Everyday

Yesterday I found myself in a blog I never visited before. It's called Scrap Sisters and is a french blog with a challenge I just couldn't resist to join in. Last day is today and I'm so glad that I had some time this evening to make a LO for the challenge. My school french isn't was it used to be but I hope I've understood the rules and that it's ok to write in english.

The challenge was to make a monochromatic LO in white, black and white photo of course and just a hint of grey or black was allowed. I wanted it to be all-white, but when my title was painted with gesso, it looked yellow so I put a touch of grey on it instead.

You also had to use at least three techniques from a list and I chose from the ones I understood/could translate on google and it's gesso (on my title, even if it got a bit of grey promarker on it also), using a stencil (on my background I've used a big polka dot stencil with 3D gloss gel) and warm embossing (it doesn't show so well but there are text on the big scalloped piece of paper behind the photo).

In plus, you had to have at least two embellishments in other materials, and I chose to have plastic buttons, a wooden title and some tulle/fabric flowers.

And here's my final product:

Kärlek

C'est Magnifique has started up a Pinterest Party and I felt the urge to join :). The party is a challenge where you get inspired by a group of pictures from Pinterest. It had a lot of things to get inspired by but I chose to use the peach color in the dress and bouquet of flowers that both could be from a wedding. Therefore I used a photo from our friends wedding this september. Suck a happy day and lovely couple :) The title says Love in swedish.

Cool kid

When surfing around the Internet I came across the Pion Design blog and saw their January challenge (you can see it for yourself here). The challenge was to be inspired by this picture, a frosty white and blue collage, see end of post.

I chose to use a winterphoto from last year of my youngest son, and tried to recreate the frosty sensation about the collage in the challenge. And here's my final product:

Boys rule, girls drool :)

It's been a while since I entered the Blue Fern Studios challenge, but yesterday I had both time and inspiration so a layout was made. It's a long way from the romantic feel about the sketch but I think I managed to follow the sketch quite well. It is so fun taking a sketch with such a romantic feel about it and making a much harder boy-page :)

Card in a box

Hos En liten butik är månadens utmaning att göra ett kort som inte bara är ett traditionellt platt kort. Jag surfade runt på Pinterest och hittade till slut en tutorial till ett kort jag länge velat pröva. Ett s.k. card in a box, som faktiskt var mycket enklare än jag trodde att göra. Kortet går att vika platt och går ner i ett A5-kuvert så det går faktiskt att skicka också :) Jag har använt mig av en hel massa diecuts som bara låg oanvända här hemma och satte dit en på framsidan för att kunna skriva en liten hälsning.

Här och nu

Januaris månadsutmaning hos Cili in Papers är att göra ett alster om sig själv. Jag har därför gjort en LO med en selfie i roooosa, vilket är en färg jag gillar väldigt mycket :). Titeln valde jag för att den passar så bra in på mitt liv just nu. Jag har precis tagit tag i min kost och träning för att få tillbaka min innan tvillingarna-kropp och det har börjat ge resultat. Det är nu det gäller :)

Hello happiness

One of my favourite challenge pages have just closed down, but happily for me, some of the DT have started up a new challenge page called More than words. Every month there will be a word-challenge with a twist. This month the word is personality and the twist is to use a selfie, you can find the challenge here and a copy of this months moodboard you can see at the end of this post.

I've used a selfie from this september when is was at some friends wedding. I've created a LO that shows a lot of my scrapbooking personality. I mostly use white cardstock, with a base of watercolor, stamps and splashes of color. A lot of layers is a must have for me and this is minty green is one of my absolutely faourite colors right now. I just love to scrap in black+white+one accent color so thats there too. The title also show you a bit of my head right now. I'm in a really good place right now, taking control of my eating habits and exercising, trying to get back to my pre-twins body. I'm starting to see some results of it and it effects everything around me as well, in a good way.

Journey

Hos Scrap och ting är månadsutmaningen en bingo där jag valt raden med nytt - nött - trä.

Mitt nya blev lite chipboards ur ett nytt ark och jag sprättade även upp min nya ask med trädekorationer för att kunna använda ordet Journey till titel. Nött-delen blev att jag skrapade och således nötte på alla papperskanter. Trä har jag i titeln men även alla hexagoner är också i trä. Alla trädetaljer sprayade jag med mist för att få dem att matcha bättre.

Awesome

Månadens utmaning hos Scraphuset var en bingo och som ni kanske vet så bara älskar jag bingo. Därför var det självklart att göra ett bidrag till min lokala butiks utmaning. Jag valde rad nr 9: chipboard - band - färgstänk/splatter - häftklammer - hjärtan. Jag satte fast mitt foto med häftklammer, vilket inte syns så tydligt, men resten av grejerna tror jag är rätt tydliga :)