Puppie sitting? But yes of course. This little angles are now just four week and that means that they are full of Life, at least for twenty minuets at the time. The kennel owner had a dog show so that means that "The kennelGirl" comes to the rescue. ( The kennelGirl that me, I have a t-shirt that conforms that ;))

So some weekend I that my car and drive to the kennel and spend the day puppie sitting, just your normal weekend job, no? Oh well I have never been call normal, to late to start now.

What to know more about this angles? go to http://www.kennelaround.com/

Just some short about the PBGV. We have had this breed for about 19 years, so this is purely my experience.
- They are a hunting dog! Don´t let any body try to tell you differently. Of hundred dog it´s one that don´t hunt.
- They are perfect family dogs, they love to sleep in the bed with you and would do so all day if they could.
- They are extremely positive, there are no problems according to this dogs. They are like clowns.
- They don´t shed and are rarely sick or has problems. A healthy breed. Well this how ever is a bit different depending on were you look. The dog I know are healthy. I do know that in France they have some eye problems that they are working hard one breeding away.

So thinking about a PBGV? I would recommend them to you that likes to hunt, deer or hare, have a big fence yard and want a fun loving dog. But make sure the kennel is a good one, the purely hunting kennels tend to forget about the dogs look. Why I the dogs look in portend when I´m just going to hunt with it you ask. How good those a dog run with a to long back or crocked front legs. That the reason we breed dog, horses, cow etc.. The breeding plan we fowl to get a stronger and healthier dog, horse, cow etc..

I hope that this has helped you and as I said, this is just my thoughts and if you would like to know more just leave a comment.
Love Julia

Here is just a quick post on a page from my art journal. It´s as you can see inspired from the movie "rise of the guardians". I did a quiz on some website to find out what was my center. As it turns out I a Easter bunny ;) . So feeling inspired I grabbed my watercolor crayons and well you see what happened. Any how I decided to make a page about it  and wright what I felt about finding my own center.

Sometimes I really like to do something at the spur of the moment and see what comes out of it. I didn´t have a plan when I started, I didn´t care about it being perfect or have the exact color. I just had fun. Don´t forget to have fun, that is why we create.

Love Julia

So bye this time I think you know what paper I´m going to use today. But yes of course! The panduro design "cirkus" paper pad. Today the paper is a green one with clovers and withe distressing. And the photo you ask, is of my late horse Barock. "Bamse" as he was known was a amazingly kind dressage horse that I was supposed to compete with. Unfortunately he injured his hoof and did not get better. So this is for he.



With this page I want to add some more white, the photo of Bamse is of him in the snow and I so I want bring that to the layout. So I have taken a piece of old grunge board that don´t have any pieces left, so I use the negative. I choose one and mask of the others. Then I just take some white paint and a sponge and paint away. One in each corner.

Sense the page already is distressed in white the flourish will not "jump" of the page, it will be more discreet. If you want yours to pop, choose a color that is in contrast to the background.








  When the paint is dry I take out what I think I wnat to use. My dymo, pearls (from Panduro), flowers, the photo (the edge is distressed), brads (from Victoria House of Design), pearl swirls (Zva) and some leafs  (from Petaloo).

Then I just put it all together.












And this is what happend.

Love Julia

We have come to page 7 of the panduro design paper pad "Cirkus". Today that layout is for my old pony Cheval "Walle" how became 28 years old.

To be honest, this design is not amongst my favorites but I think that makes it more perfect for today. Some times you don´t have that perfect design at home and that came be frustrating. So I´m going to show you how I "make it work".





The top and bottom I paint in white and make a form of cloud shape. Then I spray with my own mixed glimmer mist in blue and brown. Added a stamp from Tim Holtz and the flourishes I just filed in with a black marker. This way the page is lighter but still have the beautiful flourishes.














Now for the fun part! The photo with a handmade- paper photo mat get some company on the layout. Blue flower from prima, white from petaloo, pearls from Queen & co, pearl swirls from Zva, brads from Victoria's design house and dymo label. Oh and I almost forgot the piece of lace on the left side o the photo.









