ETT KORT, JOURNAL SPREADS & SMASKIGT NYTTIGT FREDAGSGODIS!

😎 Well hello there Crafters!  🌞

Hope you are having a great week, with lots of sunshine and inspiration.
Have you seen the very cool colouring book that Netto (the Danish dollarstore) got last week? They have different themes but I really like this one:

Has such awesome pictures to color. Here're a few examples:

The book costs 49 kronor

The hippie girl to the left is my favourite of this book!

Peace! 💚

Netto have had these kind of brush pens below for a long time, now the price was reduced, from 59 kronor to 29,60 kr!

They might come in handy when coloring in the 'fashion book' above!

Some art journal spreads that I've done since the last blog:

Mostly cutouts from Daphne's Diary, the leafy greens is a napkin (that was sent to me in a happy mail a while back)

Yep, I do like my colors!!

Background is gelatos and the peacocks from a napkin (same happy mail!). A few cutouts from Daphne's.

Did this spread yesterday, it's for a challenge. Bicycle on the right from a napkin. Background colors gel crayons from Ica Maxi! Stickers from Netto. The old penny farthing bike is a diecut from Xcut.

Lastly a card, that was for a challenge aswell. Swirly stamps (blue) and stencil (purple) from Danish hobby store Panduro, that is all over Sweden.

So it's Friday today, and in Sweden we have something that's called 'fredagsmys'. Like 'cosy Friday evening'! If you want to have a delicious AND quite healthy snack, here's the thing!

I'll first take it in Swedish:

Mixa:
fetaost
persilja eller basilika
vitlök
oliv- eller rapsolja.

Du kan bland med en stavmixer eller i en mixer som du brukar göra smoothies med. Blanda tills det blir en härlig grön jämn 'smet'.
Dippa gurk- & morotsstavar, cocktail tomater, stjälkselleri, etc.
Såååå vansinnigt gott!

Mix: 
feta cheese
parsley or basil
garlic
olive or rapeseed oil.

Use a stick blender or any other kind of mixer that you have at home. Mix until it turns into a lovely green even "batter".
Dip cucumber-, carrot- or cellery fingers, small  cocktail tomatoes, etc. Sooooo delicious! And you get a lot of antioxidants!

Wishing you a cosy 'fredagsmys' 
and a wonderful weekend!

STORAGE TIP AND 5 ART JOURNAL SPREADS

Hooray, it's a lovely almost summery Thursday, at least 20°. I think it's safe to say that spring finally arrived properly to the south of Sweden! Almost too hot to drink coffee..... Naaaawh, just kidding! The tub of vanilla coffee is next to me as usual!  😉

The Gorjuss lottery that I had on by blog last week was won by: Johanna Bräcklein. Since there were no contestants from the blog itself the current time, I only announced it on Facebook.

For those who missed it; I will have more of this in the future on this blog!

Went for a walk yesterday by the sea and took some pictures. Loooovely blue sky!
Because I have such unstable joints, I walked backwards for a couple of hundred meters to 'save' my knees. If anyone saw me I wonder what they were thinking, haha ha! 'Well there's obviously a total nutjob...' !

Over to our wonderful hobby - crafting! What would we do without it?! Well I would fore sure be a nutcase then!!

Can't live without messing about with colors! Get happy just looking at my acrylic & tempera paints!

This African theme is 100% inspired by Umut Rados' Youtube video 'Mixed Media Art Journal Page', from August 12th last year. The background is made from a napkin. I love animals!

This spread was for a challenge. Gelatos in the background. The bird is a cutout from Daphne's Diary. The garden water pitcher is a Dutch stencil from Mitchell. Unfortunately the author behind the quote is unknown.

The background is made up from old clothes tags that I've saved. Background colors from Netto's tempera colors. Cutouts again from Daphne's. 
The green diecut to the right is Wild rose studios (bought it in Krakow). Pink lace heart to the left is Impression Obsession (Pysseltagen). The iron gate die is Tim Holtz (Pema).
Coffe themed stamps Czech Republic Razitka nové generace (bought at Davona in Prague).
Think you can guess where the cutouts come from!!

Did this yesterday, and it almost drove me crazy. Murphy's Law (= Lagen om Alltings Dj*vlighet) all the way through. Started using white extra soft pastels for the masking bit, which was not a good idea at all. Got rid of that and instead used white gelatos. Messed it up several times, and I don't know if it is ready yet. This card just annoys me!!  😠

Wish Jan, Feb and March would disappear all together, and that spring would be twice as long!

For a long time I've been thinking of organizing my Tim Holtz' dies, by throwing away the hard plastic packing, and gluing the picture on the die itself. 
Never got around to it until I saw a youtuber from Greece doing exactly that! Gave me the kick in the butt that I needed to get started.

I freakin' hate these plastic packaging. They also take up extra space in my cabinet. Good riddance!
Used my cutting machine to get the label into the right measure, and then used my tape runner to glue it to the die. Much better!

I hope you're having a sunny creative week.

Oh by the way; if you live in Sweden have you watch the Swedish/Danish dramathriller 'Gråzon'?! It's on C More. Sooooo thrilling! The Danes are brilliant at making thrillers.

Take care
and happy crafting!

              Meja  💛

PENNOR, PENNOR & UTLOTTNING!

