Tuesday this and that

Hi Everybody!

Today I have 3 pieces to share with you, my journal page for 

Art Journal Journey, post and postage,

and a tag for Tag Tuesday. The journal page is also meant for 

Moo Mania and More, in the garden. And a page for TIOT, hot and wild, where we want to see your hot colours or wild animals, or both!

My journal page was made using one of my painted and scanned backgrounds, to which I added some extra colour with Gelatos. The meadow flowers stamp is huge one, I think it was from Lost Coast designs. I don't have a block big enough to use it with, so had to resort to using a tin lid. I then digitlly turned it into a postage stamp, and added some real stamps with the butterfly and flowers. Then I stamped some more bits and bobs onto it.

For TIOT I made a journal page. As usual, you have 2 weeks to join up, and 

projects of all formats are welcome:

I used some of my fave things for my tag for Tag Tuesday- cardboard, gesso, and Frantage aged EP in gold and copper. The image is from Gecko Galz. The image was cut to size and  mounted on some bronze mirri-card. I used a piece of recycled cardboard box, which I distressed, painted round the edges with gesso and then sprinkled the EP directly onto the wet gesso and heat embossed it. I put it all together, and added a strip of vintage lace and some floral bits and that was it - 20 minutes from start to finish.

I love watching the morning sky - here the sun was struggling through the rather black clouds

 My walk led me through the gardens of the Marien Hospital (St Mary's). This statue is behind glass, so you can see the reflections of the hospital buildings, too. It's a shame that so many things have to be locked up these days to prevent theft and vandalism.

Then I went into the Basilica. I took some photos of the beautiful golden shrine and reliquary of St Swidbert, dating back to the middle ages. This, too, has to be well protected, so I couldn't get nearer.

 The heron was out fishing this morning. He can stand for ages without moving a feather - sometimes he looks like a statue. I just noticed his eyes moving.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Are we amused?

Hi Everybody!
The weekend is over, and we enjoyed a cool and rainy day here, which was very refreshing after the hot days we have had recently.

Today I have another 'Royal' journal page for Art Journal Journey, post and postage.
I drew a caricature of the Queen, crowned her, and gave her a nice pink dress, and of course, her handbag.  I added some stenciling and a stamp.
I am also linking to Kim Dellow's Friday Face Art.

Today I have some pics of the places I like to sit and watch the Rhine and the ships:

Later in the day the benches are all filled, I am usually there early in the morning.  At lunchtime a lot of people sit there with a coffee and a sandwich and enjoy just watching the water flow by.

And the cormorant also likes sitting on his pole and 

watching what's going on:

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

Stamp faces

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

I was really happy yesterday when I visited Joi's Blog.
She painted a wonderful picture using photos of my beloved town, and I felt very honoured that she made such a wonderful piece. Have a look at her blog if you can, she is very talented and her blog is well worth a visit.

I made this face on an A3 page a couple of weeks back, - it  disappeared into the wrong file along with 2 other pieces. . It started out as a face which was not turning out as I wanted. Then the phone rang, and I put my coffee cup onto it while I was on the phone, which made a brown ring. So I decided  to change it. I pasted a collage of stamps with faces and heads onto the unfinished pastel sketch. I added some stamping and a quote - and the journal page for post and postage at Art Journal Journey was finished. Can you recognise any of the people on the stamps?

I am also linking to Kim Dellow's Art it Friday (Show your face), where you can link up your face creations and see lovely work from others, and to 

Mix it monthly, the facial profile.

The morning sky was beautiful again:

I love walking along this path down to the Rhine:

I think this is a walnut tree, must keep my eye on it.

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks for coming by!