T sTands for Tag Tuesday and more

Hi Everybody!

Hope you enjoyed your weekend. We had a very wet one here, it literally never stopped raining. I still got out for my walks, and had to 'walk circumspectly' as the wet leaves underfoot were dangerously slippery, especially in combination with the old cobblestones in our little town. I am happy that the earth has at last had some copious amounts of rain, but some dry weather would now be appreciated!

This evening we are starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday, I am hosting this time, and have chosen 'anything goes' as my theme. This means that tags of all sorts, large and small, real, digital, hybrid, and whatever the theme are all welcome. And there will be a little prize given to one random participant.

My first tag is a hybrid one. The head was made with hand-marbled paper and the moon is one of my photos. The other elements are from Serif, and it was assembled in my graphics programme:

This tag was made using a leftover piece from a master board made some time back. I LOVE using up scraps and leftovers! The texture was made with crinkled tissue, which was then painted and collaged with scraps of gold-leafing and vintage paper pieces. I didn't want to cover it all up, so just added one of my dried and glitter-glazed leaves and some natural bits from the garden together with some small feathers:

Today is also time for Elizabeth's T stands for Tuesday link party, which always starts on Monday evening just like Tag Tuesday. Here I would like to welcome all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang who visit. I did a lot of coffee drinking this week, even more than usual, and the weather was to blame! It was so wet we just needed to pop into cafes we passed on all the wet walks to dry out a bit!

My fave ice parlour cafe:

No, not 2 drinks for me - cappuccino is mine and Latte Macchiato for Nathalie:

Different cup, different cafe, this time we were at Guiseppe's in Oberkassel, where they always serve delicious burnt almonds with the coffee:

This is inside the cup:

Nathalie had peppermint tea:

This was in yet another cafe, Bazzar, in Düsseldorf. Nathalie had dressed up really stylish. The third coffee was for my lovely friend, Nelya,who joined us there:

Nathalie made another of her fun photos where the wrinkles all get taken away - not that she needs it!:

And yes, another cafe - we sheltered from the rain and wind in cafe Burghof, next to the castle ruins:

But I do love the atmosphere on these wet and grey autumn days:

This was taken on the street where I live:

Some trees are still green and leafy, others are almost bare:

We went for a (wet) walk through the woods and round the lakes in Duisburg and there were lots of fungi:

And as I write this post I'm drinking coffee - what else?

Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!

Autumn leaves

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend, enjoy! Looks like another grey and cloudy day here, so raincoat, cap and boots will be in action again for walks. But everywhere smells so good and fresh after the rain....

I Have one more tag for Sandie's challenge at Tag Tuesday.

This has been a fun challenge for me, as I love this time of year so much. I used a tag cut to 7" which I sewed to contrasting backing papers which were recycled from older projects. The background was coloured with distress inks and stenciled with a no-name stencil using all of the autumn colours. The leaf stamp is a 2 part one from Lavinia, the leaf is stamped first and then overstamped with the veins stamp in a contrasting colour. I used Oxide ink to stamp the sentiment. The embellishments are part natural, and partly from one of my 'surprise' boxes. They always surprise me, because they have strange mixtures of stuff packed into them:

And as autumn is still very much my theme, some more autumn pics.

The ancient town walls are always beautiful - can you see the little canon peeking over the wall?

The cormorant looking out for fish:

Fungi and leaves everywhere:

This was enormous:

This tree was watching me:

The raven angling for fish:

The heron catching little animals in the fields:

My favourite deer statue in Hofgarten always looks best surrounded by golden leaves and sunshine:

Beautiful leaves:

And my big feet:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!