''Art Chain'' Day 2/5, showcasing some fave pages made for Inkido.

Today I have another batch of pages to share with you.   

This is day 2/5 of sharing my projects on FB, Instagram and blog for #Art Chain

Nothing new, but pages that are still among my faves after a couple of years.

These are from the good old days of Inkido. The DT  were a bunch of lovely ladies and I still see their inspirational creations all over the internet. 

I was tagged by Anupama Choudary from India and Stephanie Papin from France who were also on the Inkido team, and the lovely Kathy Mosher from Alaska who was on the Scraps of Elegance kits team with me.

All these ladies do inspirational work as well as are real sweethearts!

Here are my pages for today:

Thanks for your visit and also any comments you may leave me. 

I truly appreciate each and every one of them. :-)

I'll see you tomorrow with some more favourites,....

A Milan Moment.

Hello again.Time to share my latest creation for Inkido! 

I made a new page using the Beautiful Memories collection.

The picture is from a trip we made to wonderful Milan a few years back taken in front of the impressing Milan Cathedral. It was really a business trip but we managed to bring our daughters with us to spend some time with them there. There are so many beautiful things to see around the Piazza and so many great coffees to be had :-) And probably Europe's most expensive ice cream on Piazza del Duomo

This is the view from the cafe right oposite the majestic Cathedral.



And here are some close ups of my page for you:



 I made some different flowers using my favourite Sizzix flower die and one of the pretty Inkido papers.

 

 I used my border punches to give the papers  and layers an even more feminine expression.



Here you can see how well these papers go together. The colours are so soft and gorgeous.
I used a metal 'Junkyard Findings' by Ingvild Bolme called 'Antique Garden Sink', as well as some
beautiful Prima flowers.

 

Thanks for dropping by and thanks for looking. I hope you like my Milan page :-)

Products used:
Beautiful Memories:
Beautiful Beige
Blue Angels,
Beautiful Blue,
Pink Butterflies,
Blue Butterflies,

Hugs!

'Happy' for Inkido GDT at SATW.

I guess by now it's no news to any of you that Scrap Around the World is celebrating their anniversary and that there is a lot of things going on over there. One of their awesome sponsors is Inkido, and the DT was invited to guest design for them. You can read about it here:

“This month we are excited to announce that we are one of the TEN EPIC EVENT ANNIVERSARY event sponsors at Scrap Around The World & are also one of their Guest Design Teams!  Our DT coordinator Agnieszka is also representing us as one of the 10 chosen Guest Judges & we are so pleased to be involved in this great event, celebrating SATW’s First Birthday!

 This is no ordinary month at Scrap Around the World.  9 out of 10 of the prizes awarded will be going to past Winners, Features or Finalists (those featured on their legendary Wall of Fame in the past year) & one prize will be awarded to a totally NEW winner {someone who has never featured on their Wall of Fame before}.  This is so that TEN EPIC WINNERS can be selected as the TOP TEN PLAYERS of 2013/14 at Scrap Around The World! 

This will be a yearly competition held at this fantastic challenge blog & we are honoured to be a part of this inaugural event.  Please support Helen & her team at SATW by playing along this month.  There are 10 prizes, each valued at approximately $100 up for grabs, including free postage as usual, so it is so worth it, plus the inspiration is amazing!”

Inkido supplies used  

Spring Time {Romantic Roses}

 Beautiful Memories {Pink Butterflies}  

Summer {Old Pink Lyrics}  Harmony flowers (plum)

Mini Rose (turquoise)  White /Pink gardenia  half pearls

This is the anniversary mood board:

And of course I have a few close ups for you !

The Harmony flowers look so pretty! :-)

I used the Tim Holtz mini rosette die from Sizzix here. It is one of my favourites.

Click HERE to see it!

I mixed several of the older collections on this page. 

I think the Inkido papers are great for doing just that !

Please go check out the challenge at SATW HERE and DO JOIN to win one 

of SOOO many awesome prizes.

This is the prize from Inkido:

Have a great Tuesday!!

Handmade flowers and a mix of Inkido collections.

I hope you are all well and that you have gotten a lot of lovely pages or cards scrapped lately.This is my most recent page made using Inkido supplies. Actually,Inkido has a beautiful new collection out called Spring Time, and you can see it HERE.

But today I have a page to share that uses a combination of older collections.
 

 I layered quite a few beautiful patterned papers here and used my sewing machine to add decorative stitching and my punches for a cute border effect. The pretty vintage crochet lace add to the romantic feel of the page.

