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!! ![]()

May 4, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Boooooah wow Rosie what a amzing creation. So many details. Love this.
Thanks for joining TGiF again.
May 4, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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May 4, 2008 at 9:21 pm
hey- I can read all of the text
Looks great to me!
May 4, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Wow!! this is great, such a lot of thought you have put into it
Jacqui
May 4, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I LOVE it!!! See what wonderful things happen when you’re *nagged*? Very, very fab, Rosie!! But, I’d expect nothing less than the best from you!!
May 5, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum! I like it muchly! You did a fantabalousa job at both the pirate theme and the off with your head theme too!
May 5, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Great Rosie. Love the humour. Really lovely colours
May 5, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Boah, Rosie, this is absolutely stunning - I can hear the pirates sing their song by watching your fabulous piece of art - awesome !
Thank you for participating TGiF with such a brilliant creation…
May 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Looks really great.