Flying with the birds

Hi Everybody!

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

of out and about, I have an A3 mixed media piece. The background

was painted and textured with a large brayer using sand and

bronze paint. I collaged one of 'my' men, and lots of scraps of

paper napkins and fragments of old letters. I drew round my

man with brown pastel chalk. I used more bronze with a sponge

to stencil the diamonds and birds.

Spring is springing merrily, and I take photos on my way

to and from the clinic each day:

This tree still has no leaves, but the buds are starting to grow:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Midweek post

Hi Everybody!

Life is busy just now, so I'm posting now for Paint Party Friday

in case I don't get a chance between now and then. I'm also linking to 

Art Journal Journey, Yvonnes's theme of

out and about, and Simon Monday Challenge,
layer it up-

I made an A3 mixed media collage on a textured background - 

he fits well to the lady I showed last week. I put some leaves 

and feathers in his hat:

And here 2 pages from my 2nd 'new' journal, using various bits and

bobs from my table again:

Spring is springing everywhere, I love to see the blossoms

and flowers wherever I go:

The moss is shooting out into tiny plants:

The Japanese cherry trees are wonderful, love the

pink and white blossoms:

This house with the spring window boxes is appropriately

named  'Spring Cottage'

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot o coming by!

Tag Tuesday and T stands for Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

We were delighted to see so many people joining

in last week at Tag Tuesday,, and Karen from Lunagirl

has chosen the winner of the image sheet,

but you will need to go to the TT blog to learn more....

On Tuesday we are starting our new challenge there

hosted by our lovely Wendy, who chose the theme:

🐦Birds and Nests🐦

As usual, you have 2 weeks to link your tag, and tags of all

formats are welcome.

I made a 10"mixed media tag, using a paper napkin

over partly peeled corrugated card:

It started like this:

Then I sewed the tag to a coordinating backing:

The nest was made from some Xmas band twisted

together and with added twigs. The eggs are art stones.

I glued it all with silicone glue:

I painted them with water-colours and glazed them:

I added more twigs:

The ticket and sentiment are stamps from Tim Holtz:

Today is Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so a big 

welcome to all of the nice ladies of the T Gang.

No cake again, sorry, I'm just knocked out,

but I made a coffee tag using a napkin and some

coffee dyed lace, all sewed together again:

Spring is springing everywhere:

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!