I always have to giggle when I make up the titles for my posts!
It just happens so that if I place the titles of my layouts together,
nine out of ten times a new title is born.
Yes, I have two layouts to show you today.
Both made with Harlee Quinnz Designs papers (from two different lines.)
Here’s the first:
The One Ring
The background paper is called “Fairy Grove”
(from the Harlee Quinnz Design line: “Butterfly Garden”)
It totally fits the atmosphere I wanted to create in this layout…
a bit of a mystical, secret feeling.
If you remember my Leonard Cohen art journal page “If It Be Your Will”
then the image of the woman will look familiar to you…
it’s a picture I cut from the same magazine article.
I painted a bit over this one too…
The “one ring” is a photo of my own ring… read more about that over here
The journaling is elvish from “Lord of the Rings”
“One ring to rule them all – One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all – And in the darkness bind them”
Detail
Machine stitching
to intensify the
woman’s posture.
Detail
I fooled around
with Tim Holtz
alcohol ink and
blending solution
on a transparency
sheet… wonderful
effects!
I wrote the text
on the transparency
with a sharpie.
I made the next layout – Sunday Morning – for the challenge at
These are a few of my favorite things
Their challenge was to scrap about your favourite time of the day.
I love Sunday Mornings – when my men are still in bed and
I am alone in the living room, having a coffee and enjoying the quiet
and peacefulness of the room.
For this layout I used the Harlee Quinnz Designs line “Scents I remember”
I made the background with two sheets of paper: “Smokin” and “Lucky Stripe”
I love the colours of this paperline… those earthly, smokey browns, caramels
and beige’s are totally up my alley!
Detail
Painted some old
chipboard alpha’s
and inked the
edges…
…and I’m in love
with my sewing machine
again…
Journaling:
(written on a journaling
notepaper from
“Making memories”)
“Early
sunrise
peeks through
the curtains.
My men are
still asleep.
Just the
quiet room,
me
and my coffee
on an early
Sunday morning”
I finished yet another layout but I’m not allowed to show that to you today…
I will publish it on Friday (“Lotus day”) so you’ll have to wait for that one.
And now, I’m gonna make me a large pot of hot tea with lemon,
curl on the couch with a family package of paper handkerchiefs right next
to me and cough my longs out…. yes, it’s that time of year!
My son came home with a nasty cold last week, and now the whole family
is infected. A tickling cough (for the Dutchies, “drop” helps!) and a voice
like Bob Dylan…. eeeeeeccckkkk!!!
So I will be giving my hug from a safe distance this time…
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…
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Je t’embrasse!