The longest day

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well.

Today is the summer solstice, I was up bright and early

watching the sunrise on this magical day:

For Rosie's circles theme at Art Journal Journey, and Moo Mania, underwater, I made a hybrid piece, using images from me, Serif and Mischief Circus:

Butterflies are always magic for me, too:

Love the fairy dust on the wings:

It is still extremely hot here, but we have had some
lovely skies:

The flowers everywhere are in abundance:

I am mostly out in the early morning when nobody's about:

The shop windows have summer decorations:

On my way home:

This tractor-pulled coach was full of people off on

an outing, they were loud and happy even early in the morning:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T sTands for This and ThaT for TIOT and Tuesday

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are beginning a new challenge at

TIOT

-Numbers and or letters-

As always, projects of all format or allowed, and you have

2 weeks to link your creations to us -

hope to see you there!

I made and A3 mixed media piece. The background was gessoed

and then painted with cream with a little streak of yellow ochre here

and there. The numbers, diamonds and cogs were added with stencils

and burnt umber paint. I used various bits of paper napkins and

then added some splatters. Two of 'my' men were placed centre 

stage and given some contrasting colour and some gold leafing

. I shaded their edges with umbra pastel chalk. 

The sentiment is from Dina Wakley.

I am also linking to Rosie's circles challenge at 

Art Journal Journey

This is another hybrid piece, using  my Matisse ladies cut

digitally and placed on a grungy background. I used the

photo of the splash and throw wall to cut them out.

Today is also Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday.

My drink is cappuccino, drunk from my new mug showing

Duisburg and the wonderful Lifesaver Nana from Niki de Saint Phalle

that stands there in the pedestrian zone. 

I got the mug as a present recently

And today I have the last photos from my trip to the petting zoo/ farm/

museum:

This animal did not look dangerous:

This old 'manor house' was next door:

The old chapel was beautiful:

Have a great day, take care

and thank a lot for coming by!

Happy Weekend

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy!

I made another tag for Wendy's texture challenge at Tag Tuesday.

I pasted an 8" tag with bead gel (Lukas),  and stamped into it

 and painted over it with diluted purple metallic when it was dry.

The lion and the window are stamps from LaBlanche,

they were flying around in one of my bit boxes. Can you see

who's looking out of the window? The sentiment is from 

Dina Wakley, the other embellies from my stash.

I am also linking to Simon Monday Challenge,

touchy-feely.

I used the photo of the splash and throw wall in the art group

room to make the background for this fun piece. The digi elements

are from Mischief Circus:

At the children's farm/petting zoo I loved this little cottage garden

almost hidden in the trees near the stream, a wonderful place for a rest.

We were even able to enjoy a few freshly picked cherries:

In the museum we saw this wonderful tree with birds. 

There was a panel on the balcony opposite it with buttons 

showing the names of all the birds,

and when you pushed a button, the bird was spotlighted

and their songs were played:

 And last not least, some more of the wonderful

toy collection:

This one looks very well loved:

I still have another portion of photos from our outing, they

will have to wait for another day.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!