My gesso stars.

This summer my father taught me how to make these stars. I started making them in brass wire and then I painted them with black gesso. I think it is nice to see the brass shine through... and of course it's up to me to decorate them according to the season!

Lena

Autumn journal spread.

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To start this post I would like to say thank you to crafty individuals , who chose me to be among the winners for october. That really made my day!

This is my autumn spread in my altered book. I love the colours of autumn! I know we have to be inside more this time of the year but that means aswell that I can spend more time in my basement... he, he!





AND halloween is back again. I bought this wreath and I decorated it with a little ghost dingling in the middle.



Then I felt sorry for the ghost, dingling about without any friends to chat with. So we made some pumpkin friends out of dried maple leaves and decorated the door with them.



So happy halloween to all of you!

See you in november!

Lena

"winged things"

This tag is my entry to the challenge "winged things" at crafty individuals.
I used CI 227 and CI 062 aswell as cherry pie art stamps.

Love this gothic, creepy style!

Lena

Halloween

This spread is my entry to Creavils challenge Halloween.
I used stamps from Creavil, Cherry Pie Art Stamps and Tampomaniak. The colours are acrylics mixed with Neocolors2.

Nice to get started again!

Lena

MUSIK art journal journey

I made this page as I had spent my birthday listening to these singing ladies. They call themselves "the rounder girls" and they come to Luxemburg at least once a year. I love the happiness they spread as they sing and I'm quit sure I will enjoy their visit next year aswell.
So this is my entry to art journal journey this month where the theme is "music".
Stamps used ; tampomaniak
Colours ; neocolours 2

Lena

some of the harvest this year !

Love the colour red...!

Lena

having fun at work!

Autumn definately arrived to Luxemburg and so did cold, snotty noses and flue. Yesterday we took the children for a stroll through the forest, where we found these cute hats. The result you see here - a little bird with a french hat.

Lena

Back again.

This was me only 3 days ago - in the Pousada Kolibri in Morro do Sao Paolo, Ilha de Tinharé, Bahia, Brazil.
Holiday is over and now I have to find the normal rythm again.
Halloween is on it's way, so let's get started...

Lena

everybody wants to be a princess at least one time in life!!

...having fun at work!

Lena

FLOWERS, prompt 17.

This is my spread for our art journal, where Laurence has chosen the theme "flowers".
The background is made with watercolours, stamps and then brayered over with white acrylic.
I cut out some flowers from a mag, made some other flowers with the cuttlebug and stamped the rest.
Stamps used; Hero art, Magnolia(!), flowerstamp from a craft stamper mag and a foam stamp from Disney.



Today Luxembourg is hot and sticky. This morning I went running and it was VERY heavy to breathe. Then the sun came through the clouds and heated up the air. Now the clouds are back again and tomorrow the autumn will arrive. Rain and low temperatures. So this spread was just in time - next week we will have to do leaves instead!


Wish you all a nice start of the autumn season!

Lena

ORANGE

This is my spread for art journal journey, where the team would like to see some orange. I finished these pages today thinking of somebody I care for alot. I hate to let somebody down, but yesterday I think I did... sooo sorry!

I used stamps from inkido, artemio and hero art. Rub ons from fancypants. The wings are from Tim Holtz. Colours used - perfect pearls gold, distress ink; glimmer mists and a lot of acrylics...

Inspiration and the feeling that I HAD TO TRY THIS OUT all came from this lady. LOVE her style and I admit that this is a "copy" of her work - but I just had to give it a go!

Wish you all a sunny september!

Lena

Prompt 16 - "circles"

This spread is for our 16th prompt - circles.
I have used different distress inks and bleach.
The stamps are from tampomaniak infocrea.fr and reprint.se.

Enjoy the end of august 2011!

Lena