It's a BIG one!

It's Nearly Holiday Time 

and LOTS More

I hope you are well and having a good morning/afternoon/evening wherever you may be.

Wee Man and I are off to London on Friday evening (7pm GMT), until next Wednesday, to celebrate his 8th Birthday in style. Check this! Doesn't it look wonderful?! 

Apart from doing that, we have several other activities planned too, which we shall share another day. We are getting very excited now :D

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Meanwhile here are our most recent Index Cards, starting with,

Wee Man's Day 43

we used embossing folders in the Bigshot and he used paint dabbers for the colouring. Wee Man is getting very good at gently swiping across the embossed areas. 

My Day 43 is for the prompt Definition

I used metallic pencils.

Wee Man's Day 44

is an embossed alphabet. This time he used two shades of blue to colour it.

My Day 44

is simple doodle flowers on a decorated background.

I am also entering this into the final week of Summer Of Colour where the colours are Orange Orange Blue. I used an Orange Souffle pen, Orange Acrylic paint and blue acrylic paint that has a slight pearlessence about it. Many thanks to Kristin for hosting this challenge once again and for her unstinting support and encouragement to everyone taking part. {{Hugs}}

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Here is my tag for the theme of Splashes, Drips & Dribbles on the Tag Tuesday blog.

I used ink pads, inks and bingo dabbers.

I think the quote is very true :D

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And last, but most definitely not least I would like to wish a Happy T Day to all my friends over at the Altered Book Lover, because T stands for T on Tuesday! :D

Wee Man and I went out shopping and stopped halfway for a treat.

Then further round the supermarket I saw this,

which goes with the coffee one I shared a few months ago :D

And then I bought these. *Drool*

I love cherries. I think cherries are probably my most favourite fruit, closely followed by Wee Man's favourite, Strawberries.

These are half of today's pickings from our garden. It's been another smashing year for our strawberry crop. 

Do you have a favourite fruit?

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Thank you so much for your patience if you reached this far, we have enjoyed your visit very much.

Now until next time, be well and be happy.

{{Hugs}} :o) Mo x

And Wee Man of course

By Wee Man

Swirly Patterns

Hi everyone; today I put my art shirt on again and I painted some swirly patterns, and here they are....

Can you spot my name?........ :-D

I painted the patterns in lots of different colours with a painting sponge on a stick and my round brush. 

When we pulled the plug out we realised that the sink was covered in paint again, but this time I think it was shaped like a peacock. What do you think?

Granny said she wanted to catch the colours so she put some paper on top of it before we washed it all away.

I don't know what she's going to do with them but she's definitely not going to throw them away.

I have been invited by Boo to link this to her De-Stashing challenge. Thank you Boo :-D

Until next time............

...........thanks for popping by to say Hi

((Hugs)) Wee Man :-D

By Wee Man

My Cherry Garden

Hi everyone, Wee Man here :-D

Today I put on my painting shirt and did my first piece of art in a long time.........

.........and here it is.

I used my pots of paint and a round brush. I did the skyline first, then I did the soil and then I started the cherry bushes. The red cherries are the ones that are not quite ripe, but nearly. The purple ones are the ripe ones. There is only one bush of ripe cherries. 

Next I painted some midges (little black flies). I added the midges because I wanted to add a little more detail to my painting. 

I painted the sun in bright yellow and last but not least I did the clouds. 

When we were cleaning up and pulled the plug out I realised that the bottom of the sink was covered in paint. We thought it looked pretty and it looked like a butterfly, so we took a picture to show you.

Until next time...........

thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' ((hugs)) from Wee Man :-D

The Craft Barn's Q & L Challenge #11 Mountain & Mistake

The Craft Barn has given us Mountain and/or Mistake to use in the Q & L challenge this time around and we are to use a lyric or a quote.  I used a quote, but I'm afraid I cannot find any attribution for it, so perhaps I created it myself; I do hope that's ok.

I created the background using a doily stencil and various paints. Then I did a bit of stamping and a bit of colouring with other paints.  I wrote the quote, cut it out and outlined it with some ink. This isn't what I set out to do, but I think I like it.

I'm looking forward to seeing all the other entries; the diversity is always so inspiring and everyone is always so supportive. If you would like to learn more about the Q & L Challenge just visit here for the rules and how you can participate.

Until next time...............
..........thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*

Sketch into Spring #9 Capture the Weather

I wasn't sure what I was going to do with this prompt.  Alisa, our teacher, lives across the street from the beach and so spends time down there, watching the ocean and the skys and their ever changing colours.  She advised taking photographs so that we can study them later, as obviously they don't move about and change, (unless you live in the wizarding world with Harry Potter of course).  I took my photos on Monday when the sky was changing minute by minute.  We had sun and light clouds, then dark clouds and rain; the sky was beautiful.

Now, I have no idea what colours to use to get different shades of greys and the blues in the sky and the whites/greys of the clouds, so I just played about with my paints until I got what I thought were the colours I saw in my photos.

I just made simple paint patches on my page and did some writing.  I enjoyed this and think I may explore colour mixing further at some point.

Well, until next time............
.........thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*

Sketch into Spring #6 Fill a page with pattern

I had lots of fun with this one.  So much so, that I ended up doing four pages!  Yaay!
Very simple patterns, coloured with watercolours.  Perfect for 'in front of TV' play, using a waterbrush.  No muss, no fuss.

#7 will definitely be a challenge for me ~ go buggy ~ 'Representational' will be the watch word for my attempts me thinks, Watch this space.........

Until next time.........
.......thanks for popping by to say 'Hi' *hugs*

Sketch into Spring #2 Use nature in Printing & #3 Capture colour

For the second prompt Alisa challenged us to use nature in our art. Using her beautiful example as inspiration I went outside to my garden to see what I could perhaps use. There isn't much there at the moment, but I found a stem of Lavender from last years gowth, some leaves from an Astilbe plant, a sprig of Rosemary and a Clematis flower. I had a lot of fun mixing paints, brushing it on, dipping the flowers, stamping with the leaves or using them like a paint brush.

I really like the results.

For the third piece Alisa said to 'Capture Colour'; to look outside and paint the colours in my garden, and paint the weather. Ok, I thought; I'll give it a go. 

Today was a mixed bag. The sky was grey in some parts, but clear and sunny in others and we had had some rain.

There are lots of green leaves on my strawberry plants, they have some wee flowes forming that I hope bode well for a luscious crop of fruit. I have a miniature cherry with blossom and some Winter Polyanthus flowers just going past their best. 

I struggled a little with this page. Just letting the paint drip drop onto the page and lifting it to make it run down. It's not ordered or clear and it didn't seem to make sense, but a few hours after doing it, I can see what I was looking at and I am satisfied with it. 

The next prompt, #4, is to 'Illustrate the stages of growth'. 

Need to do a lot of thinking about that one. 

But until next time ................

..........thanks for popping by to say 'Hi'