'Hello Summer' for Les Papiers de Pandore.

Hello there, I hope your week is off to a good start!

It feels really great to be here sharing a page with you again. 

For a few years now I have been part of the designteam at Les Papiers de Pandore and they always manage to create the most gorgeous collections. One of the fun things about this latest one  (apart from it being gorgeous of course :-D...) is that it is called Scandinavia. Many of you will know that

 I live in Sweden , ie one of the Scandinavian countries. I love the names of the different papers. 

They are called Stockholm, Göteborg, Uppsala,.....and there is even one with 'my town' Malmö. 

Isn't that great!!!?

I picked a few  matching sheets and got to work. I prepared my background with gesso, mists and paints.That is always such fun and decides a whole lot the direction of the page. I cut into some of the papers and layered my design pretty central on my page. The doilies were also fussy cut from one of the sheets. Isn't that bird cute? I cut that one from one of the 15x15 papers in the collection.

In this shot you can see how I covered part of the painted chipboard from Blue Fern Studios with gold microbeads. That is a favourite trend at the moment. Love the micas and the beads a lot!!!   

I am also a big fan of the Simple Stories Photo Stickers I used next to my photo. Fun!!

I love the little cursive words that I cut using the Sizzix Thinlits dies by Tim Holtz. It is called Friendship Words, Script. You can find it HERE. 

The  flowers are from I am Roses and of course Prima Marketing as are the leaves. I added a little washi tape here and there . I love to buy washi but I dont seem to be using a whole lot,....

Finally a closer look at some of the detail I hope you like it!

In any case that's all for today. 

I will be back soon with some more Pandore goodness, and other stuff :-)

A 'grungy' page and a reminder of the Blue Fern August challenge.

Hi there, finally the week end and some free time! Woo hoo!
I have been neglecting this poor old blog lately and I should probably have posted this last week, but here it is!! Better late than never ;-)

I used the Montage collection for my second project. I love all the lovely yellow papers in that collection:-)

And here are some close ups of the details.

I used one of the Memory Frames as my title and hid it partially behind my photo.

Making banner-pieces or mats behind the photos are such great ways to use up those left over pieces from your favourite patterned papers.

The arrows are from the Directions set and simply painted black.The swirly flowers were made using the starter set of the Big Shot Plus. 
I cannot say enough how much I LOVE the new larger platform that allows me to cut and even emboss up to the size A4 or lettersize.

And then over to the new challenge at Blue Fern Studios.

There are  just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or 

flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs! 

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on August 31, 2015

To link up or to find  more info you should check out the  Blue Fern Studios blog HERE.

Thanks for looking!!

A summery page for Les Papiers de Pandore.

A while back I told you bout the new collections from Les Papiers de Pandore and I also showed 

you a little sneak peek of my page,... Well here is the finished page using the beautiful 'Sunny Bay' and 'Coctail' collections. I love the beautiful design of the papers and also each collection comes with a cute flair buttons that match perfectly. This is Summer to me!!

And here are a few pictures to give you a closer look :-)

The long title is a Silhouette cut file by the way :-)

I used my beloved Sizzix Big Shot Plus (see it HERE , -and HERE you can see the entire starter kit which is great value for money!!) to cut out the title using the Block Talk Alphabet.  I found one of my older glossy cardstock papers from a few years back and really like the way it turned out.

The badge in the picture below is one of the two that I received with the new collections.

The collections also come with some amazing stamps and this is just one of them!

I hope you liked my page today.I must say it feels great to be back making creations for 

Les papiers de Pandore again!! 

Thanks for looking!!

<3

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