Book page weave card

I´m so lucky to have such good friend and let my tell you they are so creative. So this card is inspired by my girl Ellen.




Check out Ellens artwork:
http://rosewindow.deviantart.com/








So I started with weaving book pages that is about 1-1,5 cm. This is a bit time consuming but really fun. If you co with solid color the "Weave" will be more protruding. The weave I glued on the card and gave a light mist of my mixed glimmer mist (gold glimmer and brown ink)











Then this is the embellishment I plan to use. I pulled out the glass flowers from yesterday and a Magnolia Stamp.

















And here we have the finished card, inspired by Ellen and decorated with the glass flowers, bling swirls, a Magnolia stamp and washi tape from Panduro Hobby.



Love Julia

Flower makeover

It´s flower makeover Monday! Today's technique I call the glass flower effect. To do this you will need:

Paper flowers
clear stamp pad, or one with glue
embossing powder with glitter
UTEE- ultra thick embossing enamel







Start out with covering the flower with the clear stamping pad, I use this small Versa Mark, but their is allot of different brands that you can use from.






The first powder is the one with glitter, heat is up and then drop the flower in the UTEE. If you´re not so sure on the step, let the flower cool and go over it with the stamp pad again and drop it in the UTEE. (I pore the UTEE in a bigger container, this way it´s really easy just to put the hole flower in and give it a shack.) The UTEE step I repeated 3 times with really gave the flower that glass effect.






The thing is that after all the cotes with embossing the paper becomes see though and they really looks like glass.





Here you can you see how the before and after, flowers.


Hope you like it

Love Julia

Pysselskafferiet

Not very many people can work with their dreams. Stina does, she has a blooming craft business that is 20 years old. For the past 5 years she has been in a local 10  minuets from Borås, in Gånghester. After looking though the webbshop and blog I headed over to the store.

The store is in a basement so the selling is rather low and their are only a few windows. The owner, Stina describes her store like a pantry. The word the comes to my mind while steeping in was more, the cave in Aladdin, filled with treasures. The atmosphere is so worm and welcoming and the girls that work there are so friendly. Every way you look there is inspiration and not just for cards or layout but for alters and paintings. All you want to do i to touch everything for their are so many pretty things to touch. Even tough the space is packed, everything is in it´s place and you can actually find things. And they have close to everything you need. Flowers, bling, papers from Maja Design to Prima. Maybe you are just in love with alter boxes, books or bird feeders, they have it!

You will definitely get inspired by the shabby chic/ vintage style int the store.

Lovely papers from Swedish designer like Pion and Maja Design and big brands like Prima and Graphic 45

Roses in all colors thinkable

Wood shapes ready for some paint and paper

An example of what you can do to the birdhouse

Everything in the store is done so cute, just the simple idea of hanging the stamps.

One of the many popular brands, Maja Design

Just imagine what you can do to this guy with the flowers and papers in the store.

Want more? Their blog: http://www.pysselskafferietdt.blogspot.se/

I hope this will inspire you like it has inspired me. I will definitely go back soon and tell all of my fellow crafters.

Love Julia

Scrapbookpage: Britta in Peach

 This layout will be in the LLC September challenge: http://liveandlovecrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge15.html.
The challenge was to create something from a collage of photos. This is what I did.

You know how I do layouts by now so here are the process:

Love Julia

Stamping Organization

As a crafter and scrapbooker we all have allot of small items that disappears all the time. One of those thing are my stamps and for years I have try ed to find the perfect organization of them. I´ve had them in a draw but could never find the one i wanted. I´ve tryed to sort them by them and then in plastic pockets, this took up way to muck space and the pockets broke. So for some time ago I thought about this idea. It´s just a A4 binder with 4 photo pockets on each side, 8 in total. This is perfect for me, I can easily see all of my stamps, they don´t take up more space then a binder and the photo pockets are the right size. In this pockets the stamp fits (and my clears stamps also fits) And the best part is that I can put the images in with the stamps if I get any left over.

But not all stamps are small enough to fit in the pockets, then I just take a full A4 plastic pocket. (image no 4) So now I have tyred this system for quite some time and I can say that I will not change a thing!

How do you store you´re stamps? Let me know in the comments below or on pintrest

Love Julia

Fabric tape banner

Fabric tape is getting more and more popular and today I´m going to show you my favorite way of using it.

To make the fabric tape banner you´ll  need:
fabric tape
string
scissor








Cut of a piece of and put the sting in the middle. Fold the piece over.















Cut the edge to two point or one.














Fill the string with more piece in till you get the length you want. And that is how you´ll do it,  super easy. I sometimes decorate it with some bling or pearls but the possibilities are endless.










So this is one way the banner can be used, on a simple card with some gold bling.

Love Julia

Flower makeover

Today I´m going to go through how I did the flowers that are on the "Britta & Julia" http://juliakallen.blogspot.se/2013/09/scrapbookpage-britta-julia.html,

I started with a flower (well obviously) ( www.pyhobby.se ) that just has color on the edges, witch makes them really easy to color.












So now I cut of the stem so I can take out the pistils.












Like this. Now there is just two paper flowers.












When I color flowers like this (with green in the middle.) I start with spraying with a light color glimmer mist or similar, or water if you don´t wan´t the sparkly. When the flower no longer is dry i take and dip a green color in the middle. Because the flower is wet the green will move out and will not look so stark.







And this is how it looks on the layout.


Love Julia