September Project Art kit

The September Project Art kit from Cocoa Daisy contained a set of wonderful, creamy Gelatos in yellow and orange and a "Gelatos tool kit" with several fun and useful tools that can be used not only for the Gelatos, but that I am sure I will use for other projects and with other types of paints too! Check out my blog post with some step-by-step photos and a whole bunch of tips and tricks on how to use the Gelatos.

Here are a couple of the pages that I created this month... 

I do this to relax...

...and because it's fun, and because I love that I sometimes create something that someone else will be happy to have a look at in the future... but mostly I do this for ME, because I enjoy it so much.

This was my layout for the second challenge during the European Scrap Battle. I was very happy to move on to round 3 but I'm up against two crazy fab scrappers (in the layout and the mixed media categories), so this next round will be a tough one! :)

On the layout below I mostly used papers from a few different Cocoa Daisy kits. I heat embossed the frame, using Silver Glitter Zing. I also heat embossed the arrow decos, using White Zing. I used my sewing machine a lot and I splattered some mist over the cardstock.

Freedom

Here's a canvas that I created for the European Scrap Battle. I used lots of acrylic paint but also pen, string, gel medium, fabric, ribbons, mist, Glimmer Glam, alcohol ink... The black spots are embossing powder, black UTEE.

 

 

Ölands raukar...

We had a wonderful vacation in the middle of August and this is one of the many photos I took when visiting a special place along the coast of the island where we were staying, where the softer species of rocks have eroded, while the harder ones are left, creating sort of a labyrinth of stone formations.

All the supplies I used are available at Pyssloteket. I splattered some Glimmer Glam over my background and used beautiful papers from My Mind's Eye. See the full list of supplies in the Pyssloteket blog.

30 days of lists

I decided to give "30 days of lists" a try and here is the cover of my little journal. I was very inspired by Kristin's beautiful kit and I used stamps from Cocoa Daisy to create my journal. I stamped using Archival Ink and then I added some Inktense Pencils (the watercolour-look) and some splatters of mist too (Maya Mist).

 

 

Here's my first list... I decided to write in Swedish, at least this first list. I may change my mind or mix the languages later on - we'll see... :) At first I found this first subject really hard. Nothing is really new this year, if I only think about ME. But when I realized I could look a bit further, and list things that are new around me - in my family - I finally came up with some new things.

 

 

 

 Translation:

* Tuva started daycare

* We all caught a bad stomach bug this winter

* I became an aunt to little Vide!

* Linus started fourth grade at a new school - Paulinska.

* Alva started first grade

* Linus and Alva have registred for saxophone and drama at Kulturskolan.

 

Well, the conclusion is that the most exciting new thing that has happened to ME this year, is that I caught a stomach bug. =) Perhaps I should set some more fun goals for 2014? =)

 

 

 

 

 

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.

The European Scrap Battle

I haven't been taking part in any kind of competition or challenge for quite some time now, but I couldn't resist signing up for the European Scrap Battle. :)

Round 1 in the layout category was a challenge to be inspired by the colours and style of The Scrap and Pearl Event blog and here's the layout I created:

Lots of gesso, mist, acrylic ink and paint and also embossing enamel and glimmer glam...

It was fun and I was very happy to move on to round 2 but I am feeling a bit nervous about "the battle" that now begins! :)