Bloghopping with Paper Issues. (...or Top 15 from 2015.)

Hello friends!! Welcome to this fun and relaxed bloghop! 

What a great way to start off the NEW YEAR!!

Some time ago I was part of the fun design team at Cassie's Paper Issues! Loved it!!

Paper Issues and Friends have joined together for this carefree hop and I 

decided I'd love to participte. Alas, with so many disruptive things happening in my life the last year

 it has not been a productive one. To be honest I have struggled to keep up with my DT obligations. 

But here are some of the pages I made and I hope you like them :-)
(At the end of the post you'll find some more links to more of the Friends & Fans participating)

The layouts are in no particular order. 

Smile

I made this one for the Polish Lemoncraft designteam using House of Roses collection and 

some lovely painted chipboards from Blue Fern Studios. The flowers are a combination 

of Prima Marketing and I AM Roses.

Music of the Soul

The second one was made for Blue Fern Studios and I have used a gorgeous round frame that I painted and laquered to frame a cute pic of my DD.

 Memories

This third one was also made for Blue Fern Studios showcasing papers and chipboards. I really love this picture of the girls with their grandmother celebrating her birthday.

Everyday Moments 

Another one for Blue Fern Studios. I whitewashed all the chipboards on my page. 

This one was for the release of the Deja Vu collection.
Beatrice and our little cat Lady look so cute here.

Summer Souvenirs

Les Papiers de Pandore from France is such a big favourite. I love the collections that Julie Blanc comes up with and this summery beauty called Sunny Bay is no exception. 

 Perfect Memories

This page shows off the Autumn Anthology collection from Blue Fern Studios. One of my fave collections from them for sure. 

 Frolic in the Sun

Loving the Frolic collection from Blue Fern Studios,and I think it goes perfectly with this 

summery photo of DD. I really love the colours here!!

Happy

This page is a combination of fabulous dies that I got from Sizzix UK and papers from Polish manufacturer Lemoncraft. I die cut two sizes of PL cards and arranged them on my page. 

Alpha, greenery and butterflies are by Sizzix/Tim Holtz as well.

Alex 

Here I have used a combination of Lemoncraft and Blue Fern Studios  as well as a few dies 

from Sizzix UK.

Celebrate Every Day

I really had so much fun creaqting this next project for Blue Fern Studios. It's a round canvas that first of all received a thorough mixed media treatment, -which I then proceeded to almost entirely cover up. -But I loved every minute :-)

  A Perfect Moment

Design team layout for Blue Fern Studios with lots of colourwork and using some of their stamps for my background.

Here Comes the Sun

One more summery page using  Les Papiers de Pandore's delightful collections Sunny Bay and Cocktail collections. Such a light and happy page.

 Memories 

This next page is a souvenir of a very special day. My eldest daughter graduated  from her
university in the UK and I wanted to make a page for her. I use the Blue Fern Studios
Paisley & vine collection.

Keep Creative and Take Pics

Another page made for Les Papiers de Pandore and using chipboard from Blue Fern Studios as 

part of the decorations.

This was my first Home

This is one of my most fave pages for the year. It has a nice layered feel to it achieved in part by the Blue Fern Studios chipboard frames.I am also quite pleased with the mixed media background. 

And who does not love flowers....?

Smile

I used the Montage  collection by Blue Fern Studios and some  beautiful BFS chipboard as well.
This was for my very first post on this design team :-)

Adore

To round this off another page using the Deja Vu collection from Blue Fern Studios. Lots of soft and pretty colours.

It's been ages since I took part in a blog hop so this is FUN!! Ok so there are a couple more than 15 layouts, but it was kind of hard to leave some out as I liked them equally much... :-)

Thanks for dropping by and for any comments you make. I'd love to be able to visit back and 

see what you are up to!
Please hop along and see what the rest of the participants are sharing today!

