A new week and a new card. This card is inspired by the winter and the fact that we have had our first snow. The colors where easy to pic, white and blue. So to make it a bit more challenging I took a stamp that I uselessly use for spring.

 In her hand is a bird but there I put a mini rose with some blue in it.

 I found this cute pearl and put them on either side of the lace.

Papers are from Prima, Magnolia & Basic Grey. 

Flowers are white from Pyhobby that I just colored with my own "glimmer mist" mix

The Pearls and swirls are also from Pyhobby

The Image is colored with distress ink and then sprinkled with shabby white embossing powder.

This card is in the challenges over at:

Tildastown

Marvelous magnolia challenge

One of the best things is truly to feel full of inspiration. "Making a Scene" is a mixed media piece with a jumping jack Ballerina. For once I will just let you look at the pics without my telling you everything ;)

Love Julia

Remember yesterdays post? Well I used her for today's card.
The papers are from Prima "Engraver" collection.

 On the image I have shabby white embossing powder. The flowers are glimmermisted and stickled. The brown paper flowers I´ve made myself. I´ve seen so many use them but coulden´t find them so I made then.

 The little paperbag I made too and then there are white paint all over the card.

I really like this card and I hope you do to.
This card is in the challenge over at: Tildastown

Love Julia

Take out your glue-pen and glitter and follow me! Together we can change the world... Well maybe not but we will have fun!
 So see here, cute...

 And now with glitter, so much cuter!

So to you how live in fear of using glitter, afraid it will end up everywhere: Don´t live in fear and what if you find glitter everywhere? It adds sparkle to that grey everyday-life.

Love Julia 

It´s all ready mid November, where does the time goes?! I think that this is a tricky time now, is it fall, is is winter? Here in Sweden there is snow in the north but here in the south its still fall. So with this Swedish weather in mind here is today's card:
On this card I have use two old magnolia stamps as embellishments. The leaf and mushrooms, the leaf is stamped on some bronzed paper and the mushrooms are stamped on watercolor paper and then painted.   The background is basic grey and burlap.

 The flowers are in fall colors and the big rose is embossed with a gold powder. The small brown pearls is all over the card, on the flowers, the image and on the leaf.

 This girl is colored with distress ink and the snow is chunky embossing powder. This image really is Swedish November in a nutshell.

I hope you like it
Love Julia

I just love this stamp, she is truly adorable.  So I made this card with a midwinter feel.

The background paper is from Magnolia as are all the paper flowers.

 I wanted lace at the bottom of the card be it´s hard to get it nice so I made a border to put over. It´s just a thin pecie of paper that I embossed with "shabby white" from Stampendous.

 Tilda is stamped in vintage photo and colored with "tea day" & "vintage photo" and "spun sugar" for the flowers.

I hope you like it

This card is in the challenges: 

lovely-haenglar-only

4craftychicks

Love Julia

No secret that I love this micas and today I though I´d show how I use them on my cards and layouts. They are perfect for the vintage touch.

So when using micas you heat it from underneath and using the embossing-powders as a fixative. Here I start with UTEE that I have mixed with some purple glitter.

Then I take some gilded mica, break them up to small pieces.  

 Now to the aged silver powder.

 Heat it from underneath, if you heat it from the top everything will blow a way, trust me...

 Here I´vie taken some more vintage powder and micas.

 Here is a last tip, I´ve made this cheat note with my embossing powders.

Love Julia