pastel colours LO

Sorry for this dark picture, where obviously the colours should be nice and "summery" pastel.

I haden't made a LO in months, but when I saw my dear scrapfriend Laury 55 adding a post and joining the summer challenge with Lilith Eeckels, I felt the inspiration set in...

At work, we put up some small puddle pools for the children. In this age the small ones don't care if they are naked or not, but some parents might do. So, all of them had to wear underpants and later on we hung them up to dry. Love the colours!

Happy summer everyone!

Lena

My Donna Downey mixed media album

I finally finished this mixed media album and filled it with photos from my parents big party in may this year. They celebrated 200 years ( my mother soon gets 75, my father just turned 75 and they have been married  50 years = 200!) Last year in october my friend Jaine and I went to the mega event at scrapbookwerkstatt 2013 where we were lucky to have workshops with Donna Downey, Amy Tangerine, Felicitas Klink, Stephanie Berger and Janna Werner. This mini album is signed by DD, believe it or not! A great workshop and a lot of fun - and now finally I can show some pictures of the result:-)

Trying to keep the rustic look - enjoying the craft paper, the texture and this beautiful picture.

Stencil, distressed ink, Hero art stamp, wooden cogs (my father is a very handy man...), paper from Glitz design (yours truly).

Still playing with the Glitz design papers - otherwise using the banner from sizzix and other embellishments given in the kit from Donna Downey.

Playing with stencils and  Dylusion spray inks.

Washi tape, sizzix dies, denim stamps (France), Reprint stamps (Sweden). 

 

 

Very soon , I will meet my parents and hand over this memory book. Vintage is not really my style, but I sure enjoyed putting this together.

Happy 200 years, mamma och pappa!

Lena

INFINITY for SODAlicious

Another journal page - this time for SODAlicious ( challenge no 32), with the theme" infinity".

Wish you all a nice and not TOO warm week!

Lena

Take it , make it - embossing...

This is my tag for craft stampers challenge called take it make it using a technique showed in the craft stamper magazine July 2013 issue. ALL colours added are embossing powders - stamps from l'encre et l'image and Jenny Bowlin.

Lovely technique and real fun creating in my nice and cool basement!

Lena

the letter T without a twist...

The craft barn just came up with the letter T for their alpha dictionary challenge.
I used a gelli plate background and went with the number TWO.

Hope you like it!

Lena

Architecture for Art Journal Journey

Art Journal Journey 's challenge in July is about architecture. I had to dig quit deep in my tresure of stamps to find something suitable... the quote by J W Goethe -" I call architecture frozen music".

Can you spot the beautiful gargoyle?

Lux is hot and sweaty right now - no temperature below 20° - we long for the beach and cool water!!!

But we don't complain - after this long and cold winter, we are NOT allowed to complain...:-)

Wish you all a nice week!

Lena

Black & white

Black and white for SODAlicious no 31 art journal challenge.

...there are sooo many things to do at night...!

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

Loneliness

Using SODAlicous products (stencil, paper, stamps) I finished my entry to SODAlicious' 30th art journal challenge about loneliness. Weird pink, but why not...? Love their wodden stencils - the smell of wood has always been one of my favorites!

Take care out there!

Lena

the letter B

Hello again!

I've had some busy weeks and no time for ME and my basement...well, to be honest, I HAD the time but I didn't fell like crafting. My husband went to Africa and the first couple of weeks I enjoyed all my "free" time, but after 2 weeks it wasn't funny anymore. I started to miss him! This is, of course, a good sign for our marriage, but I just couldn't get my stamps out...

Yesterday we got the good news that our Lisa, made her year, and now can call herself  "éducatrice diplomee". She has been nervous and grumpy and it has not been the easiest time in life to be with her these couple of weeks. Our youngest daughter still has another 2 weeks of school until we get her results - this weekend she is off to "Rock A Field" - a big out door music event here in Luxemburg - I hope she will be okay...! Our son seems to be happy in Germany and that is nice too..!  ...one should NOT complain!

Anyway - this is my entry to the alpha challenge at the craft barn.

I choose the word "bottle" and used stamps from the swedish company Reprint and from  crafty individuals. I might seem hard - using poison bottles and writing "in vino veritas" but bottles are bottles!!!
I do enjoy my glass of red, but we have to remember, that for many people wine (and other alcohol) really can be like poison...

...and now I'm off to our yearly "promenade gourmande" -the sun is back and we expect 21-24° today - not bad at all!!!

Wish you all a lovely sunday!

Lena

the letter U for the craft barn

Ever heard of Mamma Mu?  The ones who do follow this blog ( even though I removed the follow button a couple of years ago...) will remember this image - I've used different ones but always from the same author.
Mamma Mu is "just" a cow, but she still wants to try other things that "normal" cows don"t do. This time she wants to go on the swings. I love the expression on her face - how does it work, why don't I move...? Maybe I like it so much because I work with children and this expression is quit familiar now... and THEN the big relief and the excitement when they find out that YES they can do it - it works!!!

The images are from Sven Nordquist and the story from Jujja and Tomas Wieslander.

My children always loved these stories when they were "small" and me, the mother, is still stuck...

I remember a t-shirt my son wore some years ago - "you laugh at me beacause I'm different, I laugh at you because you are all the same..." At the time , I thought he was brave to wear a text like that....

Anyway, what I want to say here is, that I think it is good when we dare to be different and Mamma Mu difinitely dares to... Look at her on those swings , the udder hanging there .... and here we are - the lettter U for the craft barn alpha challenge letter U.

Mamma Mu (the udder) is my entry.

Hope you like it - I love her style!

Lena

My HOME page for AJJ

Right now it is difficult to find crafty time in my life, but I am VERY happy to have been able to finish this art journal page for Art Journal Journey, this month with the theme HOME.

This is how I would like our children to remember their home - a lot of love, all inclusive, a big welcome each time they open the door, people coming and going, acceptance, some great memories and good laughs...

Happy to join the challenge!

Lena