Visit the blogs and check out all of the projects from our Friends & Fans here, the inspiration from these ladies is endless: 

Sandi Pressley | Jennifer Holowaty | Zsoka Marko | Heather Robertson | Kimberly Lund | Devra Hunt | Ann Tamimi | Renee Timmerman | Lyne Schnable-Blodgett | Stacie Dietz | Tania Ballestrin | Heather Conklin | Alison Fitton | Bente Fagerberg | Stacia Brandt

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Paper Issues, Pretty Little Studio 'Nature Walk'

Hi there, and a warm welcome to Paper Issues Nature Walk blog hop.

I am so happy you found us. You should have arrived here from the lovely Becki's blog but If this is your first stop please be sure you head over to  Paper Issues to start at the beginning.

Our current sponsor is the delightful 'Pretty Little Studio' and we even got some of their cute products to use on our pages.

Here is the page I made:

I used the different sized feathers from the diecuts we received. I also cut around a couple of the sticker ones to add to my 'feather-cluster'.

The patterned papers and the flair button I used are from the previous and current collections from the French manufactureres Les Papiers de Pandore.

Hopefully we will see many projects linked up for this issue. 

If you don't have any  products by Pretty Little Studio the theme to link up is Nature Walk.

 

You can  link up anything that fits our theme to help you win to win the $10 gc to the PLS store.

Now, keep on hopping; in this order: 

Ashley

Audrey

Becki

You are here ........   Bente...........You are here

Carol

Caz

Pretty Little Studio Blog

Thanks for hopping with us today!

Be sure to do the following:

Now that you have had a peek around my blog:

1. Like Pretty Little Studio on Facebook {tell 'em Paper Issues sent ya}
2. Like Paper Issues on Facebook. {thank you!!}
3. Leave a comment saying you want to win!

Bonus!!  Link up a project!
Please continue the hop to the talented Carol's blog!

Thanks for looking!

Focus on "Petits coupons" of "Little Winter Circus" and new Paper Issues blog hop.

I have been somwhat missing in action this last week. On Thursday we celebrated Santa Lucia which might be called our festival of light up here in the northern regions, and on Friday my DD2 Victoria had her 18th birthday. Maybe I will share some of my photos with you a little later.  I have been spending  a lot of time on preparations for these days and have not been scrapping much....

Still I do have a little something to share today. On the Les Papiers de Pandore blog a few days ago the DT were challenged to come up with different ways of using the round cut-out labels from the 'etiquettes' sheet. This is what I was able to come up with as a last minute idea.

Instead of cutting them out round kept some of the background on each to make square gift tags for labelling small christmas gifts.

 I used papers from the delightful "Little Winter Circus" collection to make up the boxes.

Just adding little bits and pieces like a diecut doily or a swirly vine and some twine  will make the simplest gift look good. Give it a try!

 I had a lot of fun making these and enjoyed the fact that they were quick to make.

You should head over to the Pandore blog to see what the other members of the DT came up with.

I love the look of the triangular box, but must admit I had a hard time getting the twine tied down. 

It just kept sliding off...LOL!

I would also like to remind you that there is a new theme and a blog hop on over at Paper Issues.

Our give away is spondsored by Amanda Rose stamps, and she makes some seriously cute stamps!

Just look:

Check out what the PI Team made:
Heather
Judean
Missy
Kellie
Aimee

Ypu could win three of these stamps and HERE you can read how!

Finally I would like to tell you that  "Blue Fern Studios" has a give away on their blog.
They are a new company producing the most lovely chipboard embellishments designed by the talented Michelle Singh.

From what I've seen so far I think I might be in love....
HERE is a link to the Blue Fern Studios blog.

That's all from me for today. Bye bye!

Holiday Happy. Inspirational bloghop at Paper Issues. Giveaway from Reminisce.

 Hi and welcome to the Happy Holiday bloghop.

At Paper Issues we are happy to be sponsored by Reminisce starting today Nov 18th and going on for the next two weeks.We would like you to link up your projects that go with our theme to our original PI post HERE. Every day DT members will pick three projects to feature from what you link up, and hopefully send a lot of new traffic to your blogs. 

I received a beautiful kit by Reminisce including some lovely seasonal 12 X 12 papers and stickers.

This kit is also what will be offered as a prize to two lucky winners.

