A shabby beach page for Blue Fern Studios.

Hi, We have already reached the last part of  June and Summer should be upon us Big Time!!
 Unortunately the weather here seems to be stuck at 'April showers' and the occations to barbeque have been few and far between.....In Sweden we love to celebrate Midsummer outside with our traditional food and a dance and sing around the 'May-pole'.Well, I guess not much of that going on this year as yesterday was an utterly blusery and rainy day alas. 

-So I stayed inside scrapping... What better substitute, -for almost anything...?

Here's my first page:

I based my layout on the beautiful Montage collection and particularily one of my fave sheets

the blue and white side of 'Fairyland'. I did use a lot of media on top, but that is one of the 

many great things about the Blue Fern Studios papers; they are very thick and awesome 

quality so they are able to take a lot of experimenting!

I picked a pretty picture of my youngest looking for seashells on the seashore last Summer.

As this is a beach themed page I decided to frame my picture using the gorgeous Seaside Frame. 

It's got a little seahorse, a star, an anchor, etc so it's just perfect!

At first I primed my page with gesso. When dry I added a layer of a blue paint. I mixed several shades to get it just the right colour. I added a layer of crackle glaze on top. 

Before the crackle dried I sprinkled  some special fairy glitter and some tiny glass beads on top. 

After all we were looking for treasure :-)

The cracks in the paint are really small but look very cute in real life. 

Unfortunately they don't show up well in the photos.

Thanks for looking in today!! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

xoxo

Last share of February Scraps of Elegance kit 'Love Always'.

Hello my friends, I have been a bad blogger lately.

To make up for that I'll share TWO pages today that I made with the February kit from Scraps of Elegance. 

I should have posted these already  a few days ago as there is a NEW wonderful kit out for March that I will share with you in a couple of days . I've been having some computer issues (Thank heaven for mobile phone internet so I can still keep in touch,...) but today I'm on the PC again!

I have used the 'Smitten' line from Authentique here as well as some bits from My Minds Eye Record It 'Heirloom'.

I prepared a few close ups ( if too many feel free to scroll down LOL!)

I used one of Ingvild Bolmes little metal zippers as an embellishment and lots of stamps ans flowers. 

I used a stencil to take break up the repeated pattern of hearts and make it  less obvious in some areas.

I used a series of three cute photos of youngest DD and our kitte, Lady. It's an easy way to add more that just the one photo to your page.

And now for my second page for today;

Even here the main papers are from Authentique. I think they nailed it with this line, and if you like you could even say I was 'Smitten',...LOL! Again I use a series of three pictures. These were taken in Stockholm when we went up for her students visa to the US. She has been across the big sea since October now and we can't wait to have her back here.

I used the chandelier sprays from the kit to make little sprigs of chrystals and roses. I was meaning to post a short picture tuturial and it may come one day next week.

There was a pot of lovely pink glitter in the kit, and below you can see how I added some to the Martha Stewart butterfly. The flowers all got a lick of white paint to make them a little more 'shabby'.

The title was cut using my Silhouette Cameo. 

The word 'Delightful' is a cutfile and 'Girl' is just simply written in my selected font and then cut.

That's all for now. 

 I had a happy mail some days ago and I am waiting to hear how soon I can tell you all about it!! 

I can't wait!! Hope to see you back soon so I can tell you about it!! <3

Take care!