Here is my latest project: The Cottage!



Let´s get right to it: I started with this wood-scraps that I took from my dad. This are really thin and I could just break them up.










Then it´s just to start gluing... I wanted a long- thin house and then I put two pieces at the bottom and one on the back- so I can glue flowers in it later.













When the house is put together I painted it in white gesso. Then on the house I painted with crackle medium and the roof is pearl-paint mixed with distress inks. After 4 hours I could paint the rest of the house (the crackle medium needs to rest for about 4h) with a light dove-blue color.






But I couldn´t leave the roof for long so I put on pearled-micas and white glitter. Than over the door I put a metal corner.












And just like that: The house is finished! I took an old paint brush that had an accident with glitter-glue... and now it´s a flagpole with a blinged-out flag.

 The clockhead is from Maya Road that I jus put some pearls and stones on.

 A fence made out of flower-sticks and string.

 The chain is arranged in a pocket-watch fashion. And the house is surrounded with flowers and Prima bling swirls. All the flowers are brushed with Chrystal stickels.

 Here are my shabby chic Cottage:

Love Julia

I have a drawer in my desk that is filled with scrap-paper. I get anxiety only by thinking of it and I haven´t opened it in like... forever. But the other day I decided to make something out of all scrap-pieces.

So taking on my "Big Girl Pants" I jumped in and took out a pill of papers. I wanted to have the same size so I went with 10*15 cm (6*4 inches) because I have photo-pockets that size. I just went with it without thinking too much, just gluing it down.

The first one I keep simple with allot of elements cut out of Graphic 45 papers.

On this tag I found a photo of a girl I had drawn a few year back and cut her out and around her a allot of book-mark flowers.

number 3 is a mix of Prima and Graphic 45 papers with some vintage musicsheet.

My favorite is no 4 with K&Company  paper and Prima packaging. The focal point is Graphic 45 cut outs but there is some Panduro and My Minds Eye papers to in there.

No 5 has it´s own video and here we can talk about layers. papers from Graphic 45, Magnolia, DCWV & My Minds Eye.  You can see how I put this together from cutting up the papers to cover the lamp with glossy accents.

I hope this gave you some inspiration to get started with your scrap. Now when I don´t know what to do I get start on a new tag with the papers laying on my desk or taking up some from the drawer. I feel better knowing that I use the papers even though the tags might not be the best looking ever...

Don´t forget to check out the video and thank you for stopping bye!

Love Julia

Hello and happy summer!
This week my brother and sister went on their summer break and as the nice sister that I am I thought I would give them a gift.

I wanted to give them something that they can work with and remember their summer. So I thought that a journal would be perfect, they can put photos in, journal, draw and well what ever really. (Here you can see me working on mine...)

So I got 3 book, (I think they are 7*7), 3 sheets of letter, brads and allot of papers from my stack.

I´t took some time to put them together and I´m just now finishing my book so that I´m on time. My brother and sisters books comes with a little package witch has, double-sided tape, brads that match the letter and pearls & bling.

 I have a video up so you can see more of the books and I think I will make a video so you can see how I´ve made mine.
The way I have planed to use mine is like a journal, a entry every day, where I can make simple layouts and paint. I just have to say it´s a good thing that this book has that elastic band around them...

I hope you like it and check out the video HERE

Love Julia

The other day my brother bought new Nike shoes and as someone with true scraper-mania, I took the box!

 Of with his head!!... or in this case the lid.

 Paint the boxes white!!, especially the edges.

 Pretty papers and what kind of project wold this be if it didn´t have book-pages?!

The book-pages are on the inside to keep the flaps down and make it more... Better

 Add some cute stuff

 By now you all know that I love pearls and I have a hole box of this tiny, in ones so I glued them on one by one. That took a bit of time but lets call in therapy and then I´m a multitask-er.  

 Butterfly out of grunge board with a pen nib.

 This shoe-box is the perfect size for 6*6 pads, 2 fit next to each other and then I have a 8*8 in the back and ATC size in  the front.  

 I´m so happy how perfect this turned out! At lest Nike can make really good boxes ;)

Love Julia

 

Happy Saturday to you all! I have a something really special to show you today! It´s me first mini album in years! (a part from the prima class... that was a huge inspiration!!) I´m so happy with this album and I have taken allot of photo! and HERE is a video where I show the mini and talk about it... allot...

Here are some details:
measurements: 6"*6,5"
Paper: My Mindes Eye- Lost & Found "Sunshine"
Flowers& Leafs: Prima, metal, pyhobby roses & "Julia´s book-page roses"
Bling: Prima "Time traveler" & pyhobby pearl-swirl

 The tags are made from left over paper and some bling & leafs

I kid you not when I say I have no paper left! The hole pad is in this album! It feel so good to know that I used up as much scrap-paper as possible! I just love this Lost & Found papers and at that same time I didn´t want to much on the pages. So how ever gets it have room to put in their photos and journaling. I put on some 4*4" photo mates in an off-white cardstock, some are glued down and some are in the pockets.

I´m so happy with this mini that I have already started on a new one :)

I think that you all know by now that I am a big Live with prima fan and today´s project is inspired by Frank Garcia´s Tresors De La Mer class. I just love the idea of altered sea shells. So I took a small frame, painted it white, distressed it and went to town with my glue-gun.

 The roses are lavender pearl (you can see how to make them Here ) and the shells are painted with a white acrylic paint and then sprayed with blue and pink mists.

 Book-pages, tyll, lace, roses, shells and pearl = Shabby Chic. So to balance it out I took a metal piece and made the title in my dymo, this contrast will make more interest.

 The pearls are from Panduro and I took the white and the light pink ones. The tiny roses, I left the greens on just so that not everything is white and lilac.

 I just love how the shells turned out! I hope you all like it, and watch Live with Prima!

Love Julia

Hello! It´s Monday and I have just come home from my second visit at my new physiotherapist. Apparently when you ride horses you are supposed to sit on them and not fall of. Well I have fallen of a few times and my back is quite damaged. So now I go to this physiotherapist and get electricity in my back and it´s so nice! It will take some time before I can start working out and building up the muscles but that´s okej with me.

But that is not why I started writing this post, I have a little birdhouse to show you! It´s made from a toilet paper roll and papers from "all that spring".

 It´s made with allot flowers, button and pearls. My favorite part is the roof with part paper and part book-pages and some glitter! So much shabby chic!
I hope you like it and that you all have a great week!

Love Julia