I just couldn't wait to play with this set and in-between reading I die-cuted and stamped these tabes.
I used just white cardstock and my new "Ruby Red" ink and I really love how it turned out!! The ink is really pretty and the dies are perfect! The only this is that the stamps are a bit trick to line up...
What a week! and not in a good way, more like no voice to speak and blow my nose every five minutes... But luckily the worst is over, I think I gave the bug to dad... Next week we'll finish our current course and let´s say I have some catching up to do after last week.
But today is the First Advent and in our house that is when we put out all the pretty lights and hang the Christmas curtains. No other decoration intill the 23 of December.
Even my studio got some Christmas cheer.
This is what my brother and I did after breakfast, rather charming isn't he?
Found my favorit Christmas candle last year and bought a couple... okej a few... will look for more.
This is the best part of december, the lights. When it's dark at 3 these lights are really magical!
It´s time to dig into your stach and find those forgotten Prima flowers!
When doing a Christmas project there is no such thing as "too much" and I just love these projecs when I get let go have just have fun! So today I return to my orign to show how I made this vintage-shabby chic home decor project!!
I just love it and did I mention it was so much fun to make?
I recently got a notebook. Not a fancy one but perfect for play and just to have fun in. I work in it those days when I just don't make it out to the studio but still want to paint something. This book is not meant to be "good" but a place where I can draw my faces and try a new medium; gouache.
My thought on gouache is that I think I really like it! I like the look of it together with watercolor and that it is so opaque. However I feel that when I paint with these Panduro Gouache that something is wanted. That they are missing something. I know that when it comes to paint you get what you pay for and in this case I think that is very true. So on my Christmas wishlist this year; a set of gouache paints, a nice set!
I have come up with a few steps that I follow, a receipt if you will, in this sketchbook:
1. watercolor background
2. Pencil in the face
3. Paint the lady with gouache
4. Add details with color pencils.
5. Start over...
I'm having so much fun testing out this new, to me, medium. I love the look of all of these different mediums coming together and just how opaque the paint is!
I love the end results of my ladies with the different layers and texturs. I'm having so much fun testing out different colors, shapes and stiles!
The other day I looked into my papers and saw these 3 Maggie Holmes papers next to each other and I just had to make a page with them!
I picked my favorit photo from my last print order and some horded embellishments from Felicity Jane. The rest is stickers and papers from different crate paper collections and random bits from my desk. I just love how these odd pages come together!
The first snow is really magical! Here is south west Sweden we usually have it in December or January but this year it came in the first week of November! That my friends are magic!
After that my brother and I had come back inside I just had toscrapbook and what eals then the magic morning? I had so much fun, using the super pretty "Snow & Cocoa" from Crate Paper.
My album is starting to come together and I just love it! This is my first time preping and making "pages" in advance and I really like it. I makes it allot easier to see how the album will and to plan out the pocket designs. I'm sure allot will change but for now here is how it looks:
This beautiful calander was made by the super talented Marie Lottermoser and you can print one for your self! I found this that was in the perfect colors! I have used her calenders in all of my December Daily's and just love them!
