I'm super excited! I have signed up at Felicity Jane kit club in their two month bundle subscription. I have wanted to get this kit forever, always loved the fun and clean designs and the stamp-sets looks amazing.  So now they have this "bundle" where you get two kits every other month but only pay half the shipping cost. So I have signed up and will get my March and April kit in April. Of coarse I really want it now but at least I will get it! 

This March kit Tuesday has me so inspired and when I got the email with the 

printables I knew I had to make a layout with them!

The layout I made is going in to my "school" album from my time at Strömma 

(where I trained to be a horse-groom). I have allot of horse photos and this one I really like and I wanted to talk about that we always trained on tuesdays and that I often had Nova, even though I actually didn't really like him... 

 I did like riding him, allot, and we work together well, we just didn't click. But we had good times.

So I wanted to tell that story with the super cute printable from FJ. I wanted a bright white background with black accents to make the photo pop.

 When doing layout with "just" flat elements, like paper and paper, I like to add some things that will make you look twice. Here I added that cute bow, gold twine and pearls. Tiny things but they add just a little bit of texture.

 The tag is from Crate Paper and it goes so well with the FJ designs. The gold adds just a little bit of sparkle and the watercolor platters adds some fun unexpectedness to the page. 

I had so much fun working with these printables and can't wait intill  get the "real" stuff!

Love Julia

In our little town we have one park with a lake, in this lake hundreds of swans came each winter and every winter I drive past it and think, I should take my camera with me... Well this Tuesday I actually did, so when I had pick up my brother we walked around the lake and looked at these amazing birds.

I have a thing for birds, I really don't like them, except for swans, owls and flamingos...

But liking them or not, that are stunning 

 A day at the beach, or an ice floe 

 I have never seen any black swans, never hard that they would come here but there they were...

 I think they are amazing and stunning and beautiful and amazing.

Now I really need some of Maggie Holmes "Bloom" stuff, that black swan paper especially! 

We have a really good time walking even if it snowed/rained, and I'm now so inspired by these birds

Love Julia 

Today I  have a longer process video, doing four pages. Why you might wounder. Well, when I got the "Hello Love" I told myself that I had to use it up before march... I didn't so earlier this week I sat down. pulled out some photos I wanted to scrap and just dug in.

I love doing it this one, just letting go using what ever with out thinking if I should save this or that. I had so much fun and loving the pages! I had two "guidelines" 1 was just to use all of these pretty papers and 2 was to use my sewing-machine. Now when I knew I was going to have a marathon I just placed it on my desk and I used it on every page!

The first page I love!!! Inspired by a pattern in the collection I cut the papers in different angels and sew around them 

 This page is about our process in rally-o and what we still need to work on. I love these tiny wood vener letters from Studio Calico and they just spell out the date and #Rally Wiola

 The bold gold glitter word is from Maggie Holmes "Open Book" collection from last year and it goes so well with my favorit leaves! 

 I like using black as an accent color, it makes the layout pop and bumbing up the contrast

 The second page is a easy and clean page with two big layers and all the 

embellishments on the photo.

 I punched out some hearts and played with some stickers and then the page was done!

 Also here I have sewn around it really adds allot. Love how simple is it, 

have to scrap-lift my self later...

 With a gold striped background and a piller of die-cuts, this one is not clean and easy. But it is fun.

Here I really wanted to use all of those pieces that I have been looking at fore the past month but haven't found a place for them. Now They have one, all on the same place! 

 This page is about how much I love my mum and how happy I am when we get to spend some time alone together, like this snowy day. 

 Also this page I thoink would be super easy to scrap-lift and get a totally different result. 

Last page from the epic "Hello Love" marathon, and also this one I'm super happy with. The page is about when we where at My Dog to show baby Majken and baby Laban (Majken- Best In Breed puppy) Here I layed out some paint samples that happened to match perfectly! 

Love these colors together with the bold black

 More sewing and some wood

 I added some black & white washi over and under the photo, just to ground it and to add more of that black.

As you might have guessed I love this line and to work with it, check out my other blogpost, the crate paper Hello Love -pages- to see the pages without process videos and read more about it!

Love Julia!

Today I have a sort of recap of the Crate Paper "Hello Love" collection, what I made with it and what I though about it, I think you can guess! 

I have really enjoyed working with the Crate Paper "Hello Love" collection and I have made many layouts, 9 of them I really like! 

 Some of them you might have seen, like Right Now and My Funny Valentine,  some you can see over here but now, here are 3 layouts that I really like but don't have a process video

 This page is one of the first ones I made when I got the "Hello Love". It's titled "Not today" and it's about me learning about myself and that it's okay to have an off day. That I may have a hard day or very negativ thought but that is not me... That is the bad day and that will pass. 

