*Process video*

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to Project Wilna part 2!
I´m so glad you stopped bye and well, let´s get started!


So we start with checking out Wilna´s page:

This layout is build up in three parts: Photo, embellishment & journaling.
The colors are one of my favorite compo; grey and yellow. The embellishment is ribbon and scrap-pieces with brads/ buttons in changing colors, black to coral to yellow.  Here is her process video check it out to see our different processes.

What I will take with me is the layout and the thought with it. I will challenge my self with the colors. I have a hard time making red work so that is the color I picked to go with black and grey.


Here is me take in the layout:

Black & White with Red.  Black and white is not hard to work with, but red is. So bringing out the red lipstick in the photo with red dymo, red embellishments and red splatter.

 The background is from Basic Grey and I love it! I have been "saving" it but it´s perfect for this page, with all the flying  shippes. The squares are from My Mind´s Eye: Ruby and goes from black to red to white. Over the journaling I dropped some red mist I mixed ages ago.

 Wilna had matted her photo on a vellum pecie with gold dots. Now, I don´t have any vellum let alone any with dots so I made my own. The paper is what you have when you bake so it´s hard for anything to stick to the surfaces. But Ranger gold paint sure does stick, so I made dots with the old dried dabber.

 I love how the "vellum" turned out but I couldn´t get it to stick...(yes I know how blond that sounds...) so I finally went with staples and cut out the center to stick down the photo.

 I just love how this turned out with the colors and the layout. I would never have done a layout like this if I hadn´t started this project. My favorite part is the gold and the ribbon. I haven´t used ribbon in ages, but maybe I give it a try, this way.

I´m so happy over this page and I hope you give it a try.

Thank you for stopping bye and I hope to see you next Friday for part 3 or if you love project life; on Tuesday for week 34 process video :)

Have a great weekend

Love Julia

Hello!                   *Process video!*

It´s tuseday and I have week 33 ready too share with you!
This week I really wanted the layouts to feel light and dreamy. I used the Becky Higgins DIY Value Kit, and took the light grey cards. This kit is by far my favorit. It´s the perfect base with light grey colors, new print, cork and wood grain! This works with any other kit /pad you have.


On this week (week 33 & puppy week 4) I wanted a light and dreamy feel. So I took light cards and de-saturated/ black & white photos. The only "color" is the lilac letter stickers, also them in light colors.

Week 33 is simple with just cards, photos, letters and a few embellishments. Now if I could change one thing is that I would have made the left 3x4 photon less saturated or even black & white.

 Puppy week 4. Same thougt here; light cards, light photos and light letters. Here I went with blue just to emphefas that this is single layout and not week 33 page 2... This worked out better, more cohesive even though there are black & white and colored photos.

I hope you all have a great week and hope to see you on Friday for the next Project Wilna video!

Love Julia

                                                 *Check out the process video!*

Hello everyone! By now you probably know what Project Wilna is, but if you don´t... Project Wilna is my latest project, to take all of her awesomeness and create layouts inspired by hers. So today is the time for the first; Mirror!


So let´s start with checking out Wilna´s page: (here is the video) Her page is parted up in to 3, white space with photo, flowers and journaling. The flowers is cut out of a silhouette but I don´t have one so I cut out all of the flowers and leafs by hand. The other thing with this page it the "blackboard". I want my whole page to be painted black. This are the two elements or parts that I will take with my to my page.

 So I took the chalkboard and the flower and made a  plan (for once) I know I wanted the flowers to frame the photo, like they are growing around it.

 My flowers didn´t get as much texture as Wilnas. I went with a different color scheme, softer pinks and yellows.  To get this look I mixed pink, yellow and modeling past. By not mixing the pink and yellow all the way you can get really cool colors. All of the flowers will look different but fit together because all of the colors are the same- just in different amounts.

I wanted a painted look so I didn´t go all the way to the edge with the black paint. This to emphasis that the background was painted. 

 To add some more interest I cut a glitter-paper in tiny, slim triangles to a act as thorns. The glitter pickes up on the pink and yellow and adds a lightness.  

 I really didn´t want this layout to feel dark and heavy, and yes I know- black has a tendency to do that... But I don´t feel that the layout got too dark, allot of of that is thanks to the leaves. They are green but I mixed a bit of yellow, the same way I did with the flowers

 To really get that chalkboard look I journaled in withe, a note to myself. Of course also inspired by Wilna and her notes to her girls.

So to sum it all up: I took two parts of Wilnas page, made a plan that fitted me and went with it! I love how this turned out, simple but with that feeling that I really wanted!

