GiveAway!

You can win my Purple Stage necklace, BUT to do so you have to follow the rules:

1. Leave a comment on this post.

2. Share this post on Facebook (you need to tag me - Sybille Sterk - so I know you did)
3. Like my page MagpieMagic Arts

(and, yes, I will check and, yes, it's okay if you already like it, as long as you're on the list of fans.)

For bonus credits (i.e. I'll throw another bit of paper with your name in the hat) you can:

1.  my shop on Etsy
2. Share this post on Pinterest.
You get one extra entry each for those two.

The giveaway will expire on Sunday, 14th December 2014 at midnight London time. Here's a time zone converter if you leave it to the last minute

I doubt it will make it in time before Christmas if you live across the pond, but hey you never know.

If you can't wait, there are loads more where this one came from. Check my Etsy shop to see them. :D

Free shipping and $5 off

How much better can it get?

FREE Worldwide Shipping + $5 Off All Items in your Shop until December 8th at midnight PST using this link. 

Freebie Textures

To celebrate my new texture sets being available for sale, check out the new page, a new freebie set with seven new textures is available to download if you click on the like button in the top right-hand corner, which unfortunately stopped working for some weird and unknown reason and won't actually display the download link. Until I manage to fix it, just click here to get the freebie textures. It'd be nice if you still clicked on the little like button.... :-) that bit works. LOL

My Facebook art page is a great way to keep up with my art and new stuff, including more freebies. I'd love to see you there. If you drop by, please leave a comment. I love to see new faces and old friends, too. :-)

this wild life

© Sybille Sterk 

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

Photograph taken at Castle Hedingham. Edited in Photoshop. The quote is by Zane Grey. 

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. 

Edited with Photoshop.

Arrows, Sample Me by LaRue & Com from CreativeMarket

Font please show me love by dirt2

All available on Society6

Fly Free

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00286

This image is about letting go, and in honour and memory of our cat Rodney who died last week. We're still very upset. It's amazing how big a hole such a small cat can leave. He was the best and sweetest cat ever and we miss him so much.

I just read a really good quote and I found it really reassuring. I hope it helps someone else:

everything will be okay
in the end

if it is not okay
it isn't the end

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

NOTE: Free shipping available right now on my images at Society6, just click here.

Boxed In

This is one of those of my images that can be read in many ways and I am sure it will. To me it means the feeling of being 'boxed in' be it by labels and stereotypes or by your inability to let go off the past and move on into your own future.

In my humble opinion the first step to freeing yourself is facing the truth about yourself and your surroundings. You cannot change anything until you understand what it is you need to change. However, it is a difficult thing to do, so we often find ourselves boxed in by the things we feel hold us back and often realise only too late that we are imprisoning ourselves and sometimes we 'execute' that what makes us 'us' in the process.

Credits

Model

• stock 64 by Veyga

Stock

• gothika-stock334 by gothika-stock

Background and Textures

• 244 Stock Box by fire-walker
• 6 Faves Texture Sets 1 (Retro and Dirty Thoughts) by Shadowhouse

All other images/textures/etc my own.

MCN: C5LWC-BR88P-FQUER

Not a Toy

 

 

 

Illustration to go with my poem.

My inner freedom and my independence are both important treasures to me, which I'd defend to the death. Sounds utterly dramatic, but being manipulated and steered into a direction as it suits someone else is horrible, no matter how well meaning it might be. I've always strongly believed that we need to make our own mistakes. It's one thing to share our experiences and help with advice and examples and another to manipulate someone supposedly for their own good. It never sat well with me.

Credits

Model

• Shelter by mjranum-stock
• Model Rael C
• Photographer Marcus Ranum

Stock

• O-key dokey... by chop-stock
• you can't light my candle by LuckyStock
• frame 11 by Meltys
• Smashed Glass Texture by dozystock
• Claw Marks 1 PSD by ravenarcana

Background and Textures

• Nannys Room by pareeerica
• Curly Fav (no longer available) by EricaMarieArt
• Attic Treasures Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• Photo Tints Overlay Set by Shadowhouse
• 6 Faves Texture Sets 3 (Not a Clue) by Shadowhouse

Brushes

• Ropes -n- Chains Brushes by redheadstock
• Hair brush set by para-vine

All other images/textures/brushes etc my own.

MCN: CV3TH-NSH3F-Q83XS

Free - Photo Manipulation

Sub title: Flying not falling

This is an odd one... I looked out from my back door this morning and saw this arrangement on the paving slabs and it said to me "Free". It's a natural diptych to boot. LOL For those times in life when we make a decision that frees us and for a brief moment we feel free and like we're flying before real life crashes into it with consequences and we begin to fall once again...

Very little editing was done apart from the action and a couple of textures.

Credits

• 6 Faves Texture Sets # 3 by Shadowhouse
• Retro Actions by Apples & Sisters

All other photography and textures my own.

MCN: C7ARY-8A5CU-X3X8Q

Free Your Mind - Photo Manipulation

The antidote to Abyss.... and

illustration to accompany my poem of the same name.

Credits
Model

• morning 15 by clickypenpixieXstock

Stock

• Butterfly 42-15876680 by jjd
• Butterfly 3  by jjd
• Butterfly BXP27797 by jjd

Textures and Backgrounds

• Dandelion texture by Alison Ashwell
• Texture 55 by Inadesign-Stock
• Texture 8 by Inadesign-Stock
• 67 by sullenstock
• Sparkles 10 by PandoraLore-Stock

Brushes

• Crack Brushes I by hawksmont
• Hair brush set by para-vine

PS Custom Shapes

• Butterflies Shapes by peteandbob

All other images/textures are my own.

MCN:CMDTM-6EAM6-7S5JY