A journal page and cakes

Hi Everybody!

Just a quick post this evening, been up too long, worked hard and I am really tired now.

For Art Journal Journey, masculine-feminine I made another journal page. This time I tried to see the 'problem' in a humourous way. I was inspired by  similar cartoons seen from time to time depicting the subject, and drew my figures and mapped out their brains to show their likes....

At first they were on a white background, which I didn't like, so I fussy cut them

and placed my couple on an A3 sheet painted again with black gesso - which I LOVE - and sprinkled with a little fairy dust. 

I am also linking to Moo Mania and More, anything goes, to Mix it Monthly, the facial profile, and to Kim Dellow's

Friday faces, a nice place where you can link any faces you have made and see cool work made by others.

Today I baked 2 cakes to take to a birthday party  to which I was invited. The first one is a cheese cake with rhubarb and ginger

And here are the chocolate muffins - help yourselves! I took the photo when they were still steaming fresh from the oven, later on I pimped them with melted chocolate on top.

Here's wishing you all a sweet day. Take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!!

Back to the Garden.

Hi Everybody!

Another week has flown by, and it's Friday already, which means it's time for Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin.

At Art Journal Journey our theme is masculine and feminine, and I chose to do a page with Adam and Eva and back to the garden.  Joni Mitchell's song was going around in my head while I was making it, so I have included it here as a little tribute to past days of love and peace and Woodstock.

The A3 background was painted with black Gesso mixed with dark blue and sprinkled with fairy dust as star dust was not so readily available in my stash.

The images are from Stencilry, and the other parts have been stenciled with white and gold.

I am also linking to Moo Mania and More, anything goes.

Some photos from my walk along the Rhine and through our little town:

I just love this one:

Have a great day you all, take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Love is all you need

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

For Art Journal Journey, Masculine and feminine, I have made another journal page - what else?! This time I used an image of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, printed onto some glossy book paper. There was not enough ink in the printer, and it came out with stripes in it. As the ink stays wet on the glossy paper longer than on a normal one I was able to add some black EP and emboss it, which gave another different effect. This was not quite how it was planned, but sometimes we need to go with the flow! I fussy cut the image, and mounted onto an A3 sheet painted with black gesso mixed with some dark blue and sprinkled with some fairy dust. The text is a quote from John Lennon and was written with white using a large stencil, so that it dominates the page. I outlined the image with white and wrote a Beatles quote directly onto it.
I am also linking to Moo Mania and More, anything goes.

Just a few photos of my early morning visitors yesterday, as I was at the hospital most of the day for some examinations and tests.

This little jay has a tuft on his head and a feather sticking up at the front, he looks really funny:

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks for coming by!

Moo Mania and Art Journal Journey

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at Moo Mania and More -

anything goes. All formats are allowed, so if you are making anything in the next coupe of weeks, link it up to us - we will enjoy visiting your blogs to see what you have made. At Art Journal Journey it is day 3 of 'Masculine and Feminine',

so I made a journal page to fit both challenges.

Here are 2 variations of my wall photo which I used for the background, you are welcome to download and use them as backgrounds if you want to.

Yesterday I forgot to show the fruit tag I made for Tag Tuesday, so here it is:

I used three different papers from the same set. The gingham paper is the 'table cloth' with  a punched lace edging, and I fussy cut some cherries to give more dimension to the top layer. I added some fibres and raffia for the bow.

I love the willow trees on the meadow where the horses are, and the horses spend a lot of time in their shade.

Lately I have been busy taking pictures of the flowers I have seen in gardens, or growing by the Rhein, or just by the wayside:

Have a great day you all, take care, 

and thanks a lot for coming by!