Vintage and grungy

Hi Everybody!

A couple of weeks back I made this mixed media piece

as a cover for an A5 journal that is almost finished

and looking rather tatty and worn. I started with a tag

made with a stamp from CI, stamped with vintage

photo DI, mounted onto 2 pieces of scrap card and sewn together. The background was stamped with 2 stamps from LaBlanche using the 

same colour. It got mounted onto some gessoed corrugated cardboard, 

 which was smothered with Utee into which I stamped using

diamond and script stamps, also from LaBlanche. I glued 

the layers together and sewed them onto some canvas with

fringed edges. I got given a whole roll of ready gessoed

canvas because it was a bit stained and grungy -

perfect!

I am linking to Gill's 'elegance and grunge' challenge at

Art Journal Journey; Tag Tuesday - anything goes, and

Allsorts challenge blog, vintage style.

And I made another digital tag for Go Tag Thursday, countries -

I chose Paris, and made a similar tag to the one from

yesterday.

 Yesterday I saw a woodpecker in the tree in the field behind

our garden. I zoomed him in - it's about 50 yards away -

clicked, and he was gone:

Then I saw him come round again from the back of the branch:

And then I got him:

I have some lupins on my rather messy balcony, and the bees

only like the white one:

I tried to find shady ways for my walk today, as it was very hot.

One of the neighbours has this lovely rose hedge:

The horses were also in a shady place:

The farmers have been busy mowing the fields and

making hay while the sun shines....

Here you can buy strawberries, fresh from the fields:

There are loads of wild roses along the Rhine path:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!