Every Inchie Monday -- Croata

It's a shame there are so few of us on this site now, we are lucky if we manage 6 of us.
This week we are visiting part of the former Yugoslavia, which is now known as Croatia. The National animal is the pine marten,  one that I have had personal problems with. We used to have the marten kill our chickens when we lived in the Highlands of Scotland. Horrible vicious animals. I have drawn one, but not very well. ( Looks more like a skinny cat)
As we have just lost all our koi carp, golden Rudd and goldfish from our two ponds with otters who ate the lot. So as you can see, I'm off all predictors at the moment.
I have sewn the National tree which is the Pedunculate oak.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week we are drawing a face, with the colours,  Cerise and Turquoise. I used paints for the face and water soluble wax crayons and stamps for the background. The hair started off all turquoise, but it looked even worse than it does now, so I added some red. I really need to practise doing faces and see if I can make them look just slightly presentable.
We were at Neet's for a few days and nearly talked ourselves to a standstil. We didn't get any crafting done but put the world to rights and caught up with all the news. This page was therefore done in a hurry.

Every Inchie Monday -- Iceland.

Now here is a country I would love to visit. Iceland is the country this week. I have made an attempt to draw the National bird which is the Gyr Falcon. It is the largest in the Falcon species and not easy to get on an inch. The first one I did looked like an overfed pigeon, so it had to be slimmed down. The national flower is the Water Aven and I have sewn that one.
I have sewn the National flower, the Mountain Aven.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week the theme is Vintage and the colours cream and sepia. I have used evergreen bough as my third colour. Why I chose this theme I don't know. It's a theme I use quite often, but found it difficult to tie it in with my Dylusion figures. The background is distress inks and a craftersworkshop clock stencil. All done in a bit of a hurry again, I will catch up on everything one day, but not yet.

Tag Tuesday -- Landmarks.

This is my third tag for Tag Tuesday, I couldn't not do one of Paris and some of it's beautiful landmarks. It is composed mainly with stamped images s and some flowers, brads and lace.

Every Inchie Monday -- Jordan

This week we are in Jordan in the Arabian Peninsula. I have drawn the National bird, the Sinai rose finch, and the National animal the Arabian oryx. I knew nothing about this animal which is the smallest member the oryx genus. It is medium size antelope with a distinct shoulder hump and long straight horns and a tufted tail. My one inch version is missing some of these features. In fact looks very uncomfortable.  I made it out of soft leather.

Journal Page with Neet

This week the theme is Little Monsters and the colour blue and red. I had forgotten that Neet had changed it to purple and cerise. Note to self: write things down in the right place, not on a random scrap of paper. I used distress inks for my background and a Finnabair stencil. The monsters are a mixture of stamps coloured with watercolour pens.