Take out your glue-pen and glitter and follow me! Together we can change the world... Well maybe not but we will have fun!
 So see here, cute...

 And now with glitter, so much cuter!

So to you how live in fear of using glitter, afraid it will end up everywhere: Don´t live in fear and what if you find glitter everywhere? It adds sparkle to that grey everyday-life.

Love Julia 

It´s all ready mid November, where does the time goes?! I think that this is a tricky time now, is it fall, is is winter? Here in Sweden there is snow in the north but here in the south its still fall. So with this Swedish weather in mind here is today's card:
On this card I have use two old magnolia stamps as embellishments. The leaf and mushrooms, the leaf is stamped on some bronzed paper and the mushrooms are stamped on watercolor paper and then painted.   The background is basic grey and burlap.

 The flowers are in fall colors and the big rose is embossed with a gold powder. The small brown pearls is all over the card, on the flowers, the image and on the leaf.

 This girl is colored with distress ink and the snow is chunky embossing powder. This image really is Swedish November in a nutshell.

I hope you like it
Love Julia

I just love this stamp, she is truly adorable.  So I made this card with a midwinter feel.

The background paper is from Magnolia as are all the paper flowers.

 I wanted lace at the bottom of the card be it´s hard to get it nice so I made a border to put over. It´s just a thin pecie of paper that I embossed with "shabby white" from Stampendous.

 Tilda is stamped in vintage photo and colored with "tea day" & "vintage photo" and "spun sugar" for the flowers.

I hope you like it

This card is in the challenges: 

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Love Julia

No secret that I love this micas and today I though I´d show how I use them on my cards and layouts. They are perfect for the vintage touch.

So when using micas you heat it from underneath and using the embossing-powders as a fixative. Here I start with UTEE that I have mixed with some purple glitter.

Then I take some gilded mica, break them up to small pieces.  

 Now to the aged silver powder.

 Heat it from underneath, if you heat it from the top everything will blow a way, trust me...

 Here I´vie taken some more vintage powder and micas.

 Here is a last tip, I´ve made this cheat note with my embossing powders.

Love Julia

Seen the movie "rise of the guardians", I have a few times... I really like Sandy and Pitch just because they are so different but on some level they could be the same person.
So feeling the inspiration I turned to my trusted smash/ art journal to see what would happen when this two meet.
Here you can see the colors I used and then gold and pearl as accents on Sandy and Pitch.

 Sandy got golden eyes and gold in his hair.

 Pitch got pearl in his hair and the front of his face.

 I´m really like how i turned out and I´m almost ashamed to say how little time I spent sketching... But that´s the thing with the art journal.

Love Julia

I love my stamps and some I have had for years but I usually color them in the same way. So I challenged myself to color them in a new way.
So I took it all with my down stairs. Some times it helps to move, just to focus on what you are working on and not the card laying next to you.

 I don´t have any copics or pro markers but I have seven distress inks. I have them in this box where I normally would have brads and such. But in this one the inks and under I have put pieces of paper with the inks on. That Way I see what color it is and how light- dark it can be. The colors, if you can´t read my hand; tumbled glass, worn lipstick, peeled paint, tea dye, vintage photo, spun sugar & mustard seed.

 So I stamped them and colored them in a way I never have done before. I´m so happy with the result, so colorful.

I see and take part in allot of challenges but some times it´s fun to just challenge yourself.  The best part is the reward is right a way. I hope you feel inspeared.
Love Julia

I think I´m card crazy, I don´t mind just thought you should know.
I made this with Maja design paper from the Blomstertid collection.  Tilda is colored with distress inks in "tea dye", "vintage photo" & "spun sugar". Have I mention that I love stampendous embossing-powders and micas? On this I have used "shabby blue" and "aged gold", the micas are in "tea stained". The resin butterfly is embossed with the same "aged gold". The flowers I got a Magnolia and just sprayed them and took some gold paint on the petals.

I really like this one, it has this winter feel but is in one way christamsy.
Love Julia