It´s time to dig into your stach and find those forgotten Prima flowers!

When doing a Christmas project there is no such thing as "too much" and I just love these projecs when I get let go have just have fun! So today I return to my orign to show how I made this vintage-shabby chic home decor project!!

I just love it and did I mention it was so much fun to make? 

So gather some nick-nacks, paint and a glue-gun! 

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

*New Video*

Hello. I hope you are having a great weekend! Here in Sweden we have had such good weather that I´m almost chocked! I have been sitting outside drawing under our pavilion-tent-thing.

But today I have a new video to share with you, the topic: Use-up-scraps!
After finishing my latest mini album I had allot of tiny scrap-pieces that I wanted to use. In normal case I would trough those away but sens I´m on a mission, I really wanted to see just what I could make with them. And here is what happened:

I really like how this turned out with all of the hard-wear and the colors. I really like the colors.

And if you want to see how it came together:  Look HERE

Love Julia

{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!

*new video HERE*

Hello everyone! Today I have a layout to show you and just so you know; I love It!
The reason you why you can feel surprise in my voice is because I used a sketch and I normally have a hard time with them, so you can understand how happy I am now when it look so good! The sketch I was inspired by was Primas- BAP (Build-A-Page)


I grabbed my Prima papers, bling and leafs, put on some music and just had a really good time with inks and allot of paint.

And as you all now I´m on a mission to use up my scraps, all the papers are Prima but from 3 different collections; "Romance Novel" (the only 12*12) the rest is scraps from: "Sea Shore" and "Time Travelers memories" .

 I´m so happy with this black flowers with the gold edge, even the leafs got a slab of gold on them

 The layers behind the photo is packaging from different collections, I have to say that I love that Prima makes such cute packaging so you can use it and don´t just through it away.

 Here she is, The Queen, on the windowsill. I took this photo a while back but she is always sitting on the windowsill, odd cat.

 The "Time travelers memories"- bling fits perfect! 

I hope you like it and if you want to see how I put this together check out this video: *HERE*

Love Julia

Happy Monday! Today I have a new layout to show you that I really like!

I used allot of scraps from Graphic 45 and some new papers from Prima- Time Traveler but the background is Basic Grey.

 This lady I have saved for year and finely I cut her out and put her on a layout, and I´m so happy that I did that. And sense I´m so in love with here I gave her some Prima-bling on here skirt.

 More Prima-bling with cut outs from Prima and Graphic 45 with some washitape.

 The title: "Blue eyed girl" in Panduro letters and of course my true love: Dymo.

This layout has allot of layers but isn´t very dimensional. I tryed out some new things; Cuting out the photo, working on a smaller area and not using flower! The last one was hard but I found the Rose-paper in the Time traveler pad!

I hope you like it

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

Finally Friday! The layout is not really what you would call "Julia-style" but I so like it! So I decided to try out something new. Started whit just a white cardstock and paint. I wanted that clean-messy look with an edge. So I want to town with my metal  thing and copper embossing-powder.

 I mixed some prima gears and some round things from my grandpas tool box.

 Love this Prima lamp, the dark teal and copper works great together. 

 I did some journaling (!) on pieces on masking tape, you can´t really read it but I like it.

Love Julia