:: She Art Canvas ::

I´m so sorry for being the worst blogger ever! I haven´t had any scrap mojo for a long time and I really miss my crafty time! I´m a bit anemic and really tired all the time. We also lost a dear family member and with came funeral planning and a funeral. 

I really wanted to create some She Art for my sons teacher! He will change to a new school after the summer break and he really have had an amazing teacher for the last three years! 

This is the result! A twelve by twelve canvas with a darn cute Angel on.

I started with paper scraps and then lots of layers of acrylic paint, gesso, stencils, rub-ond and glitter.

I choose the following words for my canvas. It takes a special kind of Angel to teach children.

She got my favorite hairdo,  the curly side bun with flowers.

I cut out butteflies from napkins and added some in front of the Angel and some in the background. I added some colors on the butterflies with my Faber Castel Bg Brush Pit Pens. And they also got some clear beads from Prima and of course some doodeling with the best pen Pilot Perma Ball.

The dress is build with paper in the bottom and then lots of different pieces of lace.

I always use black details on my canvases because I think all colors really pop with some contrasts!

The collar is buildt with pieces of lace, a flower from Prima and a rub-on.

Hope you liked my canvas! My sons teacher really liked it and I´m happy she got this canvas! 

:: Spring Fling - ATC ::

More green! I made a bunch of green backgrounds and then I cut some of them in to paper strips and added to my backgrounds. 

I love to use my bottlecaps and here I chose a golden one. I think the yellow Butterflies looks really good with all the green elements. 

I also added some brown flowers from Prima to get some contrasts.

My Supplies List:

Inkido Butteflies 

13arts Rainbow Color Pistachio Green

Bottlecaps

Dollarstore Metallic thread

Prima Marketing Finnabair Fine Glitter

Prima Marketing Glass Beads Peacock Green 

Prima Marketing Travelers Flowers Water Flowers

Prima Marketing Flowers Ransley (I used the leaves)

Prima Marketing Color Bloom Gold Foil

Ranger Stickles Lime Green

Ribbon

Micro Beads Gold

:: Dreamer - ATC ::

I love when my garden turns from brown to green at spring! Inspired by all layers in my garden I created these two ATC that really sparkles!

Supplies List:

Wycinanka Chipboard Dreamcatcher

13 arts Rainbow Colors Pistachio Green 

Liquitex Acrylic Ink Vivid Lime Green 

Ranger Stickles Mystic Green

Prima Marketing Acrylic Pains Sparks Fairy Wings

Prima Marketing Large Rhinestone

Prima Marketing Finnabair Fine Glitter Gold and Green

Reprint Rhinestones

Lots of different larger glitters in green

Dollar Store Gold and Green metallic thread 

:: Dancer - ATC ::

So sorry for being a bit missing in action here! But now I´m back with some new ATC!

 I started with different sprays and Gesso over a stencil. Then I added some stamping and some washi tape. I also added sequins , glitter, Liquid Pearls and some sprinkled ink.

Supplies list:

Wild Orchid Crafts Plastic birds

Tim Holtz Paper Dolls 

Tim Holtz Metallic Stickers

Prima Marketing Sunrise Checker Stencil 6x6

Daler Rowney Gesso

13arts Chalk Turquoise Mist

Liquitex Acrylic Ink Turquoise Deep

Liquitex Acrylic Ink Carbon Black

Ranger Liquid Pearls White Opal

13arts Silver Hologram Glitter  

13arts Blue Hologram Glitter

Ranger Glossy Accent

Prima 3D Glossy Gel

Sequins Adlibris

Washi Tape

Silver Thread

:: Tips and Tricks with Ulrika aka LillBlomman #7 ::

I really love to crate Shaker cards! They are fun and easy to create. There are different techniques how to create them and here is one of them. You find my list of supplies in my previous post.

For this card I use a piece from a 3 mm thick foam sheet. I like to use foam sheets because you get at sturdy and even background. 

You can use any shape for your windows. I use a stiched square from Lawn Fawn. Measure where you want your frames and windows. I drew lines on the inside of the frames. Then I die-cut a slightly bigger hole than the inside of the frame. You don´t want the foam too close to the frame edges.

After that you cut out the holes in the patterned paper you do the same with the foam. Draw inside of the windows.

This is how it should look.

This kind of thick foam don´t work in my Sizzix. I use a scalpel instead.

