Rainbow Land

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - have a great one!

My crafting has been very slow this week - it was just too hot

to do anything except sit and gasp for air. It has cooled down

to normal summer temps just now, and I hope it will stay this

way for a few days.

At Simon Monday challenge the theme is

'vacation', and I made this Mary Poppins tag, showing how

she travels from place to place, perhaps to Rainbow Land

 - wish I could manage it this way, too! The background is DP, 

Mary is a stamp from Lost

Coast Designs and has been stamped with Archival and then 

clear embossed. I used a stencil  for the clouds and houses and 

doodled the sentiment and some stars. I sewed the layers together.

I am also linking to Go Tag Thursday, stars.

I also made a 2nd tag for Go Tag Thursday, very simple,

with some doodling, stitching and some machine embroidered stars. 

The town was cut from a scrap of printed acetate. I am also linking to 

Tag Tuesday, texture:

And this was just for fun - the BG is a photo, the rooster

is one I met recently at the farm, and the dressed up

birds are from Mischief Circus:

Some photos of the sunrise and my walk through town yesterday:

The man in yellow is the postman:

Carmen was cruising by:

People are looking forward to the Tour de France starting

here in a few days:

Have a great weekend, Take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Blue skies and more

Hi Everybody!

Yesterday the temperature here went up to over 38°, which

was too hot for me, especially as it was 34° inside,

but today is cooler and that's good.

I made a hybrid piece inspired by an illustration in my copy of

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 

I am linking to Paint Party Friday, and Art Journal Journey, circles:

For Tag Tuesday I have one more textural tag. The background was 

made with alcohol ink in greens and blues, onto which I

collaged a floral napkin:

I overlaid it with a layer of embossed and glittered acetate:

I added more dimensional embellies:

This sunflower fits well to the tag!

The 

These photo were taken back in spring, I love the beautiful skies:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Hot summer days

Hi Everybody!

It's still extremely hot and humid here, which isn't doing

a lot for my creativity, so I am hoping for some cooler days. 

It's not easy to sleep or work when it's over 30° inside

and a lot more outside!

For Paint Party Friday I have a large (A3) doodled page

made last week. After it was drawn, it looked rather scary,

so I painted it with bright colours, and now it

looks okay - I'm not sure what it is - a bird? a face?

 And some photos taken out and about here:

Down by the stream:

Balloon flowers, planted by the birds, on my balcony:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!