T sTands for Trees and a Trip to a pumpkin farm

Hi Everybody!

The weekend has started off cool and autumnal, and I like it! We had a warm and sunny weekend, so I walked lots and yesterday drove with Nathalie to Holland, where we had a fun day shopping and looking at the town, but I will tell you about it another time....

On Tuesday we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, and this time our lovely Joan  is hosting, and has chosen trees as her theme - a great theme for this time of year, so hope to see lots of people joining in. Joan has made 2 lovely, inspirational tree-tags which you will be able to see when the post goes live on Monday evening.

I made a hybrid tag to start off. The background was hand-painted, the tag cut from painted and stenciled card, the face is from Gecko Galz and the trees and other elements from Serif, all layered digitally:

It's also time for Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday weekly gathering, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang who visit. I was out and about nearly all day every day, so needed to eat and drink to keep my strength up. Sorry, I had to take a bite before the photo was taken:

On the day I got this cappuccino I had walked all the way into Düsseldorf, good 10 kilometer, and badly needed sustenance:

I saw these signs outside a cafe on my way:

And this was the cappuccino served in Holland, with an extra portion of cream - which I didn't eat!

Water is sometimes good, too:

And here is a selection of the cups etc in our little thrift shop here:

Last week we visited a pumpkin farm in Mettmann, and had fun admiring the decorations:

Nathalie telephoning with a gourd:

And there is a cafe at the farm, so it would have been rude not to try their homemade cake - so yummy:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend Post

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend - enjoy!

We've got some good weather forecast for the next 2 days, but after that it will be getting more like autumn, so it will be time to get my warm pullovers and jackets out!

Recently, while clearing out my arty kitchen, I found several A3 journal pages which I had started and not finished. This one is now done, the others will follow. The background was painted and collaged with napkins. I rolled over it with my love-words roller-stamp and used stencils for the birds, people and the sentiment. I added washi tape around the edges and sewed over  it:

The following pics were taken in the early  mornings this week:

And these pics are from my walk this afternoon:

And a close-up of the beautiful Nile goose:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Colourful art and beautiful nature

Hi Everybody!

It's nearly weekend again, where did the week go? It just seems to have disappeared again. I have been making the most of the good weather and have walked a lot, met up with friends, had fun at Art Group and of course, I took lots of photos of everything I saw.

Today I am sharing an A2 (17" x 24") page I made recently at Art Group. I am still enjoying playing with geometric shapes and bright colours. After painting the page with gesso I used fluid acrylics to paint the circles and squares and an Edding pen to outline them and draw the lines:

Then I used a stencil to make the patterns and Mona. 

(Mona is from Stencilry. Org)

Linking to Paint Party Friday

I will be turning this into another art tote.

And I have some more photos taken in the Botanical Gardens of The Heinrich-Heine-University and Südpark:

This is a tobacco plant:

Artichokes:

Beautiful colours.

The sheep resting by the Rhine:

Beautiful flowers and ducks at Südpark:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!