Color Combos #226, and some good news...

Hi and welcome to have a look at the new challenge over at CCG.

This week is cards week, or actually you can create a tag or an off page project too, if you prefer.

 I am sure you agree the colours are yummy for a spring card.

Take a look at the bright and lovely inspiration board and it will tell you all about this challenge.

I'd like to share with you the card I made for this one:

 The patterned paper in the yellow/green colour is from a ledger pad by Prima and the sentiment is from The Scrapcake.

Not much more to say about this card. It is pretty straight forward... :-)

Now to my good news!

Some days ago I sent in my application to be part of the My Scrapbook Nook DT.

I had been thinking about it, but I am no good at getting applications or submissions sent and this being late in the evening on the due date, it did not look hopeful :-)

 What made me do it was something I read . I think it was on the message board.

. Someone said "You never know what Leah is looking for...."

So I decided to give it a go. Maybe she is looking for me... :-D

Yesterday I found out I was on the shortlist....Which still is rather too long for my liking...LOL!

There are a lot of talented ladies with lovely styles who are very qualified for the team, so I am not taking anything for granted. If you know me you will know I am rather the opposite ...LOL!

Anyway it is cool to have made it this far and I will keep my fingers crossed and see what happens!

I am off to pick up my girls from the bus. They went to the cinema and left me in the house to scrap!

I hope your week end is a good one and that maybe you get to do some scrapping too.

Hugs!

Color Combos Galore # 224, a Happy Birthday tag.

Time again for a new color challenge at CCG!

This is the second week working with this beautiful combo on the inspiration board. 

Unfortunately I was not able to take part in the previous one and I really missed it!

This week you can make tags, cards, mini albums and/or altered projects.

I made a largeish birthday card-tag that I plan hang on a present and make it double as a gift tag. 

As I am sure you can tell it is actually fairly straight forward.

The designer challenge calls for use of some metal element on your project

For my metal I used a small heart charm tied on with yellow twine.
I used kraft coloured corrugated cardstock as a base to mimic the texture on the cupcake liner.

The light blue paper and the yellow twine was bought from local manufacturer Panduro Hobby.

The corrugated cardstock is from the dollar store.

The yellow roses are a non-brand type that I bought from a shop on the internet.

 At first I was thinking this would be a bookmark for one of my girls. But then I ended up with those bulky yellow roses that would not fit very well between a couple of bookpages,...lol!

I hope you will try this combo and mabybe make some sweet spring cards yourselves.

It is great to stock up on them for when you need one but don't have the time to pull out all those supplies. I am off to  make a few more myself now for all those birthdays coming up.

Thanks for dropping by.

Color Combos # 220, A card for one of my beautiful sisters.

Hi friends!

I am posting this quickly as I am off on a business trip to Milan for a few days to buy a new product line for our company.

 I am so going to enjoy  Spring on the Piazza del Duomo sipping some great Italian coffe with some delicious gateau in the bright sunlight. The wonderful marble cathedral right in the middle of the piazza is just unreal, and to the right lies the playground of the rich and famous, The Galleria of Vittorio Emanuele II. Oh well, looking never hurt anyone,... LOL!

We are hopefully getting a behind the scenes tour of Teatro Alla Scala as well (if they have opened those for the year. Maybe they won't until April).

And of course there will be a lot of hard work as always, but at least this time we have taken the extra day...

   This week we would love to see some cards from you posted to Mr. Linky at Color Combos Galore!

The designers challenge is to use a fun or festive sentiment.

 As I was going to make a card for one of my sisters I chose a sweet quote that was suitable for that.

My sister is really the best sister you could ever have and I love her to bits!! 

I hope she will like my card!

Her birthday is in a couple of weeks time and I will send it to her.

I know she is a follower of my blog so I guess it will be no secret to her....LOL!