 
 
I used an awesome die by Sizzix called Tattered florals to make the larger flowers. I die cut the different parts from a patterned paper belonging to the X-mas collection. After spraying them with white mist to tone down the pattern there is nothing X-mas about them!! :-)

Link to the flower die : 656640 Sizzix Bigz die tattered Florals

 The Inkido papers have many gorgeous butterfly designs and I love to use fussy cut butterflies on my pages. The trellies pattern is also made using a Sizzix Frameworks die.

Link to the trellies die : 659431  Sizzix Frameworks die, Trellies

 

 I had a beautiful chipboard ring once,...but alas I managed to break it in two,... Here I found a way to put it to good use. :-) I also added some ink drips and splatters for an extra effect. 

That was all for today! I hope you enjoyed it.

Enjoy life!

Inkido papers used: 
Forever Collection, No 5  
Happy Christmas, Christmas Carol 
Beautiful Memories, Pink Flowers.  
Beautiful Memories Pink memories 
Spring Time, Roses of Romance
Scrap, Prick grön

Inkido will take part in this Epic Event!!

  Hello there! 

Today I just want to tell you about an event that will be taking place all this month. Inkido will be one of the awesome sponsors and the DT will take part as well!

here is what Helen has to say about it:

Epic Anniversary Event PRIZES, Sponsors & Guest Judges! Part 1!!

Hello YET again!!  Finally it is TIME for you to see the wonderful prizes we have on offer for you this month, to read about our amazing sponsors & to see who will be judging your passionate entries!  As you can read in the last couple of posts, we have TEN SPONSORS this month, each offering prizes of very similar value - $100 US DOLLARS each PLUS POSTAGE!  Not too shabby now is it?!?

First up we have INKIDO {Papercrafts Scandinavia} from Sweden.

Inkido is  a family run business who have been in the paper industry

 since the early 90's.  We design, produce & market papers with a 

Scandinavian vintage design feel , flowers, embellishments & bling

 for the scrapbooking industry.  Please visit our website & blog

 for more information & inspiration.

www.papercraftscandinavia.com

Our Blog: http://inkido.blogspot.se

Here is the prize being offered by Inkido!

Loads & loads of beautiful recent papers, embellishments,

 flowers & gems!!  

And as the Inkido Guest Judge we have the very lovely Agnieszka Bellaidea, 

the Inkido Design Team Co-ordinator!

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Guesting at Norwegian 'Vintage Utfordring

This week I am guesting the Norwegian challenge blog 'Vintage utfordring' with a card in vintage style 

using Inkido products. 

I used mainly the Beautiful Memories collections for thiss card.

And also a couple of Inkido mini roses.

I utfordring # 77 vil vi se  

Søm, falsk eller ekte, i vintagestil.

Du har fram til den 28 mars 2014 kl 22.00 CET
til å laste opp dine bidrag via inlinkz linken nederst i posten. Har du ikke blogg så kan du gjerne levere dine bidrag via mail til vintageudfordring@hotmail.com. Husk å merke mailen med 'Bidrag til utfordring #77.

Challenge 77 is to use stitches, any kind, real or false on your project.

What you make must be in vintage style.

Deadline: March 28th 2014, 22.00 CET

Papercraft Scandinavia is sponsoring this latest challenge

and below is a picture of the new collection that one lucky winner will receive!!

And there is also a prize from The Ribbon Girl.

I hope you will join in this fun chalenge!

You can read about the it here and also see the reveal.

'Tween' for Inkido and a first look at the NEW Inkido collection!!

Hi,I'm ready to share my 2nd Inkido lo for January.

I had this photo laying on my scrap table for a long time waiting to scrap it.I think it is pretty cute. The hands belong to my youngest DD and she was twelve when I took it. When I look at the photo it truly takes me back to what I felt like when I was a young girl, almost a teenager.

It is important to preserve the everyday memories and I wanted to document this.

It was easy to mix quite a few different papers as Inkido has such a comprehensive collection.

Most of the collections mix very well. Makes it easy to create pages that turn out differently just by adding another pattern from our stash.

As always I adore using some fussy cut butterflies on my page.

The beautiful lace you see here is also sold by Inkido. And they have other pretty styles as well.

Thanks for taking the time to visit me today. I hope you liked my page.

Here are some of the products that I used on my page:

Beautiful Memories II -Pink Flowers

Beautiful Memories -Beautiful Pink

Beautiful Memories II -Pink Romance

Beautiful Memories _Butterflies Borders

Mulberry gardenia, purple

Harmony flowers, pink

Lace white, -width 34mm

Valentine _Old Pink Rose

Don't you just love the new papers?!!

