Paint Party Friday

Hi you all, it's Friday again, and we all know what that means - Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin. I was very groggy all day yesterday, and didn't get the painting I was working on finished, so I am sharing 2 pics I made some time back. They have been made using the marbling technique, dripping the colours onto a bowl containing wallpaper paste, and then moving the colours around a bit with toothpicks. It's always fun doing this, because you never know how it will really turn out....In these two pictures, which are, of course, completely abstract, I see a Japanese landscape in the first one and a dragon going for a walk in the second. And what can you see?

And I managed 2 ATCs, not much in comparison to what I usually do, but I spent most of the day resting on the couch. The first one is a picture out of my *Pride and Prejudice*, a very nice illustrated edition from 1902. For the second one I used one of the fairy tags Zoe sent me.

I am feeling better today, so hope to be able to get down to a bit of crafting again this afternoon.
Here's wishing you a great day, take care, and thanks for visiting!

Cold, wet, windy and feeling bad....

Hi everybody, hope you are all fit and well. I feel very groggy after my dental treatment yesterday, and am not exactly looking forward to the 2 big appointments next week to finish off the job. I won't treat you to all the nasty details, but it was NOT nice!
Yesterday I did some clearing up and tidying in my bottomless pit aka the hall closet, and found lots of pre-cut cards for ATCs, so made a few yesterday, and a tag. Here they are:

I think I will have to make more of them as I still have soooooooo much stuff to use....
Sorry, this is another short post, I really don't feel so good just now.

Havea good day you all, take care and thanks for visiting!

A quick hello....

Hi everybody, just a quickie today as I have to go to the dentist. What's worse than a dentist? No dentist and toothache!
The Harry Potter film was great, I enjoyed it very much. We went to a cinema where they show the original, English version, not the German translation. I always feel like I am really in the wrong film when Harry Potter and all the others are talking German, it just doesn't seem right.
I didn't do any crafting yesterday - shame on me! as I was out all day, so want to share the second little fairy tale book I made a couple of years back. For this one, too, I wrote a poem, and used the *Fairy Tale Stack* as background.

Hope those of you who share my love for fairies, magic and mythical beings enjoy it!
Have a great day you all, take care, and thanks for visiting!
Update!
Just got back from the dentist, with 2 new appointments for next week, this is going to be expensive!

It's Tuesday and the sun is shining!

Good morning you all, it's Tuesday again - just in case you haven't noticed! I am glad I managed to write the title before the sun disappeared again, perhaps we will have a nice day! Yesterday I was out and about nearly all day, and I did not have much time or energy to do much when I got home. It took ages to get home from the Doc's as there was a giant traffic jam. At least I didn't have any chance of speeding through the tunnel and getting a ticket this time! I had to get some shopping, too, as my fridge was almost empty, and I was sooooooo hungry that I really had to restrain myself in the store so as not to rip open the packets on the spot. But I bought myself a ready made sandwich - a luxury I don't usually allow myself! and wolfed it down in the car on the way back.
So, all I have to share with you today is one of the little books I made on Saturday at my friend's place, and a card I made on Sunday for my neighbours' anniversary. The little book is a folder which I made following the same pattern from Lesley that I used last week.

The card has a special envelope, made to match, as it would not have fitted in a normal one.

I am looking forward to this evening as I am going to see the new Harry Potter film with a friend, who is also a Potter fan.

Have a nice day, take care, and thanks for visiting!

Summer of Color and this time it's red....

Good morning you all, hope you all have a good week. Monday is here again, and that means it's Kristin's *Summer of Color* challenge again. Our theme for this week is red. I painted 2 pictures, both very different.
The first one I have called *red sky at night*:

The background has been drawn with water soluble wax crayons in several layers. Each layer was painted over separately, and the next layer drawn onto the still damp color of the layer before. The houses were painted with black tempera onto a separate sheet, then cut out and glued on, as were the creatures with wings! I like the feeling of movement that the background gives.

The second picture is one of my wild ladies again. The roses have been stamped with a stamp from LaBlanche. I have written different rose quotes round the contours of the head.

And I made tags for 2 different challenges. The first one is for *Just for fun* where they want to see cardboard this week. As this is one of my fave materials, this was not a problem.

And the next tag is for Gingersnap Creations for the GC109 *On the Road* challenge. The lovely punky tea-pot lady stamp is from Character Constructions.

So, I think that was enough again! Have a nice day, take care and thanks for looking in!

Sunday, Sunday sketches, a fairy tale and no sun!

Sunday is not living up to it's name here, cool, windy and wet! And there's a park Fête going on near here, which I wanted to visit, but not if the weather doesn't get better!
Yesterday I had a fun day with B. We each set a challenge for the other one, a pile of different papers and embellies which had to be made into something. We both made mini books, but different ones. I got a sheet of wood grain paper, a sheet of paper with greeny-blue flourishes, some matching fringed fibres and a few white flowers. The book is finished, but not yet decorated, so I will share in another day.
Today is time for Sunday sketches over at Sophia's *Blue Chair Diary*. I am sharing 2 more of the roller paintings I made this week. They are a bit wild, but I just did what I felt like! Sometimes it does good just to let go and splodge and smear, and this week has been one of those times! And sending lots of hugs and sparkles for Sophia and her Dad, who is due to undergo surgery again.

And I would like to share with you a little fairy tale book I made some years back. I wrote the poem, and used some pages from the *Fairy Tale Stack* to write them down, and bound it with my old office binder, that was before I got a BIA. I wrote a part of the text by hand on each page, but the whole poem is on the first page, neatly typed, so it might be easier on your eyes to read that!

So, that was it for today! Here's wishing you all a great Sunday, take care, and thanks for visiting!

Saturday , the weekend is here!

Good morning everybody, or good whatever it is where you live! This post has to be shorter today, I am going to a friend's to scrap and play.
Yesterday I did more painting - in red - but it can't be revealed till Monday! and I made a pocket-book and a book-mark to take to B. today. The pocket book idea I have copied from Lesley of Harmony Road Studio. She recently sent me one of these beautiful little books with pockets to hold photos or ATCs or whatever, and I loved it so much that I decided to make one for my friend. I used double sided papers from the Sasha Collection again, as they have the right thickness. I decorated my book differently, using my fave owl stamp, stamped with perfect pearls medium and embossed with gold perfect pearls. The gold doesn't show up too well on the photos, in real ife it looks nicer. And I made a matching book-mark from a strip of left over cover materials, also stamped with perfect pearls, this time using a script stamp. For the covers I have used papers from the fairy tale Stack by DCKW, and I love the effect of stamping with gold onto the brown patterned paper.

So, that was all for today. Hope to *see* you all again tomorrow. Havea good day, take care and thanks for visiting!