtney's Digiscrappin', Eena's Creations, Scrappiness Down Under, Cotton Candy Collage, Ten 2 Studios, Image Village, Granny Art Fairy, Country Liv's Graphics, APD (My Warehouse of Dreams), R. Davis, RS Creations, and 1st FF.

Art Journal

I was trying to decide what to do with my digital art today and opted to create an art journal page.  Click here to see all of the other entries.

Credits for Image Components:
Granny Art Fairy, Itkupilli, Aneczkaw, Marisa Lerin, Kit Kat Creations, Lila's Digiscrap, Antique Desires, Dover Publications, and Dee's Delights

Mermaid's Heart

Credits for Image Components:
Cotton Candy Collage, Courtney's Digiscrappin, Marisa Lerin, A-M Designs, Crescent Moon Designs, and Wendy Tunison.

Happy Independence Day!

Credits for Image Components:
Raspberry Road, Holliewood, digitaldesignsbyelisa, Chickie, Courtney's Digiscrappin, Studio Linda Renee, Beth Rimmer, Itkupilli, Bits O'Scrap, Marisa Lerin-Pixelscrapper, BLT DeZingz, Farrah's Designer Scraps, LK Designs, Sugarbutt Designs, Pink's Poetic Scraps, Scrappin' Cop, Freubel's Freebies, and Lon's Designs.