I have a new card to show you, I though of showing you an old one, but then  I though; "Better not..." ( Yes I´m a big "Pitch Perfect" fan)

So here is my vintage Christmas card:

I wanted to try something different, vintage with a pinch of Christmas. 

 This little girl in her winter fur fits perfect. Just look at her eyes, I bet some one just told her that it´s snowing. She is from a sheet from Melissa Frances filled with vintage photos.

 The roses where withe in the start but not for long... I took and mixed red ink and some gold glimmer to a glimmer mist and sprayed the flowers. In the center there is some brown glimmer mist for some depth.

 Tilda is colored with distress ink and then there is fran-tage in shabby white around her.

I wanted to make a card that incorporated Christmas not letting it take over. So with neutral papers, lace and pearls then we have some Christmas elements. 

Love Julia

I love Christmas for so many reasons. One of them is this thing we do with bringing nature in to our homes. I mean I get that we have some flower or a pretty stone but a hole tree? How ever odd it is I love it and today I´m going to show you how to bring in a bit of nature, not a hole forest.

To make this you´ll need a glass (this used to be a candle  that I just cleaned out) , a elastic and some twigs.

Start of by breaking them in to the size that fits your glass. Mine are a bit taller then the glass. Then you put the elastic around the glass. 

 Now, put in the twigs one by one in the elastic.

To get that nature look I very the twigs, some small and some a bit thicker. 

 When the glass is covered you can take a fancy ribbon around to hide the elastic.

I just took this fabric, tore a strip and tied it around in a bow.

Really easy and looks great inside in the waiting for the Christmas tree. 

Love Julia

Happy Monday! I´m just going to start of by saying how much I love Advent, on the first all the lights come up in the windows and at night it´s almost magic.
But now, here are some pictures of my first Christmas fair behind the tables.

This day was so cold and I had so much clothes on I cloud hardly move.

 Here is the jeweler frame I made last week, it works beautifully.

 Allot of pearls...

 Guess how had the table next to me... My grandmother! She made this beautiful candles.

So now when it´s officially Christmas times I have holiday music on and you can expect allot of holiday projects :)

Love Julia

It´s my 19th year in this country called Sweden. This country has it all, the rain, the sun and the nature. It´s really amazing year round and November is not exemption. Even though I some times get sick of the rain or fear I´m going to freeze to an ice-cube, I love living here.

And right now it looks something like this...

My mom and I goes on this walks in our village with our cameras, she really is a geek ;)

If your inspiration isn´t flowing, this walks are perfect to get it going.

Love Julia

It´s just two days to my first Christmas fair, behind the table. I´m so excited and a bit nerves. There is so much to do. So today I´m showing you how i´m going to show my earrings.
The frame I found cheaply at a second hand store. Painted white (x2) and then a coat with pearl.
Materials:
-Frame
-chicken wire
-wire scissors
-fabric + regular scissors
-staple gun






Start with staple down the chicken wire












Then stable down the fabric. Stretch it out and put down like you do a tire. When it´s put down, fold the leftover over and staple them down.










And it´s finished! And yes i did this in my dads workshop :).

So to sum up.
Super easy and fun. The black fabric will make your jewelry pop

Love Julia

By now you probably know that yellow is not my favorite color. You may also know that I like to challenge myself. And I have so, today´s card is all blue and YELLOW.

So here is all the info:
Papers: DCWV- Mademoiselle stack
Stamp: Magnolia- Charming Edwin
Embossingpowders: Magnolia- Black
                               Stampendous- Shabby white
Washitape: Panduro- lace
Roses: Pyhobby (white) - colored with own mixed glimmer mist
Paper-bag: Julia K ;)
Pebbles:  Julia
Pearls: Pyhobby- white

By now, after making cards and art journal pages, I realize that I don´t mind yellow any more.
Love Julia K

 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