Here is my monthly calendar page for March. The background was created with some spray inks I have had lying around for years. I used Dyan Weaverley's ghosting technique. You can find this technique if you go to the Art from the Heart website. The bird images are from various collage sheets and the fairy images from a set of Hero Art stamps I just purchased. They are stamps made together with Graphics 45 Once upon a Springtime collection.I used some Tim Holtz tissue tape around the edges. Love that stuff!
Monday 28 February 2011
Saturday 26 February 2011
Wonderful gifts received
Sunday 20 February 2011
Take a word "Doors"
Saturday 19 February 2011
Handmade mini journal
Last night I found a great tutorial on how you can fold a 6 x 4 minibook or journal out of two pieces of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper. You can see this tutorial on Laura Denison's Follow the Papertrail Youstream channel. I decided to make a mini journal rather than a mini scrapbook, so I covered the pages of the scrapbook paper with gesso and than painted stamped and collaged the first page so far. I am going to use Rian's wonderful collage sheet (see below) for this mini. The great think is that each of the 5double pages has a pocket on the side so any journaling can be hidden inside the pockets if you wish. Here is the cover, (which will get mork work done to it) and the first page using one of Rian's fantastic images.
Friday 18 February 2011
My wonderful gift from Rian
Seems a lucky star was shining on me during the OWOH event this year. I won several prizes, this is the first one I can show, a glorious collage sheet from Rian.
Thank you sooo much Rian!
Rian is a wonderful designer and digi artist you can see her fabulous work at Moi Freubel here
Thank you sooo much Rian!
Rian is a wonderful designer and digi artist you can see her fabulous work at Moi Freubel here
Thursday 17 February 2011
OWOH and the winners are:!!!
First of all, a big thank you to all of you who visited and left a comment. Each and everyone of them was so much appreciated!!
Thanks also to Lisa for organising this great event, I loved every minute of it and feel quite sad that it is all over and done with now.
Well at last the great day has arrived and it is time to announce the winners. As I had two prizes I obviously have two winner.The winners were picked my a random number generator and they are:
For the mixed media painting Donna Rodgers from www.thehomemakingarts.blogspot.com
For the mini book: Titbelsoeur from http://titbelsoeur.blogspot.com/
Congratulation ladies, I very much hope you will enjoy your gifts!
Thanks also to Lisa for organising this great event, I loved every minute of it and feel quite sad that it is all over and done with now.
Well at last the great day has arrived and it is time to announce the winners. As I had two prizes I obviously have two winner.The winners were picked my a random number generator and they are:
For the mixed media painting Donna Rodgers from www.thehomemakingarts.blogspot.com
For the mini book: Titbelsoeur from http://titbelsoeur.blogspot.com/
Congratulation ladies, I very much hope you will enjoy your gifts!
One World One Heart 2011
The wonderful anual blogging event One World One Heart is with us again, this time for the very last time, sadly. Thanks to the wonderful Lisa from A Whimsical Bohemian.
As many of you know it runs from January 30 through to February 17. This post will stay at the top of my blog til then. For newer posts, see below.
I am a teacher and mixed media artist and am so happy you have come by. I am really looking forward to visiting all participants. This is the third time I am participating in this wonderful event and I can't wait to see the blogs of all who are going to take part this year. I have two prizes to giveaway first of all a little hand painted mixed media 5 x 5 inch block canvas
Here is a more close up view
My other prize is a mini album made with mainly Graphics 45 papers. It can be used to stick in photos etc. There are many pockets and tags also to use for journaling and I plan to include some extra embellishments so the winner can further embelish the album.
Here are just a few of the inside pages, there are 8 pages in all.
Winners will be chosen by random draw on the 17th of February, all you need to do is leave a comment here. I will ship internationally, please make sure you make it possible for me to contact you and thank you so much for dropping by!
Wednesday 16 February 2011
ATC and matching holder
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Playing with paper
I just love Graphics 45 paper and when I feel like crafting rather than creating art with a capital A, this definitely is the most inspiring paper line around I think.
Today I created a mini book out of empty toilet rolls. The idea came from my friend Roc. You can see her work here. I used 4 rolls for this mini. The paper I used is "Once upon a springtime", probably one of my favourites at the moment, I guess because I can't wait for spring to come.
This is the cover, and here are some of the pages:
And this is the back cover:
Today I created a mini book out of empty toilet rolls. The idea came from my friend Roc. You can see her work here. I used 4 rolls for this mini. The paper I used is "Once upon a springtime", probably one of my favourites at the moment, I guess because I can't wait for spring to come.
This is the cover, and here are some of the pages:
And this is the back cover:
Sunday 13 February 2011
Take a Word "Romance"
Saturday 12 February 2011
Cards using Graphics 45 paper
Here are some cards I made using Graphics 45 paper. To see more of my cards and some detailed photos please go to my other blog "Astrid Cards". You can find it here
Monday 7 February 2011
Journal page
Sunday 6 February 2011
Love Birds
Saturday 5 February 2011
February Calendar page
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