Scrap-Perra Challenge

The December Challenge at Scrap-Perra is all about white. :)

I want you to create a monochromatic LO, Card, Art Journal or Alter - in WHITE! 

This is a sneak peak of my inspiration layout for this challenge. And as you can see, I think it is ok to use a little bit of black.

Please, upload your contribution to the forum before 2014-01-01.

Good Luck! :)

White Christmas

This December I'm letting Glee sing my Sunday Christmas songs:

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas!

Glad Första Advent Till Er Alla! :)

Beautiful song?

Have you ever been move to tears by a song?

I have a memory of the first time I was move to tears by the music at a musical... and that was "Kristina från Duvemåla" (a Swedish musical about people emigrating to America) in Gotheburg in the early nineties.

This cutie is so happy by his moms song, that the tears just keep falling. Adorable! :)

Kalender 2013

I bought a new calender this spring, and finally a couple of months ago I decorated the front and back of it.

It is not that many people that have the same hobby as me, or us, even if it feels like that in the blog world and on crops. ;) And because of that I think it is fun to show people that I meet, what I do when I'm beeing creative - by showing them my calender. And the calender makes me happy. :)

I started by adding Lumiere metallic acrylic paint over a mask from D.Downey.

Then I used a spatula and spread modeling paste over a leafy mask from TCW. :)

When everything was dry I stamped with an empty toilet paper roll and a pink Lumiere paint. They work great as a circular stamp. :) I also grunged the page up with two other stamps.

This is how the front and back ended up. Kind of cool, right? :) To frame the pages, I used a red ink pad along the edges. 

The blue/purple color is Distress paint that I dripped over the pages and misted water over, letting it run slightly.

So tadaa!! I have a calender that no one els have. :)

Amira Willighagen

This is a clip from the tv-show Holland's got talent:

She is 9 years old. Amazing voice! Wow! :)

Anders 50years

I don't to cards that often. So when I do, it feels much easier to start with a sketch, a lifeline to hold on to - kind of.

I was going to do a card to my brother who just turned 50. (!) And then I used a sketch that my DT friend Ulrika created for SweScrap.

 

I really liked the sketch, but I turned it up side down, and used a big 5 and 0 instead of a heart. So this is how it turned out....

 ....and this is how it looked at my first attempt... but it didn't feel like me. 

So I gave it a little Mixed Media twist. Much better! :)

I covered up the numbers with a baby wipe and misted the whole card with three different Dylusions mists, in the shade of green/teal.

Then I misted over three different masks, also from Dylusions in the same green/teal shade and also the white mist - White Linnen.

 Then the numbers didn't stand out as much, so I gave them a white outlining and some black scribble.

At first I also covered the numbers with crackle accents. In this close up you can see the crackles, and also that it is flowers in the numbers. Cute, right? :)

I wrote Happy Birthday with gesso, and did some scribble there as well. 

To finish it all up, I added little dots of stickles in some places. :)

Creative family

There is a lot of creative people in my family. And I love it! :)

My niece loves to be crafty. Here is an example of an earring that she made.

... and a close up. Nice! :)

This is a Christmas present from my nephew from a couple of years ago. He did it at school, and I think it's cute. :)

The power of Photoshop

You can do a lot of things with a photo in Photoshop. But is everything for the better?

This is just crazy. She looks good as she is... but this is most likely what happens to all the fashion shots in the magazines.