Ett album att ge bort...

Linus ska byta skola till hösten och det var dags att säga hej då till Christina som varit hans lärare de här tre första skolåren. Vi samlade in bidrag från alla barn i klassen och jag satte ihop dem till ett presentalbum. Sidorna inne i albumet dekorerade jag inte, för barnens bidrag var så underbara att inget annat behövdes, men jag gjorde pärmar av kartong som jag däremot målade och stämplade och sprayade på.

Det mesta av materialet finns hos Pyssloteket och materiallista finns i mitt blogginlägg!

GLAD MIDSOMMAR önskar jag er alla!

Cocoa Daisy Blog Hop

Hi!
Welcome to my stop on the Cocoa Daisy Day of Inspiration Blog Hop! You should have come from Alissa's blog. If you're starting here, be sure to go to the Cocoa Daisy blog and check out the rest of the team's bags!

Here's my Maya Road hip bag! I had so much fun decorating it! I started out by covering the front with gesso and then added lots of stamping and acrylic paint. I also did some doodling with a black pen. Creating layers is fun, adding dots and lines and circles...

I'm going to be giving away this Cocoa Daisy exclusive Everyday Icons Stamp Set. Please leave a comment on this post and tell me something that is inspiring you right now!

If you LIKE the Cocoa Daisy Facebook page and let me know, I'll enter you a second time in my drawing! I'll be closing the drawing on Monday the 6th of May at 8 AM EST. I'll announce the winner here on my blog on Wednesday the 8th.

Good luck!

Now it's on to Ashley! I hope you've been inspired by my bag!

Here's a master list if you started in the middle:

1. Alissa Fast

2. Anna Bjorklund

3. Ashley Calder 

4. Denise Morrison

5. Emily Pitts

6. Jaime Warren

7. Jody Ferlaak

8. Kim Stewart

9. Lisa Saunders

10. Mandie Pierce

11. Mandy Koeppen

12. Mandy Kay Starner

13. Sharmaine Kruijver

14. Stephanie Wheeler

Top eleven, other than layouts, 2012

I wasn't sure how many categories to come up with, when choosing favourites from 2012... :) but I decided to just take a look at everything that's not a layout and pick my favourites among all those different projects. I found 11 favourites, and here they are in no particular order...

"The worlds is on fire"

Art journaling page that says "Remember: You are stronger than you believe!"

made using lots of Tattered Angels products.

"Tack" means "thank you".

Canvas Corp and Tattered Angels.

Wall hanging made for my class during the Cocoa Daisy autumn crop.

6x6 canvas from Canvas Corp. Made for Tattered Angels, summer CHA.

Made for Pyssloteket, using acrylic paint, pen, Glimmer Glam.

Just playing, using acrylic paint.

Three in a row game, made using lots of Glimmer Glam.

Made for a super fun assignment during the class BIG. Acrylic paint.

Created for Tattered Angels, using lots of Glimmer Glam.

Decorating a cookie cutter, for Tattered Angels.

Big heart and small heart...

I created a couple of hearts for Tattered Angels this month. I got a set of heart shaped cookie cutters and decided to alter them. I wrapped fabric strips around one of them and painted the other one with gesso and Glimmer Glam.

This was the largest heart and I used one of the smaller ones to trace a heart onto a piece of cardboard to hang in the middle. I attached the heart in the middle using thin sewing thread. The fabric wrapped heart was misted using Glimmer Mists Silver Sugar, Electric Blue, Iridescent Gold and Chalkboard Mist Chalk and the cardboard heart was painted with gesso and Glimmer Glam Caspian Sea and Calm Before The Storm.

I also misted the flowers, the flower ribbon and the lace for the hanging. The letter stickers (god jul means "merry christmas" by the way :) were painted with Glimmer Glam Icicle. Check out the Tattered Angels blog for more info and also some photos I took along the way.

I added a flower to the center of the smaller heart and used cord from Canvas Corp for the hanging. The Glimmer Glam I used is called Smooches.

Have a wonderful day...!!!

Paint a cow...!

I had so many different ideas for this cow, that I got from Anna at Pyssloteket! :) I had so much fun painting and doodling, using acrylic paint as a base and covering the entire cow in Glimmer Glam Chandelier.

I also used some shrink plastic to create a necklace with stars.... and a feather coloured with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist.

Saying thank you with mist...

I created this special "thank you gift" for Tattered Angels this month. I used a canvas circle from Canvas Corp and one of the many sticks that Alva has collected and brought home to her collection. :) Together with some jute string (also from Canvas Corp), Prima flowers, gesso and lots of yummy Glimmer Mist, Chalkboard Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glam, I put this hanging decoration together.

