This and that

Hi Everybody!

For Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, I have a large

mixed media piece in A2 (24x17") which I made

recently . The background was painted in red, with blue and purple accents added on with a textured brayer. I added lots of paper 

fragments and some gold leaf. The heads were cut from white paper, 

painted, stenciled and collaged. 

The flying figures were added with a stencil and black Edding pen,

highlighted with white.

I m also linking to Art Journal Journey, Yvonne's lovely theme

of out and about.

A few photos from the past couple of days:

Love this bench, the sign says 'reserved for nice meetings'

Have a great day, take care,

and hanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for Tuesday, TIOT and more

Hi Everybody!

There's a lot going on again today, so I'll start off

straightaway.

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at TIOT -

Lady in red.

As always you have 2 weeks to join our challenge,

and projects of all formats are welcome.

 For my DT piece I paper pieced the evening dress for my lady, using

scraps of handmade paper, which I sewed together. The verse written 

around the decoration at the top is from Hillaire Belloc's

'Cautionary Tales'. I loved his work as a kid, and still do. 

The background has been paper pieced out of squares 

cut from a dictionary:

Today is Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so a hearty welcome to 

all of the nice ladies of the T Gang.

This is the lovely Francesca who always serves my cappuccino:

Sorry, no cake this week, I am too exhausted just now to even

think about baking!

Some photos from my Sunday walk:

Today's wonderful sunrise:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Hats, headgear and more

Hi Everybody!

We had another clear and sunny day, a real Sunday

as the name implies. It's so nice to feel the sun on your face

or back while walking out.

For Tag Tuesday, Michele's 'hats and Headgear' challenge,

I made another tag, also meant for the Allsorts challenge blog,

ladies and girls. I made a very feminine tag, with an

animal print background behind the black, both tags sewn together

with white zig-zag stitch.I used some fussy cut images, a quote 

from Dyelusions and a pair of sparkly shoes. A pink pearl-pin, 

some feathers and some flowers were used as embellishments.

You still have a week to join the challenge,

and Michele is offering a prize from Lunagirl Images:

This card arrived from dear Annie in Australia,

she knows that I adore the house mouse images -

thanks Sweetie, your card is gorgeous, as all of your

work is. If you don't know Annie, hop over and take a look!

The crocuses and other spring blooms are much in evidence everywhere:

Stretching at the Rhine:

The Ship restaurant:

And more crocuses:

The moon last night:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!