Weekend post

Hi Everybody!

This has been a good week, but a very strenuous one,

and I am looking forward to a restful weekend.

For Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Journey, Yvonne's lovely theme 

of out and about, I have a mixed media A3 page. The background was 

painted and textured with a patterned brayer, and the image 

was cut from a magazine called Geo. 

I added some painted strips and

feathers to her headdress, and more painted strips for the quote. I used

a stencil to paint the dots with a sponge.

At Go tag Thursday the theme is to use a quote or

verse. I made a mixed media tag, using an image from Gecko Galz, 

and some natural materials as embellishments. I am also linking to

Tag Tuesday, hats and headgear:

The photos were all taken 'down by the riverside'

in the past days:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!