I knew I wanted to journal allot here so I went with one of my favorite designs, the half & half. One part is journaling and one is more "scrapbooky". I used that amazing floral and vellum under the layered photo. 

This page is a very happy, girly page about baby Majken and how sweet and weird she is. She has satrted to run inside only to stop and throw herself on the floor like Anja Persson! It's so cute!

 I really like the fun and cute feel of this page and all the gold! Here I did a band across and worked with pink and gold, the journaling I placed under so that the title and photo would be the focus. 

 My sewing-machine has been working hard this month and I love it! Here I started with a 6x12 panel,(half & half again) made a grid and then I sawed around the pieces. The craft background is sprayed with white "Heidi Shine" through the negative space from die-cutting, like the ones I have used here.

I really wrote allot here, about W, and why I love here so much. I have made sooo many pages about this dog and sometimes they don't say anything, or anything new but I have so many cute photos of her I can't stop! 

 I have really enjoyed working with this collection and I can honestly say that, because I have hardly anything left! I bought it, I used it ans I have loved it. I know it can be hard using all of thous pretty things but now I have many pretty pages and I had a blast working with them!
My favorits must have been the thickers, the papers and of curse the colors!!!

Now I'm looking forward to start playing with the "Bloom" collection

Love Julia

This year I turning 22 at  January the 22nd. 

I hardly ever scrapbook my birthday, but I do sometimes make a letter page to myself. 

A "pretty" page with a hide letter to my older self. 

The page started with a watercolor background from one of my late night watercolor sessions (this one inspired of my dream kitchen floor). 

 I don´t have many nice photos of me even though my mom loves her camera, she just loves pointing it really close to flowers or stones... But on my birthday, we where both having a "free day" and she took some photos of me and Majken. (W is not in them sens she was licking my knees...)

 The letter is quit long and I didn't want to think about the length fitting on the page so I wrote it on another paper and put in a envelop, really pionting out the letter feel.

The letter is about how I am now, what I like to do and how my health is and what I have planed. 

 A tag rescued from my scrap-bin, perfect for the layout the the calendar pieces.  

 My first thought was to keep it simple but how can do that? So I through all my favorit things on the page and I like it, it's very Julia 2016!

Love Julia

I love to read, always have. I find it amazing that you can open a book and find our self in another country, in another time or in another world. The magic of books.

I think reading, is very personal and also what your read. For my it sometimes is a struggle and I have to make myself pick up the book to read, if only a page. Sometime, like today, I have to make myself put it away so I can get stuff done. The book in of itself also plays a big part, is it interesting, well written/ translated and does it capture you. 

I have read many books and keep finding more to add to my reading list. Now it's the annual book sale in Sweden and I just can't control myself! 

I have a few favorit topics that I love to read, like history, both fact and books taking place in another time. I also like to read novells. like Preservation and Pride & Prejudice.  I like to read in both Swedish and English and I think it's about 50/50.

 I've hade the idea of this page for a long time and the other day, when I was playing, it just started to appear on the page. I painted the color blocks on the bottom and then started to stamp and write. The "books" has titles, authors and just subjects that I like to read right now. As you can see I really like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Kerry Greenwood's Miss Fisher

 I wanted to keep the page fairly simple, just embellish around the photo. Letting the photo "explode", trying to visually show how it feels when getting into a book.

 Fun colors, gold and glitter. My beloved books are now documented in my album.

Love Julia

Every year I, like many others, sit down and make goals or resolutions for the new year. For example last year I really wanted to restart my french studies and even though it was hard and slow at first before I found the right way, I did it. For this year I picked a word. This word "came to me" in november/ december and I just thought it was so perfect for 2016; ACT/ AGERA in swedish.

This word mean allot right now, I have had the fibromyalgi-diagnoses for about a year and it has been hard, the years before till now. I'm finally starting to feel better and stronger and determined to find ways to become even better, stronger and more normal... The word act is a wish of that. A wish, a hope and a disire to be more active, physically and mentally. 

 I want this word to inspire me to dare more and push my limits, in a good and healthy way. I want this word to encourage me to go out and walk, to read and to paint. 

This year I will make an effort not only thinking about this word but to work with it. I find somethings so hard to do, overwhelming to do. Have been still for so long, in so much pain the most ordinary things seams like mountains to climb.  That is what I hope will change, the more I do, act the less intimidating the mountains will seam. (i hope)

 Act is my one little word for 2016 (though it feels huge) I don´t have any "musts", pages or stuff to do. This is just for me, to make me feel better... and hopefully inspire you.

Love Julia