2010 I started with papercrafting. It was an unusually hot summer. One of my closest friends wanted to make cards, so we took some papercrafting classes that very summer.

I was mostly drawn to make notebooks. But it was fun to make cards too. Then, just in the autumn, the same year, I bought a Swedish magazine called “Scrapbooking m.m.” and it had an interview with Finnabair. I’m not sure anything has been the same, ever since. I just can’t get tired of her, of her art, of her classes. Of her heavy body glue.

Anyhow. I missed “Imagination” class! The first time she came to Stockholm, I got to know about it too late. Just the very same weekend I got to know that she’d be teaching “Imagine”. I missed it with such a small margine… just a couple of hours… I could almost have been able to be there in time! (Hmm, but at that time it was sold out as well, of course.)

The second time she was in Stockholm, I attended to all her classes. Since then I’ve been to her classes many times, in Lund and Sjöbo (Sweden) as well. But for years, I still wanted to take the Imagine class. I finally did. Because it’s now online:

Imagine class (online)

This is how my canvas turned out. I made some of the acorns from a home made mould, the same used for sugarpaste and marzipan. I use paper clay instead.

When you use this much embellishments, paper clay is the trick. It’s not heavy. It’s not expensive. You can use a ton of it without it breaking your economy! If you mix it with chipboard, resin, grungeboard, lace, metal trinkets and even my grandma Elsa’s old worn kitchen towels (they had holes in them but I refused to throw them away – Come on, they had been my grandma Elsa’s!) my canvas transformed to a true Imagine canvas.

At last!