Hello!
Today it´s so much sunshine! You most think I obsessed with the sun, ans yes I think I am but if you would live in Sweden- Borås (where it rains... allot) you would be obsessed with the sun too :)

Anyway todays card is a ordered card for someones birthday, she like pastels and orchids.

Have a great Thursday!

Love Julia 

Good morning to you all! It´s already Wednesday witch means that the weekend is soon here! Yesterday I was going though my news feed on blogger and saw that Magnolia-liciouschallengeblog had a new challenge. So I headed over there and just got so inspired by the design team that I had to make a card!

This week it´s -Clean & Simple- and like I said I got really inspired and this is what I did:

 I used some stickles on the rain drops to make some interest.

-Clean & Simple-

Love Julia

  

The card that i´m showing you today I spend allot of time on. I really wanted to try something different and I´m so happy with the end result! And for all of you that has been following me for some time know that I struggle with the color yellow... But I think I really love it now!

papers are from pandurohobby

 The key hole is from a Tim Holts grunge board that I embossed with stampendous -aged silver (love that stuff!!!)

 The bird-nest resin is colored with gold and the eggs with blue and some dots of black and brown

 Edwin is colored with distress ink and mated over a brick stamp from Prima

Edwin is in the card challenge over at: tildastown

And you haven´t missed the giveaway here at Life of Julia have you? For your chance to win Magnolia stamps and decorations leave a comment at this post: easter-blog-candy and follow this blog.

Love Julia

I know Easter is coming late this year but I have already seen the Easter bunny! Or was it Brittas...? How ever the Easter bunny is, has left some candy to celebrate Easter and that my blog is 1 years old!

The candy is both from my own stash and from Magnolia in Borås

 This stuff are my favorite so I have made some flowers and pebbels to you and there is 10 vintage pearl buttons.

 I just love this Tilda stamp holding a bird so I just have to have it in this candy together with a sweet-heart.

 More goodies from Magnolia! Some Knick Knackers, some huge white flowers and 5 hatpins.

 And what is Easter if not feathers? and a super cute yellow butterfly.

 I love yellowed book-pages so you´ll get some too and this amazing mercury Easter eggs to hang in your birch branches. 2 are mat and 2 are more shiny and I just have to say that I want to keep them!!!

 Some shabby chic trim couldn´t hurt

 Last but not lest, is this card from me to you

 And here you have it all:

I hope you are as exited as I am! So what do you have to do to win?

1, Follow this blog

2, leave a comment telling me what you like to most

in this giveaway

3, spread the word, use the image in my sidebar, if you have a blog.

And that is it! The end date is the 7 of April and everyone is welcome to join in regardless where you live 

Love Julia

Hello  all of my crafty friends, I´m back with a new card! And just to change it up, lets start with the card ;)

I´m just going to start with saying that I love this shabby chic/ vintage card.
The paper I have made myself with a prima lace stamp and some glimmer mists.

 The butterfly resin is made in the mod-podge mold then sprayed with pink perfect pearl and some white paint.  The book-page rose is made out of twirled book-pages and a pink pearl in the center.

 This pocket is made from some craft wrapping paper and the tag is just a piece of scrappapper.

 All of the flowers (not the book.page one) is from Magnolia and I have just sprayed and painted over them to give them the shabby-chic treatment.

 The clock is cut out from a Prima paper and covered in crackle-accent.

 And this lovely Tilda is colored with distress ink and she got some stickels on the halo.

This card is in the challenges over at:
live and love crafts
tildas town
magnolia-liciouschallengeblog
magnolia down under challenges

I hope you like this card as much as I do and have a great weekend!
Love Julia

We all love stamps, but for someone that is just started out stamping it can be a bit confusing. So today I will get it all straight  with the pros and cons with the different stamps.

There is 3 types: Wood- mounted, cling-mount and clear-stamp. They all have different qualitys and price points.

 The first type of stamps is the wood mounted, it´s a ready-to-go where you only ink it up and stamp away. It´s mounted on a wooden block and in between there is a foam like material the gives the stamp the right "spring" . This is the highest priced type of stamps, but on the other hand it ready. The only down side is the this stamps take up a allot of space.

 When stamping with this type of stamp you´ll have to make sure that you have equal amount of pressure. Other wise the image will not be as sharp and some areas will look a bit... not good. (The hoofs and his tail)

 Over to stamp type no 2, the cling mounted. This stamp you either buy mounted or un-mounted. If you buy it un-mounted you need a cling-mount, I uselessly go for the EZ-Mount witch is really easy to use: Mounting . When the stamp is ready all you need is a acrylic block. I have 4 sizes, I recommend that you at lest have 3.

 I always make sure to save the paper on the back, this way it stamp is clean and stick on the acrylic block.

 This stamps don´t take up much room, I have mine in a folder: Stamping Organization . I found that this stamps give sharp an clean images 9 out of 10 times and the coast is lower then the wood-mounted.

 And so we have come to the clear-stamp. The clear stamps are the cheapest of the three and you can get a set of 10 clear-stamps to the same coast of one wood-mounted stamp. But this is not the only benefit with clear-stamps, they take up minimal space, see exactly where you stamp and they are super easy to clean. You do need a acrylic block just like to the cling-mounted ones. And with this stamps if you don´t get it perfect you can go over it again, sens you see everything trough the stamp.

 The down side I have found is the lines not always get as sharp as I would have wanted, I think that is that the clear stamp has no spring. But if this is a big problem for you then try to lay you paper over a mouse-pad.

I hope this as helped you in the jungle that is scrapbooking. And I can finish of by saying that stamping is so much fun and the more you learn the more fun it gets.

Love Julia

God day to you all, I hope you have had a nice and quite day. I have my week has been a bit hectic so I really needed today to be a "sitting at the desk" type of day. But honestly I haven´t done as much as I had hoped. I how ever made this card:
really simple and so not my style, but I like it.

Papers are from Primas "All About Me"- 6*6 paper-pad and the stamp is Penny Black "Heart to Heart" from 2004. Colored with distress ink and just added a lace washi-tape and that´s all.

I think it´s good to try out new things and new styles but we couldn´t forget our old things, like this stamp.

Love Julia