I Can Hear Music at TIOT and T stands for taking it easy

Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is I Can Hear Music where we hope you will join in with your music based art - even if you can't sing or play a note. 
The challenge lasts for two weeks so we hope you will join the choir(or band)!
I have made a card for someone who loves listening to music!

I used Art Basics transparent 3D gloss Gel through a music stencil..

..and stamped some music notes over the Kraft card,

I stamped an Indigoblu music stamp before giving it a light coating of Gesso and then used the stencil to add texture paste (I used Ranger's Texture paste - Opaque Matte - which so far, is one of the easiest I have ever used)  I added a little gold paint added with my finger once it had dried..

The phonograph, record and notes were free with a magazine.

Today is also the day when I join Bluebeard and Elizabeth at The Altered Booklover with my drink.

As I mentioned in my post title I have been taking it easy since a really horrendous Board meeting here at our retirement apartments. I think I have mentioned before that as owners of our flats we have a board of directors of which I am one….at the moment…after Thursday's meeting I am not sure how long I want to be!

Hubby and I are also on the gardening Committee and the meeting for that was in the afternoon…a much more relaxed affair but I and another board member were still reeling from the morning's stresses!

I was pleased to get away on Friday morning and hubby suggested we take the long route via Skipton - a lovely Market town in the Yorkshire Dales.

We plan to take this route again and have a canal trip - we only realised that we could when we had to head back to the car park!

This little shopping mall was so peaceful 

We had a little look around the market

This man is always disappearing into shops!!Look above!!This garden shop was right by the car park and I could have spent a small fortune - they have some lovely garden ornaments but I couldn't make my mind up!  I think I was still feeling the pressure from the day before!
We had eaten a very nice lunch when we first arrived but I totally forgot to take photographs.
On the way to the caravan though we stopped at this farm shop - we had visited here once before when we went to the Art In The Pen event just up the road.

There's that stripy top again!I had drunk half of my coffee before I remembered to take a photo - quite a large mug…and it was only because took a photo of the huge farm shop on the ground floor that I remembered- we were in the cafe but there is also a restaurant downstairs.

Of course we picked up a few goodies to have for our tea!

By this time I was getting closer to the caravan feeling more relaxed. We have had a lovely time - not doing much at all!!

I hope you have enjoyed seeing Skipton and my half drunk coffee and that you will join in over at Elizabeth's blog.

Hoping to see you at TIOT too - do waltz on over and have a look at the fabulous examples from the Design Team!

Thanks for looking, Chris

  

Edit - We are home now...for a while!!