New challenge at MMM

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting  a new challenge at More Mixed Media blog. Our challenges are always anything goes, this time with the optional addition of pink. As always, the challenge will run for 4 weeks. You can enter as often as you want, and it would be great to see YOU there. Lozzy always offers prizes of digital paper packs, too:

It started out as an underlay page, and had various smudges and scribbles and the peacock feathers on it, as I had been trying out the stencil. Then it got a layer of diluted gesso to tone it down a bit. I had been trying to glue the pink netting to something else, but it wouldn't stick. Then I put it on here while I was talking on the phone, and it stuck straightaway!

When the gesso was dry I added some pink acrylic paint and wiped some of it off with a wet rag. When it was dry I went to work on it with stencils, doodling, die-cuts and some sewing. I am practising some doodling each day to get my fingers working again:

And some photos from my walks around here:

The tiny chapel in a neighbouring park:

Somebody just let the glasses here:

Does anyone know what these feathery things are called?

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

T sTands for a new challenge at Tag Tuesday and more....

Hi Everybody!

Our new challenge at Tag Tuesday begins this evening and our new theme is

Haberdashery. Our lovely Sandie should have been hosting, but is not able to do it as she is still nursing her very sick daughter. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Our lovely Michele has taken over the theme, and has some wonderful examples on our TT blog. THANKS Michele!

I dug out my haberdashery stamps, which haven't seen the light of day for years. The stamps are from Chocolate Baroque. The background was multi-stamped using vintage photo ink, the embellishments were stamped, embossed and then fussy cut and fixed on with sticky pads to make them more dimensional:

I also have a hybrid piece for Mia's 'flowers' challenge at AJJ. I used a painted background, a script overlay from Serif,  two of my own flower photos, and a stamped Frida. The small flowers in her 'crown' are from Mischief Circus and I put everything together in Serif:

Today is also Elizabeth's T sTands for Tuesday link party, so here a warm welcome to all of the lovely ladies of the T Gang.

Most mornings I drink my cappuccino on my balcony:

The visit to this ice parlour has nor been possible in recent weeks:

On Friday I made a cheese cake for Nathalie. It's her favourite, and she had been busy for hours cleaning and renovating her old apartment, and was tired and hungry. Most of the cake disappeared very quickly, and she took the rest back home with her. That's a compliment:

And some photos from this past week:

The stones and masonry blocks on the shore have been there since the castle was attacked with 12.000 canon balls in 1702:

When the red lights start flashing you have to wait, the barriers go down and then the tram whizzes past:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!