The Craft Barn: Q & L Challenge

 The new challenge over at the Craft Barn is to use the words PEACEFUL and/or GRACE in a quote or lyric.
I found a couple of songs with the word GRACE in it, but I went for Jeff Buckley's song Grace at the end. 
I like Jeff Buckley a lot, he is(was) such a talented artist. Unfortunately he died in 1997 aged only 30.
Please check out the song here

  For this page I made a watercolour background. Cut out a tag from a sparkling cardboard and coloured it with Alcohol inks. I've printed out the lyrics and glued it on the tag. I then added images of Jeff Buckley to the page and some collage elements. 
This was good fun and I enjoyed making this page a lot. 

 Looking forward to see what everybody is making for this challenge. Thanks a lot for all the lovely comments left for my THING page :)

Craft-Room Challenge - Cats

I spent some time today to make a card for the new Craft-Room Challenge.
The Challenge theme is Cats and since I love cats (and dogs :) ) this was good fun.

For the background I've just used red Pan Pastels. Than I used some distress paper and ran it through a polka dot embossing folder. After that I've sandpapered it to make the red appear form underneath. 
The cat stamp is from Stampendous and the quote from Dylusions. I've used black VersaFine for both stamps. 

Thanks for looking :)

The Craft Barn: Q & L Challenge

We've got a new challenge over at the Craft Barn today.
The Challenge this time is to use the words THING and/or FAMILY in a quote or lyric.
I decided to do another page in my art journal and found a Dylusions stamp with the following quote, which I like a lot:

Enjoy the little things in life...
for one day you'll look 
back and realize 
they were the big things.

 Then I browsed the July Issue of the Craft Stamper magazine in search for some inspirations and found a technique called: Tattered & Torn. 
 So for this page I used Distress Inks and VersaFine. The stamps are from Dylusions and Papermania. Finally some lace as borders. 

 
Looking forward to see what everybody is making for this challenge. Thanks a lot for all the lovely comments left for my MIND page :)

Less Is More: One Layer - Foliage
 
This card is for the new Less is More Challenge - Week 184.
The Challenge this week is a One Layer card with the theme: Foliage.
  I've sponged some Big and Juicy Foliage Ink on the masked up part of the card. Then I stamped the leaves with VersaMark (the stamp is from Crafty Individuals) and embossed it with white embossing powder from Stampendous. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps.
Thanks for looking :)