Digital piracy!

Barbara – Artiphy the Heart - set the “Pirates” challenge at TGIF this week and has been nagging me to participate; my List Mom, Trish Bee has started an new challenge Blog called ArtBuzz, which is fab, because it’s radically different! Trish’s #1 challenge was called “Off with his head!” and the idea was to take a human image and replace the head with something completely different… well, you know by now that I have the liveliest sense of the ridiculous, so I kicked back this evening and combined both challenges – with this Diptych:

Now short of photocopying the DVD cover of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies we own, I have nothing barring those skull & crossbones die cuts that even vaguely equates to pirates. So I took a very plain vintage photo and a brochure about going digital in the SW of the UK and an idea was born… The background is watercolour pencils and waterbrush, “Ma Sparrow” (Digital Pirate), was cut with a sizzix scroll and the images on the right are from background sheets I was given about 3 years ago!! The poker chip has one of Michelle’s Digital Collage Images of a girl on it and the gold ‘fish’ are the leftover bits from fancy die cut hearts!

In case you can’t read my text (a la Julie Prichard), it reads: “Ma Sparrow, Jack’s Mama, was the 1st digital pirate… even her eye patch was a skull and crossbones”. Enjoy, Barbara and Trish!!