Getting ready for VACATION!

 When Luxemburg is hot , sticky and horrible, this is the place to be. We call it Grannys corner as it was the grandmother from Denmark who made it "her" corner. Perfect shade !

Just have to show you what I found at the fleamarket in Remisch last wednesday - a stand filled with old russian stamps!!! Gorgeous, but expensive... I only bought 2...

And now we are preparing the "big" holiday of the year. We leave for Cambodia and Thailand tomorrow... I went home from work, as we didn't have many children there today and now I am ironing, washing, packing, preparing.........
It will be great , I know, but I will miss our Lisa who has to stay at home and take care of the house and school. Of course I will miss our son as well, but now I'm almost used to him not joining us on holidays...

This last picture is from Lissabon. I simply fell in love with the tiles all over the city. Stunning work!

Take care out there!

Lena

a finished cover for AJJ

Hey again!

Just wanted to show you that I DID finish the cover for my "the whatever pages".

So now I link it to art journal journey again!

Lena

I can + monochrome

This is my art journal page made for SODAlicious. I use this little booklet from SODAlicious to document the preparations for our upnext coming holidays. I will take it with me traveling as well as it is quit small and handy to bring.

The theme is "I CAN".

I used stamps from SODAlicious and  the checker plate stamp from Kaisercraft.

I really love the SODAlicious products BUT they are hard to get! As soon as I want to order, the stamps are gone - better be lucky next time...!

This color is very new to me - brownish, beige, almost getting soft pink... it was a challenge for me to keep it in only one color and I hereby join the art journal café as they would like to see some pages monochrome.

Wish you all a great weekend!

Lena

A mini scrap book for Cedric.

This is the mini scrap book from Denmark. I just finished it and in the end I got quit pleased with it. 

I used laminated plastic between the pages to keep them all together. In this plastic I could store small souvenirs from  the holiday.







The papers are all from scrapbook werkstatt.
I really like this collection called "Weltenbummler".











I used stamps from My Stamp Box and from l'encre et l'image.

And yes, it is possible to sew through the plastic.

I just love these stamps - you can really use them for every kind of scrapbooking or mini album. My friend Jaine belongs to the design team of My Stamp Box and I really like their stamp collection.


This is it for now!

Hope you like my little book!

Lena

25th wedding anniversary!

What happened?

... we had our wedding anniversary and I didn't think we had to do something big out of it as we go on holidays very soon... but SOMEBODY = my dear HUSBAND had another idea ;

                            HE KIDNAPPED ME!!!

He took me to Lissabon , sightseeing for four days! 

Beautiful Lisboa! Here I am at the most western point of continental Europe.

No hairdresser, no work, no kiné, no family , no scrapping... just us!

Thank you, dear Peter,  for these wonderful days!

Lena

a cover for Art Journal Journey

 This is my entry to Susi's Art Journal Journey.
This is the front page and the back is still not totally dry.

I used stamps from Reprint, Hero art and Paperartsy.

I call it "the whatevers" because here is where I will store my monthly pages for Nathalie Kalbach's creative storytelling called the whatevers.

Love this color combo!

Great fun on a hot and sticky day in Lux!

(my basement was nice and cool...)

Lena

STM - I had a dream.

"I have/had a dream", by ABBA.

My first thought went to Martin Luther King of course. And then because Abba came from Sweden, just like I do, I had to think of one of the most gorgeous characters in swedish children stories - Mamma Mu.

Text from Jujja& Tomas Wieslander and pictures by Sven Nordqvist.

Mamma Mu keeps dreaming of trying different things that no other cow would ever dream of;
 skating, swimming, biking, building a tree house...

Wonderful stories and I just love the happy pictures!

I used stamps from Reprint and Paperartsy.

This is my entry to Scrapping the music.

Enjoy!

Lena

If I had the power...!

If I had the power... I would change a lot!

You know, like peace on earth, food for everybody, save the rainforset ...

But, right now, if I had the power, my first wish would be for our daughter who has diabetes type 1.
I would wish for her to get free or at least to be able to feel the hypos again. I believe that it must be horrible not to be able to trust ones body...
She is having a hard time now and my first POWER would be used on her!!!

I made my own silouette, stamped with a Hero art stamp and one from Sodalicious.

This is my entry to ART JOURNAL CAFE.

I wish you all some great power and sunny days!

Lena

Color your world, été 2012.

Surfing the net I found this blog called color your world. I really liked what I saw , so here we go again...

"Pour faire une page avec;
 - du livre
 - du gesso
 - de la peinture
 - des encres
   et du tissu..."

The scrap paper is from Basic, the guirlande is made of different book pages, covered with tissue paper and painted with different colors, I used my stamps from Kesi art, added some blue bakers twine and some tissue tape and ended it all with orange ink splatter.

Go and check that blog - they really have some outstanding examples!!

Waiting for the next thunderstorm to arrive... hot and sticky in our little country again .

Take care out there!

Lena