Using Predefined Colors

Here's a layout I made using the colors given in Scrap Camp pre-class assignment. This is about my dogs and how they have to wait for us to come home, get fed and taken out for a walk. It is heart-breaking to leave them every morning when going to work!

Tein tämän sivun Scrap Camp -kurssin ennakkotehtävänä. Siinä piti skräpätä käyttäen annettuja värejä. Värit oli valittu alla olevasta kuvasta ja annettu väriruutuina.

Here's the given predefined color palette, inspired by the picture.

I have to mention that as I love animals, I love Basic Grey's new line Max & Whiskers. Finally something really appropriate for the layouts about animals. Love, love love it!

Eläinrakkaiden skräppialbumeihin sopii hyvin Basic Greyn uusi Max & Whiskers. Suomessa sitä saa ainakin Paperikierteestä. Aivan ihana minusta! Naiivi, mutta en mahda mitään, että vetoaa minuun ja sopii niin hyvin eläinaiheisiin sivuihin (joita minulla on lukuisia ja joita tulee vielä lukuisia).

Using Cake Paper and Two Languages

As I have both english and finnish speaking readers I have decided to change this blog bilingual. My aim is not to translate every word but include both english and finnish in every post now on. Feel free to leave comment in either of the two languages.


Koska blogillani on myös suomenkielisiä lukijoita, kirjoitan vastedes osan merkinnöistäni suomeksi. En käännä sanasta sanaan, vaan kirjoittelen vapaasti. Kommentoida voi molemmilla kielillä.
Here's a layout which I made for this week's Inspiroidu scrapbooking challenge. The challenge was to use any stuff found in kitchen. I immediately knew I had to use this cake paper as I had just read instructions from May Flaum how to use die cut circles for a page. She advised to cut them in two pieces and use the other one for the photo and the other for the journaling. This page is about my african violets!


Osallistun tämän viikon Inspiroidu-haasteeseen tällä sivulla, jossa esittelen saint paulia -innostustani. Sain idean käyttää kakkupapereita May Flaumin ohjeesta, jossa hän neuvoi halkaisemaan ympyrän muotoisen skräppipaperin ja sijoittamaan tekstin toiseen ja kuvan toiseen puoliskoon.


Speaking of May Flaum I will be attending her scrapbooking class called Scrap Camp at Big Picture Scrapbooking. I have very high expectations as I was so pleased with my previous class, Textuality by Amy Sorensen.


Olen ilmoittautunut May Flaumin pitämälle verkkokurssille, jonka nimi on Scrap Camp. Sen järjestää Big Picture Scrapbooking ja odotukset on aika korkealla. Osallistuin keväällä Amy Sorensenin Textuality -kurssille ja se oli aivan huippu. Voin melkein lajitella tekemäni sivut kurssia ennen tehtyihin ja kurssin jälkeisiin.

My First Teddy Bear

I am taking part of this week's Inspiroidu scrapbooking challenge with a layout made today. The theme of the challenge is toys and it immediately brought my old teddy bear to my mind. I found an old photo of me holding him and asked my husband to take a photo of us today. We have both got older but our spirit has stayed the same! The hanging teddy bear is to remind me of the evening when I had eaten too much berries and accidentally vomited on him. My mother put him to the washing machine and hanged him outside to dry.

Welcome Summer, Welcome New Products and Gardening!

First, I want to thank you all for so many wonderful messages I have received in May. It means a lot to me that there are people in the world who share the colorful world of Kukkilintu. In the picture you can see few of my latest folk bags and also a couple of my mixed media art work. I will have few greeting cards printed from these in the summer and they will be available for purchase at Kukkilintu store.

I had some stomach aches in May and was examined carefully. Luckily they were just untypical symptoms of appendicitis and I was operated. Before I knew the relieving results (yes, going to a surgery can be relieving!), I only had one regret in life: not putting enough effort on gardening. So I had to make this cabbage themed folk bag for all the gardeners!

I also have finished the folk bag I told you in my last post. It was the one inspired by the finnish textile artist Sirkka Könönen. That was a very special project for me and I will tell more about it in my next blog post in the coming weeks.

Painting Backgrounds

Today is a public holliday in Finland and I have tried to make most of it already. I have been painting backgrounds for my doodling. I put them all together here in one photo. The colors look great I think.

Here is a couple of finished doodling made recently.

Doodling at Creative Doodles

I am attending Traci Bautista's online course called Creative Doodles. The picture shows my first weeks exercises. This course is so much fun! Filled with videos and colorful ground material for the exercises.

I have been a big fan of Traci since her book "Collage Unleashed" was published. Her style is something I can really relate to. The book is one of the most inspirational books I have ever seen. If you haven't got it yet, I really recommend it!

Text, Photos and Scrapping

A scrapbook page "April in Pictures".

In April I participated Picture Spring course organized by Big Picture Scrapbooking. I think it was more about stretching the creativity by completing the assignments than really learning about photography. I do not recommend this kind of course for someone who does not know much about how to adjust the camera as the course was merely a daily challenge than anything educational. Luckily I was familiar with all the basic settings of my SLR camera so that was not a big problem for me. And, I got few really nice photos during April and I am pretty pleased with the result. I really put a lot of effort for taking photos and shoot thousands of photos (really!) during April. My daily picks can be found in my Flickr folder.

Now I am taking part of another course, Textuality. It focuses on writing and is just wonderful. Very educational and full of instructions and examples. Here's one of the exercises I have completed, it's about our kitchen and it is filled with text! The photo has been taken in April - I have so much photos now to use on the layouts!

A scrapbook page "Our Kitchen and How We Would Change It"

I especially like the colors of this layout.

I am taking part of this week's Inspiroidu challenge with these two layouts as I also made them to match this week's theme: using a big alpahabet in the beginning of the title.

A scrapbook page "Why I Love Peonies".

Above is the first layout I made for Textuality - and a bit of the mess I make when I scrap! I have always enjoyed writing but have not really realized the opportunities to use a lot of journaling for scrapping. I intend to improve my layouts not only by taking better photos but also by adding more text and meaning for them.