Horses, flowers and ships

Hi Everybody!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend.

I made this crazy, A3 mixed media piece a few weeks back when  we had days
where it was always cold and grey - perhaps I needed a little
colour? I am linking to Gill's theme of 'grunge and elegance' at
Art Journal Journey.

I was pleased to see the horses are back on their meadow,

enjoying being together and eating  lots of juicy, fresh grass:

The Nile goose was sitting up in a tall tree watching the horses:

This very long ship was filled with tractors and trucks:

Racing by:

I still love blowing the 'fairy clocks' of the dandelions:

These tiny flowers were just opening by the Rhine:

These flowers were near the ice parlour where I had my coffee:

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

Birds, flowers and a crafty tag

Hi Everybody!

Just a quick post today, it was a busy week and I need to rest!

I made a 12" mixed media tag for a friend, as inspiration I 

cased one of my old tags, using lots of layering, stitching,

collage, structure paste and stencils:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday and to Creative Artiste Mixed

Media challenges, anything goes.

We had some wonderful clouds again:

I was surprised to see poppies already in spite of the

bad weather:

 Lots of hungry birds needing to be fed.

I am linking the bird photos to 2 crafty critter crazies

Have a great day and a great weekend,

take care, and thanks a lot

for coming by!

More this and that

Hi Everybody!

On the fifth of each month we start a new challenge at

More Mixed Media.

Our challenges are, as always, anything goes,

with pink as an optional extra.

Hope to see lots of you joining in, you have 4 weeks

to link to us!

I made an A3 mixed media piece. The background was gessoed,

painted with light grey and some madder red, and textured with a brayer.

The Banksy stencil is a freebie from Stencilry.org. The tulips

are from a paper napkin, applied with matte medium. The dots were also added

with a stencil, as was the text.

I am also linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted as always by Eva and Kristin.

For Tag Tuesday, Chrissie's 'faces' challenge, I made a cow tag.

The cow is from a photo taken near here last year. I love watching

cows, and just love their eyes. My mum always called me cow face

when I was a kid - believe me, that was one of her nicer

sayings, the majority were not printable! But it never

worried me as I just like cows! I painted

my version of the face, and then digitally added a filter to

give it more interest. After printing out the image I placed it

on a piece of glassine paper, which had been given a lick

of blue metallic paint from Inca Gold, and then 

embossed. I made 2 rows of stitching to hold the tag

and the 2 different backings together. I am also linking

     to Simon Monday Challenge, the great outdoors

and to 2 crafty critter crazies

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On Sunday we had a nice sunrise, the rest of the week has been

cold and wet!

Love this idea for a garden path:

A strange bird:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for! coming by