Water colors

Good morning!

On Saturday the kids wanted to paint with watercolors and I took the opportunity to do some painting myself. When my monocolored paintings had dried I punched out circles and used them on two 1-photo layouts.

 

This first is a sun rise photo from the harbor with four mallards swimming towards the camera making lovely wave interferens patterns on the surface. My first intention was to make the title reflect on that interferens pattern but my fantasy didn't work in that direction. Instead I choose "andrum" which means "respite" / "breathing space" but it is also a play with words because the Swedish word for mallard is "and" and "rum" means "room", so "mallard room". It stuck and I couldn't figure out anything better.  

 

I extended the horizon with a stripe of black cardstock and softened the edge with washi tape. I doodled around the circles and added some bows.

 

 

My sisters in law have a dog. His name is Kjell. When we all met up on Boxing Day he got a new dog sweater and I just had to take a photo. I think he looks a bit miserable, it's a dog's life :)

 

I made the next background with water color circles using up what was left of a sticker package from Hot of the Press. Love the steampunk look!

 

 

Have a nice day!

//Åsa 

 

Haul from Make & Create

Hello!

I recieved a package from Make & Create yesterday and it was fun fun fun! I did some nice bargains and some sweet finds!

 

I took the chance to fill up my stash on embroidery floss and I spent about $2 each for these packages and I think that was totally worth it! My large glass jar full of floss, twine and yarn is looking awesome and I'm so inspired to do some sewing on layouts! I'm thinking rainbows!!

 

 

Look at these darlings! They are like enamel dots but with matte finsih and a little rounder over the top. I love the colors! The price was perfect and I bought all they had left!

 

 

I've been looking for shaped paper clips like for ever and the ones I've found have been ridiculously expensive! I thought I had struck gold when I saw that they had lots of different kinds at IKEA but my local IKEA had only the speech bubbles and I wanted all of them! Here I found a couple of different kinds to a nicely reduced price and I bought the houses, the stars and the hearts.

 

 

This is the main reason why I placed this order. I wanted the old style clothes pegs and they were really good price. I will use them to store my twine. I will use the other clothes pegs for the same purpose. I bought two packs of the old style and one pack of the one with spring mechanism. I also ordered a pack of spools and a bag with 50 of those cute wooden game shapes. The wooden game shapes are for the kids to paint. We will try and paint a couple of them this afternoon!

 

 

Have a nice day!

//Åsa 

Soft colors!

Hello!

I made a couple of layouts during the weekend and today I'm sharing two of them. The first was made with papers from my most recent scraps and a bacground paper that I've painted myself.I love the combination of yellow and pink, but I couldn't resist adding a little aqua to the mix!

 

 

In Sweden we don't really have a Christmas stocking tradition but the kids' grandmother gives them stocking gifts in the morning of Christmas Eve so that they have something to play with until they get all the gifts in the evening. This time they got LEGO and hubby and I had a blast ;)

 

 

Take care!

//Åsa 

 

Special!

Hello!

Today I 'm sharing my two most recent layouts. I love this photo so much I can't stop smiling when I see it! I'm really pleased with the layout. What do you think? I love my new feather die from QK/Lifestyle and I will use it alot from now on!

 

 

This next layout is from fall and I titled it "Wonderfall". I wish I had added some kind of longer rectangular shape at the bottom of each cluster here because I think they turned out a bit too circular and not very grounded on to the page. It was fun to take out those paper leaves again, it's been a while!

 

 

 Take care and have a nice day!

//Åsa

 

Merry & Bright

Good morning!

I continue with Christmas photos, this time with Christmas papers and no flowers. The first layout has the photos that I used to make the Christmas cards for 2013. I used my 6''x6'' paper pad and chipboard die cuts from Studio Calico and a thin white cotton lace.

 

When I made the photo collage for the Christmas cards I did some cropping with the photos above and the final photo that I glued in the cards looked like this:

 

 

Here is a double page from Christmas Day when we spent the morning an the better part of the day playing with the gifts the kids had recieved on the previous evening. The title says "The Big Play Day". This is the left page:

 

 

And this is the right page: 

 

 

The holly leave paper hold the pages together and the clusters mounted on the same paper as I wrote the journaling on. On the left page I used the holly paper to create a narrow frame around the edge of a kraft cardstock background. I've seen my idol Nicole Jones do those frames a couple of times and I really like the look. It is also a very frugal way to use patterned paper, it gives the impression of an entire paper and you've only used less than two inches.

 

I'm sorry the photos are blurry, I had no idea before I uploaded them to the computer. I promise you, the layouts were crystal clear on the table :)

 

Have a nice day!

//Åsa

 

Yarn & Twine

Good morning!

It's haul time! Not a big one but one that will be fun to play with and give lots of possibilities! When I bought my albums at Slöjddetaljer I couldn't resist look for other fun things to put in my package. Slöjddetaljer is a crafting company that has been around like forever selling crafting supplies to schools. They had some scrapbooking supplies but nothing that really caught my eye. These two packages of cotton yarn were a great deal I think and the colors will match lots of the project I'm working on.

 

 

Then I found these two packages of bakers twine. They were NOT a bargain but after buying those albums it seemed like a small cost for a fun påroduct. I'm really more fond of the twine from Doodlebug but best quality comes with a price... and I think this will be just as pretty on my layouts.

 

 

I have been using alot of twine lately, in small bows and in curls and I like the effect it gives, the extra texture and movement. Easy and sweet.

 

Have a nice day!

//Åsa

 

Christmas hugs!

Hello!

Happy Monday! Wow, it's ringing like crazy here today! I've taken 179 calls in 100 minutes! Finally it is starting to calm down a bit. You need to fit

 

Today I'm sharing two layouts from Christmas Eve. Here in Sweden we celebrate Christmas on the 24th and we had Christmas dinner and exchanged gifts together with hubbys extended family. On these photos one and the same armchair is taking centre position and there was no chance I could fit it into a Christmas theme. Instead I decided to take inspiration from the pattern and the colors and focus on the Christmas spirit instead, all these photos have alot of it!

 

First I have two very excited kids, totally crazy from all the expectations. It is almost like the photos come with sounds, you can almost hear them! I used up some ancient Basic Grey paper as a background and some ribbons that's been in my stash like forever. The gold dots are Card Candi and I'm pretty happy about those, they make a nice impact and add some dimension and extra finish.

 

 

I love these photos! It is my father in law and my daughter sharing that arm chair. The papers are from Basic Grey's collection Persimmon. I've added sequins, card candi and some other details on three clusters. I grounded the clusters on circles made from embossed and sanded Core'dinations cardstock. Love the effect!

 

 

I've recived my two last post bound albums. I've decided to try D-ring. I've decided on albums from Pioneer and page protectors from We R Memory Keepers. I'll order them from CiLi in Papers as soon as I have filled the albums I have now. 100 layouts. Can't take too long, can it?  :)

 

I will take a photo of the twine and yarn, that I bought together with the albums, and show here in the blog!

 

Have a nice day!

//Åsa