Project Wilna part 3- I love to create

                                                  *Process video!*




Hello and happy Friday to you all! I have a new layout that was inspired by Wilna.
I love how light and fun this layout is. using 6x6 paper in a new way and creating that lightness between papers and photo with those butterflies. So what I take with me is the the layout as a hole the colors I will change and do something different for the transition.

Here is her process video check it out and if you already have; let´s get in to it!







So the papers that I went with is from Crate Paper and it´s the Best Of 180 papers. I took 6 Maggie Holmes papers and cut them down to 6x6 and the rest to 6x2,5.  The white cardstock I mated on this grey zebra stripped paper from the same pad. (don´t know from witch collection)

 I wanted this to be really light and fun so I took 3 super tiny doilys, wrinkled them up and sicked them down with pearl brads. The butterflies I cut out by hand and not very good... But some sequins makes everything better!

 The vellum lable is from Crate Paper- Notes & Things Ephemera pack  and I just wrote my name and on the stripes below I printed from my computer things I love to do. I took a font that looks like a old typewriter and  them colored in grey. I think black would have been to much.

 This layout don´t have allot of dimension but distressing the edges makes a huge differences! I would love to have sewed it down but my sewing machine has taking a break and will not wake up... If you catch my drift...

 I´m so happy with this "flowers" the doilys are light, airy and so me!

 It wouldn´t be a Wilna page without paint splatter, here I took a light pink and a rich teal that matches the rose-steams in the 6x6 paper.

I so love the page and I hope yo like it too! Don´t forget to check out the process videos (all videos in the Project Wilna series are HERE)

I hope that you´ll have a great weekend and to see you next Friday for part 5!

Love Julia

Project Wilna part 2- Don´t Forget How To Fly

                                                     *Process video*

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to Project Wilna part 2!
I´m so glad you stopped bye and well, let´s get started!


So we start with checking out Wilna´s page:

This layout is build up in three parts: Photo, embellishment & journaling.
The colors are one of my favorite compo; grey and yellow. The embellishment is ribbon and scrap-pieces with brads/ buttons in changing colors, black to coral to yellow.  Here is her process video check it out to see our different processes.

What I will take with me is the layout and the thought with it. I will challenge my self with the colors. I have a hard time making red work so that is the color I picked to go with black and grey.


Here is me take in the layout:

Black & White with Red.  Black and white is not hard to work with, but red is. So bringing out the red lipstick in the photo with red dymo, red embellishments and red splatter.

 The background is from Basic Grey and I love it! I have been "saving" it but it´s perfect for this page, with all the flying  shippes. The squares are from My Mind´s Eye: Ruby and goes from black to red to white. Over the journaling I dropped some red mist I mixed ages ago.

 Wilna had matted her photo on a vellum pecie with gold dots. Now, I don´t have any vellum let alone any with dots so I made my own. The paper is what you have when you bake so it´s hard for anything to stick to the surfaces. But Ranger gold paint sure does stick, so I made dots with the old dried dabber.

 I love how the "vellum" turned out but I couldn´t get it to stick...(yes I know how blond that sounds...) so I finally went with staples and cut out the center to stick down the photo.

 I just love how this turned out with the colors and the layout. I would never have done a layout like this if I hadn´t started this project. My favorite part is the gold and the ribbon. I haven´t used ribbon in ages, but maybe I give it a try, this way.

I´m so happy over this page and I hope you give it a try.

Thank you for stopping bye and I hope to see you next Friday for part 3 or if you love project life; on Tuesday for week 34 process video :)

Have a great weekend

Love Julia

Project Wilna 1- Mirror

                                                 *Check out the process video!*

Hello everyone! By now you probably know what Project Wilna is, but if you don´t... Project Wilna is my latest project, to take all of her awesomeness and create layouts inspired by hers. So today is the time for the first; Mirror!


So let´s start with checking out Wilna´s page: (here is the video) Her page is parted up in to 3, white space with photo, flowers and journaling. The flowers is cut out of a silhouette but I don´t have one so I cut out all of the flowers and leafs by hand. The other thing with this page it the "blackboard". I want my whole page to be painted black. This are the two elements or parts that I will take with my to my page.

 So I took the chalkboard and the flower and made a  plan (for once) I know I wanted the flowers to frame the photo, like they are growing around it.

 My flowers didn´t get as much texture as Wilnas. I went with a different color scheme, softer pinks and yellows.  To get this look I mixed pink, yellow and modeling past. By not mixing the pink and yellow all the way you can get really cool colors. All of the flowers will look different but fit together because all of the colors are the same- just in different amounts.

I wanted a painted look so I didn´t go all the way to the edge with the black paint. This to emphasis that the background was painted. 

 To add some more interest I cut a glitter-paper in tiny, slim triangles to a act as thorns. The glitter pickes up on the pink and yellow and adds a lightness.  

 I really didn´t want this layout to feel dark and heavy, and yes I know- black has a tendency to do that... But I don´t feel that the layout got too dark, allot of of that is thanks to the leaves. They are green but I mixed a bit of yellow, the same way I did with the flowers

 To really get that chalkboard look I journaled in withe, a note to myself. Of course also inspired by Wilna and her notes to her girls.

So to sum it all up: I took two parts of Wilnas page, made a plan that fitted me and went with it! I love how this turned out, simple but with that feeling that I really wanted!

So this was the first page and I hope that you liked it, and the video! I really recommend you to check out Wilnas process first and then mine. All of the videos of the series will be in this playlist: Project Wilna

I hope to see you next Friday!

Love Julia