Hejsan gott folk!
Gäller minsann att hålla i hatten idag, hua' va' det blåser (börjar nästan bli rädd att fönsterrutorna ska rämna!)! Hoppas det inte tänker hålla på så här hela våren, längtar efter kaffestunder i hammocken. Var i stugan i helgen och isen hade ännu inte släppt.

Så kul det varit om man kunnat åka skridskor på sjön!!

Solen strålar i alla fall denna torsdag, häääärligt!

Givetvis måste man packa med sig pyssel när man ska vara i stugan några dagar - annars slår abstinensen obönhörligt till!!  😲

Målade bl a denna bild som jag scannat från Daphne's Diary.

Testade olika sorters pennor, färger och är inte klar. Ska klippa ut fåglarna och använda i en art journal.

På väg till stugan besökte jag Panduro. De hade erbjudande på tre Posca pennor till priset av två! Tydligen finns det sju olika sorters storlek. Posca är en snabbtorkande vattenbaserad marker. 
Jag var på jakt efter vit, men pennorna finns i alla möjliga färger.

Dessa är 8,0 mm, 1,8 - 2,5 mm  samt 0,9 - 1,3 mm spets. Håller du också på med art journals vet du redan hur bra de är att t ex göra en ram med runt sidan. 
Om du använder gel medium så se dock till att sidan är torr innan du använder Posca pennor, annars blir de totalt förstörda. 😰  Posca pennor ska helst förvaras horisontellt.

Kampanjen gäller fortfarande, så passa på! Three Posca pens for the price of two, yay!

På hemväg från stugan blev det en snabbvisit på Netto. Denna vecka hade de fineliners, 0,7 mm spets. Toppen till doodling!

Så många färger! Kanonbra när man ska färglägga små pilliga images!


Har i minst en månad tänkt att jag skulle ha en utlottning på min blogg. NU får jag se till att komma till skott! 
Lottar ut en small Gorjuss Santoro plånbok (obs att det inte är en piratkopia!) till någon läsare.

14 x 9 cm

Är själv inte så inne i Gorjuss-världen, men vad jag förstår har de olika flickorna namn. Har sökt med bild, men det verkar inte som om just denna figur finns mer på plånböcker. Köpte denna utomlands för några år sedan (givetvis är den helt oanvänd!).

Vill du vara med i utlottningen behöver du bara skriva ditt namn här under i kommentarsfältet på bloggen, eller skriva ditt namn i tråden på Facebookgruppen. Jag kommer att (enväldigt!) välja ut en vinnare på lördag kväll - och skickar iväg priset till vederbörande i nästa vecka.
Hoppas jag inte glömt någon viktig detalj nu, har inte haft någon utlottning förut men tänkte ha det då & då framöver. Kul!

Här ett litet kort jag gjorde häromdagen. Tags i kvadrat! 

Tags bl a från Panduro (och nu nedlagda Nille).

Ni får ha en fortsatt bra vecka - och lycka till i min utlottning!

Blås inte bort!

 

3 ART JOURNALS AND MORE!

Hello out there!

Hope all of you had a lovely Easter holiday. Here in the south of Sweden weather was rubbish. It's supposed to be sunny and nice at Easter!!  😒

Sunset April 1st - 18

Yesterday was a fantastic, sunny & warm all day. Had my afternoon coffee in the garden sitting in the hammock. Aaaaaah! Love to listen to the birds chirp.

If you do art journaling you've certainly noticed how the pages tend to stick together (I sure have!). This is easily fixed by carefully rubbing the pages with a tealight (stearin från ett värmeljus).

Thank you very much for that tip, Mike Deakin!

Did this a few days ago. As most crafters I love all kind of butterflies! I've a problem staying away from the color purple (and pink), love-love-love it!

Here's a little piece from yesterday.

It's for a challenge. Wheelbarrow (skottkärra) and sneaker (gympadoja) is from the internet. Branch with yellow flowers from ScrapBerry's (bought in Riga!).

Felt like doing a totally crazy page, and I'd say I succeeded at that! It's mad...!

The crane and some of the leaves are cutouts from Daphne's Diary (a new issue will be out April 17th!).  Leaves with a bit of bling on them from Prima. The black toucan is from Netto, the colored one from the internet! There's also some messing about with gelatos!

Speaking of birds here's a beautiful one taken on the Croatian island Lokrum  (where some of the filming of Game of Thrones took place)

I wrote about steampunk (in Swedish!) in August last year:  här

If you're at all interested in steampunk you must check out Verne Industries website:  cool steampunk stuff 

This English man Ian builds the most amazing steampunk machines and devices. I'm completely blown away. Apparently Ian usually has a stall with his fantastic machines at steampunk events in England. Lucky for you Englanders!! Ian also sells stuff, check it out on his site under the label 'Emporium' (=  gammalt uttryck för varuhus). Very impressive to be able to make such fun extremely cool gadgets!

While I've been writing the sun has actually come out. YAY! Can't wait for spring to arrive for certain!

A very old big beautiful tree in Trsteno, Croatia

If you happen to know any craft stores on Malta, please let me know!

Husband just got back from work. I needed a new tooth glass and look what he found!

He knows me so well (and its pink inside!)!

Happy crafting!