Frida, rain and empty benches

Hi everybody!

Another day here gone with the wind, this is indeed a strange summer!

Today I have another Frida Journal page, made with the same drawing I used for red-hot Frida last week. This time I superimposed the drawing over a page from her diary before colouring with  oil pastels, water-colour pencils, gel pens and a white highlighter. For the earrings I used my metal foil again. I spread tacky glue onto the ear-rings, rubbed the foil over it and got a nice, metallic bronze shimmer on them. 

I am linking to Art Journal Journey, Frida,  and Simon's Monday Challenge, anything goes

I had a wet and windy walk through our little town today, and there was not much going on.  This is the door of the basilica, and I am always hoping I will one day see it when it is open - they always use the side door.

The horses stood under the trees:

Our flower shop is always beautifully decorated:

This seems to be one of the newer boats, but there were not many passengers today.

The Rhine is deep and wide just now, but it doesn't seem to worry the swans and ducks:

I love to sit on this bench next to the anchor, but today it was too wet....

And just today there were enough benches to choose from:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Double Tuesday

Hi everybody!

The weather yesterday offered us wide variety of weather conditions - sunny, cloudy, wet, warm, cold - a bit of everything! More like April than August.

Today it's time for new challenges at Try it on Tuesday and Tag Tuesday.

At  TIOT our theme for the next 2 weeks is 'use your stash', so a great challenge to join in. Just dig out that hoarded stuff and start creating! I used a kit from Paper Whimsy, sent to me by my dear friend Sandy.

After fitting the parts together I sprayed it with gold paint, and then went to work to decorate it. This is the result:

A Frida doll-house

I am linking to Simon Monday Challenge, anything goes

 At Tag Tuesday our theme is fruit. I made a large tag with a distressed and stenciled background in Autumn colours. I used my goddess template to make the lady as a 'goddess of Plenty. ' I found a scrap of material with a fruit print for her skirt.

I am also linking to Manus Mifoc challenge, colour

This is a  little statue I have of the Snake goddess from Crete, standing in the same pose:

This morning the sun shone for a few minutes, and my angel figures on the window ledge made a beautiful shadow play on the white curtains:

This afternoon I took the narrow path along the stream:

On the right side is a cornfield:

As I looked up I saw how dark the clouds were, and by the time I had reached the end of the path it was pouring, so had to run back as quickly as possible. Well, at least I got some movement!

Have a great day, take care, and

thanks a lot for coming by!

Frida, flowers and ducks

Hi everybody!

Wooohoo, the sun is shining for a few minutes here - wonder how long it will last? Hope you are all feeling fit and well at the start of the new week.

Today I have another Frida piece to share. This was the first piece I made when I started thinking about what to do, and was more or less an experiment, but I still like it. I made the images using the positive and negative parts of my Frida stencil, with black paint on a sheet of floral DP. I added lots of doodling, using gel-pens in various colours, and wrote words from Frida's diary around the motives. I also added some of the die-cut flowers that Susi sent me as embellies, apart from that, I kept it simple. I am linking to AJJ

My very windy walk yesterday took me to visit the horses:

I passed by the lakes:

I saw that some magnolia trees have flowered for the second time this year:

And saw these flowers in a front garden, I love the colours

A tree had fallen over the stream:

And the castle ghost was there again:

The ducks were swimming happily in the moat of their dilapidated castle:

And the leaves of the creeper are turning red - summer is on its way out!

Have a great day you all, take care, and thanks a lot for coming by!

Stamping Frida

Hi everybody!

The sun is trying to squeeze through the clouds this morning, it would be great if it didn't rain again all day. It is really chilly this morning, with a touch of autumn in the air, the days are getting shorter, and in a few days the kids go back to school - summer is starting to leave us.

For the Frida Kahlo challenge at Art Journal Journey I have made another page. It is rather different this time. I have a Frida Kahlo stamp stamp, which I used here. I also had some rolls of coloured metal foils, which I did not know what to do with. I played around, and stamped the image using  a Tsukineko glue-pad, pressing the foil onto it and then pulling it off again. Some of the metallic colour stuck to the image, enough to give a wonderful, grungy effect.  A few of the foils would not work this way, so I stamped the images with Archival black and then painted over parts of it with tacky glue and a thin brush. Then I was able to  pull colour off the foils. When it was done, I had a huge heap of coloured images. I cut them out with  fancy-edged scissors and arranged them onto a large sheet of black card. I love the grungy and scratchy effect, and will surely try this idea again. The quote I have used is from Diego Rivera, and is one that I find very moving.

I am also linking to Simons Monday Challenge, scratched up.

The clouds were interesting again yesterday so on the way back from my wet walks I took some pictures:

The Rhine is very full and grey:

The horses keep grazing whatever the weather:

I was pleased to see a brave soul had pulled the rusty shopping cart out of the river and put it next to the garbage containers to be collected:

Have a great day, stay creative, take care of yourselves and thanks a lot for coming by!