 I took some extra inspiration from the pink little clutch bag deciding on the shape and form of my card. I started out with a piece of cardstock that I embellished with a borderpunch. I cut out a piece of patterned paper to stick to the inside and added my quote, my message and my embellishments.

I wanted the flowers to show even when the card was closed.

I used some twine to keep my 'envelope' shut.

This is what the finished card looks like.

A final close up of the twine closure that ends in a small rosette. So very simple!

Now I am off to get some winks before getting  up very bright and early, to go across the bridge to Denmark,where we will catch the plane for Italy.

I'll catch up with you on my return! Be safe until then!!

Color Combos # 221 "Longing for Spring"

Hi all!

I am having a hard time catching up here. 

Yesterday Janet posted the new colours on the CCG blog, (now on Blogger btw).

You may wonder; 'already..?',  but we have some catching up to do and I  hope you'll have a chance to do one or two of the recent challenges.
 There is still time. You can find them HERE

This is the beautiful inspiration board that Janet designed for us:

And this is the page I made about us looking forward to Spring after this long grey Winter.

Because we had some catching up to do I did not have much time for my page and made a few 'bloopers'.I wanted to paint my wooden letters from Pink Paislee in green. I found a pot of beautiful perfect green colour and did the job. As I was in a hurry I glued down my letters before they were dry.

I shouldn't have...!

I looked at my page a couple of minutes later and the letters were screaming at me,:
"we are the wrong colour!!!"

Lesson learnt: Paint will change it's colour after it is dry. I knew that!!

Ok, so what to do...?

I grabbed my white ink pad and used it all over the letters. It took down the very green colour but it still isn't the green I needed. Oh well, it will have to do.
 I learned to wait for the paint to dry, but really,
 Who likes to stand around watching paint dry,...LOL?

 For wooden elements I used the wooden sticks that are really for stirring your coffe, and the cat shape I bought from a Polish online store. And of course the 'Woodshop' wooden letters from Pink Paislee.

We are all looking forward to Spring. Our little kitty has refused to go outside all Winter even though she was outdoors all Summer and Autumn. She thinks it's too cold and grey.

 

 I love the latest dies I bought from Spellbinders.They are so so pretty!

 And the doily ones are my trusted friends from Cheery Lynn.

Most of the papers I used here are from Les Papiers de Pandore. And I have used a mix of three different  collections.

I am off to work now and I wish you all a wonderful day!

CCG #219 "Kitty Love" "Authentique" "Uncommon"

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Finally it's time again for a new colourful combination from Color Combos Galore.
Due to Janet suffering some very sad family events we have had a couple of weeks delay in posting the challenges, BUT NOW WE ARE BACK!! So sorry for your loss Janet!

We have some new colours for you this week as it is layouts/altered item/mini album week.

The news around CCG since we moved to Blogger is that we work with the same colours for two weeks, but have different design prompts, and week two is cards week. 

This is the layout I created with the new colours.

And this is the inspiration board that you will need to take a closer look at :

I used one of my favourite collections lately called "Uncommon", which was made by "Authentique Paper". I also used some embossed white paper for my background and that green paper making up  a frame is from "Echo Park" "Victoria Gardens"

I made a few lollipop flowers as this was the designers challenge this time. They are so easy to make, but I did not have a ny material in the right shades so I took the easy way out and made mine white.
At least you can say it goes with everything!

       I used an older premade die cut title from MME as it was the perfect colour match for the pink.

I just added the word kitty in some "Doodlebug" stickers

The journalling is just a few words about Beatrice still keeping interest in her little pet after more than a year. I did not expect anything less but, hey,..it's still good news!! 

We all have a soft spot for that little furball!

Take care 'til next time!

Lovely Valentines inspiration at Color Combos Galore #217. "Authentique" Uncommon

Valentines Day is quickly approaching and maybe you want to make a sweet project for a special someone...
At Color Combos Galore this week we have the perfect combo for you to apply to such a project. Check this out:

Pretty isn't it?

