I get very inspired by colors and fun color-schemes. Colors that make me think and makes me happy. Like the colors in Suse's kit for Felicity Jane. I love that lavender blue color and with those soft pinks it really made me want to create.
I had a very clear plan when I started this page, I wanted the colored cardstock as a background with some with paint and the vellum shapes and sequins sewn in a "reef" around the photo.
Starting with such a specific plan scars me a bit, I'm not very good at following directions even if they are me own but it turned out really nice!
Starting my new "Road Trips" album I found that sometimes I hade several photos I wanted to use and sometime even photos from the same trip but from different places. How do I make one dubble page and a single page from different places, with very different feels, go together?
So I made a dubble page for Äskhult, with all of the photos and a single for Såkrsgård but used the same paper and embellishments. I wanted it to be clear that they where from the same day but from different times and places. Looking at them now I really like how they turned out.
I picked two pieces of paper and an embellishment that I could use on all three of the pages. They all have allot of white and to mark the how different the places where I used different thickers.
I picked a dark wood paper and a green floral (Maggie Holmes), these went so well with the photos from the old farm but also the new. Much green in the photos and wood here in Sweden, well it's everywhere. The embellishments, white flowers, I picked to go with the summer feel and sens they are white don't add to much wight to the pages but some interest and adds to the summer-outside feel.
Don't you just love when you get those "have to reorganize it now"-feeling a Friday morning just before you leave for school of work... Well I have though about my shelfs before but yesterday morning I just had to do it that day...
So here is the before, not to bad but things staked on each others stresses me out. Also I'm afraid an album will fall on my head when I craft.
The after is much better! With a very limited space you have to have a "make -do" attitude but I'm very happy with what I accomplished with on the time-35 min.
It has a lighter and airier feel, I could take away more like the gold box with stamps I hardly ever use but then I feel, I've spent allot of money on those and honestly the space that they are taking up is not worth that much... But yes, one day I will most likely sell them. For now it feel better and I can keep crafting!
I love to work in this "new" format of the traveler's notebook. I like that it is long and narrow, not to big but yet you can fit allot. I like to make them and the work with them. I did one for this summer (that still have not filmed...) and I thought it would be fun to make one for fall. This time I made it out of pattered paper and vellum. I used the paper pad "Willson Wood" what I like about this pad is that many papers lend it self to be cut up and made into embellishments.
For my fall insert I put togheter a mini kit, the paper pad, some phrase stickers from Crate Paper "craft market", alpha stickers (the little that is left) from Maggie Holmes "shine" and some home made leafs using Lawn Fawn dies.
I made these by punching out the reefs, fussy cutting the critters and then adding a phrase sticker. I think they turned out really cute and I think they will add some consistency trough out the book.
I had picked stickers and alphas that are gold and a copper washi... I like to mix and i think these warm metallic work so nice in fall. I also added these die cuts that I got earlier this week, I wanted some more "pretty" and sens they had that copper they where perfect!
I keep my pretties on a little tray and can easily pick what I want when I want it.
Here is the cover and my tray, I really like the products I have picked and I work in the book when I get a bit of time. I hope to record the change into fall, every-day things and also some lists from Andreas class.
In the paper pad I picked there is a sheet filled of critters that are just so cute, and I cut them out. It took hours but I think they are truly adorable!
Here is a page I have started, big photo and a photo strip and some hopefully some journaling...
That is what I've got so far, I really like it and can't wait to fill it up!
So I was doing some grocery-shopping today and I happen to stroll past the crafty shelf... I fund these two packs, one with tags and pockets and one with some copper-foiled die-cuts *happydance* (photos from ICA) They coast 20kr each and for a pack of 104 I have to count that as a score!
They are so pretty and the die-cuts comes with 52 design, two of each and like I said, copper foiled! I like that gold isn't so dominating any more and these colors and floral are just perfect.
Is there any thing better to find in your mailbox then happy-mail? This week I got my order from Pyhobby.se and the July and August kits from Felicity Jane.
The July kit was design by the lovely Suse Fish and I think I might do a mini with this kit...
The August kit, called "Maggie" has a very fun and fresh feel. What I will do with it, as of now I have no idea but it will be very fun to play with.
A very spontaneous order from pyhobb.se but this paper pack "Tales from Willson Wood" was just too cute! Think I want to make a TN insert, and cut all of those cute critters out!!
I have really loved working with the Felicity Jane kit; "Next Stop" the colors and elements are so vivid and fun! My favorite part had to be the letters and I knew I wanted to do a page with a big title.
This page is about my mom and our little Majken, on the photos they had just passed their last test in order to become tracking champions. My mom really didn't get a diploma for making Majken a champion so I wanted to make her one, in my own way, telling her that she really is a champion!