You can win one set on our Facebook page!

'She's Got the Look' for Inkido

 Hi there!

Nice to see you here!. 

I am delighted to tell those of you who have not already heard, that I have been invited back on the Inkido team for a new term and get to work with all the awesome new girls as well as some of my old DT friends.  Actually, at least four of them are my friends on other DT's as well, so that is quite fun! Happy tidings!!

This page was made with inspiration from the mood board for the Inkido January challenge HERE. Go check it out. I was inspired by the light Scandinavian colours and the flowers among other things. What will inspire you?....

I have made so many cards and pages with the beautiful Winter collection from Papercraft Scandinavia; 'Happy Christmas', that when I was sent some different papers for my kit this time I used some immediately.This page was made mainly with 'Beautiful Memories'.(I will add the names of the different papers at the end :-) )

 Inkido have some lovely mini roses and other flowers as well as these pretty pink chrystals that I like to add here and there on  my pages. 

They come in a multitude of pretty jewelcolours.

 

The chipboards here are mainly from Australian based Imaginarium Design and has been treated with some paint and a lick of gesso.The white 'brick wall' is chipboard by Wycinanka from Poland. As always there is a lot of layering and stitching on my page . That pretty white lace was also in my DT kit from Inkido. 

 I adore the whimsy look added by the butterflies strewn all over my page. They are cut from various of the patterned papers and there are many different ones.

A closer look at the stitching that I painted over with gesso.

That was my share for today! I hope you enjoyed it and can take some inspiration 

from it. At least let me tell you I had a lot of fun putting it together!

Some of the Inkido products used:

Beautiful Memories:

Butterflies Borders

Blue Flowers

Beautiful Blue

Blue Butterflies

Spring Time:

Butterflies in the sky

Inkido: Blue Do

Cartas de Amor, pink

Pink mix Rhinestones

Lace

Hugs!!

Inkido blog hop!!

         

Hi there and welcome to our first bloghop of the 2014 Inkido design team.

We are hopping not just because it's fun but also so we can all get to know eachother a little better.

First of all I have a photo with all the pretty faces on the team. And as you can see there are quite a few of us!

You should have arrived here from from the lovely Anita Nosova's blog

Our bloghop will take place from January 2nd until  January 4rd.

I am ecxcited to tell you about the great prizes we have for three lucky participants.

We have a full new collection, (so new we cannot share a picture of it yet!...), 

we have a set for vintage cardmakers 

....and last but not least we have a suprise!!

You can pick 12 papers from any collectionbut the latest (which is another prize).

We ask our participants to look for secret words inside out hop posts. Not every designer's post will have one. With all the words you find you will make a sentence. Do not write it in the comments section because then we loose some of the fun. Please write an email to:

marketing@papercraftscandinavia.com

We would also like you to leave a comment on the different blogposts and hopefully you would like to become folloowers of our blogs as well!

My secret word will be at the bottom of this post. 

Three things you did not know about me,...or maybe you did LOL!

1.I was actually born in Norway but have lived more than half my life in Sweden.

I still feel very Norwegian though and have a lot of family left there.

2. I am crazy about watching sports. I love all the Nordic wintersports and am planning 

to spend February on the couch in front of the telly watching the Sotchi olympics.

3. I love the arts and enjoy  musicals and the opera. Last year I was able to go see 

Placido Domingo even though it cost me an arm and a leg,...LOL!

Another thing I can tell you is that my scrapspace is a total mess right now. At the moment I can hardly find enough space even for a 12x12 paper,....I know what I'll be doing tomorrow LOL!!

Just look at my table!!

       

Here is the whole hopping order for the Inkido team:

Agnieszka Bellaidea  

Anita Nosova

Bente Fagerberg ------You are here 

Cathrine Sandvik

Elena Smoktunova

Heidi Augustson 

Helen Tilbury

Hera Sugitani

Irena Kowalczyk

Karin Zander 

Karita Vainio

Lindy Gillespie

Nataliya Serova  

Petra Gustavsson  

Renea Harrison

Romy Veul   

Sabrina Sulaiman

Stéphanie Papin

Stina Westbom

Ulrika Blomfelt  

Yasmin Tölche   

Don't forget to send an email with the secret sentence.

MY SECRET WORD IS: IMPORTANT 

Your next stop on the hop is the delightful Cathrine.