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

 Some times it´s the simplest things that makes the biggest impact. Just a black pen is all you need.

 The background is regular clear glue mixed with liquid pearl and distress ink- mustered seed. I used a roller to smear it out. When it´s almost dry, sprayed with water.

 By spraying water on you get that watercolor effect.

Some thinks it´s scary to draw with black pens but if you build up with allot of lines on one can tell if you made one line wrong. 

The thing about a art journal- smash book is to try out new things, I used to avoid yellow but now I tackle it head on.
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 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