Tervetuloa kurssille: Kangas, sakset, paperi!

Hello! Today's post will be in Finnish, about my coming workshops.

Moi! Opetan taas tänä keväänä mixed media -askarteluja Vantaan aikuisopistossa. Kurssiohjelma on uudistunut ja ajattelin siksi tehdä pienen esittelypostauksen kustakin kurssista erikseen.

Kevätkauden ensimmäinen kurssi on nimeltään Kangas, sakset, paperi! Tämä kurssi on toista kertaa ohjelmassa ja se sopii sekä sekatekniikka-askartelun aloittajalle että pidempään harrastaneelle. Mixed median perusasioista mm. leimailu sekä sabluunoiden ja akryylimaalien käyttö tulevat viimeistään nyt tutuiksi, jos et ole tehnyt niitä aiemmin!

Kurssipaikka on Vantaan opistotalo Tikkurilassa, Lummetie 5, ja kurssi-illat ovat maanantaisin 21.1.−11.2.2019 klo 17−21.



Kurssilla tutustumme eri tapoihin käyttää lankaa ja kangasta oman askartelutyylin lisämausteena. Kerroksellisuuden rakentamista ja yksityiskohtien lisäämistä voi tehdä oman mieltymyksen mukaan ompelukoneella, käsin kirjoen tai helposti ja nopeasti liimaamalla.





Alla muutama kuva kurssilaisten töistä!

Tässä syntyy minialbumi päällystämällä suodatinpusseja itse koristelluilla papereilla. Pussin ympäri siksakkaus ompelukoneella tekee saumasta kestävämmän ja aukko muodostaa kivan taskun, johon voi tallentaa lisää pieniä muistoja.



Tällä kurssilaisella oli upea vanha puutarha-aiheinen kirja, johon hän päätti valmistaa taskuja vanhojen kukkapostikorttien kokoelmaansa varten.





Tässä on käsin kirjoen koristeltu tasku journaling tägille ja muita yksityiskohtia, tyylikkäästi vintage-kuvan kanssa yhteen sopien!



P.S. Villin lännen tytön kuva on The Graphics Fairyn sivustolta, josta löytyy valtava valikoima ilmaiseksi käyttöön ladattavia vintage-kuvia!



Seuraavan kurssikuvauksen julkaisen maanantaina 14.1. ja se kertoo kurssista Ystävänpäivän ja kevään kortit mehiläisvahatekniikalla. Sitä ennen voit tutustua kaikkien kurssien tietoihin myös täällä blogissa Workshops-välilehdellä! Lämpimästi tervetuloa kursseille!

Mini Journaling with Moodiversary and Art Marks Summer Challenges

Hi! Today I'd like to share with you couple of fun summer challenges that I can recommend for anyone who feels inspired to art/journal but maybe has just a few minutes for it daily, which was often the case for me this summer!



DeeDee Catron and Jenn Engle's Moodiversary uses the same mood board for the whole month, but there is a new link-up for prizes every week. My link is to Week 3, which will expire within a day, but you'll find Week 4 in DeeDee's blog when the time comes.

The delicious Moodiversary Board is here and the reason for the challenge is to celebrate the first year of DeeDee and Jenn's monthly inspiration posts called Mixed Media Moods. So the inspiration will continue after this month, on their blogs and YouTube channels.



I was inspired by the organic forms of the skeleton leaves and the tree on the bottom row, and the door one row up. Plus all the colours of the challenge, but particularly the yellow paint shade, Pollen, and Royal Fuchsia and Desert Turquoise.



Rae Missigman's Art Marks - A 30 Day Summer Challenge has a prompt word for each day, and the challenge encourages you to only use a set time, say 5-10 minutes, to "make your marks" each day. You can find the prompts list at Rae's blog.

I've been catching up with the prompts in no particular order - maybe some prompts felt more ready than others to emerge from the different backgrounds of each side in my mini book, actually!

Here's Day 9, Free Form:



Day 20, Scratched:



Day 16, Mirrored. This is not in the same 3 1/2x3 1/2 inches mini album as the others. I wanted to experiment with a slightly larger format so this is another junk journal, about 6x8 in size.



What could suit the Mirrored prompt better than this good old way of printing on both sides of a spread/folded paper, that many have surely have done as kids! I added some pencil and carbon on the one side of the spread to make my butterfly not completely mirrored, to reflect the idea that a mirror does not show everything there is.

Day 17 prompt of Dripped is the last for today!



