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Spring and Valentine’s Day Inspiration

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I am sure that all of you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, though it was just yesterday, I wold like to bring you some more Spring Inspiration today, however on Valentine’s theme.

I’ve made a home decoration project with my daughter. I love my hobby because it is such a pleasure that you can create something alongside with your children. So please meet or Valentine’s Wreath:

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I asked my daughter to help me to cut out the hearts from Crea Diem collections. So she has chosen Sann vänskap and Av hela mitt hjärta papers, so she is quite moderate in colors.

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Though it was not very easy for her to cut them precisely, she has made a great job. But I wanted to add some shabby look to them, so I distressed the edges

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then I took 3 of the hearts and stitched them in the center. I left long  threads and hang them on the wreath, that we made of the tree’s branches.

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we had one extra heart left, so we decided to tie 2 hearts together

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Quite a simple project but I am sure it will decorate our house during the coming spring months too

And one more card, made for Valentine’s Day too, using Gammaldags Jul Collection

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 yes, you are right I used some Christmas papers fro this card, it is Pyntat och fint
I added some stamping, fabric, embellishments and Gesso drips
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 Have a good week end and spend it with your beloved ones
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Treasure Your Memories

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Hello! Elena is here with you and today I want to share with you a Summer layout, inspired by amazing summer photos and no doubt, I used Vintage Summer Basics Collection

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Surely this is the most beautiful paper collection I’ve ever seen, however I decided to play with some paints and added some accents on this 1905 paper sheet.

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I have teared some papers for my photo padding (1936, 1920, 1910) and made some random stitching of the title cut from the patterned papers

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and I added some script stamping and flowers to embellish my Layout

rosesand I can not resist using lace there as it reminds me about feminine accent that should definitely be there.

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and one more Layout I want to share with you today was made for 2Crafty Chipboard blog, but as it is filled with many Christmas papers I decided to show it too

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I wanted to make something different from traditional cutting and gluing the papers, so I stitched, stamped and painted as usual I do while creating something. I used Fröjdefull Jul ( Julklappar)  and Gammaldags Jul collections ( Goder afton, Pyntat och fint)

I made some tearing of  the stripes

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and some fussy cutting from Ringdans paper

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Thank you for watching me today and have a good day.

Products used : Maja Design Papers : Fröjdefull Jul ( Julklappar, Ringdance))  and Gammaldags Jul collections ( Goder afton, Pyntat och fint); 2Crafty Chipboard, Flourish With a Bling – Flourish and pearls, 3rd Eye StampElena-sign

Winter Mini Album

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Good day to all Maja Friends. Elena is here to share some new project with you. Well, Christmas  holidays have passed, but I am sure you have many photos taken during this wonderful time . And of course, Mini album is the best decision to keep those memories.

Maja Design has so many Christmas/Winter collections to try, that it was a dilemma for me which one to choose. Anyway I decided to combine some of them as they complement each other quite well.

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I used Acrylic Binder from Clear Scraps as I wanted to keep transparency effect as long as the icy look too

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I have cut the running children from Ringdans paper of  Fröjdefull Jul collection and made some fussy cutting of Vines from Julbukett  paper. and surely my signature – some stamping and acrylic paints on the cover

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I place all the photos on the acrylic pages that were colored using the stencils and acrylic paint with mica. I love the idea that you can see the next page through the acrilic too and it adds extra decoration to it as well.

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I left some pages without photos, as I ‘m going to present it to my Mum and she will add the photos herself or will make some notes on the papers. That is why I resisted the desire to add some textured elements and left just stamping and a small amount of modeling paste.

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I wanted to choose just red -white colors but I didn’t noticed how I have added pink and peach colors, but I suppose the result is quite amazing

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The stripes and the dots – really cute, isn’t it?

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You know, after I cut my backgrounds papers I had many leftovers and I decided to use them as decorations for my pages. Some of them were torn into thin stripes

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and finally the last pages

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What a great mixture of colors, though it is a boy page

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and some close ups on my techniques

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and for the back page I used Gammaldags Jul Collection and its Tradition Paper

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I hope you have enjoyed my Mini Album and during the week end you will pick up your favourite Christmas photos and will choose your Winter collection to coordinate them.

 

 Supplies used for Mini Album:

Patterned Paper:

Fröjdefull Jul collection: Ringdans, Julbucket, Virkad strumpa

Gammaldags Jul: Tradition

Clear Scraps: Acrylic Binder, Scallop Chipboard and Acrylic; Stencil: Brick Wall and Quarterfoil

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