Design 29 : Time to Relax and Fun Foto

So today’s featured Photo Challenges are Time to Relax and Cee’s Fun Foto (orange, vintage).

The Lens Artist Photo Challenges (Time to Relax this week) is in their third week.  A group of four people banded together to present a weekly photo challenge when the Daily Post shut down their photo challenge. Each week a different person presents the prompt on their blog.  Every third week it will be presented by The World is a Book.

Cee is trying something new with her popular Fun Foto Challenge.  This is her second Tuesday to present a photo and you are welcome to use anything in the photo as the inspiration for your photo.  For example this week her image featured a mural with an orange octopus near a vintage blue truck.  So you can choose murals, orange, octopus, blue, truck or vintage or any other color/idea the image triggers for you.

I have also joined the Creative Mondays blog hop over at ClairJustine’s.

So to create today’s card, I started with this photograph of a butterfly taking its time, relaxing while it sipped nectar in Tucson Botanical Gardens butterfly room.  I love the butterfly room.  It’s a great place to go and take photos.  There are even benches so you can relax while the butterflies are fluttering all around you.  You have to be a little careful though not to step on them.

Let’s week, I played around with this image and created an all b&w image, set it at the diagonal and framed in a reflection for Design 28.  I wasn’t done creating with this photo though.  This week I did something a bit different.  I went with a black and white again but decided to make a color key point, the orange color being a tad muted to be more “vintage“.

From there I made a 5×7 note card on Zazzle.  I added  personalizable text so anybody can change it to whatever they want or even take them off.  I am focusing on cards this week because Zazzle is having a 60% sale on cards  for four days.  As a newish designer, I don’t get samples from Zazzle for free so prefer to make goods when they are on sale as I like to see how they turn out.

B&W Flower, Color Butterfly, Time is fleeting Card
by Cactus Dreams

I like the picture a lot so I am thinking of making a T-shirt on Merch Amazon like my Cactus Dreams T-shirt.  Only for t-shirts, I am thinking no text.  What do you think?  On a t-shirt, would it be better with or without text.

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