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

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

PASSION for SODAlicious

Hello again! After a busy afternoon in Trier I'm finally back to post my entry to SODAlicious art journal challenge no 26.

I used a big and a small sodalicious envelope, stamps, kartotekpapers  and a mask.

I wish you all a great weekend!

Lena

The ART journal page for two challenges.

Hello again! What a day - a bad, bad day.... I woke up with tummy ache at 5 o'clock and ended feeling awful at 5 in the afternoon. A wasted day - and all the things I had planned to do!!!

Anyway - this is my entry to the craft stampers challenge, where we should tear and/or rip paper. I used a dictionnary page ,a  music sheet and a paper from Glitz design as the background. I stamped with stamps from Hero art, Dylusion and Hampton art stamps ( Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life).

Colours used - dylusion and Faber Castell PITT.

...AND I enter the challenge at  the craft barn - letter A. The chosen word, of course is ART.

I hope all of you had a good saturday - 4th of may - the scrapbook day!!!

Take care out there!

Lena

my "waiting for spring" - book

  Front page/cover with a peek through window.

I started this book at our mixed media mini marathon with Mosaikscrappers  .
I really loved it from the beginning to the bitter sweet end...

Förväntan=expectant

Girls at the frozen sea, watching canadian geese landing.

att lapa sol - enjoy the warmth of the first sun

the best place to be at 7 in the morning

beautiful swedish barn with a waiting birch

paperbag with tag inside, best place to have lunch

all together

still hangin' in here, still waiting

                                                         ...and finally - springs arrival!

Stamps; Tim Holtz, Stampotique, Felicitas Klink, Technique tuesday and Christy Tomlinson.
 All papers used are from Glitz design.

I feel happy USING stuff instead of hoarding stuff. Love this little project!

Wish you all a wonderful week!

Lena

my landscape for the Art Journal Journey

Et voila...!" The landscape within me"- a hope that the flowers will return with all their beauty, the words to be said swirling in my head, and finally the heavenly blue colours making me smile...

This is my entry to the monthly challenge at Art Journal Journey.

"Any landscape is a condition of the spirit".

Happy sunday!

Lena

A tag for the artful times and creavil.

Creavils challenge no 52 is about "Insekten und Krabbeltiere". I used the gorgeous Crafty Individuals stamps no 033 and the plate 4 - wings.

With this tag , I also join the challenge no 27 at the Artful Times, where the theme is to use stencils and/ or masks. As I'm a big fan of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, I used the opportunity to play with 4 different of her stencils (mini chevron arrows, mini stripes, mini paint lids and another one without me remembering its name...!).

The colours are all distress inks - sponging through the stencils - love it!

Wish you all a great and sunny weekend!

Lena

the letter W with circles

Hello again!

The craft barns alpha challenge is still one of my favorites to join right now. This time we have the letter W to work with and we have to use some kind of circle on the page as well.

Creating this water page , I used dylusion and distress inks, stencils from sodalicious and the crafters workshop. I added my beloved gesso with modelling paste and the stencils are from paperartsy and art journey.

Hope you all like it!

Lena

Hidden for SODAlicious

This is my journal page "hidden" for the 24th art journal challenge at http://sodaliciousshop.blogspot.com/2013/04/no24-art-journal.html">SODAlicious
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Had great fun here!

Lena

Great workshop with the Mosaik scrappers!

A lovely day, great fun and a lot of happy smiles - the mixed media marathon in Keispelt!

Lena

the letter R for the craft barn - finally!

Busy, busy, busy...busy with all those things called family, work, cooking, education, friends...
I am very happy to be able to say that I have all those things in my life, but my crafty time is suffering after a week with family in Sweden, to catch up at work and, and, and...

BUT, here we are -  I finally finished my art journal page for the craft barn's alpha/dictionary challenge letter R.

Wish you all a nice end of the week!

Lena

Bad blogger/good recycler

This was a day on holidays in lovely, clear, frozen Sweden last week. No chance to scrap with paper, so I made my own lampshades instead. Enjoying the sun and my husbands company, I made 3 different ones out of  bed sheets and laces.

Just another good day!

Lena