SDC no 159 - bows

Another card - I start to enjoy making cards for stampotiques weekly challenges! This week the theme is bows and this is my entry.

I used Magda Polakows stamp "night" ( thank you for giving this gorgeous stamp to me, dear Jaine!), pan pastels, a beautiful ribbon, bakers twine, a sizzix heart and some black drawing ink (Winsor&Newton).

I hope you like it!

Lena

SIMPLICITY for SODAlicious

Very late, and maybe even toooo late...but anyway....

I'm filling the pages in my selfmade SODAlicious journal booklet. This spread is called "simplicity" and is my entry to SODAlious no 27 art journal challenge.

Freezing in my basement - will the summer ever arrive this year?

Brrrrrr...

Lena

Letter K for the craft barn

Happy sunday everybody!

Lots of rain in Luxemburg today = lots of time to spend in the crafty room!

I really enjoyed my afternoon and I had this feeling of  "letting go", you know? 4 projects finished and this is the first to put on the blog - Letter K for the Craft Barn . In swedish, danish, german I could find a lot of words starting with K, but in english...? Not very many.

I ended up with K for KITE - did anyone of you read the gorgeous book "the kiterunner"? If not, please do!!! A wonderful book about people in Afganistan.

I wish you all a nice start of the new week!

Lena

the last calendar card for the craft barn

Finally! I did it! ...and I loved it.
To be honest, it was difficult to keep going those last couple of weeks, but here we are!!!

This last card should have something embossed according to the theme at the craft barn.

I used one of Tim Holtz' christmas embossing folders and then colored my card with distress inks. On my doily I stamped two hearts(Panduro) and embossed with christmas red to add the right colour. The bakers twine is a symbol of christmas wrapping and the stickers are just details to show how much we all would like some frosty temperatures instead of this horrid rain...

So, ladies, this is my last calendar card - I sure enjoyed the challenges and I hope to join in again next year!

I wish you all a merry christmas and I hope to meet you again in 2013!

Take care our there!

Lena

SPARKLE for crafty individuals.

Sparkle is the word at the crafty individuals this month.

I used a background stamp and the angel stamp from CI and then added modelling paste through a Huey's mask (stars). The colours are all PanPastel.
I'm not sure if it's possible to see, but I did add some Ranger stickles in gold as well as 3 small stars from Kars.

In the end I finished a small tag in the same style and decorated it all with the orange bakers twine.

So, let them stars shine!

Lena

orange, white and brown...

This is the tag I've made for the artful times.

I suppose I'm still in a halloween mood as this turned out to be a bit spooky.

The background is painted with gesso to get a texture and then with black panpastel. When it was dry I emossed with Rangers seafoam white using a crackle stamp from the swedish company YOU DO.
Tree and rings were cut out with the cuttlebug.
The gate is metal work from Prima marketing and the stamps are from technique tuesdays' Ali Edwards.

I decorated it with some facet adhesive stones and stickles and ended it all with orange bakers twine.

Have a nice sunday!

Lena