Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I was really nervous when my Jump Start went up yesterday... It was my first video ever...  I didn't like the way my English sounded... many of the other jump starters are sooo much more experienced when it comes to teaching and sharing inspiration...

...but wow! The response made me soo happy! I want to say thank you sooo many times, to everyone who visited my blog and to everyone who left me a comment on the Jump Start page. You totally made my day!

You can still sign up if you haven't - there's sooo much fun yet to come! And you're able to go back and see the previous posts too. Check it out here, it's all FREE!

And if you do create something with inspiration from any of the Creative Jump Start posts, it would be really awesome to see your work in the Flickr group!

Here are the two layouts I made in my video.

Frustrated...

That was me, the other day... very frustrated about lots of things... And it felt so good to create this simple page about it, in my journal. Today is a much better day! :)

Life Book

Since I love online classes so much, I certainly couldn't resist Life Book. It's a year long class held by Tamara Laporte and she has brought a whole bunch of fabulous teachers together.

I've started working on lesson one... I enjoy it sooo much! I can see I've made mistakes... I'm not sure the eyes are turning as much as the rest of the face for example... but I don't really care. I'm having fun! I've mostly used Neocolor II crayons for this + a little acrylic paint.

Kludd...

Jag har kluddrat och klottrat lite.... Har påbörjat en alldeles ny och fin art journal. Planen är dock inte att först och främst göra den fin utan att faktiskt skriva, att använda den som en dagbok fast med lite extra färg och kludd. Vi får väl se hur det går... :) Det känns kul än så länge, men så är det ju bara den 4:e januari än...

Art journaling kan ju vara så himla många olika saker. Tidigare har jag mest testat nya färger och tekniker och övat på att rita och måla i de böcker jag kallar "art journals". Jag har gjort sidor då och då som haft något mer budskap eller någon speciel mening för mig men det har sällan varit det som varit huvudsyftet. Nu provar jag något nytt, men jag har ju mina andra pågående art journals kvar också. Jag vill ju göra allt. :) Helst på en gång.

Stamp carving 101

Seriously, how cool is this? I love learning new techniques and I'm really looking forward to taking this online class with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.

Drawing some arms...

Practicing, practicing... not nearly as much as I would like to, but I'm loving the little moments I do get to be creative. This is for the I heart drawing class. I've used colored pencils, tombows, inktense pencils and neocolor II crayons.

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!