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... :)

Mixing the Cocoa Daisy kits...

I've used supplies from the July, August and September Cocoa Daisy kits to create this layout about Tuva and her beloved Pippi-doll. :)

Another layout using the October Cocoa Daisy kit...

The October Project Art kit contains two bottles of Viva Decor Ferro Metal Effect Colour. I used the Green gold together with a stencil to create the background for this layout and I love the look! The paint is really thick and I'm looking forward to playing around and exploring it further.

I splattered some mist on my background too and I used one of the stamps - the fabulous Herringbone background stamp - on top of the wooden piece with the heart. I love the result!

And another thing... did you hear we are having a fall crop in the beginning of November...? The Cocoa Daisy crops are always so much fun and you everyone is welcome to play along - you don't have to be a subscriber or use the CD kits. I hope to see you there!

Sweater weather!

The Cocoa Daisy October kit goes on sale for everyone on October 1st (if you are a subscriber you are able to buy the add ons before everyone else, starting the 28th).

Here are two of the layouts I created this month. For the first one I used one of the exclusive papers designed by our very own Stephanie Wheeler. I love it! I glued down one of the die cut tags from Amy Tangerine (found in the Cable knit add on) and applied some gesso over the tag and my background. I then added some blue paint, using an Inktense pencil. I also added some stamping to the background, using one of the cute little stamps.

 

My next layout contains 8 photos and that's sooo unusual for me! I'm pretty happy that I was able to make this work. :) The photos are from our visit to the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, earlier this year.

Do you see the three little hearts to the left? That's another one of the cute stamps this month!

Sweater Weather...

Tomorrow is the reveal of the Cocoa Daisy October kit - Sweater Weather!

And here are some sneaks of what I've created... :)

Tuva

I created this layout for Pyssloteket and you can find more info about all the supplies in the Pyssloteket blog.

I was looking at other summer photos the other day and ouch... it doesn't matter that it was a long and fabulous summer and that it was so much better than I dared to hope for, I still want more! :)

 

No black or white...

The assignment for the third round of the scrap battle tournament was a tough one - create something colourful and NO black or white allowed. Black and white are fabulous colours for contrast and it was really hard to stay away from using them.

I am very happy with my layout, even if I didn't make it to the next round. Katarina created a fabulous, gorgeous, colourful layout and I wish her the very best in the upcoming rounds of the tournament!

I know the dots on the green paper and the stars on the yellow paper look white in this photo, but they're really tone on tone patterns, light green and light yellow. It would be interesting to add the dates of when these papers got into my hands... I was digging deep into my old stuff to find the right papers! =)

I have mixed feelings about my mixed media piece for the same challenge. =) I am practicing and learning all the time and I actually have this "wow-feeling" of having learned something important about what I like and not like and that feeling hit me shortly after having finished this painting. Everything I create takes me one small step forward I guess. :)

Huge congrats to Elina who is moving on to the next round with her colourful mixed media piece - and good luck in the next round! :)