And this is how it all came together. Now scroll up and look at the design one more time. Bye just enhancing some elements and tone some down you can get a completely different design.

Don´t be afraid of chancing the paper, make it your own.

Love Julia

 

Dog no 3 then. It´s Fridolf and because he is a he I thought I would make a more masculine layout without flower. Don´t get me wrong here, I love flower but sometimes it´s just not right. But it can be hard, cause we use flowers as a filler and pop of colors.

This is another paper from the Panduro Design "cirkus" paper pad. It´s white and blue and fits perfect for the photo of Fridolf that I have chosen.





But we start with some grunge board from Tim Holtz. One flourish and one hinge. Today I use nail polish (I´m not- so- secret- obsessed with nail polish)  to get that metal look on the hinge and on the flourish. I start with a base coat with light green on the flourish and grey on the hinge. Then on the flourish I took a "mermaid" colored polish. It´s like green and blue with gold glitter (love this one! from H&M) The hinge got a coat with a silver polish that really looks like liquid silver.
Just think about what some nail polish can do, true magic...








So when the grunge board have dryad I put all the things that I think I want to use on the layout.
Some fabric tape in light blue and a white with blue polka dots. The photo with a photo mat of craft paper. And a dymo title.









The flourish a cut in half to place on each corner. The fabric tape I just cut till small "flags" to make a boarder at the top of the page. I did find some small light baby blue pearl that I put on the flags.

There is no question in what this layout is about, a dog in snow. And I think this is a perfect example of how a paper can enhance that feeling in the photo, of cold and snow. Sense the paper is distressed with white that really picks out the snow feeling.

Want to know more about Fridolf? go to http://www.kennelsurround.se/

Love Julia

Why chance something good? So I sticking with the Panduro design "cirkus" for a couple more of layouts. Today I ´ve chosen the backside of one of the designs. This one is a distressed with pink hearts. I the photo of this layout is of one you might all ready know. This the one and only Kerstin!














Here I start with laying out what I´m going to use. A photo mat out of craft paper, a prima flower, petaloo flower and leaves and behind the photo I have a prima packaging. Sense it´s for Kerstin I wanted a feminine and cute layout.











When it´s a glued down I add some pearl swirls from Zva for that extra touch. As you can see I have taken leaves in brown and gold as well as green and this for bringing out that fall feeling in the photo.










So here is the end result, some pink E-line bling from Prima and a dymo title. I really like the soft and dreamlike feel of the layout and if you want to know more about Kerstin, go to kennel Surround's website: http://www.kennelsurround.se/

Love Julia 

Here we have another layout from the Panduro Design paper pad. The pad has 6 design and 4 of each. But the papers are dubbel sided so here are the other side of the this paper http://juliakallen.blogspot.se/2013/06/scrapbook-page-my-princes.html. The fact that the design of this one is of bunnies fitted perfect for the photo that I choose for today. It´s of our past dog Waldemar, how loved to hunt bunnies.  He was a real champion both in showing, hunting and tracking. Unfortunately he got really sick and past away. So this is in memory of he.





So I have the photo of him, cardstock and some washi tape to start with. I cut the background paper of where the cardstock is and the scrap I later can use for another layout or a card. The cardstock is from DCWV and the lace washi tape is from Panduro also. The border that is from the cardstock brings out the colors in the photo and makes the focal point a bit easier to look at. The black washi tape help to frame it all.








I then took some Tim Holts Grunge Board arrows. This I painted in white, then in silver and then I embossed them with UTEE. When they had cooled down I rubbed them in a black inkpad. They are fasted on the page with screw head brads.













And some finishing touches I put on a dymo with his name and  on another piece of paper I put his pedigree name and his date of birth. My thought was that my mom (he was her dog) could wright about him on the empty spaces.

This is a quite plane layout but I really wanted the focus to be on the photo and later on the journaling.

I hope you like it

Love Julia