Time To Get Surreal

**Note:  I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last blogged. No, I did not fall into a hole, nor was I abducted by aliens.  I've just gotten kind of bogged down with life, and I'm working on eliminating some of the things that have been cluttering things up for me, both literally and figuratively.  Now, back to the scheduled program....


"If you see a bus crash into someone’s front porch while a caged dog barks in the side yard, near a man in a business suit who is grilling hamburgers, you might call that a surreal image. Things that are surreal combine unrelated elements to create a bizarre scene."

That's the definition of surreal that I found on Vocabulary.com.  It is also the theme of the current ATC swap at Michele's Little Bird Studio.  What to do, what to do?

I've always loved phrenology head images and find them to be rather surreal, so I decided to start there, and used the Invoke Arts stamp.  And I decided that the head exploding and releasing butterflies would do the trick.

 

 

 

I figured the back should be as surreal as the front, and I always like to refer to my home town and favorite city in the world, so I came up with this:

 

 

 

C'mon, Lady Liberty with my head on a platter, gotta love it.

 

I'm delivering my swaps to Michele today, and I look forward to seeing what I'll be getting in return.





 



Simon Says.......

.......Stamp and Show!  A new challenge blog sponsored by Simon Says Stamp, and one that has two of my cruise buds as DT members....Lori and Nancy.
I know, this is my second post of the morning, but I find these challenges hard to resist.
The first SSSS challenge theme is "wings."  I figured I'd do something a little different instead of my usual tag or ATC.  So, here is a button fairy:

The butterfly wings were cut from Ten Seconds Studio metal with Tim's Fanciful Flight die, then sanded a bit.  The "art" face is an Invoke Arts stamp, and it is on a crushed bottle cap.  The buttons are just some from my (very large) stash.