You are the sweetest - Paperhaus magazine

I am here today to get you in some looove mood, made for Paperhaus Magazine This is a layout to my loving 4 year old - who to me in the sweetest thing around. She is a girl who loves pink and to play dress up - she is a real princess.

When I scrap I love to use a lot of white space and color products - here I have minimized the use of color products and increased the white space.

















I have used Crate Paper for the layout. If you want to buy some Crate - old and new (or anything else) why don't you use my Paper Issues code to get 20 % off you order. Code is CHRISTIN

 

There is also a new issue over at Paper Issues.  

  

How about a project about Valentine's Day, love or a special relationship?

Do you love typewriters? Do you collect them? Show us how you've documented this, like Jen did.

Do you love fonts and typography? Is there a certain font you find yourself using over and over again? Use it on your project!

Ampersands are really trending right now. How about using some as a design element, like Martha did?However you interpret this theme, we want to see it! Link up your projects (they don't have to be newly created for this link up) between now and February 2nd for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Paper Issues store. With all of the new goodies coming in from CHA, it shouldn't be too hard to find a reason to shop. Be sure to link back to Paper Issues for a chance to win.

Winter time fun - Paperhaus

Today I am showing you my latest layout made for Paperhaus Magazine blog using different collections from Crate Paper.

Love - Paperhaus

This layout was shared a couple of weeks ago on the Paperhaus blog. 

The last year we have seen a lot of gold and glitter in scrapbooking and here I wanted to share my take with gold.   I have used gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine (mist) Gold Glitter die cut, gold doily, gold vellum and gold chipboard  - all from Crate Paper, on this layout.

Opp & ned - Paperhaus

Every now and then big prints or big embellishments catch my attention. I often even prefer the small prints of 6x6 papers and small things to decorate my layout so when I found this collection – Printshop from Studio Calico with both big prints and a huge Ampersand I was sold.



I started making the background with stencils, distress ink and a water brush and then some stamping before I layered the papers and stitched them together.




The collection isn’t necessarily meant for fall pictures, but with some extra pink papers I captured the colors in the photo of my 4 year old jumping up and down (which the title says) on the leaves in the trampoline

Now it's up to you.....off to find some non-fall-papers to make your own fall project.

Sjakkspiller - Paperhaus

This layout was on the Paperhaus magazine blog in October, showing how to get different watercolor effects, some with a waterbrush

November sketch - Paperhaus

The progress pictures are taken in a gym court at a crop a while back, so sorry about the poor quality - my Iphone is old...

This is the sketch

Hello - Fall layout for Paperhaus Magazine

This fall I have the pleasure of attending several crops and I always plan to pack light for these events, but it never happens and I always pack way more than I would ever need, but I hate to sit there and only think about the things I left at home, which means I am not the best to give advice on how to pack for crops...  However I have one little thing I do to jumpstart the creative at the crop/event after my shopping round is done. (In the beginning of october I was at en event with 13 (!) scrap stores under one roof....)  and that actually starts at home. I  make a lot of backgrounds in my favorite colors so I don't have to start from scratch - I can just pick one of the premade background and start creating. When I have more time before a crop I even pack things I might want to use for the layout in a crop bag.  If I don't have time I start the process at the crop by picking out stuff for the layout and just pile them in a crop bag - I don't always start the layout right away - I let the creative process continue in the back of my head and jump to the next project and do the same.   My step three is actually finish the project and then it can go pretty quickly. This was cut and mounted to the paper in about 30 minutes.... (I had a deadline..... )  What you don't see under the photo is that I have stapled all the layers together and to the white cardstock. 

This layout was made for a challenge and in our goodie bags we got some mosaic squares and they had to used on our layouts.  The mosaic came in all kinds of colors, but I choose the brown and orange ones to go with my fall theme.  I was also lucky enough to have premade the background with a stencil that the squares fit perfectly in...  Using these kind of things make you think how much other things at home you could use for a layout and I have used one other such thing on my layout.  If you see the brown fabric under the Hello wood title, that thing used to be on a newspaper holder, but I loved the faux mocca so much that I cut it out and saved it. So my challenge for you is to use old clothes or stuff from your home to use on your layout. 

Being on a deadline and having prepared some in advance made my weekend pretty productive. A total of 7 layouts and 1 card. I am not a very fast scrapper, it takes time to focus and keeping my inspiration for so long.  If I hadn't made these preparations I don't think I would have made more thand 2-3 layouts inbetween all the shopping and chatting to the 80 other participants and hundreds of visitors to the event.   My last tip to you is that don't think that you HAVE TO finish a project in just one go, it's actually a very good idea to take breaks between the different parts of the process. 

Hente Posten - Paperhaus magazine

I am up with my first presentation at Paperhaus today.



The products used to make this background are: Clear gesso, two pink Glimmer mists and 1 yellow glimmer mist together with a waterbrush. Then stencils together with distress ink and on top stamping.

A few weeks ago I was teaching a mini album class - where I combined coloring techniques with layering techniques - the base of the class was an old book. The top layers were meant to be in that mini album that I taught, but in stead I can show here that mosts coloring techniques work out the same way in a mini album as a layout, I just added some more layers.

Another little secret I can share (that I will focus on later this fall his how I work with the layers) is I use a stapler to combine the layers.. That is why you can se a lot of air between the layers.

This time I accidentally covered most of my colored background, but for me that happens quite often and I don't care - the background isn't what is most important. I also often make the layers one day and do the layers without any concern of the background and then I play mix and match with layers and background.

Hoping this will get you a little curious about some of the things I will show you in my blog posts later this fall.

Paper, pennant, alphabet are from Heidi Swapp, chipboard from Wycinanka