Do What You Love. Using those gorgeous Authentique Papers again!

A couple of months ago I bought three different whole collections from"Authentique Paper".

 The one I have used the most Is called "Uncommon" and has the most feminine colours and patterns. That is the one I used for this layout.I really had so much fun doing this one.

I made it nearly two months ago and had almost forgotten about it.

That photo of Beatrice is so cute (Fotograf Gisela Ackerup took it, she's on FB)

What I love most here is the, for me, unusual shape and outlay. Mostly my layouts are pretty square in form and I normally just leave a little white space. 

So for me this one is a bit different.

To make the 'cornucopia-shape' I first fussy cut  a whole lot of those beautiful red pink and grey roses they have. I placed my photo in the right spot and started dding the roses from there. 

When I was content with the look I proceeded adding my dimensional roses on top.

I picked a beautiful flourish from Imaginarium Designs to 'frame' my photo. I cut in two after covering it with white paste.At the bottom of this post I will show you what it looks like bare.

 I have a doily as a photo mat and the doily in the upper corner is cut from one of the AP papers that has a doily pattern. I used my trusted Cheery Lynn die to cut that one.

The black letter stickers are fabric stickers by Prima Marketing. I really love that they are so textural.

 

I distressed all the edges of my textprint patterned base.

I cut a frame about 1,5 cm wide and sewed it on, after first securing it will a couple of drops of glue.

As it is not completely stuck down it can easily be torn and lifted in the way you want to leave you with a beautifully distressed border.

Here is a picture of my beautiful ID flourish:

And HERE is the link to it.

I have just started using my blue collection of Authentique Paper. 

 I almost never use blue so this should be fun,...lol!

                                                                   Watch this space.....

Yesterday I received my large box of goodies from Stop and Scrap and I am in scrap heaven!!

Don't forget you get a slightly larger discount (12%) using the S and S code in my sidebar compared to most of the newsletters they send out. Just write 'paperglue' in the right spot.

That was all for today.

Tomorrow I am off with my girls to a scrap fair about an hour from here by car. 

I feel like a kid in a candy store!

Keep safe!

Les papiers de Pandore "En Attendent" It is early spring I believe!!

 Today we have had lovely sunny weather. It is still too cold though,for the cat to want to be outside. We are laughing a little at her, because the whole winter she has refused to go outside. In warmer conditions we cannot keep her inside,...

Well actually I have been feeling a bit reluctant to go outside myself....

We have had so many storms, gales and rain, rain, rain lately that the rays of sun we got today felt like a true gift!! 

It was so nice to be reminded that we actually do get sun up here in beautiful Scandinavia,too....

We just have to wait for it...But the wonderful Summer, shiort as it is ,..is SO worth waiting for!

 Today I was standing at my scrapdesk in the sun and this time I reached for the beautiful winter collection from Julie Blanc.

It is called "En Attendent" and is a real gem.

In a couple of weeks I am hoping to share the new magic that Julie has created for her company "Les Papiers de Pandore". I have seen the designs for the new collection on our DT forum and it is AMAZING!!

I can't wait to start creating with it!!

This is what I made today:

 I had some cute photos on my desk that I printed out a while ago and wanted to scrap. 

These were just the right papers to get the job done. 

Recently I bought a new mask that I wanted to try. 

I added light turquoise 'bricks' in the background with the mask.

I outlined the top of each brick in pencil and then added a little bit of dimentional snow paint to the 'bricks'

I cut a frame from one of the papers and distressed it. I sewed it to my background adding a strip of gray paper from top to bottom.

I fussy cut a lot of snowflakes from pp and decided where they should go. I embellished them with some glitter and liquid pearls.

To make my photo stand out more I added a narrow mat the same colour grey that I used in the strip.

I also cut out a red round piece of pp and fastened both together. 

I used my sewing machine again to make sure all the layers were securely fastened to the base.

Then I picked out some awesome  chipboard from Imaginarium Designs that I really love.

I used the small alphabet (HERE) and half of a swirl (HERE). I painted them with the same dimentional snow paint I used for the bricks. I find it adds such a lot of texture.

 I used a fussy cut journaling spot together with the chipboard for my title. The tiny letter stickers are from "Making Memories".

I picked a Prima flower and some more flowers and leaves from my stash as extra embellishments.

I used some pink Tattered Angels glimmer mist to colour the small pink bloom in this picture.

Lastly I have one more photo of the whole layout to share. 

I have been waiting so long for a little light and in this photo, although not the best of shots admittedly, you can really see that the light is back! Hurray! 

I like the way the sun casts shadows on my page.

Take care my sweet bloggy friends, Come back soon!

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Beautiful new sketch up at OUAS!!

We have already reached the middle of December and Christmas is quickly approaching.

This year I am not in charge of the preparations so I can allow myself to feel more

relaxed about it. 

I still have quite a few gifts to find but hopefully today will be my last day of work

before the holidays ,..so I will get there...

On December 15 the lovely Nadia presented us with a new sketch, and it is a beauty.

