New "Les Papiers de Pandore" layout and a beautiful gift!!

Hello again my sweet blog friends!

Today I have a new layout to share with you that I did this week-end for Les Papiers de Pandore.

Some of you may remember that I am guest designing for them January - March. I feel very fortunate to get to use the beautiful collection called *Garden Party*.

The owner of LPdP is Julie Blanc. To those of you familiar with her style I can say  that the collection is every bit as chic and stylish as her scrapbook pages!

And I also have something else to share. At the end of February was my birthday. A very special and lovely lady sent me a beautiful  gift of something she created especially for me. This lady is Eila Sandberg. We have become good friends chatting on a couple of challenge sites and she is a very sweet friend to many of you I think!

The gorgeous card she sent me is at the end of this post. Make sure you don't miss it!

This is my layout with *Garden Party*.
The background is built up by using differently punched strips of paper and pretty lengths of lace.
Mostly covered up I grant you ,but still.....

And here are some close ups of the different hand made flower clusters.

I used a little stickles and paint. The buttons are a must!
The butterflies are made with a Martha Stewart punch.



























The petals are cut from the backing of a packet of Prima flowers. I love the look of the little border made from the rose ribbon.
The hand made flowers are the same kind I used on the Echo Park layout in the previous post. I love them because they are so easy to make.

Finally a shot in an effort to let you see that the layout is not at all flat. it is all bumpy just the way I like it!
My layouts DO take up a lot of space in the albums though, which can be a problem.....

And now to the piece de resistance.....VOILA....
Look at this gorgeous card that E¤ila sent me. You can imagine I was PRETTY happy!
I was happy because it was so lovely but also because she had made the time and effort.

Thank You so much my friend!!

A couple of close ups so you can really enjoy the beauty of it.

That's it for today folks. This is THE END of a very long post. I hope you are still with me....

Thanks for looking!