Now it´s time to add my plasic sheet. I use a OH sheet. I think a double-sided tape is the best choice when you mount the OH. You want to make sure that none of the glitter can escape.

On the other side you mount your frames. For those I use Tacky Glue. I want to be able to correct the frames in the exact right position. If you find that the edges aren´t perfectly tight to your patterned paper you can use the plastic thingie from the double-sided tape and add a tiny amount of glue and push it under the edges.

Time to choose images for the windows. I picked some darn cute monkeys from Lawn Fawn.

I also wanted some speech bubbles with sentiments on my card.

Now I add the foam on the back. For this step I also use Tacky Glue. I always use EK Success powder on both windows and papers. That provent static. It not so fun if all of your glitter or sequins are stuck on the OH. Add glitter and sequins in the windows and mount your front to your card base.  I decided to add patterned paper and only one of the monkeys inside of my windows. I fussy cutted the other two and mounted with 3d tape.

:: Monkey Birthday Card ::

Today I have three cute birthday monkeys on a shaker card to show you.
In my next Tips and Trix I will show you  one of my techniques when I create shaker cards.

List of supplies:

Copic Markers E30, E31, E33, E35, E37

Copic Markers BG000

Copic Markers B01, B02, B04

Lawn Fawn Perfectlyplaid 12x12 Blue Raspberry

Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Square

Lawn Fawn A Birdie Told Me Stamps and Dies

Lawn Fawn Year Five Stamp and Die

Lawn Fawn Crittters In The Jungle Stamp 

Darice Nested Squares

13arts Glitter and Sequins

Over Head Plastic Sheet

Darice 3mm foam sheet

Memento Tuxedo Black

EK Success Powder

Sizzix Big Shot

MISTI

:: Easter ATC Part Two ::

I wish you all a warm and creative Valentine!

Although it´s Valentines day or Alla Hjärtans dag in Swedish I have more Easter ATC to show you.

I will show you even more Easter ATC the following days and for all of them I used super cute images from Melissa Frances called Spring Die cuts.

For this card in peach, orange and gold colors I used a girl holdning a Easter egg.

I mixed flowers from Prima with Glass Beads, Art Stones and Star Shaped Gold Seaquins.

My list of Supplies:

Scraps of papers from Pion Design and Blue Fern Studios

Melissa Frances Spring Die Cuts

Cheese Cloth

Sisal
Feather

Prima Marketing Art-Stones
Prima Marketing Art-Stones Mini
Prima Marketing Finnabair Loose Glitter

13arts Amber Microspheres
13arts Copper Flower Glitter Confetti
Wycinanka Chipboard Frame
Prima Marketing Travelers Flowers
Prima Marketing Vintage Emporium Wood Variety
Martha Stewart Leaf Punch
Ranger Stickles Gold

You can also make Easter theme in brown!

Love all textures and layers!

:: Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday Card ::

Today I have my fourth and last contribution card to Lawn Fawnativs #21 challenge. After not creating any cards since Christmas this was really fun! I think I will try to take on more challenges to get me going! Thank You Lawn Fawnatics for giving me so many fun moments in my studio this week! I will definitely take on more challenges in the future!

Lawn Fawnatics #21 challenge

This card is a bit different when it comes to my color choices than the three cards before. This time I was inspired by the wintery scene with snow and trees. I was also inspired by the blue sky and the browns colors. When I saw the knitted socks I wanted to use the plaid pattern. 

 My cute party Reindeers got hats and I added a bit of 3d tape under the ballons and the wrapped gift.

My list of Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Perfectlyplaid Winter 6x6

Lawn Fawn Stitched Square Large

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders

Lawn Fawn Forest Border

Lawn Fawn Speech Bubble Border

Lawn Fawn Snowy Backdrop

Lawn Fawn Party Animals

Copic Sketch E53, E55, E57, E70, E71, E74

Copic Sketch W3, W5

Copic Sketch BG000, BG01, BG02

Overhead paper

Sequins my own mix

13arts Silver Hologram Glitter

Misti

Sizzix Big Shot

Memento Tuxedo Black 

EK Success Powder Tool

3d tape

 When I created the scene for my shaker card I wanted to use many layers of Cardstock so it not felt all white. Although it´s just all white ;) I added the blue behind my backdrop die and I also used a little bit of Copics around the tree line and snow slopes.
Below you can see my own mix of different sequins and glitter flakes. I really love how this card turned out and it was so much fun to create it! I think it´s so fun to have no plan when you start with a card and just let it come to life during the process!