I'm not a very confident drawer or watercolourist, and it's not always easy to think up things to draw or paint. So I quite like the idea I did here: clipped a magazine image I liked and tried to repeat it in painting. I'm really happy how it turned out!
Like the Travel Journal Kit post, this spread was originally made for Allt om Scrap DT and is from last year already. So if you wondered if we're still not having spring in Finland - oh yes, we do! It came unusually early this year, too.
I hope to post the covers of my journal in the next couple of days, so you're most welcome back to check them out! Have a nice week!
Monday, 4 May 2015
Quick Travel Journal Spread
Happy Monday, and Happy May! I promised in my last post to show a super quick journal spread made with only the products I included in my Travel Journal Kit, so here it goes! Oh, one thing that I don't have in my kit is the gesso, but I typically prepare the pages a bit in advance so that was not necessary to have on the road.
I'm not a very confident drawer or watercolourist, and it's not always easy to think up things to draw or paint. So I quite like the idea I did here: clipped a magazine image I liked and tried to repeat it in painting. I'm really happy how it turned out!
Like the Travel Journal Kit post, this spread was originally made for Allt om Scrap DT and is from last year already. So if you wondered if we're still not having spring in Finland - oh yes, we do! It came unusually early this year, too.
I hope to post the covers of my journal in the next couple of days, so you're most welcome back to check them out! Have a nice week!
I'm not a very confident drawer or watercolourist, and it's not always easy to think up things to draw or paint. So I quite like the idea I did here: clipped a magazine image I liked and tried to repeat it in painting. I'm really happy how it turned out!
Like the Travel Journal Kit post, this spread was originally made for Allt om Scrap DT and is from last year already. So if you wondered if we're still not having spring in Finland - oh yes, we do! It came unusually early this year, too.
I hope to post the covers of my journal in the next couple of days, so you're most welcome back to check them out! Have a nice week!
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Travel News & A Travel Journal Kit!
Hello! To those of you who pop in regularly, I owe huge apologies for disappearing for three whole months. This totally unplanned break was luckily not due to any tragic event. On the contrary, a long time travel dream of ours is about to happen and since we made the decision to do it this spring, the plans and preparations and general excitement have taken all my free time and thinking capacity!
Myself, husband and our boys aged 7 and 1 are heading for the USA and Canada for a whole month, starting next week. We’d saved and hoped for this trip for several years and still, since we finally got the flights in the end of January, time has truly flown by. I still can’t really believe it’s happening until, probably, the night before our departure!
Meanwhile, now that our plans are nearly settled, I hope to post a few previously unposted projects before we leave. While we are away, I don’t think I’ll be posting at all – unless I’m inspired to do something very quick and improvised on the way. I decided early on that scheduled posts are out of question, for the simple reason that I’ve had less crafting time this year and I wouldn’t have enough projects, nor the time to do the posts. Instead, I hope to return from our trip with a lot of inspiration and new ideas!
And you bet, some new materials as well!
Do you like to keep an art journal or do other sorts of crafts when you’re travelling?
I’m planning a small Travel Kit to carry with me, to entertain the kids as well as myself on the long journeys and rainy days. Before it’s ready, though, I realized I have another Travel Journal Kit of mine from last year that I have not yet shown here! Here you can see my original DT post at the Swedish Allt om Scrap site.
When I take art supplies with me, I usually pack way too much, so it’s always a challenge to make it small. How good that I came to think of my previous kit, before I pack a new one! I think taking a look at what I included last year will help me remember what may have been missing, and what may not have been needed at all.
This Travel Journal Kit includes:
I hope to see you soon again with a quick journal spread I created with the abovementioned products, and when my new kit is packed, I hope I have time to post that too before embarking on the journey!
I suppose it goes without saying that I would love, love, love to see your Travel Journal Kits, too, and hear what everyone's favourite products are. Have a nice week!
Myself, husband and our boys aged 7 and 1 are heading for the USA and Canada for a whole month, starting next week. We’d saved and hoped for this trip for several years and still, since we finally got the flights in the end of January, time has truly flown by. I still can’t really believe it’s happening until, probably, the night before our departure!
Meanwhile, now that our plans are nearly settled, I hope to post a few previously unposted projects before we leave. While we are away, I don’t think I’ll be posting at all – unless I’m inspired to do something very quick and improvised on the way. I decided early on that scheduled posts are out of question, for the simple reason that I’ve had less crafting time this year and I wouldn’t have enough projects, nor the time to do the posts. Instead, I hope to return from our trip with a lot of inspiration and new ideas!
And you bet, some new materials as well!
