DT crop

Right now we are having a crop with my DT friends at Scrap-Perra.

It has been a great day filled with laughter, creativity and planing for the rest of the year. :) It is so nice to get together like this, it builds a great team. Hugs to you all! :)

We are at Mia and Perras house in Sala. They move here during the summer and reopened the (physical) shop in july. It's a cosy house, and look at this beautiful art that Mia has made. Love it! :)  

I made it! :)

I made it through to Battle #3 in The European Scrap Battle. :)

My LO got through due to walk over. And my Mixed Media page got enough votes. Thank you!!!! :) Now we're 32 talented women left in the battle, on each category. 

Crop with friends

A couple if years ago me and some friends used to have a crop once a month. Recently I have met those friends only twice a year. :/

But yesterday we got together again. It was so much fun to see each other, so there was a lot of talking and not so much got done. I have missed you! :) 

It's time to vote - Battle #2

Last Friday I sent in my contribution to Battle #2...

... so now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will make it to Battle #3. Yeikes! :)

Go to the European scrap battle web page and post your vote.

After ever after

There are so many talented people out there... and this guy especially.

 

He sings about what happened after all the "Ever after" in the Disney movies. Funny, a lot of work and a great voice.  :)

Gästbok D&K

This summer, at the end of June, I was at a wedding down in the south of Sweden. It was two close friends that got married and it was a beautiful ceremony and a kick as party afterwards. :)

The bride-to-be ask me, very nicely i March, if I could make a guest book for the guests to write a small note to them in. Of course, I said! :)

This is the front...

.... and this is the back of it.

There were only plain white pages inside, where I marked a square for the photo, and I tied it together with twine.

The color theme for the wedding was white, yellow and blue - except for that I could do what I wanted. :)

 

For the front and the back, I used chipboard that I cut into A5 size. And since that was grey I put gesso on it. While the gesso was still wet, I added stripes of old book paper. Trying to get an image transfer. 

I had never tried an Image Transfer with gesso before, but it worked ok. Usually I use mod podge, but this worked fine.

I still wanted to tone it down slightly, so I did a white wash with gesso and water on top of everything.

When that was dry I added Modeling Paste through a TCW mask called Wedding ring (fittingly enough). :)

Then I let Liquitex acrylic ink and water, in blue and yellow, drip across the page. The first time I made an Oops!... since I didn't let the yellow ink dry completely before adding the blue ink. What do you think happened? Well, yeah... it turned green... The second time I let the ink dry... so then I got blue and yellow. Oops! :)

On top of all this ink, I added another layer of modeling paste. This time over the TCW mask - tripod. As a final touch I stamped with a heart stamp and did some doodling.

I decorated with mini roses, hearts cut out from book paper and lace - to give the guest book a more romantic feeling.

Eh, this is the inside of the book... kind of messy. But I made it messier and let it be like that. :)

The bride and groom was happy, so them I'm happy. :)

Calender

The fall is soon up on us, and the schools are beginning their fall semester. This is also the time of year when I buy a new calender.

  The colors are more "happy" in reality. 

I usually buy a calender where you can create your own front and back. I took a cardstock and some acrylic paints and went wild with it. :)

This is what my diary looked like last year... I haven't had the time to decorate my newly bought one.

This is the front...

... and the back.

As I said before, I used acrylic paint and some masks from The Crafters Workshop. When everything was dry I highlighted the shapes from the mask by outlining them with a black pen. I also stamped with some texture stamps and a toilet paper roll.

As a final touch I used some gesso with a piece of punchinella to make the small happy dots. :)

The front and back together. These are some of my favorite colors - pink, yellow and turquoise.

The ticker black circles are done with liquitex acrylic ink, that are more fluent then normal acrylic paint. So after painting the circles I tilted the paper slightly, letting the paint flow.

I used a left over piece as a front for my dads note book...

... and my niece really liked it, so she got a front...

... and back for her school calender. :)

Here you can see that there wasn't enough for the back of her calender, but I fixed that with a piece of cardstock. 

Between the mask shapes I used a mix of gesso and grey acrylic paint to even out the background slightly. I like that, when you use gesso and acrylic paint, it doesn't need to mix completely.

This is just a happy close up. Love it! :)

Guest DT - Art for myself

Last week Siri contacted me on facebook and asked me if I wanted to be a Guest DT on the Art for myself blog.

Of cource I wanted to! :)

This is a blog that has different themes every month. And the purpose is to, at the end of the year, have an Art Journal about one self. 

Thanks for the opportunity! :)