So this was the first page and I hope that you liked it, and the video! I really recommend you to check out Wilnas process first and then mine. All of the videos of the series will be in this playlist: Project Wilna

I hope to see you next Friday!

Love Julia

                                                   Here is the video!


Hello and happy Tuesday!

Today I have the week 32 spread to show you. This is the week I got my PL stuff so now I´m in phase ;)

 On the right side I used mostly my "mini-kit Blush" As you can see I really liked getting the PL stuff and working on the mini album. (for my mom, filled with puppy photos)

 On the left side I mixed my Blush-kit with Maggie Holmes core kit. And about here my camera cut off...

The fist card is just a 4x6 with a photo.
Second card is just a photo, label cut out of the Blush-kit with the week number.
The 3x4 first card in on a Blush-kit card and a dymo label.
Second is a Maggie Holmes with date stamp and a wooden heart with gold.
Card 3 is a photo of Penny and Florin.
Last 3x4 card is a Maggie Holmes jounaling card and a arrow from the Blush-kit.

The bottom 4x6 on the left side is a photo mounted on a Blush-kit card, with same arrows as on the left side and a cut out label. The 4x6 card in the right pocket is a old Prima packaging that I just love! It´s so cute the the doilys, the only thing is that next week I have to think about it when I plan the page.

I hope you liked this post, I tried to fill in as much as I could now when my camera didn´t...

See you next Tuesday for week 33

Love Julia

Hello!
Just as I was finished with the kit I saw a scrap piece of a Basic Grey paper and just had to make a final ting with it! So I made a birthday card.   Check out the video here!

The image is a Crissy Armsrtong stamp I colored a while back with distress markers.

A really simple card to make but so cute! I just love how the colors work together and that carrot really pops!

I hope you liked the card, and THAT is the end of the august-scrap-kit!

Love Julia

                                                         *New Video*

Hello!                                            
Here is number 4 and last layout out of my scrap kit. It all about little puppy Penny.

This layout is really simple and the focus is on the photo and the bling. The bling in this is some brads that I digged out of my little misc-box in white, pink and light green.

I like the light feel of this layout, with the light colors and then a black and white photo (edited in the Rhonna Design App). The background is from Basic Grey and has the right pink and light green.

 The title is stamped and to get it a bit more grounded I added a light green arrow. Without it the title would just have been floating there without anything really pulling it to the page.

 The hanging thing is a fishing thing... with a heart and some cute brads. The card that is stamped with the date is from the Maggie Holmes core kit and fit perfect. So glad that I checked the back side!

 Putting the brads in clusters helps to draw the eye and pulls the colors together. I didn´t think that I liked pink and green together but I have proved myself wrong...

I hope that you enjoyed this series! All of the videos are in this playlist

Love Julia

                                                        *Barock part 2!*

Hello!
Today I have 3 layouts to show you! Witch means that my Barock album is finished! (Part 1 is here) I used allot from my August-scrap-kit . I´m so happy to have it done and now when ever I miss him terribly I can just open that album.

The first layout here is not made with the kit, the 8x8 paper is pieced together with tiny strips from My Minds Eye- Flea Market 6x6 pad. The layout is rather simple with the focus on the photo. Using black helps to frame the focus and creates contrast that I felt this layout really needed with the soft colors and doily. I wanted the all of the layout to go together without looking to matchy. So working with layers and keep bringing black in really does the trick.

I really like this layout with the colors and the blue bling, it really stands out in the album. And just to add some demotion makes a big differences!

 This layout is really 2 but I made them to be 1. I started with this pink/purplish paper from Magnolia, spacing it equally in the two 8x8 pages.  I then added layers from the august-scrap-kit.

 All of the chipboard is from Prima- SeaShore and I think the colors works so good together. The journaling I did is around the layout so it looks like a old phone-wire type. Bye the way, I love this photo of him, it really show how amazing he was! and big! he was 173 cm and I´m only 168cm.

 All of the photos on this layout I printed at home on a plain cardstock and that is why they look so muted. But I don´t think that is a big deal, If I had decided to have them printed I would have had to wait for a long time (we usually order big badges) but now the album is done!

 The last layout is called "Massage" and the photo is of Barock getting massage when he was really sick. He loved this so I wanted to make sure I got that in the album. Here to I have layering going on and of course the black lace washi-tape.  I also used the blue glitter letter from my kit.

I really hope you liked this layouts and this little mini series about Barock. Now I have only 1 more layout left to show you from what I made with my august-scrap-kit and then I have something new on the works that I think you´ll really love!

Till then

Love Julia