Lilac

© Sybille Sterk 

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Flowers from my garden. Picture edited in Lightroom and Photoshop with free and bought textures. Colour adjustment. 

Sharing a little spring with you. :D

 travel mugs, wall hangings and shower curtains, cushions and bags, duvet covers and stationary cards. Oh and mouse mats. :D Have a ball. Have a set. :D

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Purple Skull with Moustache

© Sybille Sterk 

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I liked the geometric patterns that are making the rounds at the moment but wanted to do my own, so I did. LOL 

Then I used it to create this. The skull is based on a vintage illustration. I created my own 'shape' so I could then play with it because I wanted something simple. I added lots of textures and the elements. All bought or public domain resources. 

Edited in Photoshop as always.

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Blue Moon

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Blue Moon rose from my garden. It's one of my all time favourites, not only is it big, blowsy, abundant and purple/blue it also has a very intense sweet smell. A few colour adjustments and a subtle texture. 

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Lilac Dreams

© Sybille Sterk 

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Photograph of lilac from my garden. I wanted to create something that has a feeling of the ethereal feel and scent of lilac. 

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Edited with Photoshop.

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the earth laughs in flowers

© Sybille Sterk 

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Lilac blossoms from the tree in my garden. I love lilac because it smells so nice and has these wonderful waxy little flowers in all shades of lilac, pink and white. Edited in Photoshop. 

The quote is by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

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Edited with Photoshop.

Font Windsong by BrightIdeas

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Seductive

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Another image in my Seduction series. This time I went for an elegant pinup look.

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Nostalgia, Flirt and Kiss

© Sybille Sterk

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Nostalgia is a close-up picture of my beautiful white roses fairy lights. They're made of fabric and look almost realistic. I have a thing about fairy lights. Some might say an obsession. LOL However, I love looking at them when it gets dark outside, they always make me smile. The font is called Harting.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

Kiss is another close-up picture of one of my fairy light chains. This one is brand new and has beautiful fabric lotus flowers in shades of red on it. The font is Mountains of Christmas.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

Flirt is the third in the series and another close-up of the lotus blossom fairy lights. The font is PlumBAE.

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Velvet Leaves

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken in my garden a couple of days ago. The leaves grow through the back of a bench and I just loved the way they'd arranged themselves. Heavily edited with colour adjustments and textures.

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dreams

© Sybille Sterk

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Isn't it strange how in dreams so many things make sense and are perfectly reasonable and even normal and when we wake up we are left with this feeling that we missed something, that there was a message there which we failed to understand?

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We Are

© Sybille Sterk

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All my own images, no stock used. Words are my own, too:

connections
lighting up
one by one
like stars in the night sky
weaving the web
that ties us together

The full poem can be read here

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this sinking feeling

 

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Words from my poem this sinking feeling and a photograph I took of an aquilegia.

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Baby, It's Cold Outside

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This was an experiment. I overlayed three images taken in quick succession to create this blurred effect that - to me - feels almost like a video still, as if you could see the movement out of the corner of your eye; a song caught between movements. I added textures, a vignette and colour adjustment layers to get to this and love the ethereal feel of it.

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

Eat Me

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I love fairy tales, so I tried to recreate the feel of Snow White (a little tongue-in-cheek) with this one. You can't beat a red apple. There's a little Adam and Eve in there too.... 

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

A Bit of Spring

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You can't beat spring flowers. They make such a difference when it's still dark and dreary outside and spring and summer seem light years away. :-)

Till Death Do Us Part

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I saw this bottle in a shop window and just loved it. So I had to take a picture. :-) This involved a lot of editing as the other items in the shop window didn't go with the 'theme'. Perfect for a murder mystery book cover. ;-)

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

 
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Hearts for Valentine's Day II

Icy Heart I

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Icy Heart II

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The recent heavy frosts have allowed me to have some fun with scraping hearts into icy surfaces. The original surface was black so when I mixed it all up it looked like I'd scratched it into glass. :-) I love the intense feel of the first one and the grunge look of the second one. An alternative to all the sweet cards and images, something different and a bit edgy. :-)

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images.

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

Bluebell Wood

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This is my version of the Bluebell Wood I visited last Spring. I liked the pictures I took, but they looked a bit washed out to me and never felt right. I finally had an epiphany when I discovered tilt-shift. It's a technique that allows you to either make something look like a model railway town or created a slightly otherworldly feel. I used this technique for the latter here.

I first cropped the image, then applied the tilt-shift (lots of tutorials out there) then applied gradients, colour and textures to go from the image below to the one above. Now it feels like the day I went out Bluebell-Spotting. :-)

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

Dragonfly

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This was a photo of a necklace I made for a friend a while back (the necklace is made from vintage chains, vintage beads and charms and mostly semi-precious beads although a few are crystal).  I wanted a mysterious, tragic mood for this image so it is heavily edited and colour adjusted to give a vintage 'film noir' feel.

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

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Mystical

Just received the go ahead to post the image on my blog and portfolio sites, so here's a bigger version:

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I loved the original stock images of the girl in the gold corset and wanted to create something magical with it. :-) It reminded me of all the female mystics of history - from the Oracle of Delphi to Cassandra, Theresa of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen and so on.

Credits

• Gold Corset 8 by sd-stock
• Textures from Shadowhouse

All other images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Created in Photoshop.