Hello all! I love green! And June Words & Paintery colors are full of greens. I simply couldn't resist to join.

I picked up a green toned picture - there is me and Lotte (the horse), and as the June words reminded me about things that opens my mind I thought to journal something about my passions. First is obviously doing crafts and photographing, but the other is horses. Even though taking care of horses takes a lot of time and strength, it also gives a lot. And every day I learn something new, my mind is has to be opened for new things. 

Thanks for popping in today! 

Materials used: 13@rts, American Crafts, Lucky 7 Factory, Crate Paper, 3rd Eye.

Hey there! Here is my layout for Words&Paintery April challenge. Even though I have really loved playing with Words&Paintery challenges, this will be my last for Words&Paintery Design Team. You know how it goes, life goes on, new adventures lies ahead and so on.

Big thank you for lovely Marie for having me there, I appreciate it so much!

The colors we have this month reminded me about my younger one, Mea. She loves yellow, if she could decide, she'd wear only yellow, she'd eat only yellow things such as bananas or pineapples and she would play with only yellow things :D That's why I took the yellow as my main color and journaling tells about her happy attitude.

Thank you for stopping by today :)

Materials used: American Crafts, Studio Calico, Color Conspiracy, Crate Paper, 13@rts, Jillipean Soup.

Hi there! Today we have a new challenge over at Words&Paintery challenge blog. This time I found the colors a bit challenging, but I won those dark reds and blue by working with them on white background. The words in this challenge are from Bruce Springsteen's song, that reminded me about the songs by daughters loves to hear and how much they enjoy of dancing. 

The picture is from our cruise last fall. The ship's nightclub was empty in the afternoon, but we had disco lights on and music playing - perfect for my girls!

It was fun and happy moment.

Now, if you are looking for mixed media challenge, this is for you. Use the colors in any creation you want to do and be inspired by the words. Link your creation to Words&Paintery blog and win prizes!

Have a happy Sunday, I'm off to outside to enjoy the sun!

Materials used: American Crafts, Color Conspiracy, Crate Paper, 13@rts.

Hello all! We have a new challenge open over at Words&Paintery blog, here!

I obviously used all three colors, love how springy they look! And I decided to play with the words by thinking my daughters life. "Embrace the Past" - embracing their childhood.

That picture is precious for me, I took it last summer in our backyard and I love the way they both look so extremely happy! And why wouldn't they, they had their favorite dresses on, sun was shining and mommy treated them with delicious soy ice cream.

Have a lovely day!

Materials used: Creative Embellishments, Studio Tekturek, Lemon Owl, American Crafts, WOW Embossing Powder, 13@rts, Tattered Angels.

Hey! I can't get enough of this photo! It was taken on a river cruise in London, Thames river was a great way to see London sights. We were taking photos of each others with my hubby, when a kind lady asked if she can help and take our picture. So there is helpful and kind people in the world!!

Anyway, that kind lady took a few pics and this is one of them. I can proudly say I'm looking good in the picture and so does my hubby. Good times!

This layout is for CSI CC-4, in collaboration with Words&Paintery! 

Evidence: 3 of something, stars, texture paste.

Testimony: Today is the 1st day...

Oh, and let me explain my journaling theme. I thought "today is the 1st day..." is perfect fit with the pic as that was our first journey together and first day abroad together. Yep, we've been over seven years married, and our trip to London in last September was the first journey together.

Thanks for popping in here today! 

Materials used:American Crafts, Prima Marketing, Studio Tekturek, 13@rts, Heidi Swapp, Rayher, Tattered Angels.

Hello! Need a challenge with mixed media? Hop on to Words&Paintery and give it a try, it's easy. Use those two colors shown above (white, grey, blue) and somehow include the words ("this is the first day of the rest of your life") to your creation. It can be a scrapbook layout, canvas, art journal page, card, altered item or even a home decor object if you just use those colors and words.

My layout is kind of a New Year resolution: To start again if something doesn't work out. 

Like in the world of paper crafts, no need to struggle if something isn't working, I can throw the paper away and start a new one. Or as in the world of horses: If my lovely ride won't do things the way I asked, I'll try again just as many times as it finally goes well. 

For me it's not that easy, as said... I like to do things to the very end, so I'm faced with a challenge.

Now hop on to Words&Paintery and see what the rest of our Creative Team has created!

Materials used: 13@rts, Prima Marketing, Studio Calico, Crate Paper, Color Conspiracy, Teresa Collins, Heidi Swapp.

Heyhey! New challenge open over at Words&Paintery (link). There is also someone new in our Design Team, so hop on there and see who :)

December theme is "Shimmer & Shine", fits perfectly to December but I thought to make a layout about my "shining" during this ongoing year. It was wonderful thought to document it, some things I've reached and things that have been good...But no way to fit that journaling to my layout, so I wrote it to the backside. And it actually didn't fit there either so I need to do at least one other layout with this same theme. Or a couple more... To sum up this year of 2014. Wonderful year!

Have a great week - nine more night to Christmas Eve! (Yes, I'm aware of that as I have two monkeys here waiting for Santa...LOL!)

Materials used: American Crafts, TCW, Liquitex, Studio Calico, PanPastel, 13@rts, Freckled Fawn. 

Hello lovelies! My first project for Words&Paintery, I promise this won't be the last ;)

Words&Paintery is all about mixed media, so you need to do your mixed media project with given color scheme (above: green, grey and purple) and use our word/theme (above: with you it's different). Simple, eh? And so inspiring!

My "with you it's different" is of course my hubby! Our friends just got divorced and it woke us up: to see how lucky and tight couple we are. We spent our time together, of course some times apart, too. But living without each other is something we could never have - at least we feel so now. We actually miss each other during the day at work! We had long conversation about what are the main things in our relationship, what keeps us together and how we can keep it that way. 

Of course I'm deeply, truly sorry for our friends, but it was good thing to wake up and talk about these things. Life can change so fast, and things can change so fast that we can't keep each others like matter of courses.

How do you keep your marriage happy? Do you ever think it?

Have a happy day - no matter where you are and with who!

Materials used: American Crafts, 13@rts, Hero Arts, Creative Embellishments, Rayher, Studio Calico, Studio Tekturek, Heidi Swapp and Tattered Angels.

Hi! How are you on this fine day? I just got back from Stockholm and now I have special announcement to tell: Lovely Marie Johansson asked me to join Words&Paintery Design Team!

If you haven't heard about Words&Paintery, let me introduce it:

Words&Paintery is all about mixed media. We have one challenge a month, with a color scheme and inspiration word. I definitely recommend you to try it out, anything goes as long as it's mixed media! There are sponsor's prizes so that's another reason to hop on board!

You'll see my first Words&Paintery creation 15th November, next Saturday!

Big thank you again for Marie for asking me in!