Summer is on its way

Hi Everybody!

Today is a public holiday here for Ascension Day,

so I'm planning a restful day at home.

For Tag Tuesday and Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin,

I have a 10" mixed media tag. The background was painted

with gesso and then with Vivacolor metallic paint

in blue. I collaged it with scraps of old letters. The alphas

 and numerals were applied through a stencil using some

textured embossing paste. The next layer was some

gilding flakes. The lady was cut from a copy of a Victorian 

magazine and mounted onto double foam squares to give 

her depth. The wings were cut from a TH die. For the top 

layer I used one of my old calendars with some added 

gilding flakes, the underneath layer was cut from an

old exercise book. I mounted it all onto more recycled

calendar pages.

Here is another 8x8" page for my family scrap book, 

the second one I re-created after giving the original away.

Once again I have used corrugated card and various scraps

as a background for the photo of my elder brother

and sister with me in the middle. I sewed the layers together.

The beads were home made 

from rolled, painted paper wrapped with wire. I am linking to

Art Journal Journey, Gill's theme of Elegance and grunge

Roses and other flowers are blooming everywhere, here

some photos from my walk through our little

town:

This heron is always on the meadow where the

horses are:

I wonder what he's seen?

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!