Boho Garden

The Cocoa Daisy June kit - Boho Garden - is on sale!

It's a bright and happy kit with bold contrasting details in black! As usual though, I am amazed to see how many different styles and colour combinations that can be pulled from the same kit! Check out the DT gallery for some fab inspiration.

Here is what I created with the kit + add ons, so far.

I used gesso, Distress Paints, Glimmer Glam and Glimmer Glaze to create the background and the word "love" and the black hearts are from the Daisy Chain add on.

I love the bold pattern in the Cocoa Daisy exclusive floral paper that I used on this next layout. Many ideas on how to use this paper can be found in this blog post. These photos are from 2010 and our vacation on Öland. We went to the same restaurant a couple of times and the kids had their favourites - pizza for Linus and spaghetti bolognese for Alva.

The enamel dots, the phrase "it was delicious" and the word "enjoy" are from the Rosehip add on. 

I totally adore this photo from last summer, of Linus and Tuva. I used the main kit + a couple of the exclusive subscriber printables for this layout.

I used some gesso + a stencil to create some subtle textue in the background.

Christmas cards!



It's not too late... there is still time to put together some simple Christmas cards! :) I used Spellbinder's dies, Distress Paint Brushed Pewter, the super cute wood veneer stars, my sewing machine and some messy thread for this simple card! The supplies can be found at Pyssloteket.

 

For my second card I used Liquitex Ceramic Stucco, Distress Stain and Glimmer Glam for my background, and some more messy thread together with die cut stars and the Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. I also sprinkled some clear UTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel) over the stars and melted the enamel with my heat gun.

I think the matte Black Soot Distress Paint on top of the Brushed Pewter paint looks really cool on my next card, but I am not sure who would be a suitable recipient for this card. :)

I sprinkled Chalkboard Glimmer Mist Chalk over my background on this card.

 

A monster...

...came visiting last week! :) Of course I had to scrap him and I made this for Pyssloteket. I used Glimmer Glam, Distress Paint, Glimmer Mist and Dylusions Spray Ink before die cutting the circles. For a complete list of supplies, visit Pyssloteket's blog.

The sea....!

Created for Pyssloteket, using Distress Paints, Studio Calico wood veneers, Posca Pens and Tim Holtz rub ons. For a complete list of supplies, check out Pyssloteket's blog.

Distress Paint Metallic...

There's a fun challenge going on over at Pyssloteket until October 27th. The assignment is to create a card or a tag where black, grey and white are the dominating colours. Metallics are also ok and a small amount of contrasting colour too.

I used black gesso and Brushed Pewter Distress Paint on top. The lace was coloured with Glimmer Mist and the birds painted with gesso, stamped and covered with Glimmer Glam. I also covered the flower with Glimmer Glam.

There is a list of supplies in Pyssloteket's blog.

I tried (not very successfully) to capture the glimmering on the birds and the flower... :)

Art Journaling...

Here are a couple of more pages that I made using the August Project Art kit from Cocoa Daisy, together with some supplies from the main kits and add ons too.

Here I glued down strips of patterned paper, painted with Distress Paints and added some gesso using a stencil, and then filled my page with little bits and pieces from the kits and wrote my journaling - some of my thoughts about the upcoming autumn.

And this page is a little pep-talk to myself where I wrote "I can!" all over my page. I used Distress Paints, gesso and some mist to create the background.

Project Art August

I've totally forgotten to post the pages I made using the August Project Art kit from Cocoa Daisy!

The kit contained a brayer - so much fun - and three bottles of Distress Paint and a whole bunch of fun die cuts and vintage pieces.

Here are a couple of the pages I made, using the Project Art kit combined with the main kit + add ons.