Hedgehogs and birds

Hi Everybody!

It was still very hot here again, but from tomorrow it should get

a bit cooler.

For Tag Tuesday, our new theme of animals,

I have made a mixed media tag. The background was gessoed, 

painted and textured with a stamp-roller. The birds and 

hedgehog were collaged with a paper napkin.

The hedgehog was sent with other wonderful

napkins by our lovely Yvonne, so thanks again! I sewed it onto

2 other layers and added a scrap of  ribbon

as embellishment. I also added some glass seed beads

to the flowers and berries.

And don't forget, you have until next Monday evening

to join in the 'feathered friends' challenge

at TIOT.

I have been looking for shady paths to walk along these past days.

It's mostly pleasant down by the Rhine, and I love to watch

the ships cruising by. The 2 little canoes were faster

than the huge boat: 

There is some work going on where the moat used to be,

I wonder what they are doing?

I found some shadow in the porch of the basilica:

The birds who live in this little house even have an address, perhaps

for making sure their tweets arrive?

Have a great day, take care

and thank a lot for coming by!

T stands for a sock that turned into a tag

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at

Tag Tuesday.

Our lovely Michele is hosting this time, and has chosen

🐻'animals' 🐫

as her theme. The challenge runs for 2 weeks,

and as always, tags of all formats are welcome.

AND

Karen of Lunagirl is kindly sponsoring a wonderful

image sheet for one lucky winner, so hop on over to the blog 

for more details.

I once was given a beautiful pair of tiger socks,

with half a tiger's head on each sock, so when you

put your feet together you had a whole tiger....

Well, the wicked washing machine ate one of the

socks, leaving me very sad. So I cut out the tiger

from the left sock and made a tiger-sock

commemoration tag. The wonderful words are

from William Blake, although he spelled tiger

'tyger'. The black card has been re-purposed from

an old calendar:

Today is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday, so I

would like to extend a warm welcome to all

the nice ladies of the T Gang.

I made some cup shapes from one of my photos, so

you are welcome to download the images to

use if you want.

JPEG version (for collage sheets):

 PNG Version (for digital crafting):

And can you imagine what this is? I got it recently for 1€ at

the thrift shop, new and still in its original packaging:

It's a cookie stamp!

And here are some home baked and stamped

chocolate chip cookies - help yourselves!

The hot weather allows us to enjoy coffee outside again:

There is an abundance of flowers everywhere just now:

On Sunday these strangely shaped dark clouds blew over the sky 

and brought a lot of rain, but it's back to 32° degrees again:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Vintage and grungy

Hi Everybody!

A couple of weeks back I made this mixed media piece

as a cover for an A5 journal that is almost finished

and looking rather tatty and worn. I started with a tag

made with a stamp from CI, stamped with vintage

photo DI, mounted onto 2 pieces of scrap card and sewn together. The background was stamped with 2 stamps from LaBlanche using the 

same colour. It got mounted onto some gessoed corrugated cardboard, 

 which was smothered with Utee into which I stamped using

diamond and script stamps, also from LaBlanche. I glued 

the layers together and sewed them onto some canvas with

fringed edges. I got given a whole roll of ready gessoed

canvas because it was a bit stained and grungy -

perfect!

I am linking to Gill's 'elegance and grunge' challenge at

Art Journal Journey; Tag Tuesday - anything goes, and

Allsorts challenge blog, vintage style.

And I made another digital tag for Go Tag Thursday, countries -

I chose Paris, and made a similar tag to the one from

yesterday.

 Yesterday I saw a woodpecker in the tree in the field behind

our garden. I zoomed him in - it's about 50 yards away -

clicked, and he was gone:

Then I saw him come round again from the back of the branch:

And then I got him:

I have some lupins on my rather messy balcony, and the bees

only like the white one:

I tried to find shady ways for my walk today, as it was very hot.

One of the neighbours has this lovely rose hedge:

The horses were also in a shady place:

The farmers have been busy mowing the fields and

making hay while the sun shines....

Here you can buy strawberries, fresh from the fields:

There are loads of wild roses along the Rhine path:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!