Inspirations: Critter (Formentera)

Fly.

Always a cat picture!

Fluffy ones.

Bed occupiers.

High reaching snails.

Giant ants.

At first I thought this young one (a gull in its first year / winter feathers) was a herring gull (in german - Silbermöwe, this would be translated as silver gull, much more beautiful than herring ^^). 

But no, the wrong place for living... and as well a changed knowledge about the heritage of the different gull families. The mediterranean or yellow-legged or western yellow-legged gull (Mittelmeermöwe) was thought to be a subspecies of the herring gull until some recent genetic studies reveals otherwise...

You see how sad the little one looks down? 

*sniff*

But hey...! Now you are a full species with your own name! 

Larus michahellis! 

And it is a really big bird! Between 52 and 58 cm high... 

.oO(Okay... enough fan fotos... can I go now?)

(And yes... before you may ask... I am already sitting to long at this computer today... ^^)

"On the meadow..." card

And the resulting card from the topic "On the meadoe" with my new bug stamps. I used a blueish background (just painted with normal coloured pencil you used in school) and the same way (but green) painted sandwich paper to cut the blades of grass and glued them on the bachground. I like the dimensional effect this layering creates.

Here you can see a little bit more of the details of the layering... sandwich paper is really thin so you can work with a lot of layers!

Won't be my last one like this!

"On the meadow" - stamps

There was a new topic for creating a card, this time "On the meadow...". Therefore I carved some insects, little bug, ant, caterpillar, something like a fly..? (love the effect of the flying little thing!). They are all really small so I used a ruler for the photo so that you get an impression of how small ^^