I also added some stamping inbetween the layers of gesso and mist, using stamps from Cocoa Daisy.

The letter stickers were misted with Chalkboard mist and then painted with Glimmer Glaze. The flowers were misted, partially painted with Glam, painted with some gesso, misted again and finally I added some more Glimmer Glam. 

 

I'm really happy with how the stick turned out - I painted it with gesso and then with Glimmer Glam. :)

 

Top Ten Projects 2011

Happy New Year everyone! I hope your 2011 had the best possible ending and that 2012 will be fabulous!

Here's another review post from me. I decided to put all "non-layout projects" in the same category and here are my 10 favourites from 2011 - in no particular order. :)

This was a year full of new things... a new baby(!), new supplies to explore, new techniques to learn.... I started to paint and draw and created things I never thought I could do....! It's been a strange but amazing year and I'm looking forward to even more experimenting, learning and exploring in 2012...!

This minialbum was so fun to make and I just love all the colors.

I love how these butterflies turned out. It's such a fab feeling when you get an idea and it works! :)

This was made with so much inspiratiom from Megan K. Suarez. It was something new. I've never painted anything like this before.

This was so much fun to create. I would love to dive into the world of assemblage!

I took the class "How to paint an owl" by Juliette Crane and I love how this little one turned out.

The stencils from Crafter's Workshop were a huge hit this year. I love them so much. And Tuva's toes... love those too of course!

This felt like something so unlike me.... and again, it was so much fun to put together!

One of my first completed mixed media paintings ever. It's covered with wax and that was another 'first'. So so fun....! Made with lots of inspiration from a Suzi Blu class.

The only handmade Christmas gift I made. They're far from perfect if you take a closer look, but I still love them. :)

Texture and color... another Crafter's Workshop Stencil and the cutest little Maya Road Window.

To all of you who have been stopping by during 2011 - a huge thank you!

Tea and Cupcakes part 2

Here is a frame that I altered, using the Cocoa Daisy January kit - Tea and Cupcakes. I painted the frame with gesso and then with Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam.

I used my sewing machine around the edges and used 3D-foam to separate the layers some. I love these clouds from the main kit!

And here's another layout about when Alva and I played with some watersoluble crayons. Her hands were so lovely after a while. :) In Swedish the word "färg" means both paint and color.

Halloweenpyssel för Engströms

Jag har gjort ett par små Halloweenpyssel för Engströms. Det första är en liten ask i form av en kista... Jag hittade mallen till kistan här.

Det andra är en liten canvas med Glimmer Mist på svart bakgrund. Man ser framför allt uppe i högra hörnet hur det glittrar. :) Jag har även målar det utklippta motivet med Glimmer Mist och pensel.



Att hänga upp...

Den här gjorde jag till min lilla "kurs" när Cocoa Daisy hade vårcrop. Fatet är köpt hos Röda Korset för nästan inga pengar alls och jag har målat kanten med Glimmer Glam, från Tattered Angels.  Övrigt material (förutom tårtpappret) kommer från Cocoa Daisy.

This is what I made for my class at the Cocoa Daisy Spring Crop. The plate charger was thrifted for less than a dollar and I love how it turned out, after being painted with Glimmer Glam from Tattered Angels and decorated, mostly with supplies from the Cocoa Daisy May kit. 

Vintage Ink...

The Cocoa Daisy May kits 'Vintage Ink' are up in the store...! Go grab one before they're all gone...! This month I got the add ons Estate Sale, Thrift Shop and Swap Meet.

We took these photos just before I 'moved into' the hospital. Alva is talking to the baby... :)

I used some of the gorgeous rose ribbon to make this 'flower' and I also added some of the tiny threads from the edges of the fabric piece, underneath my flower.

This one is about the tiny baby clothes... it was such a fab feeling taking them out, washing them and getting them ready for our new baby... :)

I am no sure what this is, but I had so much fun creating it. I used a small box that once held some embossed paper birds from Prima. I painted the box with distress crackle paint and I used one of the 2 light bulbs featured in the main kit, together with the Maya Road chipboard from the Thrift Shop add on and the Maya Road stamps from the Estate Sale Add on.

My last layout is about our vacation last summer. After quite a few hours in the car we finally reached the loooong brigde that would take us over to Öland.

Buuuut, this isn't the last you've seen of this gorgeous kit, because there's a cybercrop coming up at Cocoa Daisy, May 13-15... and we're preparing it right now....! There will be a whole bunch of fun challenges and classes and I love what we've been planning so far! :) I bet you will love it too! You don't have to be a subscriber to take part in the crop, but you do need to register for the message board.

I also hope you have seen that there's a design team call going on...! I highly recommend that you give it a chance, if you're interested...!!!