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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!!

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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!!

Merry Chistmas

Merry Chistmas, everyone! Today I show you two layouts with photos from this Chrismas. The first one is made for Berry71Bleu's December Challenge.

This is the mood board:

Here is a close-up:

The second layout is made just for fun. I fell in love with these patterned papers from Kaiser Craft and they were perfect together with this photo.

Here is a close-up:

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Autumn colors

This layout is made for Pixels and Papers November challenge. I was inspired by the tree and the leafs on the inspiration photo. The photo I used on my layout is taken when I was out on a walk in the forest this autumn with DD and her friend, and they collected leafs. Here is my interpretation:

I used patterned papers in "autumn-leaf-colors". I also added watercolor in three different colors on the background, and stamped some leafs. Here are two close-ups:

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Birthday party

I love sketches at the moment. And I love Let's get sketchy as you have a new sketch every week! I am entering this layout into Novermber week 3:

I added acrylic paint with a spatula. I also splashed on acrylic paint and mist. Here are two close-ups:

The small balloons are confetti used on the party table. :-)

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3 Halloween layouts

Halloween is over and we are looking forward to Christmas. But as an scrapbooker you are either late - or you are scrapping last years photoes. I created three layouts with this years photos. 

The first one is my favorite. It is made for a sketch challenge at Let's get sketchy (week 2). The photo shows me and our daughter dressed as vampyres. We have blood in the corners of the mouth, but unfortunately it is not visible in the photo.

I added some dripping blod (red water color), black water color, stamped black branches and black splashes on the background. Here are two close ups:

This is the second layout:

I added black water colour on the background and splashed purple, orange and green acrylic paint.

And the third one:

These photos are taken on a ghost walk. I read a tip in a newspaper that you should take halloween phots without a flash to get a spooky feeling. I tried that, and I like it. The photoes are very blurred but our little girls looks like ghosts, and that is spooky. :-) 

On the background I added black water colour and splashed some mist. Here is a close-up:

Thanks for dropping by! Take care!

Flowers at ARTastic

In ARTastics November challenge the criteria is flowers. I love flowers, so of course I loved that. You should also be inspired by a painting by Emma Uber. This is my interpretation:

And the inspiration painting:

I made some white flowers using gesso and a stencil, and stamped black flowers on the background. I also used three different patterned papers with flowers, and some flower rub- ons. Here are two close-ups:

Thanks for looking! Don't forget to pop over at ARTastic and have a look at the rest of the DT's awesome inspration.

Favorite playground

This layout was made for a challenge that I wanted to join, but due to computer problems I missed the deadline. But now my computer works again, and I show the layout anyway. I kind of like the childish feeling in it.

To personalize the background I added watercolour, ink on a template, splashed acrylic paint in different colours and stamped in different colours. Here are two close-ups:

Thanks you for dropping by! I love to hear from you! Take care!

2 new layouts

Today I want to show you two layouts that I did just for fun – one colorful and one in soft colors.

On the first one I splashed a lot of acrylic paint in different colors on the background.

 

 

 

On the second one I added watercolor and mist on the background.

 

 

 

 
Thanks for dropping by!

Have a nice weekend!

Gardening enthusiasts

I have had troble with my internet connection, and I have not been able to publish or comment. But now it´s solved I am finally able to publish my October DT-layout for ARTastic. A bit late, but there is still a couple of days left if you want to join in. This month you should be inspired by a painting by E Phillips Fox. The criteria is vintage style.

I never create in a vintage style so this was a challenge for me. But I love challenges and here is my interpretation:

 

And some close-ups:

Thanks for dropping by! Take care!