For the designers  challenge I decided to focus on my gorgeous first born who is now away in the UK at university. Of course we miss her lots and worry about her, but with all the wonderful qualities she has I trust she will be fine. In March she is coming home for a break again, and we can't wait. 

Actually, I hope we will be able to go and visit her before then...

I used the Collection "Uncommon" by "Authentique" and had a lot of fun cutting out all the roses from one of the patterned papers. They are so feminine and I just love the pretty colours!

The large photo corners that  have painted with dimentional paint are by Imaginarium Designs and they have a similar one that  looks like this before it's  painted.

I also have some close ups to share:

 From the challenge board I was inspired to use a heart punch for my border and also to look for letter stickers that were similar to those in the photograph. I punched a border on the white Bazzil paper to mimic the wavy plate in the picture,too.

I hope I have inspired you to try this challenge.
Thanks for dropping by!!

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Color Combos Galore # 216. "Pour some sugar on me".

Blogger is playing tricks, but if you press the title of the post you will see it. Sorry

Color Combo Challenge #216

Hello everyone! We are back for CARDS and TAGS Week. That means for this challenge you are creating those projects only. Our Layouts, Mini-Albums and Off-the-age Challenge for these colors can be found here in Color Combos Galore Challenge #215. 

The deadline for BOTH Challenges is January 30, 11:59pm USA/EST.

ETA: Please note that due to the delay in this week's post, 

Challenge #216 has been extended by two days to January 30.

This week's theme is sweets! January 23 is National Pie Day and International Creativity Month, so we are celebrating with the following Challenge. Check out all the details in our new Inspiration Board! Have fun with it this week! 

This is  the beautiful inspiration board that Janet compiled for us this week.

I made a shaped card for this challenge. i had a hard time finding the right supplies in my stash, 

and ended up using some mist and paint to try and arrive at the right colours.

i am not so used to mists yet as I am recently starting to play with them. I got a bit too much of the yellow mist on my one flower, but that will have to do.

I used mostly Prima on this card. 

I cut out a template for the card in ordinary printerpaper and then just cut off a liitle bit around the margine to make the next smaller shape for the light blue paper.

Have a great day, and don't forget there is an extended due date on this one.

Hope to see some of you play along!!

Color Combos Galore is back !!

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!!

I am sure many of you wondered what happened to Color Combos Galore when it just disappeared over night!...You may even have missed us...

Well, I have some good news for you, magically, almost overnight again; we are back!

I know many of you have found other favourite places to be during our absence but I hope that you will come back and check out the beautiful challenge that Janet has prepared for us.

For this festive combination of colours I created a boxed album. Or rather I decorated  a silver box that I will use to house a small tag album with my scrap resolutions for this coming year.

This is my box;

 I used some paper from my stash that is so old I don't even know who made it, but the series was called Domestic queen it seems,..

I covered the lid with the pp  and cut a strip to cover almost the height of the side of the box. 

I wanted some of the original colour to show. I added a Maya Road rose trim to cover some of the dents I made in the paper.

 That gorgeous butterfly  that I painted white with my dabber is one of the exquisite pieces that Imaginarium Designs produce. I am absolutely in love with their chipboard!!

You can find the butterfly HERE

I added a doily, some flowers (Petaloo and stash ) and voila the finished box. I wrote 'Scrap Resolutions'  in 'CosmoCricket' tiny letters.

Now I have to go off and think a little more about what are my scrap resolutions are. I do know that I want to start submitting regularly both to magazines and design teams, 

I have just been a bit lazy so far!!

Thanks for your visit. 

I hope you will visit Color Combos Galore to see what changes Janet has made and as always  to read the fine print.

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My Good Girl

Hello all, are you ready for some champagne and a clean slate,...?

Not long now until we sing Auld Land Syne and toast our near and dear ones.

We are three  families who have been enjoying eachothers company on New Years Eve for many years now. Most of our children are old enough to want to celebrate with their own group of friends and only the youngest ones remain with us the entire evening.

