Paint Party Friday

Hi Everybody!

It's Friday already, and nearly weekend - where did the time go again?

I spent a lot of time in my arty kitchen - when I wasn't outside walking - and tried to use up as many scraps as I could by making collage. I made an A3 mixed media collage, using scraps of paper napkins, stamping and a printed image. The paper was first given a layer of gesso which I textured with a script stamp. When it was dry I added pink and yellow acrylics before collaging it. I added some sewing as a finishing touch:

This is just a part of the huge amount of 'scraps' I have collected, so I might be occupied for the next year or three using it all up!

Here in the close-up you can see the script in the background:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and to AJJ, Mia's flowers challenge.

The second piece is a hybrid piece. The background was made in 2 minutes by rolling left over acrylics over the page. When it was dry I stamped the tulips with black Archival. The sentiment (Mischief circus), figure and my blackbird photo were added in Serif.

Today we had wonderful weather, so I had 2 good walks. The photos were taken on my walk through the fields and along the Rhine:

I am so delighted to see so many poppies this year, they make me so happy!

My second walk was long, and  on the way back I visited Schloss (castle) Kalkum to see if the goslings have grown - and they have! The photos are still on my camera, I will show them in my next post. But I did take a little video on my smart phone:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!