perfection...(?)

 

For the love of summer!

 

...life doesn`t have to be perfect to be wonderful... ( it sure would make it easier though!)

A card made for the "anything goes" at Simon says stamp wednesday challenge. 

xxx

Lena

Happy birthday, dear Katherine!

 

A birthday card for a friend turning 60!

Digging through my boxes of stamps I finally found this gorgeous flower from Paperartsy ( HotPick). 

Lena

Q&L challenge - heart

Another journal page for the Quote & Lyric challenge at the craft barn: I chose the word heart and the quote " Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind".

My latest rubber stamp seams to have lost its mind so I thought it was perfect for this quote...

Wish you all a beautiful December month!

Lena

The new quote & lyric challenge at the craft barn

New year - new challenges. I enjoyed joining the dictionary challenge last year and it is nice to have "something to keep you going" - to  keep thinking in a creative way.

Craft barn started a new challenge called quote & lyric - this fortnight the words are "smile" and/or "up".
So here we are - my journal page including a quote with the word "up".

I used gesso and modelling paste with different stencils. The colours are my beloved neocolorsII  - the stamps are from Paperartsy (wings - plate 4), Christy Tomlinson (CT-944A) and Traci Bautista (T1005).

In the end I embellished the page with some washitape to add some contrast. The quote is from an old book -  wake up and be awesome!

Hope you like it!

Lena

The letter Y for the craft barn.

Time pass.
Right now the wheels turn pretty fast in my/our life;

We didn't have any warm water for almost a week, my basement was occupied by workers . Our youngest daughter had like a crisis - it isn't easy beeing 16 years old, beautiful and still don't believe in yourself. I remember that that time in my life was a very difficult time aswell - I wanted to be the perfect familygirl, the best student,  the coolest best friend and at the same time having doubts about life.

So this blogpost is about who YOU are...

This is my entry to the alpha dictionary challenge at the craft barn  where we should use the letter Y.... ( and one girl has got yellow hair - the twist for this challenge).

I'm lucky to have a very creative friend (Jaine) , who is a design team member for different companies ( like sizzix, Sarah Hurley, ASOI...). Last week she had her own stamps made and I was allowed to try them out. Here, on this journal page, her stamp is the girl with an attitude, dressed like one did in the 80th. Other stamps used are from PaperArtsy, Sarah Hurley, ILS and Hero Art. If you want to check out whatever else Jaine's doing, pls visit her blog here.

Wish you all a nice week!

Lena

Blooming for the artful times

Another art journal page - this time, my entry to artful times' challenge "blooming".

I cut out the flowers using the tattered floral die from Tim Holtz. The background is made with stencils and dylusion ink sprays. I covered the background with scrapbook papers from Glitz design and stamped over once again with a lovely text stamp from Stampendous.

The quote says;
" Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, they make this world a beautiful garden".

I hope you like it!

Lena

A Special Moment for AJJ

Finally, I was able to finish these pages for Art Journal Journey's monthly challenge - for march the theme is "special moments".

There are so many moments in life called special, and I really found it hard /difficult to decide the "right" special moment to use. But as I'm still very excited about the weekend with Nathalie Kalbach here in Luxemburg, I thought I could use that memory as a special moment...

The background is a "credit card make" and later covered with Donna Downeys "poppie foam stamp" .
Other stamps used;
Dina Wakley, PaperArtsy, Scrapbook Werkstatt and Sizzix.

The words are memories from that weekend.

Love to you all!

Lena

the letter P for the craft barn

This is my entry to the craft barns alpha challenge - letter P = "pose".

I made the background last weekend attending Nathalie Kalbachs workshops here in Luxemburg; We had a great time with Nathalie, trying different of her techniques with PanPastels and acrylics. Then finishing of the weekend creating a canvas.

I used stamps from paperArtsy and Unitystamps.

Today (even yesterday) winter retuned AGAIN!  We all long for better temperatures and spring feelings ...

Wish you all a great week with lots of sun and happy feelings!

Lena

Peace for Art Journal Journey

Finally I was able to finish my peace page for Art Journal Journey. I had so many ideas and it was very difficult to decide what to use.
I ended up using stamps from unitystamps, Tim Holtz and Paperartsy, stencils and wood veneers from Sodalicious and some rub-ons.

Hope you like it!

Wish you a nice and bright wednesday!

Lena

What is art?

You can find a lot of smart and different quotes and sayings about art on the net, like on Pinterest.
For me though, art is, when the brain stops and the soul takes over. When you feel for something without beeing able to say why...

This is my entry to this weeks challenge at Take a word, where the theme is "ART and what it means to you".

I used my favorite stamps from Dina Wakley, Cherry Pie Art stamps, PaperArtsy, Prima Marketing (Donna Downey), Infocrea and Denim.

I wish you all a very, happy friday!

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

The whatevers no 2

Hello again!

We sure had some nice days in Denmark. Now we are all back to work ( even girlies earning money in their school holidays) and today was the first day with "me time" in my basement. Didn't think I would ever be happy for rainy days, but a thunderstorm came in over Luxemburg yesterday and this saturday is very wet.

My dear husband took me to town where he bought me a birthday present (VERY nice!) and we went to our favorite indian restaurant for lunch. GREAT!

This is the story and the page to my no 2 page for the whatevers...

Mathilda married quit late in life. Her husband was a lovely man, some years older than her and she really loved him. She loved her children and  enjoyed life. The only thing she missed was some "quality time"with her girlfriends. Their children were so much older than Mathildas children and she was really longing for to get as much "time off" as they had.

And now THIS happened...
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I used my own technique for the background, using baby wipes, dylusion colours and a lot of layers.
The stamps are from my minds eye, inkadinkado, basic grey clear stamps and paperartsy.

See you soon again  - it might rain tomorrow too!!!

Hugs

Lena

"HANDS" for wednesdaystampers

Another page in my art journal.
Stamps from Paper Artsy (Hot Picks), Fusion Art, Katzelkraft and L'encreetlimage.
The wednesdaystampers would like to see some hands this week and this is my entry .

Wish you all a nice week!

Lena