Heads and wild life

Hi Everybody!

For Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin, and for 

Art Journal Journey, 'magical mystery tour', hosted by Hazel,

I have an A3 mixed media piece. The background was swiped

with colour using a sponge, and 'my' heads were splashed and 

spritzed with colour which I flipped from a brush and

scrubbed through a sieve using an old toothbrush.

 The birds and figures

were added using stencils, and brightened with some

white highlights. I am also linking to Simon Monday

Challenge, splash it on

Today I have some more photos from the zoo in Krefeld:

This goat refused to turn round:

This one was more obliging:

This little penguin was lazing in the (artificial) sun in his

tropical paradise:

Beautiful surroundings:

This is just a tree-trunk, but looks like a strange animal:

The sloth was hanging out:

Lots of fish, big and small:

Another one just chilling:

Huge turtles:

Glad this crocodile didn't look hungry:

More pictures to follow next time!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

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!

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!