Inkido December challenge.

I hope you are enjoying lovely crisp early Winter weather where you are.
Here a storm just passed for now and it is mainly raining and very grey and drab. Perfect for staying  inside scrapping or making seasonal cards.

Today I want to tell you about the latest Inkido challenge which I am hosting this month.
This time I want to see a project incorporating stars and/or snowflakes. I am sure we all have many of those planned for this time of year, so why not share them with us here at Inkido.
Please remember we do not like 'backlinking' though :-) All the entries have to be new and made especially for this challenge.

Here is my page:



(Sorry my photos are not up to my normal standard. I still have no internet connection at home so I had to use my IPhone...)



For this challenge you can use all kinds of stars and/or snowflakes. Inkido has some great stamps with stars that would look awesome on a page or a Christmascard! If you cannot get hold of that one you can use chipboard or diecuts like I did and I also used a petterned paper with tiny stars on it. Mine is from the latest collection by Inkido called 'Happy Christmas'. In the collection there are even some awesome papers with snowflakes on them!!



 A few more closeups:



 Finally here's a sideways photograph of how I built up my page in layers.

Challenge Rules

1. You must submit your project / layout /  using the Link tool on the sidebar.

2. You may submit more than one project and you are allowed to combine this challenge with two other challenges.

3. You are required to mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Inkido. We also want you to link back to our challenge.

4. If you use any Inkido product for your project, do mention the product in your post.

5. The challenge will end on 31st December  2013.

Prize
Since we have so many collections and beautiful papers at Inkido we have a very special prize this month, you can create a collection of your 12 favorites papers from Inkido and we will send it you asap in 2014!

And here is the LINK to the challenge!

Special Agent at CSI Color Stories Inspiration second week and a new page using 'Urbanessence'.

Hi there, I am so happy to see you!!

Last night (my time) was the reveal for the new color combination etc at CSI, Color Stories Inspiration.

And today I have a page up at the 'Pandore' blog. You will find both the pages in this post.

I will start with my page for CSI as that was revealed first.

And here is Casefile #32 for you;-all the details will be there.

Don't you just love these beautiful colours...?

I want to share some close ups with you too: Those Corinne flowers by Ingvild Bolme are so stunning!

I used glass glitter for one of my pieces of evidence (something grainy). And wet medium (paint, mist, liquid pearl, gesso). I have stars in my patterned paper too, and I embossed white cardstock for my photo mat.

This is my testimony. I document a trip to the beach on our vacation.The pretty girls in the photo are my daughters and a couple of friends who came down to visit us for a week.

And now to my page using 'Urbanessence', completely different in style :-)

Todays layout is actually a page that I made a few weeks ago. 

I made it for the blog at 'Les papiers de Pandore'. 

There is so much going on over at Pandore with a very active and oh so fabulous design team that layouts sometimes have to wait a while to find a spot to be published.

If you press the link above you can see all the latest posts and the beautiful artwork.

Here are some closeups of a few little details on my page.

The title 'Solskensungar' literally means 'Sunshinekids' even if there may not be such an expression in the English language.

The photos are of my Beatrice and her younger cousin. It is not  an easy task to get him to sit still for a picture, but at least the charm factor is high...LOL!

I drew a template for the large star to minic the smaller ones in the pp. I wanted to accentuate the yellow so I added some yellow buttons and twine. I also added a vertical row of twine between different papers for a little texture. The sewn outline around the stars were also for texture.

This is an attempt to a clean page and therefore it does not have very much shabbyness in ways of bulky layers and distressing. I quite like how it came out still. It kind of works with the boy/girls page.

I hope you all have a fabulous week end!!