Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Birds and more

Hi Everybody!

Today I have a large, mixed-media bird tag to share with you.
The background is peeled, painted and embossed corrugated card, 
onto which I added a smaller tag cut from a mother board
made from recycled cardboard, textured with crinkled
tissue paper, painted and highlighted with Viva Decor bronze.
The bird is made from recycled book paper pasted onto card,
the feathers are tiny strips of paper. The nest had been
made from recycled Christmas deco-fibres, natural materials
and a glass twig. The three tags were sewn together.





I am linking to Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge blog -
anything goes, and to Go Tag Thursday, Easter/Spring

Yesterday we went on an outing to the zoo in Krefeld. 

There are lots of
statues all through the park, so here are some of those I liked:













Today I am showing some of the birds:










I will show the other photos in a another post.
Have a great day, take care
and thanks a lot for coming by!


Monday, 17 April 2017

T stands for Tags and Tag Tuesday

Hi Everybody!
Hope you have enjoyed your Easter break. It's been very
cold and wet here, but I've been having a good time
resting, reading and arting.

At Go Tag Thursday the theme this week is
Easter / Spring, so I went with spring. I used some printed
acetate and some die cuts I was gifted some years
back, I think I have pulled them out at this time
of year more than once, but I can't remember who sent them 
to me. The acetate was layered over some pink card, and then 
placed onto recycled black card from an old calendar and some 
white corrugated card. I stitched the layers together before 
adding the die-cut fairy and the textile flower:





The new challenge at Tag Tuesday has been chosen by our
lovely  Wilma, and is 'heritage', as April 18th is World Heritage Day.
I hope you will join us there. I have several tags ready,
and the first shows the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The images
are from Crafty Individuals. The background paper was stamped 
with a script stamp (LaBlanche) and a couple of mail art
stamps. I layered the tag onto various coordinating card pieces, 
the last of which is mirri-card. Once again I sewed 
everything together before adding the fibres and the
textile flower:




Elizabeth is hosting her weekly T stands for Tuesday party
at her blog, so a big welcome to all of the nice ladies
from the T gang.

I met up with friends a couple of times at the
ice parlour while the weather was warm and sunny
and was able to enjoy ice. I had a chocolate one, one of
the others had the delicious strawberry one:



I baked a loaf of wholemeal, sour dough bread:


My drink is, as always, cappuccino:



On Thursday we had a wonderful sunrise:


The pigeons were enjoying the early morning air:






Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!



Saturday, 15 April 2017

Happy Easter Weekend

Hi Everybody!

Just a quickie to wish a

Happy Easter

to all who are celebrating  it.

I made an A3 mixed media piece on a painted and
textured background:


I am linking my hip hopper to Simon Monday challenge,
hip hop

Some photos of hungry Mr Blackbird, gathering food
to feed the littl'uns:












Have a great weekend, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!