Hi Everybody!
We had a long weekend here as it was the Whitsun bank holiday, but the weather was not nice to us, and stayed cold and blustery. At least it didn't rain while I was out, so that's something to be thankful for.
As it's Tuesday, it's time for Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, where we share our drink related posts. Here's a big welcome to all the T gang! My drink is, as always, cappuccino, so I'm sharing a piece made some time back which is all about coffee. The little cups were stamped, fussy cut and painted. I used cinnamon stickles for the coffee and white puff paint for the milk foam. The little blue cup in the left corner is a button, I just cut off the loop at the back with a scissors.. The background was stamped repeatedly with coffee quotes.
Here is the Italian ice-parlour where I like to drink a cup of coffee from time to time. I went in today to warm up, as the wind was really nasty. Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! I have never tried their waffles from the menu, but they do look delicious....
At Tag Tuesday this week our theme is wings and words. I made a tag with the image of Frida Kahlo, which I drew with a pencil, coloured with sepia inks, and fussy cut. After I had photographed the tag, I decided to make a journal page from it as well, so here it is. I am linking to journeys at Art Journal Journey, to honour Frida's journey through her art and life. Wings and feet are also necessary for journeys.
My journal is hard to photograph, as it has grown so fat!
And last but not least, a reminder that you still have a week to join in the
spots, dots and splashes challenge at TIOT! Hope to see you there....
Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by.
This does not happen very often when I am first to comment. I think I remember your coffee card. That little button really steals the show. Your journal pages are really good. Your drawing is fantastic and the sepia color you used with it are perfect. Really Valerie, your drawing is really beautiful and I do like the added lace,
ReplyDeleteSandy xx
Well you get a bonus point for that and go straight to the top of the class!
DeleteLove the whole post. Your Frida drawing is really, really good, and makes a great journal page. Love the card, can't remember seeing it before. I think we went to that ice parlour once, didn't we? Hugs, Sarah
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, your T day piece is fantastic. The cinnamon Stickles and the puff paint looks really realistic. And I love Frida and that saying is perfect. Wings would be perfect for a journey I think. Have a great day. Hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pages and photos. You must stay very busy to post great stuff every day.
ReplyDeleteLove your coffee piece Valerie and that little button is so sweet.
ReplyDeleteFabulous journal pages with Frida and the wonderful quote.
Avril xx
Something about a coffee tag, so welcoming! Your journal is lovely, full of treasured pages.
ReplyDeleteYour coffee/cappuccino in cups is wonderful. Those stickles and puffy paints are so good at being dimensional. I keep forgetting I have some very old (from the late 80s) puffy paint. I may have to play with it this week. Of course, I love what you did with the tag and the coffee. Fantabulous.
ReplyDeleteYour Frida tag is wonderful, and it fits so many themes this time. I'm so glad my pages aren't the only ones that ripple. Yours look well loved, too.
Thanks for sharing this incredible art with us for T this Tuesday.
Thanks, too, for taking us with you to the Italian ice-parlor. I hope it warmed you up.
ReplyDeleteperfect "T" art for this week and I do love the wonderful Frida pages as well. It has gotten cold and blustery here as well which of course I do NOT like but then , it does allow us to stay indoors and create, right? Happy T day!
ReplyDeleteFriday looks great in that coffee shade of sepia on your lovely journal pages.
ReplyDeleteSuper coffee piece you made with such a fine selection of pretty cups.
Your coffee spot looks nice...let us know how you like the waffles if you ever give them a try ;-)
Happy T Day liebe Valerie oxo
FRIDA not Friday LOL...but you knew that.
ReplyDeleteIt's just after midnight and I must be finally getting sleepy...
nitey nite!
oh and L♥ve your chubby journal bursting with goodness!
Yes, I guessed with Frida(y) - my computer always tries to change Frida to Friday, although I have added the name to my dictionary!
DeleteFantastische Werke und verlockende Fotos liebe Valerie!
ReplyDeleteHappy T-Day!
oxo Susi
Such wonders to admire today Valerie. I was drawn into the scene on the first piece and love the tag you made for TT-reminded me I need to post mine as well.
ReplyDeleteThe coffee shop looks very continental and I am sure you enjoy visiting there.
Have a great day
Love Chrissie xx
frida hast du richtig gut getroffen... und dieser spruch von ihr ist einer meiner Favoriten! happy t-day!
ReplyDeleteI love your coffee card (no, I hadn't seen it before). The coffee is very realistic and of course the little button is sooo cute.
ReplyDeleteI love your Frida Kahlo page. The quote of course is from the time she was so ill she couldn't walk anymore. Interesting that you made her page so monochrome when everything about Frida was colourful.....
Happy T-Day!
Lisca
Wow your journal is fairly filling up, I do love your Freda pages, so different to see her in muted colours. The weather has been mixed here too, cooler but mostly dry. Have a nice day! Xx
ReplyDeleteA wonderful Frida page - great quote and your coffee card is brilliant.
ReplyDeletexxx Hazel.
Wow, your journal is so packed! Fabulous pages to add to it, love the fancy cups! hugs :)
ReplyDeleteA very sweet and gorgeous coffee card...and love Frida Kahlo! you did an excellent job with the drawing, and that's a really great quote... I do believe that a fat journal is really the best kind. Lots of layers and painty goodness! happy T day!
ReplyDeleteI loved reading the post but have to admit to being drawn to Frida, its a fabulous spread with the quote.. Wonderful tea cups and saucers and the cute button is a gem.
ReplyDeleteYvonne xx
love your work! The soft color palette is lovely.
ReplyDeleteI can see your journal is almost full, you need to start another...fabulous page and love those cups.xx
ReplyDeleteLook at that journal! You've been working! Love the piece and the tag. And why need feet when you have wings....that's wondrous.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lovely day, my friend. Hope the weather is kind to you.
Hugs
Die geflügelte Frida kommt im Journal echt klasse, gefällt mir sehr! LG Ulrike
ReplyDeleteLove the Frida Art! I'm really fed up with Mother Nature and her antics though this spring. She is not being kind at all :(
ReplyDeleteYou are sooooo right!
DeleteLove the coffee piece but must say Frida looks great - brilliant idea to add the tag to a journal page! Love the icecream parlour - great place to go to warm up! Hugs, Chrisx
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love your Frida, Valerie!
ReplyDeleteWe do love our coffee! Your cup creation is remarkable with the details for the cappuccino. Interesting in that we made a coffee cup card at art club last night. I just need to put mine together as I got tired and had to quit early. I did enjoy visiting with my friends. Wish you had a local group to share ideas and meet regularly. Frida...I really like the sepia tone effect you used for this piece. It is perfect along with your drawn face of her! Sorry about the weather...stormy here for a few days too.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
C
Lovely works!
ReplyDeleteMmmm coffee, it's the only thing that gets me going in the morning! I love your card, and your Frida piece is brilliant. Summer has gone and we're back to Winter again here - surprise! xx
ReplyDeleteSame here, winter coat and boots in May...
Deletedid you say Coffee?? I love everything coffee!! My only vice left!
ReplyDeleteLove your Frida with wings!