I’m inspired by embroidery, patchwork and warm colors in June. All these images can be found among my flickr favorites. You might also want to view it in a bigger size and then right click to use as your desktop background. Click on the image above to see where each image came from. Oh, and […]
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Month: June 2008
Design your own photo album
As I’ve been reading Ali Edward’s blog I feel inspired to make something with all of my digital photographs. Not because I feel I have to, but because I want to view them in a easy and convenient way. I want to bring them out from the computer so that I can look at them […]
Carved wooden figures at the summer exhibition
When my friend Maria came to visit we went to the Summer Craft Exhibition at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm. This year the exhibition is called Wooden Figures. Maria is a woodcraft teacher so of course she wanted to go see it and I was happy to join her. Anything creative gets me going. Related PostsViking […]
Photographic projects to play with
I linked to the photo project Little people – a tiny street art project recently. I think it is such a sweet photo project so I was inspired to try something similar… I took out one of my dad’s tiny people from Märklin World and do a similar photo: Can you spot the little lady […]
Quilting side by side with my Mom
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I have not a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me. Erma Bombeck As promised, here is mom and the blue quilt she made alongside with me! I decided to make a pink […]
Depressed or tired – cut out and glue pretty image
I found this little lady (magazine clipping) in one of the mags from my grandmother. Isn’t it cute? It’s a little advice sent in by someone named Dagmar, and the text says: When I’m tired or feel down I cut out beautiful images from magazines that I save and glue on loose papers. In this […]
Dive in Art – crayon covers & background papers
When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next. Dolly Parton When you rub your wax crayons against something textured you use the long side of the crayons, hence the crayon paper peel here. A pile of junk to scrape into the trash bin for some, […]
Finding texture everywhere
Continuing on my crusade to make backgrounds in a fun way! I admit that I mostly used rubber stamps to make wax crayon resist when I first tried this, but now I’m making up for that because I don’t want anyone to have to go buy expensive big stamps to try this easy mark making […]
Spreading Kindness
I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. Dolly Parton With a beautiful card this book, The Creative Journal by Lucia Capacchione, came in the mail yesterday. It was sent to me from a secret admirer and I was very happy and surprised to […]
Irrisistable Wax Rubbings with crayons
Today is all about making a resist with wax crayons! How to: You rub your crayon length-wise on your paper (thin paper like printer paper) over a textured surface to create some kind of pattern. This crusade challenges us to find all kind of textures and use those crayons some more this month. The crayons […]
Photography, Art & Writing – new blogs
This is the second and last part for now with star-marked (new to me) blogs added recently to my long Link Love Page! This time it’s blogs that deal with Art, Photography, Good Life, Writing and Web-stuff! Plus some Swedish chicks that you shouldn’t miss! Yes, let’s link you up baby! Right now, I’m the […]
Watercolor Mixing Chart
Inspired by Nina Johansson I did this color mixing chart in my art journal recently. It was a great exercise because I forget to mix colors and just use them as they are when I paint! And it was a lot of fun making this chart. It made me consider getting some books on ordinary […]