T stands for TIOT and more

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at TIOT -

Let your light shine.

As always, projects of all formats are allowed, and you have

2 weeks to link your creations to us.

I have always been fascinated by the sun, moon and stars, and by

Egypt, pyramids and cats, so this journal page came together

very easily. The background was hand painted, the moon and pyramid

are photos, and the figure of Bastet as goddess and cat were 

hand drawn and painted, as was the eye. I assembled it all

in my graphics programme, and added the stars (Mischief Circus)

At Tag Tuesday we are half way through Wilma's cake challenge,

so I made another muffin tag:

The muffin also leads us to Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday,

which is celebrating it's 4th anniversary today -

congratulations! I am looking forward to joining in the

ATC swap.

I have a 'drinks' photo taken on the day we visited the Botanical gardens.

After leaving the gardens, we went to a lovely restaurant

in the middle of a garden allotment colony, and enjoyed

cake, coffee and cold drinks. I'm afraid we only have the empty 

cups and plates to show:

The restaurant was surrounded by beautiful cottage type gardens:

From there we went to Süd Park (South Park!)

There is a farm there with some delightful animals. The farm and park

are cared for by mentally handicapped people, who, under supervision,

 work with the animals, 

do the gardening, and  run a shop and restaurant there:

The goats found themselves a few inches of shadow on a very hot day:

This huge lady was enjoying her midday snooze and did not want

to be disturbed:

The gardens there are beautifully kept, and there are

lots of ponds and lakes:

Tomorrow I will show some of the fluffy  inhabitants

of the lakes.

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Wet summer Sunday

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

Today I am sharing a a floral tag made from recycled cardboard.

I cut it into a long heart shape, painted it white, and

embossed it with one of my new stencils and smooth 

molding paste, before colouring it with peacock

feathers distress oxide ink. I added another of the

temple leaves and textile flowers from Prima that I

used on the little canvas I showed yesterday. The leaf

was also painted with the hologram paint. I added a feather

and some ribbons. I am linking to Simon Monday challenge, distress it, 

and to Eclectic Ellapu, summer colours

Then I imported the tag into my digital programme and made it

part of a journal page for Elizabeth's summertime love theme

at Art Journal Journey:

Today I have some photos taken on my balcony or near here, we will

be visiting the botanical gardens again tomorrow:

In the evening, when the sun goes down, the last rays of the sun

creep over the roof and light up the tops of the trees here,

always a wonderful sight:

My lupins enjoyed the rain:

My flowers are flourishing and look rather wild, as I like them:

The morning sky:

Ships along the Rhine:

  Our main street:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Feathers and flowers

Hi Everybody!

Enjoy your weekend! It's stopped raining here, so hope to be able to

walk a but more today, although the rain was really necessary.

I recently re-painted a 4" canvas using left over blue and turquoise

paints from another project. I gave it a final coat of hologram

paint, a transparent paint with tiny pieces of hologram foil in

it, and it makes a wonderful sparkle. I added a large temple leaf

from Prima, also painted with the same paint, and a large textile

flower from Prima. They were both on an old project which

I dismantled. The wings were molded, painted with gesso and

the same sparkly paint, and I added 2 feathers.

'Feathers appear when angels are near'

I am linking to Simon Monday Challenge, distress  it

and Eclectic Ellapu, summer colours

For Art Journal Journey, Elizabeth's theme of summertime love,

 I made a digital piece, using a rose painting

I made some time back on a blue,painted and distressed background

And some more photos from the botanical gardens:

It was interesting to see that the wild geese always surrounded

the young geese to keep them safe  when we appeared:

More photos to follow!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!