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Hello!                                            
Here is number 4 and last layout out of my scrap kit. It all about little puppy Penny.

This layout is really simple and the focus is on the photo and the bling. The bling in this is some brads that I digged out of my little misc-box in white, pink and light green.

I like the light feel of this layout, with the light colors and then a black and white photo (edited in the Rhonna Design App). The background is from Basic Grey and has the right pink and light green.

 The title is stamped and to get it a bit more grounded I added a light green arrow. Without it the title would just have been floating there without anything really pulling it to the page.

 The hanging thing is a fishing thing... with a heart and some cute brads. The card that is stamped with the date is from the Maggie Holmes core kit and fit perfect. So glad that I checked the back side!

 Putting the brads in clusters helps to draw the eye and pulls the colors together. I didn´t think that I liked pink and green together but I have proved myself wrong...

I hope that you enjoyed this series! All of the videos are in this playlist

Love Julia

                                                        *Barock part 2!*

Hello!
Today I have 3 layouts to show you! Witch means that my Barock album is finished! (Part 1 is here) I used allot from my August-scrap-kit . I´m so happy to have it done and now when ever I miss him terribly I can just open that album.

The first layout here is not made with the kit, the 8x8 paper is pieced together with tiny strips from My Minds Eye- Flea Market 6x6 pad. The layout is rather simple with the focus on the photo. Using black helps to frame the focus and creates contrast that I felt this layout really needed with the soft colors and doily. I wanted the all of the layout to go together without looking to matchy. So working with layers and keep bringing black in really does the trick.

I really like this layout with the colors and the blue bling, it really stands out in the album. And just to add some demotion makes a big differences!

 This layout is really 2 but I made them to be 1. I started with this pink/purplish paper from Magnolia, spacing it equally in the two 8x8 pages.  I then added layers from the august-scrap-kit.

 All of the chipboard is from Prima- SeaShore and I think the colors works so good together. The journaling I did is around the layout so it looks like a old phone-wire type. Bye the way, I love this photo of him, it really show how amazing he was! and big! he was 173 cm and I´m only 168cm.

 All of the photos on this layout I printed at home on a plain cardstock and that is why they look so muted. But I don´t think that is a big deal, If I had decided to have them printed I would have had to wait for a long time (we usually order big badges) but now the album is done!

 The last layout is called "Massage" and the photo is of Barock getting massage when he was really sick. He loved this so I wanted to make sure I got that in the album. Here to I have layering going on and of course the black lace washi-tape.  I also used the blue glitter letter from my kit.

I really hope you liked this layouts and this little mini series about Barock. Now I have only 1 more layout left to show you from what I made with my august-scrap-kit and then I have something new on the works that I think you´ll really love!

Till then

Love Julia

Hello everyone!                                                                        *Here is the video!*
I´m back with another layout made from my august-scrap-kit.
I´m going to be really honest with you now: I love Prima stuff but this paper I really, really don´t like! I like the idea if it, mixed media-ish with doily and ink splatters, but it just looks like a hot mess (so those the other papers in this collection too) And now you think: But if you don´t like it why do you have it, and use it?. Well I got the paper in one of those "mystery bags" and I´m going to use it because I love a challenge!

So I started with my photo (the photo is not that good, dark and bleary so it looks like he only has three legs, oh my) Then I took out scraps from the kit and that was laying around, started to add layers. Now like I said before I´m not crazy over the mixed media feel because I think it looks like a mess but I decided to embrace it!

 Adding black to contrast and interest one of my favorite "tools", no matter how bad it is, adding black works 9 out of 10 times. Like the stamp, so easy to build a pattered! (from Prima, Optimist collection)

I just though to mention something that I do really like sens I was a bit negative in the beginning. And that is this stamp set. I got it to a good prize and it so versatile, I´ve used it on all of the layouts and I know I will continue to use it allot in the future. Stamps really are investments.

In my video I shoe you how you can make this super simple mixed media look with just washi-tape and some stamps. I know there is allot of people that are a bit afraid of the hole mixed media and if you are, starting with just a border with washi-tape and some stamps might be perfect for you...

Now when I look at this layout I don´t hate it, but nether do I love it.  I think it´s a really good layout where I really had to think about it and solve a problem. Would I do the this layout the same way if I got the same paper and photo? I think not, but I enjoyed making it and in the end I had a good time. I said before that I don´t make layouts in first hand to remember a moment. I scrapbook because I love the mix of paper, paint and photos, if I then later have albums filled with memories that is a amazing bonus. 

Love Julia

Hello!

I´m back with a new layout using my august-scrap-kit! This layout was inspired by a spread in a magazine, the pastel colors with the black

The kit was put together with a vintage and shabby chic feel in mind but picking put some colors and going with a white cardstock can change everything!


              Here is the video!


So light yellow, blue and pink with black accents. I used a stamp from the optimist stamp collection from Prima to stamp a border around the edge. The paper-layers are put around the photo in like a T-shape to help draw the eye.

I used the same blue glitter-letters from the previous layout together with my dymo and black letter. The resins are from a mod pogde  resin mold, painted with white paint and distress ink.

 I just couldn´t stay away from the black lace washi-tape but it just works with everything!

I hope you like the layout and don´t forget to check out the video: HERE

Love Julia

Hello boy and girls!
I´m back! It feels like I have been gone forever but here I am!                          New Video!

So to start of August I have decided to try something new to use up my scraps: making a kit! Just going through my stuff pulling it out and making my own kit. It was so much fun!

So in this kit I pulled mostly brown, blue and pinks. I have allot of vintage feel papers and paired with blue and pink I think it can be really cute. The 12x12 papers are, from the right, Basic Grey (x3) Maja Design, Prima, Magnolia (x2) Basic Grey, Scraps Maja Design & Basic Grey. The pink one is a watercolor piece.

In the "Fun Box" I put a 6x6 My Minds Eye Blush pad, Prima stamps, pearls and bling, book-pages, letters and washi tape (not in the photo). I do think that I will add more things to my projects as I go on. But I see this kit as a starting of point and not being shy to cut in to the papers or finishing a sheet of pearls.





Here is my first layout: This kit was perfect for this photo, brown, blue and pink. I took one of the 12x12 Basic Grey papers and the rest is from the 6x6 pad. I love how the colors turned out and when you look at the layout you can feel the autumn the is in the photo.

 Allot of layers doesn´t have to mean allot of papers, adding washi-tape is a great way to add layer without using papers. One "rule" that I tend to follow is mixing layers, neutrals with patterns.

 In the end I really like this layout, not only the design aspect but because it´s about my mother and something the is hers. It was some time ago sens I did a layout with a proper title and journaling but I think I might do more...

I hope you like it and don´t forget to check out the video HERE

Love Julia