Dashing through the snow....

no snow just yet, thank goodness. Blustery and cold is enough for me.

This week, on SPA the theme is JINGLE BELLS ... a quaint little Christmas song... however I always end up with the Batman smells version in my  head instead of the real words lol

Here's mine, made using a victorian scrap image. These images speak to my soul

have a wonderful week

TFL

Mandy xx

Winter is not a season, it's a Celebration

This week's SPA theme is WINTER GREENERY

here is my postcard... better late than never (printer issues :-()

all images are from pinterest and hand cut and pasted by me. (fiddly job!)

thanks for looking

Mandy xx

“And all the insects ceased in honour of the moon.”

This week's theme on Sunday Postcard Art is INSECTS aka BUGS (across the pond) It was chosen by my lovely friend Sabine

thanks for looking

and also thanks to everyone for their continued supported of SPA

Mandy xx

“We are the cave, the hand and the paint on them both.”

This
week, I had to make a mad dash postcard as I've lost my most beloved book with all the themes in it.

i've used images from ART TEA LIFE on ETSY

TFL

Mandy xx

Let the little Fairy inside you FLY

wow cannot believe it is so long since I blogged! hopefully my mojo has returned now with a vengeance

here's my collage postcard.... thanks for my fave theme ever Cindy

TFL

Mandy xx

with grace in your heart, and flowers in your hair

This week, June is joining us on SPA as hostess with the theme of FLOWER GIRL.

My first thoughts of course were of the FLOWER FAIRIES and I've chosen to use the Poppy

a wonderful and unusual theme, thanks June

TFL

Mandy xx

I love to sit in a chair....

and look out of the window and do nothing ~ Ingmar Bergman


this week's theme on SPA is CHAIRS

here is mine...

TFL

Mandy xx

wow what a month

A whole month has passed since I last blogged... I really must must MUST blog at least once a week. It seems blogging is taking a backseat because of all the other social media we post to. It's so easy just to share a picture to Instagram or Facebook.But I enjoy blogging and so want to make more effort.

Postcards I've made but have been too late to upload for the SPA challenge

I made this canvas for someone special

Here at Octopode Towers we have fostered two small disabled dogs. They are from Romania and have small disabilities

thanks for sticking with me.

lots of love

Mandy x

Like a rolling stone....

Earlier this week, I was watching an interesting (if somewhat long) documentary on Bob Dylan... and so that is what inspired me this week for our theme on SUNDAY POSTCARD ART of HOUSES.

I created a set of houses, using vintage tickets from buses, rides, etc.

I've used some of the lyrics from the Bob Dylan song 'like a rolling stone' I always wonder if it was written about Edie Sedgewick.

#sundaypostcardart    #postcardchallenge   #postcardart

TFL
Mandy xx

if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

This week, the wonderful Katrin chose the theme of EINSTEIN for Sunday Postcard Art this week.

Here's mine

For my postcard, I found this picture of Albert Einstein as a child on Pinterest. Underneath all the layers there's a copy of his grades too. and a postage stamp.

TFL
Mandy xx

Perfume is Personal Magic

This week's theme on Sunday Postcard Art is PERFUME chosen by Hazel

loved making this one
There are so many layers on this one... i started with a base of several layers of old book papers, then layered some rice paper on top from Stamperia. then various paint and collage layerings

last week's theme was chosen by Cindy and was PUZZLES... I actually made it last week but I was waiting for a quote to finish it off.

tfl

mandy xx

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them

This week, our theme on Sunday Postcard Art is AFRICA... it was chosen by my friend Sabine.

well, I thought, I have a set of stamps that have African animals on... could I find them... no!
next plan was to use a napkin... a friend of mine Umut has sent me a few napkins to use. And an African style was in the stash... so out it came.

The elephant and tree are from the napkin.... this is my second piece of napkin because Im so heavy handed with the clear gesso I completely ruined the first one. i love that you can see the layered collaging underneath the napkin layer. There's also a postage stamp there from Africa. The rest is painted and texture pasted and a tiny bit of stamping.

Thanks for looking

come over and play with us

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Trees is the theme on Three Muses this week, so Im entering my postcard

Mandy xx