Complemeting some old albums

I went through my albums to see what was missing. These four layouts are made to complement the layouts I have made over the years.

Thanks for looking! Take care!

Happy Estern!

I want to wish you all a Happy Estern by showing an Ester layout that I made just for fun.

Here are two close-ups:

I added some Micro beads on some of the candies.

And stamped on the background.

Thanks for looking! Take care!

Home-grown strawberries

It's all about triangles at Let's Get Sketchy this week. In my interpretation I used the triangles as arrows.

I stamped some flowers on the background and decorated some of the arrows with Glass Beads. Here are two close-ups:

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Skating on the lake

It is a new month and it is time for me to show my DT-layout for ARTastic. This month we have an inspiration piece made by Mia Taninaka. The criteria is to use wood veneer.

I used a wood veneer behind the photo that I broke into four pieces. I painted it with silver glitter acrylic paint. I also used some wood veneer arrows to highlight the photo.

Here is a close-up:

The rest of the team have made some awesome inspiration pieces. Please go here to have a look and to find out how to join the challenge.

Thanks for dropping by! Take care!

Let's Get Sketchy is turning 4!

In celebration of our 4th birthday we are doing month long giveaways.  Each week we will be giving away 1-2 scrapbooking goodie packs.  How do you win?  Each week there will be a posting about how to win that week’s prize, so you will have to come back each week during the month of March to see how you can win!

You are lovely

Today I will show you a layout that I made just for fun. I used a lot of pink and red to match the photo.

I used pink watercolor and white mist on the background. The hearts are decorated with pink Micro breads and red glass beads.

The text die-cut are painted with gold acrylic paint.

Thanks for dropping by! Have a nice day!

Ball race

There's a new fun sketch up at Let's Get Sketchy today! Here is my interpretation:

I added neon orange and neon yellow acrylic paint on the background. I also splashed cerise, lime green and black mist. I also stamped in a lot of different colors on the layered papers beside the photo. Here are two close-ups:

Thanks for dropping by! Have a nice and creative week!

Jungle hut

ARTastic has a cool challenge this month. I love the inspiration painting and I love the criteria - to use paint on your work. Here is my interpretation:

The painting inspired me to the jungle theme and to add acrylic paint with a spatel on my background. I have made the jungle hut shown on the photo to our daughter and both her and her friends love to play in it. It even has swings rope ladders and trapezes to her soft toys. :-)

Here are some close-ups:

Thanks for looking! Have a nice weekend!

Happy Valentines day!

Happy Valentines day! This is a layout that I made just for fun. It is a way to remember all the loving things that my daughter use to say to me. I made it very "Valentine-ish" with a lot of pink and red.

Here are two close-ups:

I wish you a wonderful Valentines Day!

Strike the pose

This layout is made for a challenge at scrapbook.com. The challenge is to use a sport photo and the twist is to use a heart or the word love. Here is my interpretation:

To match the papers on the right side of the photo - and to highlight the photo - I painted the black line to the left on the paper. I added some black Micro Beads on a small part of the line. The black hearts are chipboards colored with a black pen. I also added some grey water color and black splashes of mist on the background.

 Thanks for looking! Have a nice day!

New Years Eve

I had a lot of fun creating this DT layout for Let's Get sketchy!

The fireworks are made with acrylic paint on a mask. I used three different colors/shades on each firework. When adding them wet in wet they blend together. Before the paint dried I also added glitter in different colors. This makes the glitter dry in the paint without using any glue product.

To the left of the layout I splashed white watercolor, white and black mist. I also stamped with silver and gold. The shimmer "framing" the photos is made using brads, rhinestones stickers, sequins, Prima Glass Beads and Prima Micro Beads.

Thanks for dropping by! Have a nice week!

Sledding hill

There is a new sketch up at Let's Get Sketchy today. I used this multi-photo-sketch to create a sledding hill. Here is my interpretation:

I splashed some white mist on the background and stamped black snow flakes. I also added white and green snow flakes stickers. The shimmer effect on the background is made with Prima Glass Glitter. Finally I added stickles on the chipboard for some more shimmer effect.

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7-years old

This is the layout that I made for my DT application at Let's Get Sketchy. It is an interpretation of the sketch that is shown on our blog today. (My layout was shown last monday as I am part of Team 2.)

Anyway, here it is:

Here is a close-up:

I used pink and turquise water color on the background, and stamped black flowers. The heart-frame is drawn by hand, cut out from a white paper with gold dots, and colored with black watercolor.

Thanks for dropping by! Have a wonderful week!

I'm a new DT member at Let's get sketchy!!!

Let's get sketchy just posted information about their new DT members, and I am one of them!!! I am thrilled about this as I love sketches! To be honest, I have kind of a love and hate relationship to sketches as I find it very challenging to create using them. But I need them as all my layouts otherwise tend to look the same. So for me sketches is the ultimate way to challenge myself, right now. 

I am very much looking forward to this and I will do my very best to create inspiring layouts with high quality. If you want to read the post with the announcement and find out who the rest of the new members are - go here. My first DT layout for LGS will go live on January 11.

I hope you will be back by then! And I hope you will find a lot of inspiration from LGS's sketches and the DT samples!

Summer theme at ARTastic

ARTastic's first challenge for 2016 is up and running! The inspiration painting is "Bondi scene" by Isabelle May Hunter Tweddle. The criteria is: Summer theme.

As it is in the middle of the winter here in Sweden it was fun to create a summer themed layout. It almost felt like it was summer again for a short while. :-)

I have wanted to create a blue and white layout with these patterned papers for a while and together with a little sand color it worked perfect for this challenge.
Here is my DT-layout: (The green "thing" in DD's mouth is dill. We are eating dinner at a nice fish restaurant.)

Inspiration painting:

I have used two shades of blue water color and blue ink pads. Here are two close-ups:

I hope you want to join the challenge!!

Thanks for dropping by! Have a nice day!

One more Christmas layout and my favorite 10 layouts from 2015

This layout is made for Let's get sketchy's December week 4 challenge, which is a challenge with a sketch and a mood board. I chose to mirror the sketch.

Let's get sketchy has a design team call running until December 30th. You can read more about it here.

Here is a close-up:

I have also picked my favourite 10 layouts for 2015. I have put them on a separate page that you'll find here.

Thanks for droppig by! I wish you a fabolous 2016!!