{you can buy the album here}

I´m so happy to finally shear this project with you guys! I made a mini album with Prima´s Cartographer collection a few days a ago and I have spent days editing the video that is about 30 minutes long! (HERE!) I wanted to show you the different steps of this mini not just the paper and cover but how I was thinking and how I made the flowers.


So I really hope you like it and here is allot of photos:

I really wanted to stay true to the color scheme with the neutrals black and gold. I really like the effect that that glass pearls gives, and the colors fitted so nicely. so if you want to see just how this came toghtere check out this video!

 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

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

Happy Friday everyone! Today I have a little sign to show you made with the Country Escape collection from Panduro. In the background I have used a lace mask from panduro with Acrylic modeling paste .  I don´t know what the sign will say jet but until that it hangs in my craft space and is looking pretty.

I hope you like it

Love Julia

The card that i´m showing you today I spend allot of time on. I really wanted to try something different and I´m so happy with the end result! And for all of you that has been following me for some time know that I struggle with the color yellow... But I think I really love it now!

papers are from pandurohobby

 The key hole is from a Tim Holts grunge board that I embossed with stampendous -aged silver (love that stuff!!!)

 The bird-nest resin is colored with gold and the eggs with blue and some dots of black and brown

 Edwin is colored with distress ink and mated over a brick stamp from Prima

Edwin is in the card challenge over at: tildastown

And you haven´t missed the giveaway here at Life of Julia have you? For your chance to win Magnolia stamps and decorations leave a comment at this post: easter-blog-candy and follow this blog.

Love Julia

Making resins are so much fun and finding new ways to color them! Check out my post on how I make resins using the mod podge mold:  Here.

But today Is all about what to do with them when they are finished.

 1. Glitter glue

 2. Mists with glimmer

 3. Nailpolish

 4. Acrylic paint

 5. Pearlpaint

As I said before, I have tried with embossing but the resin melts before the powder thous. But that can be because that my heat gun is a industrial and not for crafting... 

Love Julia