Hello!
My Fine & Dandy 6*6 pad is close to empty and my album is growing! Today I do 5 layouts in one sitting whit the goal of them to be cohesive. Doing two layouts  is hard, but 5! I first wanted to hit myself and my bad idea but then I thought: grid. grid designs are easy and always looks look!

 Each layout is 4 boxes, two photos, one for journaling and one for embellishments. All layouts are built the same but whit some differences, the photo for example is placed so the puppy is looking in to the page, not of it. 

 The colors that dominate the layout is picked up from the second photo; of the detective that the puppy is named after. I love this shows and characters so naming the puppies after them was a must!

 The papers are from Dear Lizzy "Fine & Dandy" and whit that I used a die-cut pack from Heidi Swapp "September Skies" and letter sticker from Tim Holtz.

 To really emphasis the grid I took black thread and saw around each card/ photo. And as you can see, I did need allot of paper or embellishments to make each look cute and finished!

When doing this layouts I worked on them all at the same time, first matting and then embellishments and the journaling. If I didn´t know what to add or what to do next whit one I put it aside and continued on the next. This way I did the same steps at the same time on all of them.

 All of the layouts look different but it´s clear that they belong together. Doing so many layout whit the same feel is so easy when working whit a grid!

Love Julia

Hello!
Today I have a new favorite layout to show. I just love how it came together! I had a plan and I stuck to it, just that is amazing!

 It´s now so easy to edit photos and we do it almost on a daily base for Instagram or what not. So what I wanted was a feel of de-saturated and high contrast. Like that the layout it self had gone through a program, not just the photo.

 My DIY- elements on this layout is the resins, made whit paper.clay in silicon molds. The tiny tassels and the butterflies. This has been in my head for quite some time, I knew I wanted to do I layout whit butterflies flying but wasn´t sure just how. So finally I sat down just cut them out, free hand from patterned paper, book pages and tissue and the stitched them together.

 The paper-clay is so fun to work with and easy to color but here I wanted most of the embellishments to be white, or light.

 Normally I put away my layouts when I´m done, becouas if I leave them on my desk I will the next day add something... And on this one, the morning after, (morning mind! not yet awake) I just had to add some black ink splatter... How did that go? well my butterfly in no longer light and airy...

Love Julia

Hello all of you pretty people! I´m so exited to have a new little project, by now you might now that I get really exited by having "projects"! I´m not so good to stick to them for a longer time but hey, that okej :) Anyway my new project or mission is to put more me on the page, like working more on the background or to use the embellishments I have made...

Here is the first layout and what I really wanted was a woods feel without it turning in to a theme. So I gessoed a 12*12 watercolor paper and then sprayed whit different colors over 3 threes from Tattered Angel.

 I then used the masks to make this threes and them watercolor them. I really like how they turned out but it I was to do it agien, I would do the threes on a heavier paper so that the color really comes out.

 The title is Heidi Swapp puffy stickers in Navy that I just stiched over when I sewed around the page.

 The wood hearts works so well with the wood feel and I just had to have some ink splatter, black and gold.

 The layout is about that Wiola and I have been together for a year! It feels like yesterday I hold her when she was just a few minutest old! She has grown to such an amazing dog and I couldn´t love her any!

I hope that you have liked this post and that you would like to come back to see more in the DIY-series

Love Julia

Hello and happy Friday to you all! 

As per usual I have a process video up today and on this one I mixed Confetti by Maggie Holmes and Craft Market by Crate Paper

This two collections go so well together and made a really fun layout.

 The title "Love You" is part from Craft Market chipboard and part thickers "sentiment" 

 I can´t turn down gold ether foil or glitter so I did both here. 

 "you are my happy"

 I had to use this blue squirrel on a LO whit Wiola. If you have seen the movie "Up" you know what I´m talking about... Squirrel!  

Love Julia

Hello

I have the last layout in the fine& dandy challenge to show you, where I use the 6x6 paper pad from Dear Lizzy fine & dandy collection

In this one I went back to the 12x12 and started with a white cardstock. I wanted to have a panel with different pattern papers from red to pink to white and then sewn down. And if I say so, it turned out pretty close to what my plan was.

 Whit all of this light colors and patterns I wanted to bring in black to humph it up. I love using black as an accent color, here I have the tiny word strips from Maggie Holmes and from her also a black & white bow.

 The title is part Maggie Holmes too, I think you is the queen of ephemera packs!. The vellum word "adorable" is from her Confetti line and "Wiola" is thinkers Gilded

The heart and the gold dots are from Studio Calico, the word stickers from Maggie Holmes and the label is from Teresa Collins 

 Here I wanted to play with the layers under the photo so instead of just patterned paper I also had some pink tissue and that fun star vellum from Maggie Holmes.

I hope that you have liked this little series and that i will see you all soon

Love Julia

Hello!! 

I continue with this super fun challenge and on this layout I picked to go together with the Dear Lizzy Fine & Dandy pad, the labels from Teresa Collins and the Thickers are "Gilded" 

On this layout I wanted two things, a grid design and stitching. 

I´m not a master sewer and can´t sew a straight line... ever! but sens there are so many layers you can´t even tell it´s all wanky. And I love the feel of it!

I´m not a red fan but here it just worked, with the photo and the together with the other colors

 When I first noticed this gold labels from Teresa Collins I just had to have them! But you all know how it is when shopping online... The foil is really good, but the label is a bit to slick and if you don´t have a steady hand, it will be a mess... But they are so pretty!

 Before I sign off; make sure that you don´t have any wet on non-porous things. I did and when I put it in it´s page protector it smeared all over! that tiny drop!!!  

Love Julia

Hello!
I have something really fun going on! It´s a personal challenge (like I need another...) and I love for you to play along. All you need is a 6x6 paper pad that you haven´t used, don´t know how to use or just find challenging. I have been eyeing the Fine & Dandy pad by Dear Lizzy for quit a time, thinking that I
wouldn´t like it, it wasn´t for me and had the "wrong" colors. But I can´t resist a challenge so I got the pad and now three layout later I find it so fun and energetic to work whit!

Here is the first layout, a A4 witch is new for me. I wanted to focus on the photo and layer all of this fun patterns to add interest. Also a thin strip at the top and bottom to frame the layout.

 Mixing collections can be tricky but here with the Fine & Dandy I used tiny word stickers from Confetti by Maggie Holmes and they work so well together. I think that this papers need some extra... humf. And the best way to humf it up is by using black, like this stickers and ink drops.

Another thing that works so well is gold! Here I have my favorite thickers; Sentiment. 

Some times you get ahead of your self and don´t notice that you are making a mistake.  Like gluing done the letters of the title before you´ve checked to see if you have them all...E... And bye the time you come up with a fix...3... you´ve put the ltters in the wrong order... It was a good day

 Any how, moving on, the pretty wood hears are painted with a serious hot pink nail-polish. And also I didn´t mention that the photo is layered first on light pink tissue paper. I have to say that I love using it for the lightness and texture and lightness. Did I say that twice? good.

 This is a very clean and simple layout so I wanted some action in the background, pink and black mist. I truly believe that if you want to work with soft and warm colors without it getting to "soffty-girly-pinki" you have to add something to humf it. Black is a sure card and also metallic, to break the sugar feel.

Love Julia