So now I have my own little mini kit from my favorite paper pad... and 24 2x6 paper pieces...
That will be another challenge ;)
Love Julia
I have allot of 6x6 paper pads and will never use them up. But I love them especially the My Minds Eye- Lost & Found pads. My favorite is the Blush one, so pretty with the pink and teal with neutrals. So I decided to make a Project Life- mini kit out of the pad.
So here is all of the shapes after the cutting: 2x6, 4x6 & 3x4.
I cut 11 4x6, saving the pretty designs, making sure they fit in the measurements.
I got 26 3x4, of course you can deiced if you want more 4x6 or more 3x4. Or you can just cut them at 4x6 and them cut them down to 3x4 when you need them.
Hello everyone! *Here is the video!*
I´m back with another layout made from my august-scrap-kit.
I´m going to be really honest with you now: I love Prima stuff but this paper I really, really don´t like! I like the idea if it, mixed media-ish with doily and ink splatters, but it just looks like a hot mess (so those the other papers in this collection too) And now you think: But if you don´t like it why do you have it, and use it?. Well I got the paper in one of those "mystery bags" and I´m going to use it because I love a challenge!
So I started with my photo (the photo is not that good, dark and bleary so it looks like he only has three legs, oh my) Then I took out scraps from the kit and that was laying around, started to add layers. Now like I said before I´m not crazy over the mixed media feel because I think it looks like a mess but I decided to embrace it!
Adding black to contrast and interest one of my favorite "tools", no matter how bad it is, adding black works 9 out of 10 times. Like the stamp, so easy to build a pattered! (from Prima, Optimist collection)
I just though to mention something that I do really like sens I was a bit negative in the beginning. And that is this stamp set. I got it to a good prize and it so versatile, I´ve used it on all of the layouts and I know I will continue to use it allot in the future. Stamps really are investments.
I´m back with another layout made from my august-scrap-kit.
I´m going to be really honest with you now: I love Prima stuff but this paper I really, really don´t like! I like the idea if it, mixed media-ish with doily and ink splatters, but it just looks like a hot mess (so those the other papers in this collection too) And now you think: But if you don´t like it why do you have it, and use it?. Well I got the paper in one of those "mystery bags" and I´m going to use it because I love a challenge!
So I started with my photo (the photo is not that good, dark and bleary so it looks like he only has three legs, oh my) Then I took out scraps from the kit and that was laying around, started to add layers. Now like I said before I´m not crazy over the mixed media feel because I think it looks like a mess but I decided to embrace it!
Adding black to contrast and interest one of my favorite "tools", no matter how bad it is, adding black works 9 out of 10 times. Like the stamp, so easy to build a pattered! (from Prima, Optimist collection)
I just though to mention something that I do really like sens I was a bit negative in the beginning. And that is this stamp set. I got it to a good prize and it so versatile, I´ve used it on all of the layouts and I know I will continue to use it allot in the future. Stamps really are investments.
In my video I shoe you how you can make this super simple mixed media look with just washi-tape and some stamps. I know there is allot of people that are a bit afraid of the hole mixed media and if you are, starting with just a border with washi-tape and some stamps might be perfect for you...
Now when I look at this layout I don´t hate it, but nether do I love it. I think it´s a really good layout where I really had to think about it and solve a problem. Would I do the this layout the same way if I got the same paper and photo? I think not, but I enjoyed making it and in the end I had a good time. I said before that I don´t make layouts in first hand to remember a moment. I scrapbook because I love the mix of paper, paint and photos, if I then later have albums filled with memories that is a amazing bonus.
Love Julia
*NEW VIDEO*
Hello!
So It´s my first PL layout and I just loved it. Now this layout I really wanted simple sens I have printed out photos from week 25 to week 31. It´s allot of weeks and I want to finish them before I go into week 32 so that I don´t have allot of "weeks" left to think about.
Anyway this is the first layout and I had three 4x6 photos, one 4x4 and two 3x4 photos. So the only thing that I had to do was a 3x4 title card and a 3x4 journaling card.
The journaling card is a card with patterned and that is so that the journaling won´t be like; "Read me!, Read me!" I know it´s there and if someone wants to read it they can.
The title card is really simple, letter stickers spells "Vecka" 25 and a date stamp for the first and last day of the week. easy peasy.
The 4x4 photo is mated on a 4x6 card from Prima- Cartographer with dark wood grain.
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Hello!
So It´s my first PL layout and I just loved it. Now this layout I really wanted simple sens I have printed out photos from week 25 to week 31. It´s allot of weeks and I want to finish them before I go into week 32 so that I don´t have allot of "weeks" left to think about.
Anyway this is the first layout and I had three 4x6 photos, one 4x4 and two 3x4 photos. So the only thing that I had to do was a 3x4 title card and a 3x4 journaling card.
The title card is really simple, letter stickers spells "Vecka" 25 and a date stamp for the first and last day of the week. easy peasy.