It is my first Christmas project of the year,...I am normally a slow starter... But with these very classic and elegant looking papers I could not wait to get started!

I printed some of the photos I took last Christmas and decided to start a mini album.

So far I have finished the cover but I will share the rest of it as I finish more pages.

This is what it looks like:

To win one of the prizes :

I would like you to be or become a follower of my blog and post a comment on this post.

We also ask you to like Reminisce and Paper Issues on Facebook.

For an extra entry to the draw link up a project.

To read all the details on how to link up your projects go HERE.

We have two of these kits to give away! :-)

The  DT members taking part in the hop are:

Audrey

Peg

Anna

Gina

Bente (that's me :-D)

Sara

Here are a few more pictures of my album.

I used a pre-made mini-album  as a base and covered the pages with beautiful patterned papers. 

I added a thin layer of gesso on top of the front page and aged it with some gold paint around the edges. I even used a little tan coloured paint to make it look more 'worn'.

I then added my embellishments; lace, ribbon leaves and lovely flowers. 

I wanted to use one of the stickers for my title and at first I was going to use a really large one. 

I decided against it as it would have covered up so much of the patterned paper . I found an old chipboard frame and put a smaller sticker behind it. I loved the look!

 The smaller sticker words are also by Reminisce...Family, Traditions,...Peace...

I created a soft crackle paint effect on the chipboard frame, -after I painted it and distressed it with

 some gold paint.

I have a code that will let you take 20 percent off your whole cart when you go shopping at 

Paper Issues

Thanks for dropping by and Happy Holiday Hopping!!

A new design opportunity for me, World Card Making Day and 'Websters Pages' *September Mix and Match challenge*.

First of all I would like to mention that I am now a proud member of Cassie Box's large and awesome team over at Paper Issues.

From what I have experienced so far this is an great place to be. So much going on that I will let you in on when I get a better grip on it myself. I am still learning the ways and trying to catch up there.
I will let you in on a secret though that I will soon have a discount code that will make a visit to the Paper Issues Etsy shop very worthwhile!....

I confess I  to being a hoarder of the beautiful papers and embellishments from Webster's Pags for the longest time. - And although I have heaps I keep buying more simply because they are beautiful!

For some reason I've found them a bit difficult to scrap though. I think mainly because the amount of 

pattern they have, and also because they are too lovely to start cutting into...LOL!

Now that they have started producing a separate collection called Clean and Simple it all starts to come together for me as I have papers with a more subtle pattern to base my design upon. 

I LOVE those!!

Now they have this challenge to combine different collections on their blog and on inspireMe .

This is my page for the challenge. I think I used about eight different collections and possibly more as I had products that I don't know what collection they belong to.

I am sorry the pictures are a little crappy but it's just rain, rain, rain here at the moment!!

Almost everythiong here is by Websters Pages except the smaller paper roses an the chipboard corners from Imaginarium Designs.

I think the photos speak for themselves.
I will leave you to check them out as I go continue with the lo's I am making. 

I am quite excited about another toot I'll have in a day or two.....
I have been invited to a new DT and  I am creating up a storm for them at the moment!

I had an idea that I could add texture by scoring squares into my background paper. 

I actually love how it turned out. What do you think? I am definitely going to do this again. 

Often I like to sew this kind of pattern to my papers but this is so so much faster!!

I enjoy this beautiful view every day and I never tire of it. I have taken pictures of it in all seasons , and I am planning for a different lo with those in the future.

One last message:
 On the Paper Issues Facebook page there is a special World Card Making Day promotion.

Paper Issues World Card Making Day Challenge

Help us Celebrate World Card Making Day by posting a photo of any card you have made on our Facebook page, and then share on your Facebook page and/or blog mentioning Paper Issues in the post for a chance to win.


• 4 random winners will receive a $20 gift card to the Paper Issues store
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• Extra credit will be given to those who share on their fb page and blogs
{Don’t forget to mention Paper Issues}

• Must be your original work

• Postings must be made by 12 pm PST Oct 6th

Thanks for coming to see me!!

I hope you have a lovely week end!!