Friday this and that

Hi Everybody!

It's nearly weekend!

For Paint Party Friday and Tag Tuesday, texture, I made a tag

using a hand-painted background, painted in

turquoise, green and blue Maya Gold paints.

I stamped the image in Archival black and embossed it 

with Ranger holographic EP. I matted it with 2 different 

backgrounds which I sewed together before adding the

embellishments. I love the colours and texture created

by the EP. I am also linking to Simon Monday challenge,
touchy-feely.

This is the wonderful throw and splash wall in the room where I

have my art group - I find it very inspiring:

 The space under the roof in the big barn at the farm/zoo is crammed

with interesting old things:

 A stream runs through the grounds which then flows into the

River Erft:

Some more of the inhabitants:

Just LOVE this one:

And this handsome one really knew it!:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Rocking horses and more

Hi Everybody!

For Wendy's texture challenge at Tag Tuesday I made this 10" tag. The 

substrate was cut from packing materials and painted with Maya Gold

metallic paint in turquoise. The large flowers and dots were stenciled

with  structure paste in purple, which I then bubbled with

the heat gun to give more texture. The centres were made with

small 3D balls (Pentart) pressed onto silicone glue and painted with

turquoise. I added a few glass dew-drops, the acetate butterflies

 and the sentiment, which very much

expresses my feelings....I sewed it to a piece of recycled 

corrugated card. I am also linking to

Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin,
Simon Monday Challenge, touchy feely

and Go Tag Thursday, anything goes.

For Art Journal journey, Rosie's circle theme, I made an 7 x 5"

journal page, using a quote written

 with my new quill pen and hand made ink, see here.

The background was stamped - the 'sun' is from Hein Design, the ducks from Lavinia and the plants from LaBlanche. Once again I sewed all

 the layers together.

The farm/museum I visited recently also has a wonderful

collection of toys, including lot of rocking horses, which I am

sure will please Elizabeth!

I still have more toys to show in another post!

Have a great day , take care

and thanks a lot for coming by!

When the cock crows thrice....

Hi Everybody!

Hope your day has gone /is going well.

For Art journal Journey, Rosie's circle challenge, I have a digital

piece composed from various paintings. The moon is one of

my photos. I am also linking to Digitally made, put a quote

on it.

This piece was made just for fun. Last week I had the strange notion

to make some antique coloured brown ink and a quill pen. I looked for

'recipes' on the web, and found quite a lot, but some of them had 

ingredients which are, to say the least, hard to buy at the 

local supermarket - it's a bit like asking for eye of newt and 

leg of toad, or a fenny steak for the witch's brew.... 

Anyway, I did some experiments, and made a concoction which has

a gorgeous, deep brown colour, and is good for both writing and

painting. It did smell quite awful while I was  reducing it by boiling, 

although I left the powdered entrails and blood out....

This was my first piece, written with the quill pen I made from

a duck's feather I picked up at the museum/farm last week.

Here with my lovely quill:

The ink is really deep brown. The brown paper behind the script

is a scrap of home-made paper which was dyed with it:

 And now, back to the farm. This rooster was living in a yard with 2

ladies. Every time the black rooster in the next field crowed,

he ran to one of his ladies and tried to jump them, and they kept

running squawking away. They had bare patches on their

backs, so he does seem to strike lucky quite often!

Life in the 'black' enclosure was more peaceful and idyllic:

I digitally cut out these photos and made them into PNG images,

so please feel free to download and use them for your

digital creations:

I will blog again on Thursday, just need a little break to

recouperate a bit.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!