"Come Closer" - 12x12 scrapbook - Maggie Holmes-Bloom

My mom always says that she can't understand where I get my creativity from, sens she doesn't see herself as very creative. Well maybe she doesn't paint or sew or "make" things but I really do think of her as a very creative person. So I wanted to make a page about that and that she is a really great photographer. And just what she like to have in her lins...

My mom has a close relationship with her camera and often brings it out on our walks. With her lins she captures the nature around us, the birds in the sky, our funny dogs but most of all, the

 close up of anything. 

You can find her in the ditch to capture a spring flower or crawling around to find pretty stones. 

On her toes to reach to the branches filled with water-drops or trying to make Majken sitt, still... 

Favorit object has to be tulips and I'm so happy that I thought about taking these photos of her, on her birthday. (she got allot of tulips...)

 Come Close, Come Closer.

I wanted to make a girly, pretty page with the elements that she likes. Pink, tulips and butterflies. 

 The background is stamped with the "Bloom" stamp set and the roller phrase stamp from "Shine". Then splattered with Heidi Shine in "Pink" and "Gold"

 watercolored tulips on stamped background with some ink splatter... Well that is pretty much me, but sens this page is about where I get my creativity from, I had to have some "me" things here...

 So it's a page where we come together and it tells a story of both me and my mom.

"But i believe that I had to gotten my creativity from someone how sees the beauty in the tiny things, like  water-drops..."

Love Julia

Smitten- 12x12 Maggie Holmes-Bloom

Do to some internet problem this week my Monday and Wednesday post will be up today and tomorrow instead. Irritating, yes but it's all good because the layout that I made for today I really like!  

So by now you know I have a thing for swans, and if you want to see more, check out THIS blog post. So the other day my brother and I walk around the swan lake and we got to see a pair of black swans. I had never event hard of black swans and I was Smitten!!

The Maggie Holmes -"Bloom"  papers was just perfect for this but I also used a floral paper from "Confetti" to add some color. I really love that with Crate Paper that you can easily mix the different collections, here the deep pink and coral works so well with the bird and the other papers. 

 I wanted the use more paper and less embellishments here, to really focus on the photos. I think sometimes it's easier to think of the papers as an embellishment or a decor piece. Here I cut out two clusters of flowers added a doily and some tiny wood hearts and pearls. The tittle, black, is a script word from Amy Tangerine I like that it has some wight but it's not heavy.  

 I had allot to say about how pretty the birds where and how rarely I actually do thing I want to do, like walking around the swan-lake. So I typed  my journaling on vellum with my typewriter and yes it is very imperfect and has allot of spelling mistakes but what I have written is true and honestly, it looks good... 

I hope you've liked this page had that you all have a great weekend!

Love Julia 

Easter DIY Decor

Easter, I love Easter! That it's officially spring, the fun colors and not to forget, all the candy!! 

In Sweden we have this tradition of bringing in branches and decorating them with eggs and feathers. why? I have no idea but we have always done it and probably always will...  But for this year I will make some new decoration! 

I wanted to change out the old feathers for some cute tassels and make the eggs a bit more glamours!

I'm so happy with how it turned out, all glittery and colorful!! 

 I really like when you can make something really pretty with so few and simple steps and I even have plans for those tassels later on...

Happy Easter to you

Love Julia

Studio Vlog 1 sunday 20 march

This last week has been filled with paint, bu not the good pretty kind. Just plain white wall paint but that means it's a few spets closer to when the studio will be ready!
So last week dad said he was done with his part for now and that meant for me to clean it out and start painting.

 The studio is in our old stable so it's not very big and not very light, my biggest problem. I have a few ideas to maximas the little light there is. Paint it all white, I rather want it a bit cold then a yellow tint to the room. I have a long mirror going up on this right wall, opposite the window, that hopefully will add some light.

 I have got my hands on two pieces of furniture, a cabin and a drink-cart. These will have a little makeover too. White paint and... well I'm not sure just jet what to do with them but I have so many ideas, just need to pick one... or two. 

 I have to say, painting and then painting again and again, it's not fun. But it looks really good, much brighter and I still have at least one more coat to do!

Filmed a short vlog from yesterday, but this is what I have been doing everyday for the last week!

 Having the end in mind, keep painting! 

This week I hopefully will have the furniture done and the room painted so that dad can go in and do his finishing jobb. In just a few week I might be sitting out there to do my thing!

Love Julia

Bargains at secondhand

In my town we have a number of secondhand stores, some have good stuff and some just have... well crap. But my favorit, Emmaus, has a great store, well organised and lots of kitchen things (YAY!). So when ever I'm near and have some time, I pop in. So that is what I did this week while waiting for my brother to get out of school. I got three thing that I'm so happy about!

 No judgement, but I have started to buy these white horses and I love them. 

So I'm secretly 80...

 Something more useful is this light-blue tin/flowerpot. It is one big with three smaller tins whit in. I think this will be perfect to have on my desk for roller-stamps and washi.

 And then I found this! It's a pretty glass cake-stand. I love glass, and cake. If there is something that I actually want to collect, it's cake-stands! and teapots... 

I love "finding"  things that others no longer love, and what I pay for them is 1, very cheap and 2, it goes to charity. These this coat in total; 100 SEK, a real bargain! 

Love Julia

scrapbook page "Selfie" with PL cards and watercoloring

So the other day I was putting away my Project Life stuff after finishing week 10's page and I saw the cards on top of the corekit-tray. Next to the tray was a photo that hadn't made it to the page and the colors was just perfect for each other!

I love it when this kind of stuff happens, getting inspired by the things on your desk and making a layout that you just love. Here it was the colors of the cards that inspired me, the light blue, grey and soft coral and they went so well with my photo. 

 I took the PL cards, layered them behind my photo and them slabbed watercolor in the background. I really like how soft the layout id without being overly feminin. well apart from the lace-flower...

I wanted a soft, messy background and watercolor is perfect for that. 

 Adding the gold glitter tape and white dots adds texture without jumping out in your face. The tiny wordsticker are cream with blue lines and gold text, perfect! The journaling I added with a "stabilo 88/13". This is one of very few pages where I haven't added heavy black elements and it really accents the soft colors of the photo.

 Here you can really see the bad print of the photo, but I had just ordered some photos, this among them, so I will change it. I normally don't mind if my photos are printed at home or ordered but when this print is so bad and I really like the layout, it's worth changing it. 

All in all, I like the page (just going to change the photo) and I'm so happy that I stopped what I was doing and made this cute page of me and my brother.

Love Julia

Maggie Holmes "Bloom" Haul

I really liked the new collection "Bloom" by Maggie Holmes made for Crate Paper, So pretty

with fun colors and beautiful floral. But getting your hands on it has proven very difficult!  

If I like a line I like to get the 12x12 paper pad, ephemera, stickers and maybe the chipboard or some fun embellishment. But sens "Bloom" has been so popular the paper pad is sold out, the ephemera is nowhere to be found and is hiding somewhere with the chipboard... 

But I did mange to get my hand on these:

• 5 12x12 dubble-sided papers
• the cardstock stickers
• the clear stickers
• the 6x6 paper pad
• the stamp-set 

This stampset is so pretty! I love it and have played with it all weekend! 

 The 12x12 papers I got are: "little bird", "moments", "lizzy", "ribbons" & "adore"

Loving the black swan  and bow papers! 

I do would want the pad and the ephemera but I think with the pretty papers and the stickers I can make some pretty layouts (if I don't hord everything...) And if I absolutely love it, I can buy more later when it's back in stock.

Love Julia