Do you like to keep an art journal or do other sorts of crafts when you’re travelling?
I’m planning a small Travel Kit to carry with me, to entertain the kids as well as myself on the long journeys and rainy days. Before it’s ready, though, I realized I have another Travel Journal Kit of mine from last year that I have not yet shown here! Here you can see my original DT post at the Swedish Allt om Scrap site.
When I take art supplies with me, I usually pack way too much, so it’s always a challenge to make it small. How good that I came to think of my previous kit, before I pack a new one! I think taking a look at what I included last year will help me remember what may have been missing, and what may not have been needed at all.
This Travel Journal Kit includes:
- small journal (choose paper that suits your media: stronger paper for wet media and heavy collage)
- pencil, sharpener and eraser black pen(s); mine is a Pitt Artist Pen Set
- other favourite pens
- watercolour pencils or travel watercolour box
- water brush
- ink pads; I have Black Staz-On for stamping on any surface and a few small coloured ones from Versafine and Versacraft
- glue and scissors
- a few favourite stamps and acrylic block
- small bag of collage images, paper scraps and ephemera
- double sided tape
- a few favourite washi tapes
- Stickles or Liquid Pearls
- minitubes of acrylic paint and a piece of foam for applying it
- baby wipes for cleaning the stamps
I hope to see you soon again with a quick journal spread I created with the abovementioned products, and when my new kit is packed, I hope I have time to post that too before embarking on the journey!
I suppose it goes without saying that I would love, love, love to see your Travel Journal Kits, too, and hear what everyone's favourite products are. Have a nice week!
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Kevään askartelukurssit Espoossa
Heippa! Päivitin juuri tuonne Kevään kurssit -välilehdelle tulevien kurssieni tiedot. Ensimmäisenä on tarjolla askartelua yhdessä lasten kanssa, ja se onkin jo ihan kohta eli lauantaina 7.2.2015. Ehtii tehdä vaikka ystävänpäiväkortteja! Kursseilla on vielä reilusti tilaa ja vähän liikaakin - ilmoittauduthan viimeistään viikkoa ennen kurssipäivää, jotta opetus ei peruunnu liian vähäisen osallistujamäärän vuoksi.Kurssit soveltuvat uusille askartelijoille ja aiemmin harrastaneille, joten tervetuloa kaikki!
Hello! I posted in Finnish this time, because what I wrote here is about the workshops I'll be teaching in my home town Espoo this spring. This altered wooden ornament says "Our room" and it's for one of the workshops where you are welcome to craft together with a child, combining scrapbooking and cardmaking and mixed media to create small memories or gifts. Have a nice week!
Hello! I posted in Finnish this time, because what I wrote here is about the workshops I'll be teaching in my home town Espoo this spring. This altered wooden ornament says "Our room" and it's for one of the workshops where you are welcome to craft together with a child, combining scrapbooking and cardmaking and mixed media to create small memories or gifts. Have a nice week!
Saturday, 3 January 2015
Holiday Tradition: A Layout in Pastel Colours
With my first post of 2015, I wish you all a very Happy New Year!
Before turning to New Year's plans, I have another Christmas holiday themed layout to share today! This was a quick one to make and I aimed towards a more clean & simple style than I usually do.
I was inspired by three challenges:
First, the Finnish online magazine Paperilla, had Pastel Coloured Chrismas as their December Scrapbooking Challenge.
Secondly, at Challenge YOUrself, the December prompt was to depict Traditions. Board games are a lovely winter favorite and a Christmas holiday tradition in my family. With lots of family staying overnight, it’s easy to spend half of the night playing! In Challenge YOUrself, you must always include a photo of YOU. This photo is from Christmas 2006 and I'm the one in the middle holding cards, with my sister on the right and my then boyfriend, now husband, on the left.
And thirdly, at CSI - Color, Stories, Inspiration there was a special Scrap365 Case File:
I printed the photo two times and digitally altered one of them to a monochromatic pale green shade. I cut out us people in the monochromatic photo and only the game board from the coloured photo, so that it pops out nicely.
The game is the super fun and exciting Ticket to Ride, where you compete in building rail roads across North America. New York to Los Angeles and Montréal to Vancouver, here we go! I highly recommend it to everyone who likes board games.
After I fussy cut the photo, I realized I had black tags that went very well with the photo size-wise. I started with journaling, which is completely contrary to how I usually do. Often I leave it till last and don't always have as much space left as I would like to. Doing it this way worked well, and the rest of the layout fell in place easily.
For the title, I wanted to use these coral pink very large puffy alpha. I had to find a place for that next - as you can see, Finnish language has some very long words! I knew there was not going to be much space for other embellishments, and for the final touch, I just did a bit of stamping and some drops of mist.