I made my mini album specifically with these quick challenges in mind. It is an accordion book and the page size is 3 1/2 inches. I'll be back another day to show more of how it looked in the beginning, what different papers I used for backgrounds, and so on!

On the pages next to Free Form, you can see that some background papers are more finished than others, and I may want to keep them as they are. But more about that later.



And the covers, oh, they are such a fun idea even if I say so myself. The size of 3 1/2 inches might ring a bell to folks around my age or older, that is, those of us who already used a computer before the year 2000. Let's see if anyone can guess what I used.

Thank you for popping in and commenting, as always!

Krafty Travel Kit and Mini Album − Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Hop

Welcome to my part of the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Members' Blog Hop!

If you're already following the Blog Hop, you have probably come here from Tina's blog. If you want to start from the beginning or got lost along the way, head back to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog to find the full hop order!

A couple of months ago in June, I had the honour to be a Guest Designer at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog. It was so much fun to put together my own kit, and even more fun was to have my kit then handy to create projects for the whole month. The inspiration kit was the May 2016 Kit from Hip Kit Club, bright and cheerful, and I called my kit Hip State of Mind.

Here you can see all the projects I made with the June kit, and here is the direct link to the one time I had joined their challenge with my own kit before that.

This time, the monthly inspiration kit was chosen by Lisa Hausmann, who as a European member of the CKC Design Team wanted to pick a kit from a European club. Lisa's choice was the March 2016 kit from Papierwerkstatt. You can also take a look on the kit on Lisa's Pinterest board here!

Let's take a look at the Papierwerkstatt kit first!







I was particularly inspired by the kraft and neutral tones of the kit, and also the mini book idea, which you'll see in my project further down! For contrast, there is also one black paper with a flower pattern.

And here's my Counterfeit... named the Krafty Travel Kit!



With a close-up...



Here are the papers and cardstock I chose!

I was not completely happy at first to replace the black paper with these two Basic Grey flower ones with brown and purple backgrounds, but they had to do, since I simply didn't have any with black backgrounds and wanted to have some dark ones with flowers anyway. We'll see if they work for this kit or not.



From left to right: Glitz − Sunshine in my Soul 6x6 pad
Pre-gessoed and stenciled kraft cardstock
Textured light yellow paper
Prima − Just Us/Long Embrace
Basic Grey − Jovial/Nordic
4 heures 37 − 1658 Eiffel Avenue
Bazzill Basics − straw cardstock
Non-scrapbook item: a piece of wallpaper from our Red Cross thrift store
Almond and kraft cardstock also probably from Bazzill Basics
4 heures 37 − Chemin des 3 flocons
Bazzill Basics − kraft with gold foiled stars
Basic Grey − Mellow/Cultured
Basic Grey − Eva/Noble



And then the embellishments, Project Life supplies and alphabet:



Tiger aka Flying Tiger Copenhagen − cork and gold/white striped paper straws
Kaiser Scrapbook − Golden Rhinestones
8x8 Papers on top left and chipboard are of unknown brand.
PL journaling cards are from 4 heures 37, Sodalicious, and... can't remember the third one.
Chipboard alpha, unknown, cork alpha from American Crafts/Dear Lizzy, and the travel themed alpha from Papermania/All Aborad.

Some more close-ups:





I knew I wanted to join the Challenge 2 of the month in particular, where the theme is Outside the Stash: Incorporate some non-scrapbook stash into your project. I had so many possible items that they deserved to be an add-on kit of their own!



And then to my challenge project!



A Mini Album from Outside the Stash − made from toilet paper rolls!



This was a quick and simple project with memories and ideas from a craftivism workshop that I participated in last weekend. The good thing with a paper roll album is that the rolls automatically form pockets where it's easy to add hidden journaling, so I can do that later!

















Thank you so much for browsing through this super long post! To continue the blog hop, you should hop over to Jemma, the last person in the hop today! For the full hop list, check the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog here.

Thanks for looking! I'd love to see you comment to let me know you were here and happy hopping!

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!

Play with Words: Found Poetry ATCs

Hi! Here are some ATCs I made for a Found Poetry themed swap. Found poetry means small poems or poetic sentiments made of phrases and words that you cut from books, magazines or any printed text.

I really enjoyed making these cards - now I just need to get more books I can cut! Playing with words and sentences, I got to use a slightly different side of creativity than I do most of the time, when I process mainly visual things.



I do write scrapbook journaling and this blog, of course, but in those activities I don't often use words as creatively as I'd like to. Found poetry on the other hand - I really enjoyed how the bits and pieces of books sparked my imagination, and I was free to play with the words and could skip the coherent story part this time!



