A girlish birthday card in blue

Since one of my doughters best friends turned 5 yo the other day I made this card with a Linnie Blooms Canvas Star as decoration.

♥

Marie

Celebrate Home Canvas

I love messing with paint and stamps. When my DT pack arrived from Linda I immediately knew what to do with the frame and canvas piece she sent me.

The canvas piece that the frame holds was covered in gesso before I applied different colors of Ayeeda mists. When the gesso and mist was dry, I added a bit of modelling paste trough a stencil. After some more driying time the stamping was added with a permanent black ink. the chipboard frame was painted with silver glitter paint and the flowers with spray ink added with a brush.

Enjoy!

♥

Marie

Quotes - August Designer Challenge

I must admit that I´m not a big fan of quotes. But I´m always up for a challenge. One quote that has stuck into my mind and one that I sort live by "Sweat is fat crying". I love to work out at the gym!

I made this layout using mixed media techniques. The background was made with a lot of gesso and paint splatters with really wet metallic water paint. I used a Linnie Blooms canvas shape that I stamped on with permanent ink as a backdrop for my photo. The Linnie Blooms canvas butterfly was painted with the same metallic paint as I dribbled on the background.

The buttons and chipboard was a variety of colors, so I covered them with a thin layer of gesso to hold it all together.

The picture was taken at my local gym - Victory Gym.

Have a really nice day - and from a nutty Cardiac Nurse - move and think of what you eat!

♥

Marie

July Challenge Patriotism - HI SWEDEN!

Well since yellow & blue are my countries colors that is what I used on my July Challenge project. SO to all of you - this is from Sweden with love!

I have used material from Cocoa Daisy and SODAlicious together with my all time fav Linnie Blooms product - the Canvas stars. I have also used Canvas journaling piece.

Patriotic colored tag

Since July has a patriotic challenge here at Linnie Blooms I thought I go trough it almost all the way. Therefore I did create this sweet tag with Swedish colors (blue & yellow). I made the flowers and leaves by using the Bloom Stencil and mask.

Have a lovely day!

♥
Marie

Pillowcase

When  got my new Linnie Blooms stencils I got the idea to use them for a home decoration project. I had a old vintage pillow case lying around that was in a bit of bad shape. But since it was a heritage piece I didn´t want to trow it away. So I came up with the idea of using the stencils to create a embroidery pattern.

 I used the stencil to create my tree and then the fish/owl to sit underneath it. As you can see I have extended the branch so that it forms the base of the tree instead.

And here is my finished result.

As you can see on the closeup below I have made the owl by applying a felt owl.

Hope you get some new ideas on how to use the stencils/masks.

♥

Marie

Yellow exam card

I´m showing you a yellow and bright card I made for our nice Teacher exam. I love how it turned out with the different shades of yellow paper and the yellow flowers. The Linnie Blooms canvas feather and leave was just spot on perfect for this project.

To highlight the canvas shapes further, I inked them a bit with a beige ink. Enjoy!

♥ 

Marie

Outdoor Fun with Icecream!

As mentioned before my 10 yo is the coolest kid I know. He really embrace life and enjoy every little minute of it. I snapped this picture of him enjoying a ice cream in the sun last summer. I just love how you really can see how much he enjoys it. It was a natural choice for the June DT challenge outdoor fun. I mean, we don´t eat ice cream on a regular basis, but during the summer, we tend do have one, or tree...

As you can see I have used two products from Linnie Blooms on this page. First of all the canvas trees. To archive the treelike effect I have first sprayed it with 3 shades of spray ink. Then when dry I stamped and embossed the flower shapes from Cocoa Daisy. It turned out better than I thought it would...

I also sprayed on the canvas arrow with a bit of spray ink. I used the Heidi Swapp Color shine in the color Mint green.

Hope this made you long for a cool ice cream in the sun. I´ll be back tomorrow with a card. Have a nice day.

♥

Marie

Sweet Mini

Marie here today showing you a mini album made with Linnie Blooms 5x5 Canvas Blanks.

These proudct fits perfectly for the front and back of a album. I have cut different patterned papers into the same shapes as the canvas and then punched holes trough the whole lot.

I won´t show you more of the inside than this, cause it´s a present for a friend and rather personal, but you get the idea.

Hope this will inspire you to create a couple of sweet mini ablums this summer!

Have a really nice day.

Marie

My Superstar!

Spring wishes from the North of Sweden today! Finally it´s getting green outside, and the temperature has come to reasonable levels. I hope that your part of the world feels as nice as mine does right now.

I´m have a layout to show today. My 10 yo son is the coolest guy I know. Despite his lack of age he´s sure of what he wants and have confident. He doesn´t care much about what others in the same age thinks of him. When he chose his new glasses he picked the most colorful and girlish ones in the store cause that was the ones he wanted. He really is my superhero and I hope he can keep this confidence when he becomes a teenager!

I have used papers from Cocoa Daisy kits for this page and combined them with some of my favourite Linnie Blooms products - the canvas Stars and the canvas envelopes.

I have distressed the edges of the canvas shapes to hightlight them further.

 

 

Best wishes from Marie

Kid´s Bookmark

My 10 year old son is really into books right now. He might read more than 5 books a week at some points. So I thought I would treat him with a nice & cool bookmark so use in this books.

I used a Linnie Blooms canvas long blank for his project. Covering it with 3 shades of mist and some stamps made the piece a bit funky. Then I stamped HÄR (here in English) with black permanent ink on a canvas arrow. I glued the arrow down with my trused heat glue gun and added a bit of tread and a badge as a finished detail. My son loves this and uses it all the time.

Material used: Linnie Blooms Long blanks & Canvas arrow. Heidi Swapp Color Shine in the colors Mint Green and Sweet Cherry (In the Linnie Blooms store). Stamps from Cocoa Daisy. Other inks from Ayeeda. Badge from 3rd Eye.

May Challenge - April Showers have brought us May Flowers! - Flowers the alternative way

Are you up for the May Challenge when the Designers have been challenged to use Linnie Bloom Canvas Flowers? I´m going to show you an alternative way of using Linnie Blooms product for creating your flowers. Here is my step-by-step on how to make it happen.

And this is my finished result. I painted the flowers with a bit of Heidi Swapp Color Shine to achieve the right effekt. I also reshaped the flowers a bit to give make them a bit wider. 

I really hope you enjoyed my mini class, and that I will see your creation uploaded to the May challenge!!

Mixed media tags

Today I would like to show you two tags I made for my doughter Alice who turned 6 years old a couple of days ago.

 

I have used the same base for both tags, a cardstock tag with a patterned paper from 7 Dots Studio (Love is in the Air collection "Rising of the Sun"). First of all, I wanted to add some structure so I applied thick modeling paste (from the hardware store) trough a template. When dried I sprayed the tags with mist from Ayeeda (13@rts). After drying more I stamped with black permanent ink randomly over the tags.

 

When happy with the base I added my chosen Linnie Bloom canvas products, mixed with a couple of other embellishments. For the tag above I made a flower using two Canvas Blooms that I sew togheter by hand. Then I sprayed it with ink and highlighted it with a bit of red paint.

For the card down below I used the gorgous Canvas Leaves and feathers! They are SO versatile!! Instead of misting them I painted them with thin gesso. That way they get more flexible, and easy to bend when semi dry.

Other materials used: Flower (13@rts). Frame (Fabscraps). Chipboard Wheel and tag (Scrapiniec). Rinestones (Pink Paislee). Button (Prima Marketing). Stamps (Prima, Keisercraft).

Hope you liked my tags as much as Alice did!

Best wishes from Marie