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

Our art journal, prompt 15 - "shoes".

This spread is for our prompt 15 - shoes.
Material used;
Neocolors 2, masking tape, measureband, pictures and stamps from reprint.se, inkido.se aswell as from stampotique.com.

Love my old and stinky running shoes!

Lena

Altered deco "flower rain"

We spent a week in Sweden and I finished my "flower rain", made of an old altered hanger, some felt and different "flowers", made of paper, buttons, ribbon ... Everything found there, in our summer house. Sorry for the bad quality of the photos - I only had the handy with me. In the flesh though, this deco is just amazing!

Lena

"dislikes" for Art Journal Journey

This is my answer to "dislikes" , the theme at Art Journal Journey.
It is the first time I join this group of people - I just couldn't resist this very special theme... So hopefully they will come up with many more like that!

The spread is a collage with many different techniques and the only stamp used (exept for text and date of course), is the background stamp. Thank you for that one, dear Jaine!

"When fear hits me, will I be able to stay and fight or will I run away?"

Lena

Auf Stoff Stempeln

This bird is my entry to Creavils challenge "stamp on fabric".

Enjoy!

Lena

a canvas for my parents

A couple of weeks ago our group at the mosaikscrappers had a workshop, where we started to work on canvases. This is my finished canvas with pictures of my parents grandchildren.
My mother always use to say that the grandchildren are the desserts(efterrätter) of life(liv). They are so sweet and beloved and they come in the "end" of life , just like the dessert after a nice meal.

Lena

Creavil challenge no 12 "flowers".

This card I made for my beautiful Kinésithérapiste Natalie, who I hopefully will see for the last time this thursday. By then she has given me 24(!!!) sessions of chockwaves into my shoulders and I certainly want to see the end of the story now.
And did it help? Yes, the right shoulder is better and the left shoulder might have to have some "lavage" as the doctor puts it...

Anyway;
Background ; resist technique with distress inks
Flowers ; PaperArtsy Hot Pick , AII technique à la Sabine Droge (shown to me at the Bastelmesse in Dortmund)
Girl; Stampotique Karin with Copic pens
Sign and border; acrylic and doodles à la Lena (hi,hi)

Flowers for Creavil challenge no 12.

Lena

Punched elements for Creavil.

Hello again!

Right now, the team from Creavil would like as to do something out of punched elements. This is my contribution, using dies from Sizzix and Tim Holtz. The background is a collage made out of different papers, Neocolor 2, an old lace from grandma's leftovers and my new stamp from Jo Copper-Sandons collection. Love it!

Nice theme - I'm starting to like orange again...

Lena

mixed colours for the GPP street team crusade 53

My favorite colour right now is the one I would call "taupe". So by mixing black,brown and white I tried to find the perfect match. I still had some samples after painting our "africa room", so I found names for 10 of the mixtures and the last 3 (x,y and z)I named myself (granite, taupe and sand). And because I liked the idea, I made a spread in my altered book with the samples and finished it of with some gesso and the colour turquoise.



And while I had the acrylics out I tried to find a green colour called "menthe" to go with the "taupe", so I made another spread with a lot of different green shades. The colours I used here was icee, turquoise, lemon yellow, oxide black, burnt umber and titanium white.



So this is the my contribution to crusade 53 at the GPP street team this month.

Great fun!

Lena