Wiola just loves the winter and I hade to scrap this photo of her full of snow!
You know have we all think through our lives at the new years and deiced to do some things differently... I planed to do more scrapbooking in smaller format, 12x12 album are just huge... And what it the first page I do this year? Well I love how it looks so I suppose it's alright...
It's so fun to work with a winter line how has such fun and bright colors! Here in Sweden winter is grey, grey and in best case white but mostly grey...
I have this little sketchbook where I do nothing good. I have it to play and try new things in it. It feels so good opening this book knowing I can do anything. Yesterday I was inspired by a house in our village. It's an old traditional Swedish keyhole-house.
It's a rough and fast sketch in gouache and colored penciles but I had so much fun while doing it.
Bring out the design by adding some stickles, it will be like your own glitter paper!
how many sets of thickers do we have? Add some stickles on top and BOOM! So pretty.
On top of wood veneer
Why not add some sparkle on top of the wood embellishments?
Make your own design.
Use the fine tip of the bottle to write or draw your own design.
With a stencil.
A little goes a long way, and that is so true! Add some glitter by using the stickles with a stencil!
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...
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.
When I got my stuff from Sirap i Paris I couldn't wait to start playing with them. I posted a layout I did using the "Cool Kid" sticker so now I knew I wanted to use the Maggie Holmes "Gather" stickers! If you ever just going to get one thing from a line, I would suggest the stickers. You get allot for you money and they last a long time! (Well not for me but that is another story...)
The colors was inspired by this frame from the "Hello Love" by Crate Paper and yes, I have been hording it. How ever I think this is the perfect place for it, on a page about my favorite Aunt. I have a hard time scrap'n about events and peoples but it is something I'm working on.
I wrote about how much she means to me and why. How I can always count on her and that I look up to her and hope that some of her adventurousness rubs of on me.
I am so happy with how the background turned out, it was such long time ago I played with mixed media and I didn't reseal just how much I had missed it!
The texture, the colors (that blue!!) and the amazing Super Snorpan makes this layout to my favorite from September!
On this page I started with the background sticking down old label stickers from Sn@p and the 3 layers of white paint (my gesso was in my studio and I was just lazy...) I then dug out my distress inks in "Tattered Rose" and "Spun Suger" and speared them on. The last thing I did was adding a chunky embossing powder ("Aged Gold" by Stampendous) in the grooves of the labels.
In this case scrapbooking really helps, I use it as a form of journal i think. I have made many pages about myself and the struggles that is with living with constant pain. I like that I can write down and show how I feel, all of these pages will one day become an album hopefully with a happy ending.
Sometimes you just have to sit down and play! The other day I had one of those days and I had so much fun, nor even noticing that the camera died...
I was inspired my some really awesome youtube-ladies; Suse & Adele and I had just had so much fun. I did Adele's heart thing and some tight layers around the photo à la Suse.
The hearts are from a scrap paper but the layers, stamps and confetti pocket is from Felicity Jane. I just love that the kits comes with "finishing details". The small things to finish off a page.
I do love my black, it really helps to add contrast and interest to a page. Here I have used some foam thinkers from Amy Tangerine "Grace" , love that they come not just with words but with some cute details like hearts and swirly thingis.
About 2 weeks ago I made an order at scrapbook.com, you know just the "must haves" like trimmer blades and gold Heidi Shine... But I also wanted to try the texture paste so I got the gold (surprise!) and a set of two stencils.Shoppinglist (the must-haves):
Trimmerblades
Tim Holtz "Small Talk"
Heidi Swapp Color Shine "Gold"
Heidi Swapp texture paste "Gold"
Heidi Swapp Stencils "dots"
Well I just had to try the paste and stencils right away!
So here is my thoughts:
The paste is amazing! It truly is gold-like, easy to work with and drys rather quickly. The only thing is the tub, not being able to put the paste back if you get too much. All in all 4,5 and I want more colors! The black and the teal are on my wishlist.
The stencils are of good quality, sturdy and thick. You get a nice and sharp look but I would have liked the material to be easier to clean of. Also these I'll giva a 4,5.
November is slowly, oh so slowly, coming to an end. That means it´s time for a new Like For Ever Kit, how ever I have decided to skip this month. I hardly ever scrapbook Christmas except December Daily and that I have put together.
So... I will keep using the "Hello Beautiful" kit and here is another layout:
The background is a result of some mixed media play and I love the light colors whit the photo.
I´m so happy with how the ink drops turned out. They add that fun unexpected element and adds contrast!
Hello Beautiful!
So Charming...
The Maggie Holmes phrase stamp is so fun! here I just stamped the phrases on a tag.
Love Julia