Busy

I might not be posting.... but I am still creating and my "creative zone" is messier than ever :-).
My time is limited nowadays so now I have to choose between blogging or creating..... so I choose creating. I sometimes only have 10 minutes a day, just enough to glue down the photo and the paper that I arranged on the cardstock the day before. This way it takes like a week or so to finish a layout or a page from my art journal.

So now I have to find myself some time to make pictures of my recent projects and show them to the world... see ya later!

Art Journal 2008- Begin*Truth*Life

For the first page *Begin* I used a photo that I made from my bedroom window and made the background with watersoluble crayons and Golden mica flakes. The prompt begin inspired me to the ask myself the following question: if that pot of gold can be found at the end of the rainbow....then on which side do you begin searching?


The second prompt *truth* inspired me ask myself some questions about "the truth" and how this concept can mean something different to everyone. I also wonder if it is really appreciated if you tell someone the truth. I personally think that truth is an overrated concept and that in most cases the best thing you can do is keep the truth a secret. Of course this doesn't mean you have to lie all the time.....you are just not telling the truth...to protect friendships..family ties...your job...etcetera etcetera...
The transparent nude stands of course...for the naked truth... and I guess you can figure out the rest of the imagery on the page.


For the last page the prompt was *life*. Quite a difficult concept but while I was going through my stamps I saw the one with the boots and the lyrics from Nancy Sinatra popped into my head immediately :-). And I thought... isn't that what life is all about? You just keep going...whatever happens. Sometimes you'll "walk" a little faster than other times..but in the end you'll keep on walking...

Big Girl you are beautiful

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Elsie Songbook part 2

Coldplay - Green Eyes


Billy Mack - Christmas Is All Around (from the movie Love Actually)


Claudia de Breij - Zin in Sleur


Pointer Sister - I'm so excited

She rules my world!

Art Journal 2008 - Soul

Studio DaphNat - in real life :-)

See you next time Uberschatzie :-)))

Art Journal 2008 - Future

When I was in High School the government came up with this slogan "A smart girl is prepared for her future". The goal was to encourage girls to choose not only the typical girl subjects for their study such as languages, but to choose math and science instead.
I sucked at math so I went to university..doing a typical 'girl' study; Spanish Language and Culture.
I used the slogan on the bottom of the page together with the crystal ball to make the point that you never know what the future will bring...and there is no guarantee that having studied math instead of Spanish would have changed my life significantly.

All I want for Christmas.....

I made this lo already in December but still had to finish the journaling (behind the tag). Journaling is about a new Christmas tradition I started for my mini-moi: we will buy her 1 Christmas ornament every year until she is 18 years old, so when she will buy her first tree (which will be a small one in her student room maybe) she can already fill it with a nice collection of ornaments.
I was inspired to make this layout with the "holiday"prompt on the
Global Perspectives blog.

Art Journal 2008 week 7 & week 8

Week 7 - Fly















Week 8 - Magic

Deck of Me - August 2007

Prompts
Week 31: No Regrets; I am 100% sure that I married the right guy :-)
Week 32: Quiet; reading...my old time favorite hobby
Week 33: 10 Minutes; that is all the time it takes to make a baby LOL
Week 34: Funny haha; a list of tv shows/movies I think are hilarious!


Check out this funny parody on one of my favourite tv characters PINGU... he makes my day...everyday!

Colour Match

Em's Art Journal 2008 #1-#6

Week 1 - Prompt: Commit















Week 2 - Detail















Week 2- Prompt: Feel














Week 3 - Prompt: Connect















Week 4 - Prompt: Your Own Word. I chose Jealous









Week 5 - Prompt: Balance










Week 6 - Prompt: Emotion

Elsie Songbook for My Valentine

About 100 years ago I went to an Elsie workshop in Lelystad... and I still did not finish the Songbook I started that day.
So I decided it was about time to do something with it... (thanks you Mandy!!) and filled it with some 8x8 lo's for my Valentine.

I'll show you a few lo's here..more to follow:

Song by The Doors

Song by Shakira

Song by The Beatles

Song by Kylie Minogue

Studio DaphNat results - Paper Tearing Technique

Like I said in the earlier post about the technique.... it rules! You have a great background and you don't need to add a lot more to it!
Nat's results will be up around noon...so check out her blog later

Baby LO nr 2 of..... many?

Deck of Me - July 2007

Prompts:
week 26: Celebrating Daughters. Here I am with my sisters and mother on her 65th birthday.
week 27: Junk Mail. During my pregnancy I got sooo much (junk) mail about all kinds of babystuff....
week 28: Goal of the week. Finally call a friend that I haven't spoken to in a looong while.
week 29: Define Perfection. A walk on the beach with DH, drinking cappucino and eating snacks afterwards.
week 30: Count your blessings. A caring mother, a super DH, Great sister, and getting pregnant without any medical help.

Studio Daphnat 2008!! - Paper Tearing Technique

I am happy to post the first Studio DaphNat of 2008.. hopefully the first of many :-)

The supplies for this week:
- Masking Tape
- Gel medium
- Patterned Paper / Text Paper.... any paper will do actually, just try what works for you

All you have to do is glue your paper (using gel medium) to your cardstock / canvas or whatever you are working on. Apply some masking tape. After a few minutes you can tear the tape off your background and it will reveal the other side of the page that you glued on. When you are using text paper you will see all the words reversed.
That's all! You will have a fantastic background! You can even make it even more fantastic using a thin wash of acrylic paint or rub your distress ink pad over it or whatever way you find to add some colour to it if necessary.
This technique was inspired by Claudine Hellmuth (again :-)...).

If you need some more explanation, go check out Nat's blog.. she has filmed the whole process. Enjoy it!