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Hi Everybody!

We had another hot and sticky day here,

 but tomorrow should be cooler - I hope so!

For Art Journal Journey, post and postage I made another A3 mixed media journal page. The background was painted with gesso, and textured with a swirl stamp. I coloured it with titan buff and used some red DI to distress the edges of the image. The 'letters' were cut out and placed over each other. I gave the butterfly a coat of crackle paste.  The lady looks as if she is thinking about something, perhaps she is waiting for a special letter....

Waiting for breakfast:

This pigeon was sitting on top of the horrible statue on the castle ruins:

It's relaxing to just look at the water

I enjoyed sitting watching the boats

Another pigeon with a good vantage point

I love the shapes here at the corner of the hospital roofs

This is the bread stall at the Wednesday market, they sell gorgeous bread,

rolls and cake.

Wednesday Mix

Hi Everybody!

We had a very hot and humid day today - I suppose it saves going to the sauna.

Hope your day went well!

For Art Journal Journey, post and postage, I have 4 smaller pieces to show today. I mostly work on A3 size, but discovered these 6x4" pieces in a box labelled 'Unfinished' so I decided to finish them. I started them 4 years back. They all have torn paper collaged backgrounds, are painted with gesso and distressed with DI. I added the images and some fitting stamps.

On my afternoon walk I went through the fields and enjoyed the wild flowers growing there. The deadly nightshade flowers and fruits look  beautiful but are not to be eaten.

The blackberries are almost ripe:

The yellow flowers are beautiful:

And the apples are growing....

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!