Secret Garden

This week at the Muses the theme is PLANTS AND/OR INSECTS.

Background: is a blend of three of my own photos; blue butterfly: Studio Manu; orange butterfly wings: Createwing Designs; ladybugs: pngimg and pngpix; texture: pareeerica.

Ghosts butterflies on the lost island

Unpublished photo of ghosts butterflies visible only at dawn on the lost island

Take a Word theme for this week is CIRCLES. I don't know how I ended up with this, blame my muse. :)

Circles layer is mine as well as the background; there's a beach photo that is a free background. Butterflies: Dover.

Eve

Eve was a bit tired of those fig leaves and decided to try a new outfit

This week at Take a Word the challenge theme is BOTANICAL. 

Thanks to Createwing Designs, WaterLo Project and E-vint.

Little Jane Doe escaped the wedding party and went to her magical garden

This week, at Take a Word, the theme is SPRING EQUINOX. At Digitalmania the challenge is to choose a vintage photograph (or painting) and place it in an entirely new background. I combined both.

The photo (cutout, colored and altered) is on a family album,  but I have no idea who she is. Background and elements by Createwing Designs.

Here it is the original photo:

Waiting for the hummingbird

This week at Take a Word the challenge is to celebrate the world of nature.  I don't know this flower's name. What I do know is that the hummingbirds love it. Maybe fairies love it too...

Background: my photo; fairy (cutout and colored): Graphics Fairy; texture: Elné.

Paprika

Take a Word asked for HOT COLORS. I found the photo below in my aunt's album. I have no idea who she is or when it was taken. It doesn't matter, she looked so sweet! In her new outfit she also looks hot, that's why I called her Paprika.

Organic

 blue and lilac bamboo blast

overcome

“Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.” ― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Take a Word asked for ORGANIC and I tried a different approach working with some of my own photos.

Textures: Elné; flying seagull: free wallpaper.

Porphyrio

Hi there! Take a Word asked for birds. I photographed these guys in the Everglades last February. They are so beautiful I thought they've deserved to meet my TAW friends.

Background and Purple Gallinues are my photos. Textures by Kim Klassen and by me. Thanks to Wikipedia.

Little Red Hood first photo

Hi! The theme in Take a Word is AUTUMN and like Marie, in my part of the world seasonal changes aren't dramatic at all. We could summarize them in the rainy period / period of drought. As my country is very large, rainfall and drought occur at different times depending on the region. In Brasilia we are about to enter - Thank God! - in the rainy season. So whenever the theme is AUTUMN, I seek a beautiful photo of an Autumn I've never seen to be the background of the scene I imagine!

I'm also submitting this to Digitalmania which theme is free this week as long as we use a vintage picture altering its background.

Background by Emerald Depths (dA); leaves by Maureen Older (dA); baby by Jamie Miller; texture by Natalya Semenchuk.

Wild Spirit

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... 

the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle 

Hi there! Take a Word asked for Wild Animals and as you can see I love cats, especially the big ones.

I googled everything but the texture that is Kim Klassen's.

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” - Alice Walker

"Os animais existem por suas próprias razões. Eles não foram feitos para os humanos, assim como os negros não foram feitos para os brancos ou as mulheres para os homens." - Alice Walker

Prime color of the world

El verde es el color principal del mundo, y que a partir del cual surge su belleza.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

This coloring thing is kinda addicting.  When Take a Word asked for Green it seemed a good idea to take an old photo of a beautiful teenager and to transform her into a Green Fairy. Then I found this photo gently shared by Jamie Miller and did that:

Flight of butterflies: Dover; Texture: Kim Klassen.

Alone

Hello! This is my interpretation to the The Three Muses challenge: ALONE. Blame my muse. :)


Girl and crow by Glen Luchford; dead princess by RotFront (DeviantArt).

Lovely insects

Hello! I've been working so much that I couldn't find time and disposition to play with my digital collages... Fortunately, I managed to play this week. The theme is INSECTS in Take a Word. As I'm not a big fan of them I decided that showing you some cute babies dressed as insects wouldn't be out of topic! :) They are so adorable that I doubled the bet!

Wings and cocoon of chrysalide baby by Createwings; texture by Kim Klassen.

Babies by Anne Geddes; texture by Kim Klassen.

Indoor cat out of bounds

Definitely an indoor cat...

Hi, folks! This week the challenge in The Three Muses is OUT OF BOUNDS. That reminded me of Fifi my neighbor's kitten that absolutely hates when her owner decides that she needs to be in touch with nature. Fifi is determined to no longer tolerate this out-of-bounds behavior.


Frame/Texture by Pareeerica (dA).

Green: Mata Atlântica

Hi, folks. As the theme this week on Take a Word is GREEN, I decided to introduce you to a tiny bit of the Mata Atlântica, or at least, some of its inhabitants. A green paradise that we almost completely destroyed. Nowadays, the little that is left  is protected.


I used five photos to compose this collage, two of them by Luis Florit; I couldn't identify the authors of the other photos.

Nature's Magic

This is my contribution to this week theme at Take a Word: NATURE.

Everything but the girl, her dress and baby by Createwings Designs.

Time after time

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This week the theme in Three Muses is SONG LYRIC. I chose Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman). Although it is a romantic song, I thought of the mother-child relationship.

Overlay is a photo by Bethany Kimmel.

The crazy house of mad Lucy

Nobody could understand her, but she didn't care...

Since I saw this (original bellow) I was craving to use it. Thanks for giving me the opportunity dear ladies of Take a Word, which theme this week is ARCHITECTURE.



Chubby beauty from El baul de los gifs; crazy house from Aegean Prince (deviantArt); Texture from Princess of Shadows (deviantArt); background from computer-wallpaper-backgrounds.com.