Acorn Avenue kit: Happy Girl+ Tacksam

I love watercolors. that is a fact. For you how didn´t know I paint... allot and watercolors are my favorite medium. Sorry oil tubes that are hidden away. So on this day I just wanted to play whit them on a layout. 

I won´t wright to much about this page, as you most likely have seen the video but I can just say that adding those black ink-drops really made the page come to live- contrast!!

 This layout turned out to be one of my favorites and of course I didn´t record it... But I can still show it to you. I started whit a painted craft cardstock, I have few ready to go, painting many in one sitting. Here I have one in sort of a midnight blue and I really wanted to work whit that feel.

 Splattering some "Heidi shine" in gold makes the "stars" and the banners are from the layout before but here I stitched them in to 3 banners to drape on the page. The journaling are typed in my typewriter and cut in to strips. This way the journaling is easy to read but doesn´t feel heavy.  

I love this blue background whit the purple color and layering it under my photo makes it really pop. I´m just so happy whit how this turned out, so fun!

Love Julia

Acorn Avenue kit: Rally

Do you use colored cardstock? I have a really hard time using anything other then white or craft. In this kit we get two cardstock sheets, one black (great for photo matting) and one pale blue...

So what to do, I decided to work whit it and use it for a background. The color was very pale and I wanted it to be clear to any one looking at it that it was in fact blue. Pallet knife + white paint = textured background.

What I wanted whit this layout was to tell about how fun we have training rally. I picked my favorite colors, purple and blue and then glitter! I love the "stitched leaves die" from Lawn Fawn on glitter paper, so pretty. Here I´ve purple glitter paper, the blue glitter thickers and a glittered tag. 

 I know I have said it before but those arrows are too cute! And those clear word stickers, so perfect for adding on photos! 

This layout is fun, random, sort of thought through and a bit crazy, just like Wiola and I. Love that you can capture a feeling on paper

Love Julia

Acorn Avenue kit: Lilla Damen

I recently got my very on Big Shot and I just love it!! I had a few dies that I got years ago but the first that I bought was the "Stitched Leaves" from Lawn Fawn. I think they are so pretty and can work year round. So I started cutting them out and decided to use the negative.

I wanted a soft and fresh feel so a white background whit so "tattered rose" and Heidi Shine in gold. I love this colors whit craft very feminine. 

 I didn´t want allot of embellishments, but let the wow-factor be on the negative leaf piece. 

 I used that clear tag that I wasn´t to sure about, but so perfect here. 

 How cute isn´t she? the story here is about just how pretty she always is even though she is chewing on a cut-off deer foot...

Love Julia

Likeforever kit: Acorn Avenue

So exited to get my first (ever) kit. Just in love and so inspired to get started!!

I´ve been looking for a kit club for a long time but shipping to Sweden is way expensive! But I´ve heard good think about the Likeforever and stared whit checking a few things whit the owner how answered quickly and I made up my mind.

What really "tipped the scales" so to speak was the kit it self, I just love the Pink Paislee "Ceder Lane" line. The colors and the patterns are very usable. And then those arrows, I would never buy them myself but I love them!! Then a hole die-cut pack and those clear tiny word sticker!!! The pack of matching sequins are a real challenge, but I´m up to the task, same goes for the blue thinkers. 

So loveing this and honestly, I have all ready made a layout...

Love Julia