My Evidence for the CSI Challenge are: tags, puffy stickers, cursive font, chalk/chalkboard and something powdery (salmon and green chalk inks). And as for Testimony, I documented a winter favorite (board games) and did it by handwriting on tags.
I’m quite happy with this layout and realize once again that fussy cutting the silhouettes out and printing the photo in monohchromatic shades can really upgrade an otherwise mediocre and photo. I'm posting the original photo so that you can see what a difference it makes. This was really quite ugly to begin with, and would have been uninspiring to scrap, with the busy background and bad colours to name but a few things. I'm really glad I thought of editing it a bit more, because I don't have a good quality photo of every memory and theme that I want to scrap. Especially if the photos date back to before I started scrapbooking, like this one!
I also managed to get closer to Clean & Simple style than I usually do, and it’s something I’ve been wanting to try. Happy New Year to you all!
I was inspired by three challenges:
First, the Finnish online magazine Paperilla, had Pastel Coloured Chrismas as their December Scrapbooking Challenge.
Secondly, at Challenge YOUrself, the December prompt was to depict Traditions. Board games are a lovely winter favorite and a Christmas holiday tradition in my family. With lots of family staying overnight, it’s easy to spend half of the night playing! In Challenge YOUrself, you must always include a photo of YOU. This photo is from Christmas 2006 and I'm the one in the middle holding cards, with my sister on the right and my then boyfriend, now husband, on the left.
And thirdly, at CSI - Color, Stories, Inspiration there was a special Scrap365 Case File:
I printed the photo two times and digitally altered one of them to a monochromatic pale green shade. I cut out us people in the monochromatic photo and only the game board from the coloured photo, so that it pops out nicely.
The game is the super fun and exciting Ticket to Ride, where you compete in building rail roads across North America. New York to Los Angeles and Montréal to Vancouver, here we go! I highly recommend it to everyone who likes board games.
After I fussy cut the photo, I realized I had black tags that went very well with the photo size-wise. I started with journaling, which is completely contrary to how I usually do. Often I leave it till last and don't always have as much space left as I would like to. Doing it this way worked well, and the rest of the layout fell in place easily.
For the title, I wanted to use these coral pink very large puffy alpha. I had to find a place for that next - as you can see, Finnish language has some very long words! I knew there was not going to be much space for other embellishments, and for the final touch, I just did a bit of stamping and some drops of mist.
My Evidence for the CSI Challenge are: tags, puffy stickers, cursive font, chalk/chalkboard and something powdery (salmon and green chalk inks). And as for Testimony, I documented a winter favorite (board games) and did it by handwriting on tags.
I’m quite happy with this layout and realize once again that fussy cutting the silhouettes out and printing the photo in monohchromatic shades can really upgrade an otherwise mediocre and photo. I'm posting the original photo so that you can see what a difference it makes. This was really quite ugly to begin with, and would have been uninspiring to scrap, with the busy background and bad colours to name but a few things. I'm really glad I thought of editing it a bit more, because I don't have a good quality photo of every memory and theme that I want to scrap. Especially if the photos date back to before I started scrapbooking, like this one!
I also managed to get closer to Clean & Simple style than I usually do, and it’s something I’ve been wanting to try. Happy New Year to you all!
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Things with Wings
Hi again! One of my ATC trading friends collects an altered postcard (APC) deck themed Things with Wings. Owing her some cards, I was inspired to create characters that don't have wings normally, so please meet my Cat King and Vintage Miss Teacup!
I made them inspired by the style called Zetti - see yesterday's post with some more about it!
I've also written about APCs before. Check these posts, if you're interested!
Both APCs have beeswax collage backgrounds, using napkins and book pages among other scraps. In the Cat card I also used metallic acrylic paint and added some more napkins for texture.
With the first card, I'm participating in the Creative Gym challenge at the Mixed Media Place blog. This month's theme is Wings and you can join until January the 19th!
The butterfly wings are free downloads from the Graphics Fairy, and so are the teacups actually!
Here's another flying kitty wishing you a happy, fun and creative New Year!
Both APCs have beeswax collage backgrounds, using napkins and book pages among other scraps. In the Cat card I also used metallic acrylic paint and added some more napkins for texture.
With the first card, I'm participating in the Creative Gym challenge at the Mixed Media Place blog. This month's theme is Wings and you can join until January the 19th!
The butterfly wings are free downloads from the Graphics Fairy, and so are the teacups actually!
Here's another flying kitty wishing you a happy, fun and creative New Year!
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