"Autumn" for Gothic arches

The theme autumn makes me think orange and "earthy" colours.
Leaves fall down and it's easier to spot the owls. Spiderweb all over and a lot of spiders trying to get in to the house. I don't mind normally but when you see these big ones with long legs... - and they can run fast too...!!!
Scattered straw in the fields and so is the colour from T. Holtz called too.
Stamps from Heroarts, Stampaway and Stampington.
The cuttlebug helped me to make nice leaves and the hat should show you that it is getting colder.
Hope you all like it!



This is my " french corner " that will give me evening shadow in the summer 2010. I have been working with this a long time and finally it is finished. Until a couple of weeks ago we had grass growing here. I love the sun but when it's hot and sticky and NO WIND - I just need some shade... This was my garden project 2009 and next year I will get some "french" chairs...

"let the sun shine" for WS

"Let the sun shine" makes me think of the movie "Hair". I think that was the first time I fell in love...

The background was put through the cuttlebug and later coloured with distress inks.
The stamps have names but I have forgotten what design they are - sorry!
They are called "face", "geometrie" and "hip-hop".

We have still got the most wonderful weather here in Luxembourg and we are told it would stay like this for some days more.
And I am a terrible sun freak so I enjoy every day right now...

I hope you like my arch and maybe you can even feel the beat...

"this DRESS could make her day..." for wednesdaystampers

Sorry for the bad picture - don't know what happened there...
The colours are beautiful in real life!
I used the cuttlebug and my favorite scrap papers.
Stamps are from "stamp away" and "individual stamps".
Hope you like it!

"en älgpuss" = "a moose kiss"

I don't think that I will ever get this close to a life moose again. I thought it might bite me and this made me very uncomfortable. But of course the moose got its apple and I got a horrible picture!

Lones tulips

Passing Denmark (on the way to Sweden this summer )we stopped at some friends - Lone and Steen. Lone has always been very crafty and this time I just had to make a photo of her quilt. I simply adore her tulips. I hope that I will get my patience back to start doing patchwork again...

Gothic Arch Tag for Gothic arches

The beautiful stamps from Stampotique Originals and Hero arts.
Copper and green (almost turquoise),stickles and more colour.
Gothic!

"red and turquoise" for wednesdaystampers

This weeks challenge on WS is "red and turquoise". I made a frame out of chipbord for Lisas good friend Sarah , who soon will celebrate her 20th birthday. She loves the color turquoise so I had to make this challenge in her name.
Paper from Kelly Panacci (2-of-a-kind).
Stamps from Paperartsy.
The bead was given to me by a friend in Trier this tuesday. Amazing how it all fits together...

A cupcake for Gothic arches

Well, maybe I did get a bit crazy with this one...
Corrugated card, vintage mixed with pastell and glimmer...
Stamps from Kelly Panacci, Stampaway and Paperartsy.
Cupcake made with the cuttlebug and the lovely dancer is from Jaines collection.
What do you think?


Anyway - Happy Birthday Gothic arches!!!

"DOGS" for wednesdaystampers

The challenge by WS this week is "dogs".
The background is embossed with the cuttlebug and coloured with distress ink. Picture is from a postcard from Rome. Stamp is from Stampaway... and somehow I just have to use laces on each card...



My daughter made her own card using a background stamp from Ängsboa.se.

Enjoy!

City New York for GA

Holidays are over.
We had some lovely weeks in Sweden and one week in a summer house in Denmark. We met the family and enjoyed the lovely nature of Scandinavia. Yesterday we came back and the tan is still looking good...
I have to admit that I was happy this afternoon when I could sneak down the stairs into my basement to try out my new things that I got for my birthday. Thank you, Peter, and thank you, Jaine!!!
As you can see I'm still crazy 'bout corrugated card...
Stamps are from "lgbrushes" and "stamps away".
So why New York?
Well - I have never been there and I believe it must be a stunning city with so many people walking in different directions. AND I could use my urban stamps for the first time!!!



And who is this pretty face? Let me present to you - Petra the bowler. She is a scrapper too and she has a blog with challenges ; http://paradises.blogg.se
We met on a " mini mara" in Sweden where we spent 10 hours together crafting. Lovely!





And who is this little lady? My very good friend Jaine who came with her family to join us in Sweden this summer... in fact , she is still up there. We went to this mini mara together and we sure had a lovely day...

Hope you like my "after holiday gothic arch".

"Bathing beauty" for GA

This weeks theme for Gothic arches is "bathing beauties" but I did only find one image that I wanted to use, so here it is...
Right now I'm very much into this corrugated card and I have to use for everything. So this had to be an arch with a corrugated background - hope you like it!

Marie Antoinette GA

Was she ever happy?
Living in a foreign country, only with one purpose in life - to produce a " dauphin" for France , trying to amuse herself with nice jewellery, gambling ..., having all the eyes of France watching, judging and in the end chopping her head of...
Did she have some real fun in between? I certainly hope so...

Using the ranger distress inks to get the french colours and the masks from Tim Holtz to get the feeling of beeing in prison - not to be able to live a life that she would have chosen.
Stamp from paperartsy and Jaines basement.