Weekend this and that

Hi Everybody!

I enjoyed watching the day grow light and a beautiful

sunrise again this morning, but there was a thick

frost on the fields, and there's definitely

a nip on the air. But the buds are growing bigger

and the birds are singing loud and happy,

so I hope that means that spring is on its way!

Today I made a simple tag for the transport

theme at Simon Monday Challenge. I wanted to use the die-cut 

balloon and cogs that dear Gill sent me in her wonderful

parcel. But I also wanted to make a balloon out of material,

so I sewed some little squares together, (thanks Chrissie) and 

cut them into a circle form to fit over the die cut.

I sewed 3/4 of the way round, and then 

pushed some padding into it to make it round. The 

background is a 10" craft tag, which got a quick coat

of cream coloured pain from Pentart, before being

collaged with stencils, a gift from  Sandy. I left the 

edges rough so that you can see the crafty BG. 

The wonderful quote is from Leonardo,

 and the threads for the tassel were pulled from a piece

of linen when I was fringing it. I sewed the whole thing onto

some recycled black  card from an old calendar.

I am also linking to More Mixed Media, anything goes.

Last night the clouds were rose and gold from the reflected sun:

Sunrise was beautiful:

Jack Frost had walked over the fields:

The buds are growing:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!