We alternate preparing a beautiful meal with everything and then we talk and laugh until midnight when we all go outside to look at the special fireworks that are normally fantastic.And we also spend some time talking to our neighbours as they are also out and about.

But before that I have one last layout to share. It is another one that I made some weeks back, actually for a combo at CCG that was not revealed.

The shape is round even though the iron bench underneath almost looks like part of the lo.

I used some bits and bob I had on my scrap table at the time. The flowered paper is from Prima and the gingham is October Afternoon.

The red branch with leaves on is part of a larger one by Prima. 

This piece was left over from an earlier layout.

The gingham ribbon was in my stash and also the textile chipboard letters from Prima Marketing.

To make the the frilly edge of  the outline I used my favourite Martha Stewart lace border punch to punch several strips that I then pleated at random. Of course the pleats will look a lot neater if you use a ruler to measure exactly, but I don't do that!

I used a pearlmaker to get the tiny pears along the green edge.The tiny letter stickers here are by Glitz

The title refers to the fact that Beatrice is always such a good girl. we are curious to see what happens in a couple of years. Will she still have her sweet disposition?

Ok friends, Thanks to all who made it this far and I will wish you 

a HAPPY NEW YEAR

and much love

in case I don't post again this side of New Years Eve.

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An earthy combo at Color Combos Galore using Hambly and woodgrain.

I can't believe it has been almost a week since my last post,...Where did time go?

This week at CCG the colours are tones of brown and tan with a burst of amber orange. The colours  look very lovely together but I will admit that I had great difficulty going through my extensive stash looking for anything that would match the combo. I pulled out everything that would work and just added it all to my page.
Rummaging through my stash I found I have little brown and little or no orange. I realized I am more of a pink, green, teal,and cream girl.
But this is how my page turned out anyway;

The designer challenge said use  for example woodgrain and lined paper which I did. I used a piece of transparency by Hambly tht had a woodgrain pattern. I bought two but have still been hoarding them. They are so pretty. For the middle photo mat I used a paper from DCWV that has the pattern of a tree trunk.My journaling was written on some graph/lined paper from Prima arketing.
I had to use a lot of editing on this and the contrast I applied made my page look a little lighter than in real life.

And this is the Inspiration Board for this week;

And then the customary close ups;

The chipboard butterflies and the large branch are by House of Three, Parisian Anthology. The same goes for the piece underneath my title.I added some half glass beads to the tips of the branches.

The little bird house was cut from a piece of the Hambly woodgrain transparency and I made a small roof for it as well as added a tiny button.In the background underneath my photo mat I have use cheese cloth or muslin that I dyed with strong coffee to get the right tone of light brown. At least my lo smells good!

I put a lot of my embellishments down the side layered on top of the transparency. The round spots are made with a Spellbinders die.

I love to use a sepia or black/white photo with these kinds of colours. It can be difficult to find a suitable photo otherwise. I used Webster's Pages letter stickers for my title.

The photo was taken in Provence this Summer when Beatrice and I went for a walk and we had our own little photo shoot. We took a lot of nice photos and had a lot of fun until my memory card was completely full and it was time to walk home for a new one.

I hope you enjoyed looking at what I have been up to.

And a report on my computer,... As Monty Python would say IT IS NO MORE, it is completely deceased like the dead parrot.My two beautiful memory drives that were for all my photos had been ruined by lightning. When the nice computer repair man tried to replace them with a new one that one broke as well. So we have mutually decided that I have to make a change. Fortunately I made a copy of my pics in the eleventh hour and fingers crossed I got all of them. I have not been able to  check yet. Now I am on the look for a new PC.
I am blogging (far too seldom, though) on Alexandra's laptop, but editing and posting on the laptop takes me FOREVER,...it does ...really!
Hope you are all enjoying your week end.
Bye for now!