2nd on the 2nd on the 1st

Hi Everybody!

Here's wishing you a good,  new month.

The leaves are falling fast here, some trees are almost

bare. The nights are growing longer, and it's getting

colder. Winter is stretching out its cold fingers, so I'm trying to 

hold on to the warm colours of autumn as long as possible.

Tomorrow is '2nd on the 2nd' at Elizabeth's blog,

where we share a previous post. This one is from 2014.

I have chosen a canvas showing some of my ancestors.

 I chose a vintage style, and used crackle glaze  to age some 

of the pictures. Others were given a coat of milky glaze 

to make them look far away and faded. I used fussy cut photos 

and photo  transfers done with Golden gel interspersed with 

scraps of letters:

For Sandie's 'Book-print' challenge at Tag Tuesday I have a hybrid

tag using various elements from Serif, Mischief Circus and me.

I used scraps of book print combined with figures from

children's books, who have emerged out of the story:

And some picture of autumn before it disappears:

I love watching the moon:

 

Beautiful skies:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T stands for Book-prinT

Hi Everybody!

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday,

and Sandie, our new teamie is hosting with the great theme of

book print. Hope to see lots of you joining in to give her

a good start off. Tags of all formats are allowed,

and you have 2 weeks to link to us.

Have fun, and hope to see you there!

I made a large tag from recycled black card from an old

calendar, which I stenciled with golden stars. The houses 

and the moon were fussy cut from vintage German book-print.

After sewing it to a golden card for the backing I used ribbon 

and stars as embellishments.

Today is also T stands for Tuesday at Elizabeth's blog, so welcome

to all of the nice ladies of the T gang.

A friend of mine recently bought a selection of

Spekulatius - very delicious spiced cookies which are popular

here especially in the winter season. The pastry is pressed into

moulds to make the lovely figures. Help yourselves!

 My drink is cappuccino again:

When we were in Südpark we had a rest by the lake and the ducks and

geese came zooming in to see if we had anything good in our pockets;

The Egyptian wild geese were the quickest:

These 2 tried to steal bread from a little boy sitting in his buggy:

I'm waiting....

Where is it?

We saw this head nailed to a garage on our way to the restaurant -

tastes are different:

The frog fountain was in the garden of the restaurant where we ate:

And no, I didn't try kissing it....

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Last efforts

Hi Everybody!

The month is coming to a close, and I have 2 more pieces

I would like to link before the next challenge cycles begin.

The first piece is for my challenge at Tag Tuesday, 

autumn or Halloween. The three sweet little witches are

an image from Gecko Galz, printed onto canvas,

which was fringed and then sewn onto 2 coordinating

backing papers. The owl strip was punched out:

The second piece is for Elke's lovely challenge at

Art Journal Journey, 'Landscapes of the soul'.

Last week I cut a large face stamp. It took several days as the cutting 

hurts my hands so I couldn't do too much at one sitting. 

The A3 background here was brayered with some left over

autumn colours, and the stamp was used to 'ghost' stamp the page - 

it wasn't re-inked after using it on another page, so this is the faded,

second or 'ghost' print. I added more colour using Calligraphy

permanent markers from Lehmann and Weber. The birds were 

stenciled:

This is the stamp:

Some photos showing the very changeable weather

we had this week:

I was alone at the ice parlour drinking my coffee:

The evening sun lighting up the remaining leaves against

the dark clouds:

Lots of colourful leaves:

And a mix of sun, wind and clouds all week:

Here's wishing you all a good start in the new week!

Take care, and thanks for coming by!