Powering Along!

The best thing about a weekend without the boys when DH is working?? I get plenty of time to scrap!

As well as tidying my craft room, I have completed more pages of the mini-album.
Page 2 shows the Louvre museum - a blend of old and new. I remember the uproar when the glass pyramid was commissioned, and there were those who thought it would ruin the Louvre. It hasn't; it has added to the mystique and mastery of this place.
I remember having little interest in the Louvre - museums and art really aren't my scene - but my friends and I trudged through the Louvre for hours on end. I was secretly in abhorrence of the mummies - decaying bodies so close and just underneath the wrappings - and the Mona Lisa was so crowded we really didn't bother. (I also secretly subscribed to one of my friend's theories that the real Mona Lisa was hidden away in the cellars, just in case ... a plausible scenario to me). But when we got to the French masters, they took my breath away. The depth of colour and texture. Simply amazing. We were no longer trudging; we were actively searching out new (to us) masterpieces in the little time we had left before the Louvre closed. I truly believe that there is somethig for everyone inside the Louvre, whether you are an art lover or not. And you have to see the metro station for the Louvre as well ...
I have used MM acrylic paint espresso sponged over the cardstock and for the MM foam stamp, MM rub-ons for the title, and MM rubber ornament stamp with Hero Arts midnight blue ink, torn handmade paper and silk ribbon aged in walnut ink threaded through an old button.
The craft room is tidier - the ribbons have been strung along the cupboard so far as possible and I have tidied some stray papers. I have so much paper it isn't funny. I could wallpaper the room in it. Seriously.