I´m so in love with this Tilda mermaid stamp, on this card I just used black and then orange on her tail.
This card took no time to make just a base, two pattern papers (from primas "all about me") lace, washitape a doily and a resin flower.

 The strip over the lace is from the blue paper with stampendous aged gold embossing powder.

 Here is the banner from yesterday just with some gold pearls on.

So simple with the blue & orange color and the vintage feel. I think this is the perfect example that you don´t need a bunch of flowers. So I hope you like it
Love Julia

I´m home again after working at the riding-school. The same thing next week but I will be going to gran on Sunday and stay to Thursday and when I´m there I have no internet so you´ll have to be patient ;) . But on with todays post: Sometimes I need that embellishment that I just don´t have, or know what it is. So looking through my boxes in the hunt for... well anything, I came across my washitape box. So with two tapes and a piece of string and vóila: A vintage banner!

 Perfect for cards, layouts and mixed media
Love Julia

I don´t know where you start when you start with a new card but I started with coloring Tilda. Some glitter on the hearts and fran-tage in shabby pink around here.

So the them is sort of shabby chic love. The paper is from prima and all the flowers from pyhobby.

Distress ink are the perfect medium for coloring magnolia stamps, and you don´t need many colors.

The butterfly is a mod podge resin covered in gold, so is the res of the card.

In the challenge over at: Tildas town

I hope you like this card, now I´m getting ready to head to the riding-school to work. So no post tomorrow though I will spend the night at my grandmother and work tomorrow night to, but I will be back on Thursday!

Love Julia

How doesn´t love resins? I do and when I was in Gothenburg at the Scrapbook fair I pick up this mod podge resin kit. I tough they where a bit expensiv but the sahps are really nice and you can use them on all of your projects, just coming up with new ways to color them is fun. I have two molds, one with flowers and one with birds but there is more shapes.

So put the mod podge stick in your glue-gun, this sticks are longer then glue-gun glue and will be white when they have dryed. 

 So just fill in the shapes, my glue-gun are not the best and won´t come up in the right temperature so the mod podge will not melt all the way, but it works.

Let sit for 10-15 min and then pop them out. Easy and fun to make. Then comes the part where you can truly be creative, to color them. Paint, sprays, glitter and inks the chooses are endless. I did try with embossing powders but it didn´go so well, the shape started to melt before the powder did...

Love Julia

In Gothenburg now dogs from around the world comes to show off their good looks and unique beauty. Today was my turn to go with mom and Kerstin, dad went yesterday. Anybody how has been at dog shows know there is allot of waiting around but with a camera the wait is no longer a problem. There is so many different dogs and owner and everyone of them has a story to tell.

PBGV can be so cute when they tilt their head and blink.

Kerstin in action

This two beauty's are from Lady beautys kennel and made my heart melt. 

She looks like she is from a Disney movie with her dancing dog

At the end of the day, nothing is better then getting our but rubbed. 

The beagle looks a bit jealous. 

Love Julia

As a paper artist you can never have too many thing. This what you repeat when you stand at the checkout at your art store or when you see the new paper collection from your favorite brand. I know I have too many thing and jet I just want more! But new years is a time to reflect on the past year and on the year to come. So I´m taking this opportunity to give some love to whats in my drawers and picking my top 5 from 2013. So take a set, this can take some time :) .

This is no surprise, I love my Dymo and I use i on almost every project. I just love the effect it gives on a shabby chic card, it sort of breaks off and adds a bit of vintage/ grunge without leaving the shabby chic. In my book, an absolute most have!

 Some times we go out and try new things and fall in love. I´m so happy that I tried coloring with this distress inks because I just love the effect! In this little box I have a few drops of each and underneath is a piece of paper to show of the color. Easy to see the color and the lid is perfect for mixing colors. This re-fillers will last a long time but it´s not the only reason that I use them. It´s the intensity of the color and hat they are so easy to blend. Love!

 One day my day came home with this biscuit tin, it was empty but just so sweet. So here is where my self-adhesive pearls & bling. I love using this on projects and this tin is perfect for storing them. All I have to say, Thanks dad for the empty biscuit tin!

 Here is another empty tin, this one is from Australia. Here is some of the roses and lilys. For two reasons this is perfect, 1, I can easily see what I have and if they would fit the project. 2, I can easily see what I have, they are just so pretty and I hate to put them in a dark box. So I have them out and see them everyday!

 Here we have the best thing I bought in 2013! It´s the fran-tage. Here is two sample sets, one is embossing powders and the other is the micas. Just love them, the aged silver and gold embossing powders are truly aged and the shabby ones (pink, blue and white) are perfect to have around stamped images on your cards. And the micas really brings a vintage, nostalgic feel. Then I have some glitter and powders from Magnolia. So in this thin box I can see them all and I also have my cheat sheet, with my powders embossed.

So in short, 2013 was a really good scrapbook year but I have a feeling that 2014 will be even better! :D
Love Julia

It´s now 2014! How the years just fly by. I have great hopes for this year but first thing first... Here is my first card of the year. I was looking at the LLC blog and their January challenge is "perfume". That is what I call a challenge!
Lilac, flower-wines, lace and pearls. Now that is perfume to me.

Love Julia