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No, I didn’t have time to post anything yesterday, but I still did something creative, so, yay me, that was 14 days of that project! I prepared some journalling for a layout I wanted to do today, and also I took some photos of two dear friends, Hanna and Janne, photos that no doubt will end up in my 2012 book. Me, Jed, Hanna and Janne geeked out yesterday and spent the better part of the day and evening playing a board game I love, “Arkham Horror“. Awesome! We beat the big beastie in the end, but it got darned close! I had such a great time. There’s something about playing a good ol’ board game, everyone sitting around a table cursing and laughing.
So, today is day 15 of the project to do something creative everyday for 365 days. This weekend I took a small pause from the prompts and just went freestyle *wink*. Today I sat down and created a layout with a photo I’ve been wanting to use for years. I actually have a sketch in an old notebook using this photo, and I am sort of glad I never had a chance to make it back then, it would have been horrible! (Seriously, think total scrapbook newbie like 5 years ago). I like how it turned out today.
I’ve noticed that often when I sit down to start on a layout I dig through my stash and pick out a pile of embellishments I like. But then in the end I often don’t stick them on. But it takes some time to NOT stick them on, because sometimes I feel like I should, if you know what I mean? I’ve come to a point now thought where it feels ok to just stop and say “You know what, this is enough for me. Glue stick down.” Because I’ve come to a point where it’s more important what the layout is about.
This is a photo of our cat Sixxten, from when he was about 1 years old. He has this habit of finding new places to sleep all the time, and he never moves or makes a sound when you can’t find him and go around the apartment looking for him, no matter how much you call. He is like a nap ninja!
Many years ago my grandmother knitted me this wonderful, super-warm jumper in a grey, Swedish wool (much needed during our winters). I had left it on the bed one day, and for some reason I noticed that the cat had been uncannily quiet for several hours (he’s normally very talkative). So I started looking for him, but couldn’t find him anywhere. I looked in cupboards and bags and closets, under the bed, under the couch, well, everywhere. I called and coaxed, but no sound or movement.
It was just by chance that I went into the bedroom one last time before completely panicking, and there he was, all bundled up in my wool jumper.The jumper was almost exactly the same grey colour as the cat. He’d been sleeping in it for hours, al snuggled up, and he was radiating an enormous amount of heat. He hardly woke up as I went to stroke him, he was in such a warm snooze-coma.
So, that’s what I created today. Overall a nice, lazy Sunday, but tomorrow is the start of another week! Stay safe, have a good one!
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Well, it feels like I am off on on my 365 adventure…
Today’s prompt was to get inspired by your favourite animal. Well, my favourite, not to much surprise to anyone that knows me, is my kitty, Sixxten the Cat (see more pics of him in my other blog). So I turned him into art. It was a total mess to make, with gesso, acrylic paint, distress inks, burlap, glaze and Modge Podge, but a whole lot of fun! And now I have this little canvas on a shelf above desk. Yay!
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www.scraplagret.se, a great Swedish web shop, has a fun challenge every month. The October challenge was to create a layout, a card, something altered or whatever seemed fun, in a christmas theme, but in non-traditional christmas colours. The deal was to use pink, turquoise or/and purple. Now, what I really like about challenges, especially ones like these, is that it makes you think outside your own tiny, little box. Would I have made a christmas card in turquoise if not for this challenge? Probably not. I would probably have stuck to gren, red and gold. So there you go, challenges are fun. I will have to do more!
And this is the card! Keep your fingers crossed:
Time to get into that christmas spirit, peeps! 70 days left to find those pressies to your loved ones! Woo!
I got interested – well, instantaneously obsessed – in scrapbooking because of these reasons:
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I wanted a method to save my favourite recipes in a personal and beautiful way
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The interest for cooking is something I share with my mother, and I wanted to include her in the project because it’s great to have a thing like this to do together
I have always been besotted at the sight of pretty papers and shiny things so the infatuation was a fact, instantly. And then I realised, how much more it really was, how much more I could do. It was like I’d been living under a cloudy sky all my life and suddenly I saw stars. Yes, my discovery of scrapbooking was quite sci-fi like ;) Ground Control to Major Tom!
Since then I have tried different mediums, materials and techniques, and what I seem to do most are cards. I had no idea it was so much fun and whatever I try to do I always slip back into CaRd MoDe. Because “this would look really neat on a card”…
I’ve been thinking about why that is, how it can be so utterly satisfying to spend hours on end stamping and cutting and gluing (…my fingers together) and in the end create something that certainly wont last forever and will most definitely be given away to someone else. It’s a fickle thing.
But of course, after thinking about a while it I realised why. Like most people, it’s what I grew up with. In my family cards was never given listlessly, but always with great affection and intent. Much time has been spent on trying to match the card to a flower bouquet or finding the receivers favourite motif. You just don’t do it rashly!
My mother has been a star at this. Always choosing cards with care, expressing something. And as far as I can remember she has always ordered greeting cards and gift tags from VDMFK (The Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists) – (Swedish site). When I was a kid it was always a treat to be allowed to choose one of these cards or tags, when I needed one for a friend’s birthday party or a X-mas present to my granny. When I grew older and understood what the association was all about it just blew my mind, and has been a great source of inspiration.
My grandfather was a big role model in my life in many ways, I adored him. As far as I can remember he always wrote me cards for all kinds of occasions, even if he was just secretly sneaking me a couple of dollars even though he shouldn’t have, he put them in a little cards and wrote a few words. Always horses or birds.
My dear granny has had the funny notion of delivering postcards personally. She’s quite frail nowadays, but still she’s been known to hop on a bus, then a train, and then a bus again to get that postcard in my mail box. Not ringing the door, no no, she does not want to disturb anyone, she was just in the neighbourhood ;). Pretty soon I got in the habit of rushing to the door when I heard someone sneaking about with my mailbox, to get a chance to grab her and give her coffee. Birthday or name day, international waffle day or Anna day, she writes cards.
So maybe it’s not so strange that making cards was the thing that stuck with me. It’s just something I grew up with. To make something creative on my own and give it away gives me a lot of joy.
“Hello”
I chose this paper as the colour reminded me of one of those gorgeous sunsets you can get in a city when the sun and the sky reflects in all the windows. The patterns is made of fuzzy crushed velvet flock, which I think go rather well with the kitties living in the building :)
I glazed the windows and worked on the fasade to get something a bit grungy in colours that would match the background paper. It’s basically brown cardstock that I painted, sandpapered, embossed and inked.
“It Must Be Bunnies”
Being a softy for pop cult references, made me think of this title. I wanted houses that felt flower-powerish amd found this funky paper I got from Tricks:
More paint action on the paper, I’m starting to like that combo. It makes a busy paper a bit softer in the contrasts, and as a step up from just inking the edges it makes the paper look like a finished product. It’s an easy trick to get it to match another paper or a different colour.
“Knock Knock – Who’s There?”
Friendly monsters who’s taken up residence in one of the tower blocks. Stars made of tiny peel-offs, embossed dots and a silver pen.
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