I hope you will all visit the OUAS blog to read all the fine print, but apart from following the sketch 

you are encouraged to write about what you do on December 25, even if you do not celebrate Christmas.

This is the sketch:

And this is my take on it:

I used the beautiful collection "En Attendent" from "Les Papiers de Pandore".

Don't you just love the soft icy wintery colours?

I know some of you'll have difficulties finding these papers where you live,

and that means there's more reason to enter the OUAS challenge this time as you can win,

...not one ,but TWO gorgeous collections from Julie Blanc.

I even used some gorgeous chipboard pieces from Imaginarium Designs.

Here is the links to the flourish I used :

http://www.seriouslyscrapbooking.net.au/products/embellishments/chipboard/florish-1-3-per-board-

I glittered the pieces and I divided  the flourish in two pieces and used one half on each side of my photo.I could not find the link to my other chipboard piece but it is also from imaginarium,.

Good Luck to all who decide to take part!!

Bye for now!

"Snow much fun" "Les Papiers de Pandore" "En Attendent"

Tonight I have another page to share that I made using the new "Les Papiers de Pandore".

I like the slightly untraditional Christmas/Winter colours alot!

I used the different elements from the cut out sheet as decorations and added some glitter to enhance the wintery feel. The long strips are the pieces at the bottom that you would normally throw away, but here you cut them off to save them as they are the perfect colour accent.

I cut some circles and layered them. Around the outline I fastened a length of pretty white lace.

Again I used my new "Shape Boss" to help with the pleating to make the rosettes.

I layered the photo mat on top of the gauze to mimic snow. On both sides I stuck a journallingspot underneath the mat.

The gorgeous chipboard letters I love to use are from Imaginarium Designs. They are an Australian manufacturer with some awesome products. I used white acrylic paint to give a touch of Winter to the letters.Here and there , like on the small snowflakes I added some pearl dots.

You can find the alphas HERE

Here are some more close ups for you.......

The photos were taken last February when the whole family went to Norway, where I am originally from,

It was Beatrice's first time skiing. At first she was very excited, but then despaired when she disciovered it was hard. But when time came to call it a day she did not want to go home...The youngest learn very fast!

It's almost Friday,folks......I hope you'll have a lovely weekend.

Thanks for dropping by!

Your Scrapbook Stash at OUAS. Second sketch

In my previous post I promised another totally different take on the latest sketch at Once Upon A...Sketch.

This one I did for the YSS blog.

To see the sketch and all the DT and guest DT samples please visit the OUAS blog HERE.

Also look for a for a link to the WINNERS OF THE STASH CASH at YSS at the end of this post!

I have loved the "Pink Paislee" "Sweetness" collection for the longest time, yet this is the first layout I make using those lovely papers.

I turned the sketch on its side to accomodate my picture and  embellishments.

The beautiful golden lace as well as all the pp are from Your Scrapbook Stash. The yellow stickers are  by Pink Paislee and the green letter stickers that are real favourites of mine are October Afternoon.

"Sweetness" is 25% off right now (may be running low) and using the code MAY15 will earn you an additional 15 % off your whole order!! Great isn't it...?

To mimic the circles on the sketch I drew some circles of my own, and did some sewing by hand.

That's a rare thing , but ...hey,.. what will I not do for scrapbooking...? 

The cute picture was taken last weekend when we all went to Denmark (except Victoria who was a contestant at Lund in the Swedish finals for the European Youth Parliament....................).
The girls' 14 year old cousin Nicolay, was having his confirmation and we were invited. All went well and Nicolay passed with flying colours.
Some of you may recognize this little man from pics taken at a gathering here for the Swedish tradition of St Lucia in December. He has grown since we last saw him and he will be one in not too long.
Beatrice was proud to be found old enough to be in charge of Silas. He is really a goodtempered boy but at this moment he was getting a bit tired after a long day and not much of a nap.... Who wouldn't be grumpy...?

I just love babies, and with no chance of any more own babies around here it was such a treat to have one to play with. Especially one as sweet as this little boy!


























I covered another one of my chipboard pages from 'the same old album' and inked the edges with pink. I used a pencil for some faux stitching and used pop dots to add it to the page.
The OUAS journaling requirement this week is for it to be typed. I stuck the strips on and below the title, more or less in the fashion of the sketch. Journaling is just saying that it is the second time they meet and that Beatrice utterly enjoyed taking care of her baby cousin.
She is also happy that she will have another little cousin, a girl, at the end of August.
That is so great!


























I added a pretty mulberry flower and a couple of Prima leaves to balance all the pretty roses from the pp.
The strips were made using an EK Success punch.


























I decided to go with black/white for the photograph on this because the colours are very bright and sunny.  I did not want the colours to overwhelm the picture.


























A couple of more close ups. This layout was so fun to photograph....lol!




















































Finally a close up of the gorgeous chipboard corner ornament from Imaginarium Designs.
I have previously told you about Jane at Seriously Scrapbooking sponsoring the OUAS Design Team.
We are so lucky!!

Erica has chosen some random winners for the STASH CASH and you can see the details in her post

 HERE

Thank you so much for your visit. So happy to see you here!!
Take care!