Monday mix

Hi Everybody!

The Christmas weekend is over, and in a few days the year will

be over, too. Time flies! Hope you all enjoyed your Christmas break.

For Art Journal Journey, collage and for 99 faces I made another of my 'old fashioned' faces (this is no. 3 in the series) and  then made a hybrid collage out of it. The face was drawn on recycled card and painted with water colours. I kept mostly to shades of purple, just adding some highlights in gold and white. If I have counted rightly this is face no. 44 of 99.

I digitally placed the face on a coloured and printed background and overlayed it with my bird on the branch photo. The swallow is from Itkupilli and the quote from my stash.

The morning skies have been wonderful over the past few days, with delicate colours:

The cormorant was greeting the sun again:

The pigeon fluffed herself up to twice her size:

And the robin was busy feeding off the red berries:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Saying thank you for friends.

Hi Everybody!

As I am sitting here writing the Christmas full moon is

shining down on me - beautiful!

For Art Journal Journey, collage, and for 99 faces I have another hybrid collage using one of my faces. The background was painted and glittered, and then stenciled with numerals. The pictures were mounted into the film strip, and then placed digitally onto the background. The little man is out of a set from June at Dezinaworld. I had fun fiddling with this one!

For my birthday last Monday and Christmas I received post from lots of lovely bloggers, and want to once again say a big thank you to all.

This was the wrapping paper of a large parcel which came from Chrissie:

And all these goodies were inside:

And these. Thanks Sweetie!

The tag on the left and the card in the middle came from Linda; the card on the right and the angel beneath it (so gorgeous) came from Chris, the card bottom left from Annette and right from Yvonne. One lovelier than the other, all just breathtaking. Thanks all you lovely ladies!

These presents and cards are from my lovely friend Carolyn. She knows that I like birds and coffee, I wonder how?! On the right is a beautiful pocket mirror she made for me, with a very encouraging text to go with it, and a book mark. Thanks Carolyn!

The fantastic cards on the left are from my dear Susi, and she sent a wonderful present which I am not showing you - that will give you something to wonder about! The beautiful card on the left is from Donna, and is one of her marvelous paintings. Thanks again!

And we are not finished yet -  lovely cards from Sheila, Barbara (top), and Sarah and Wolfgang (bottom). The Hebrew writing says 'mazel tov' - good luck.

And last but not least, all of these things came from Sue - beautiful sewn cards (she sews a lot neater than I do, that's for sure!), a stamp, a doily stencil, and a stamp and stencil set from Dylusions.  And the  embossed white leaves. Thanks again!

I took the photos here on Christmas day - daffodils almost ready to bloom, and other nonseasonal plants and flowers:

Have a great day you all. take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

A face, a collage and more....

Hi Everybody!

 Hope you are all enjoying the

holidays.

For Art Journal Journey, collage, and 99 faces I have a mixed media face, and a collage which I made out of it. The lady looks rather cross, perhaps she doesn't like the colours I used. I re-used some cardstock, drawing over the background with black ink, and painted her with water colours, and added lots of random stamping (LaBlanche)

For the collage I made a hybrid version, digitally removing the head from the original background and placing it on a collaged and gessoed background. I altered the colours digitally to match, and then various objects, a London skyline and a text.

The moon was beautiful the past 2 days, here it is rising on Wednesday

The sunrise on Christmas Eve was also spectacular:

As was the moon in the evening:

On my walk though town I was pleased to see that even my feathered friends are joining in with the celebrations:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!