I started these cards around Halloween and though they are not exactly Halloween themed, there is a sort of eerie and quirky feeling that may have been inspired by the closeness of October the 31st...



I'm linking to the Three Muses Challenge where the week's theme was Freestyle. Have a nice week!

Skräppäyskursseja Espoossa!

Moikka! Skräppäyskursseja on viime syksyn tapaan taas tarjolla Espoon työväenopistossa. Kurssini ovat marraskuussa neljänä perättäisenä torstai-iltana opiston Olarin toimipisteessä, osoitteessa Kuunkehrä 2.




Illat jakautuvat kahteen kahden illan kurssiin, joista ensimmäisenä ohjelmassa on Tutustu skräppäykseen. Kurssi kokoontuu 6.11. ja 13.11. ja sopii nimensä mukaisesti etenkin aloittelijoille. Luvassa on silti toivon mukaan jotain uutta myös pidempään harrastaneille - etenkin mixed mediaan ja kierrätysmateriaalin käyttöön painottuen! Kurssille voi tulla aloittamaan uuden projektin tai jatkamaan entisiä, ja skräppäyksen lisäksi voi toki tulla tekemään kortteja tai muutakin, ja nauttimaan yhdessä askartelun iloista. (kurssitunnus E143252.)

Seuraavan kahden torstain aiheena on Skräppää minialbumi! Päivämäärät ovat siis 20.11. ja 27.11. ja kurssilla tehdään minialbumi suodatinpusseista - tätä oli tosi hauska tehdä! Lisää kuvia löytyy edellisestä postauksestani täältä.

Vielä minimpää haluavalle on vaihtoehtona wc-paperirullaan pohjautuva malli. Laitan siitäkin kuvia pikapuoliin!(kurssitunnus E143252.)

Kursseille ilmoittaudutaan suoraan työväenopistoon joko www.ilmonet.fi (laita hakusanaksi kurssitunnus!) tai puhelimitse 020 692 444. Kummankin hinta on 27 €. Tilaa on molemmilla kursseilla vielä reilusti, mutta varmimmin ilmoittaudut viimeistään kaksi viikkoa ennen kurssien alkua, jotteivät ne peruunnu liian vähäisen osallistujamäärän takia. Tiedot löytyvät kootusti myös täältä.

Tervetuloa!

Fall is in the Air

Hello, and happy October! Today I'd like to share an autumnal mini album with the fun shape from coffee filter bags. I got the idea from a book by Norwegian authors Catherine Rein Carlson & Turid Eide. I have not found an English translation but if you live in one of the Nordic countries, you might find it in your local library or bookstore! (original title: Idebok for scrapbooking. Minialbum og dekorering, Cappelen Damm 2008/Finnish translation Talleta tähtihetket, Tammi 2009).

My inspiration was the autumnal mood board challenge at Berry71Bleu and particularly the colour palette, which I like a lot, plus the flowers and leaves.

I also made it with my next month's workshop in mind. We'll be making mini albums either from coffee filters, like this one, or you can also choose the toilet roll model. The two evening class will be in my home town Espoo, Finland, on November 20th and 27th, so I'll make a separate post with more info in Finnish!



The photos are from an autumnal day trip to the national park of Nuuksio that we are lucky to have within the borders of my home town, the second largest city of Finland. I have a cousin with whose family we've made a tradition of doing a day trip & hike to a nature destination at least once a year, often in the fall season. It's so much fun for kids and grow-ups alike. This one was in 2012 and we had a lovely weather, though not yet the brightest foliage.



The outlines of the tree are stamped with Distress Inks and a mask from the Glimmer Screens series: Vintage Seasons, Halloween. I added the hand drawn doodles and stamped the leaves with one of my favourite stamps from 3rd Eye.









What is your favourite way to enjoy an autumn weekend? I hope you're spending a nice one right now!

Fiskarettes DT: Altered Notebook - Tuunattu muistikirja

Here in Finland, the school year is getting very near the end, and if you have children, you might want to make a little gift to the teacher. As for me, I think there can never be too many simple gift ideas, nor too many pretty notebooks! So I thought of this altered notebook for my DT post at Fiskarettes this week.



Moi! Koulujen loppu lähenee, ja keksin tehdä tällaisen tuunatun muistikirjan miettiessäni jotain pientä muistamista opettajalle tai päiväkotiin. Yhtä lailla lahja passaa ystävälle näin kesän korvalla, vaikkapa lomamatkalle mukaan otettavaksi. Katso Fiskarettes-sivuston DT-työni ohjeet täältä!