Old and new Umbrella men

Hi Everybody!

Today it's time to dig out an older post for the 2nd on the 2nd 

link-up at Elizabeth's.

I made this mixed media collage 2 years back:

For Simon Monday Challenge, circles, Creative Artiste,

anything goes, and Paint Party Friday 

I made a mixed media piece, using various papers, Mr UM, painting, 

doodling, stamping and sewing. This will be another new journal cover, 

the last one for the time being:

I started off with a left-over piece of painted

and stamped card:

The other layers were added, glued, sewed on etc:

The metal studs/ buttons are left over from old jeans:

I am also linking to mixed media monthly, #34-buttons:

As always, I enjoyed walking along the Rhine:

Love the flowers growing on the old town walls:

I took this photo especially for Elizabeth, it's the

official sign here for a footpath:

The ducks were having a midday snooze:

The swan has been around again, but doesn't like the

heron or the ducks and geese....

And more visitors to my balcony:

Have a great day, take care,

and thank a lot for coming by!

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!