Rose thou art sick

Hi Everybody!

Time has flown by again today, I can't remember

really having done anything, but whatever it was,

I evidently had fun!

For Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Journey,

Jo's theme of 'Poetry in Motion' I made a mixed media piece

using lots of different techniques, and of course, 

lots of sewing.

 First I made a 'skin' from grey metallic paint and gel medium,

and let it dry for 2 days. Then I stamped it with my scrolls

and embossed it with bright red e.p. I sewed it to some

corrugated cardboard, catching some red gauze between the layers.

Then I stamped the Gibson Girl (LaBlanche) onto a scrap of canvas

pasted with some book paper, and fussy cut it. I mounted it onto

some cheese cloth and sewed it to the background. The roses

were cut from a scrap of cloth Donna sent me from Mexico many

moons ago. I sewed them on, and filled them with fibre-fill to make 

them more dimensional. The little paper scroll contains the text,

a verse from William Blake:

'O Rose thou art sick. 

The invisible worm, 

That flies in the night 

In the howling storm: 

Has found out thy bed 

Of crimson joy: 

And his dark secret love 

Does thy life destroy.'

For Tag Tuesday, 'use your scraps', I made a small tag

using lots of bits and bobs from one of my many

bit boxes. I am also linking to Go Tag Thursday, anything goes:

And some photos from my corner of the world.

Early morning:

Mr Heron, sitting on the drainage pipe across the little stream:

The Stork out for a walk:

Loved the names here:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!