'Overall I like it and I love that I can have so many photos without it looking crowded.
I hope you liked it to and if you want; HERE is the video
Love Julia
So I was window shopping online... surf-shopping! Anyway I was looking at this stores blog; Scrap-och-Ting and found this amazing free printables from Smäm. I just had to print them out!
So perfect to print out as 3x4 for project life or bigger and frame them. I just had to tell you about this because I love them!
Love Julia
Video HERE!
Project life has become a phenomenon and I have to admit to being a bit skeptical in the beginning. But after seeing ALLOT of YouTube videos and listening to Becky Higgins on the PRT-pod I started to change my opinion. Before I see PL as something uninspiring and frankly as lazy scrapbooking. (this was at the swedish scrapbook fair, where I saw the first Project Life layouts) But now I know that PL is truly "lazy scrapbooking" if that is what you want it to be and that PL can be unbelievably inspiring!
Now I have been scrapbooking in different forms for about 7 years, in the beginning it was to document me competing with my horses but soon I started scraping "normal" stuff to. When I started I didn´t have magazines or the internet so I just did what I wanted. For the past years I have made allot of cards and layouts but the layouts are more to satisfy my artistic needs and to so much for memory keeping. I love doing what I want, not having to fallow "rules" about titles and journaling. But I would love to scrapbook my life...
So I decided to jump in to the PL pool of memory keeping. I knew I wanted Becky Higgins stuff and strted to look around. Shopping in Sweden is about twice the cost (think about that next time you go out to buy a core kit...) and the cost for shipping is out of this world, so I looked at Amazon- free shipping! How ever when I finely decided on a "Starting Bundle" there was shipping anyway, and that was more then products!
I then went to a Swedish webb-shop and spent a few days deciding on what I wanted.
Now I´m so happy I did this because that meas that I got the Maggie Holmes core kit and album! I really wanted a kit that would FIT me and this one is perfect!
I´m so exatied to get started and you can count on PL-process video coming up in the near future :)
Love Julia
Project life has become a phenomenon and I have to admit to being a bit skeptical in the beginning. But after seeing ALLOT of YouTube videos and listening to Becky Higgins on the PRT-pod I started to change my opinion. Before I see PL as something uninspiring and frankly as lazy scrapbooking. (this was at the swedish scrapbook fair, where I saw the first Project Life layouts) But now I know that PL is truly "lazy scrapbooking" if that is what you want it to be and that PL can be unbelievably inspiring!
Now I have been scrapbooking in different forms for about 7 years, in the beginning it was to document me competing with my horses but soon I started scraping "normal" stuff to. When I started I didn´t have magazines or the internet so I just did what I wanted. For the past years I have made allot of cards and layouts but the layouts are more to satisfy my artistic needs and to so much for memory keeping. I love doing what I want, not having to fallow "rules" about titles and journaling. But I would love to scrapbook my life...
So I decided to jump in to the PL pool of memory keeping. I knew I wanted Becky Higgins stuff and strted to look around. Shopping in Sweden is about twice the cost (think about that next time you go out to buy a core kit...) and the cost for shipping is out of this world, so I looked at Amazon- free shipping! How ever when I finely decided on a "Starting Bundle" there was shipping anyway, and that was more then products!
I then went to a Swedish webb-shop and spent a few days deciding on what I wanted.
Now I´m so happy I did this because that meas that I got the Maggie Holmes core kit and album! I really wanted a kit that would FIT me and this one is perfect!
The core kit is amazing and the colors so pretty! I watched allot of youtube videos and many organized their core kit in the tray like this. I have them by journaling, patterns, filler and misc. I don´t know how long I will have it like this but for now this is it. ( I have take out 4 of each 3x4 card, that is why it looks a bit empty ;) )
Love Julia
Hello!
I´m back with a new layout using my august-scrap-kit! This layout was inspired by a spread in a magazine, the pastel colors with the black
The kit was put together with a vintage and shabby chic feel in mind but picking put some colors and going with a white cardstock can change everything!
Here is the video!
So light yellow, blue and pink with black accents. I used a stamp from the optimist stamp collection from Prima to stamp a border around the edge. The paper-layers are put around the photo in like a T-shape to help draw the eye.
I just couldn´t stay away from the black lace washi-tape but it just works with everything!
The kit was put together with a vintage and shabby chic feel in mind but picking put some colors and going with a white cardstock can change everything!
Here is the video!
So light yellow, blue and pink with black accents. I used a stamp from the optimist stamp collection from Prima to stamp a border around the edge. The paper-layers are put around the photo in like a T-shape to help draw the eye.
I used the same blue glitter-letters from the previous layout together with my dymo and black letter. The resins are from a mod pogde resin mold, painted with white paint and distress ink.
I hope you like the layout and don´t forget to check out the video: HERE
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´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.
I hope you like it and don´t forget to check out the video HERE
Love Julia