Meet Frida

Frida landed in my stamp collection on Friday. This fiesty young lady was born in Las Vegas, and somehow I get the feeling Paris is not her favorite place on Earth...


Frida complains about the food (too lean), the messy state of the stamping room, the choice of background music, the size of the other rubber stamps (especially the male ones), even the weather: too mild, she says, apparently "real weather" is either burning hot or freezing, springs and falls are just plain boring.


One of the first of Frida's complaints was the lack of friends to play with. So I dug out Alice, who is the perfect size and age to play with Frida, and I expected the two to get along well. But no. As a welcome gift, Alice brought Frida... a pig. Unfortunately Frida's reaction was not what Alice had hoped for.


Time will show, whether these two will become friends.. or not.


Stamp credits: Frida, grinnning sun - Viva Las Vegas Stamps ; Tree - Stempelmine ; Alice - Stampfrancisco ; Flowers - Hero Arts

Workshops and techniques

Oh my, has it been almost a month? So sorry for no updates!

I've been busy with my birthday (a Somerset Studio subscription was among the presents, hooray), and then with Serious Workshops these past two weekends!

Last weekend I took part in a scrap rally, as Sami calls it. It was two days of scrapping without pause, I went with my two stamping buddies, the two Sandas, and we had an excellent time. We did an altered box using photos as part of tehe decoration, and a mini album on a wintery theme. Unfortunately the box is a present so it must be blogged later, and the mini album isn't finished, but you'll see pictures shortly!

Yesterday we three stampeteers took part in an amazing adventure at a convention dedicated to stamping techniques and discovery in the world of what's new in the field (well, new in this part of the world...). We did workshops with the likes of Suze Weinberg, Tim Holtz and Manuela Jamet... oh boy! Yes, photos will be shared, but like the box from last week, some of the things I made are presents and I feel they should arrive at their destinations before being published here.

Instead, two scrap pages. One with me and the Sandras (the photo taken the day we got together for the first time, in the background our usual Friday playfield), and one the page I made last night at the convention with a given choice of papers and embellishments. Eglantine is my clownname. I'll say for the clown page, this would definitely not have been my choice of colors and papers, had a scrapped at home alone! but it was a challenge, and the results are OK, I find.

Done with "building"

My row houses are ready, the swap is done, and all the envelopes are going out on Monday. I made a card to go with the swap:


And the rest of the houses are here:






This was a particularly fun swap. I organized it, and so got to see all 10 houses of the other participants. I really feel I know them a bit better now, after all the theme for the swap was "me"! Some participants described their houses, and some told things about themselves, their wishes and dreams and their way of life.

ATC swapping at its best. :)

Stamp credits: Painter - Enchanted ink, houses - Heindesign , tree - Stempelmine, Alphabet for "home sweet home" - Art By Moonlight (Stampfrancisco), All stamps on the orange house - Inkadinkado, Text behind the lute player - Stampington.
Other credits: All white texts on black background on the rowhouses - Lisa Vollrath

Tule sellaisena kuin olet = Come as you are

More rowhouses

Here are some more houses (ATC size) I've made for the Altered Gypsy swap. I took quite a diferent appreach to these ones compared to the first ones I made (published a couple of weeks ago). Few stamps, moslty clop art.






Stamp credits: woman with flying hair - Cherry Pie Art Stamps

He's made it home

The little polar bear (mail art) has made it to his new home to Alaska! So it's also time to post him here.

The card is made on cardboard (a shipping box, might even be a pizzabox again... I just love that material). Painted with acrylic paints, then stamped with snowflakes in gold. The image is from a magazine, and the letters cut out of paper I made at Azoline's a long time ago, see entry of December 11th 2008.

Stamp credits: The snow flake- oops I forget (it's not mine)

Get well soon

Here's a get well -card that went out to a stamping / scrapping friend this week. I hearshe's doing a bit better and is our of bed - keep fighting, Samy!

The fish is saying.. "Get well soon" :D I don'tknow what it's saying for real, "Our company prepares the best socks in town" perhaps... I wish I knew what my Japanese (and Chinese) texts say. Apparently they're often commercial slogans! :D



Stamp credits: Japanese lady, small bamboo around the pond - Stone House Stamps; Gold fish - Limited Edition ; Bamboo in the background, flowering branch- Inkadinkadoo.

Rackett

Rackett the cat left us this morning at the age of 19. She was a happy cat with a good long life. Scratch her stomach and you got a purr, guaranteed. See you, Rackett.