A Prima "Pixie Glen" layout for Sketchabilities and TCR.

It has been a while now since I posted, I think actually a whole week has passed!!

I hope you are all well on the way with all the Christmas preparations.

I now I am really, really looking forward to some quiet (hopefully....) family time soon!

I have not had much time or inclination to scrap lately, but I wanted to share this page that I made for Sketchabilities sketch #60.

I also combined it with the palette #87 from TCR this time.

Here you can see the colours of the palette.

And this is the sketch I used.

I chose  pretty papers from Prima Marketing called "Pixie Glen" and "Alla Prima"

I also used the chipboards from the "Alla Prima" coolection.

I don't have a lot more to say as I am still waiting for my PC to be returned from the repair shop and working on this borrowed laptop takes too much energy....

I will talk to you son again. Actually, I will post some photos of Beatrices new do tomorrow!!

Layout for the Color Room # 64 "Beauty Blooms From Within"

This week we are not required to create for the challenge reveal at CCG due to the DT Call .
You can read about that in the yesterdays post. Just scroll down a little bit...

I am using the beautiful kit that Erica sent me from Your Scrapbook Stash and this month it was full of "The Girls Paperie" goodness. I just adore everything she sent me!!

The papers and gorgeous embellishments that  I received turned out to be quite perfect for the challenge at The Color Room this week.

This is my take on the palette # 64:

The layout is done on a base of stitched layers. I love the look of it.
And here is the current palette and sketch. I  did not use the sketch this time, but many times I find it is such a great way to get started!




Isn't this gorgeous.? The colours just scream Summer to me...

Here are some close ups of my layout:

I used the Kitsch Market trims to embellish my layout. I also had the Vintage Whimsy Glitter Charms.
All the contents are just so adorable and perfect for a girl's layout.

I used the narrowest of the Trims to fasten the little charm in the shape of a tiny little cage. The other shape is a clock face and you get six altogether.

The red glitter trim at first reminded me of Christmas, but I decided that I was not going to wait six months before using it,...so I chose to use it now and add some whimsy to my page.

I did a lot of layering and stitching of my different layers.
I love the look of the stitched upturned slightly distressed papers.

In this picture you can see what the red glitter trim brings to my layout. It puts a smile on my face at least!
The lacy border was made using a Martha Stewart border punch.

I took so many photos of my layout I don't really think you need to see them all,..lol.... but for those who made it all the way to the end here's a small collage of the different corners of my page.
As I know that "The Girls Paperie" will not continue as a brand and part of Advantus I am now off to hoard some more of their products. :-D
Hope to see you soon again!!

TCR # 40 At the last minute...again!

For those of you who have not seen this weeks palette, please go back to the previous post.
With an all brown palette this week , let me say I was in no hurry to get started this week. However, as I got going , I feet it went quite well. At least better than I feared. Lol!

We have quite a good size garden with several fruit-trees. Beatrice had been waitng for this apple to be ready for her to pick. The smallest of the trees actually have the tastiest apples!

I had great trouble finding anything brown in my stash, as I am normally a 'colour-girl'.
Found some older Prima and K&Co. I got some bookpages from my eldest DD that I stuck behind the photos. Originally I had a sepia photo, but that was too much of tone-in-tone for me! I printed out these pics of Beatrice and they made the page pop a little more. Maybe because of the colour of the apple.

I held the brown  Prima pp under running water to make it soft. I crinkled  it and let it dry. I then  ironed it to make it flat.While wet it almost disintegrated, but after it dried it was firmeragain. The pretty ribbon has got wire in it so it can easily be shaped. I think it adds a feminine touch to all the brown. -Together with the Maya Road and Prima flowers of course.
The adorable little brown roses and the ribbon were gifts from my friend Irma in the US. Thank you so much!





















Close up of the left flower cluster.


















Some distressed tags and a bird I made with my Cuttlebug and cardboard.

This is a close up of the right hand side.

Here you can see some of the texture. I have used up to nine layers altogether. I have to apologize for the poor quality of the photos due to the dark conditions outside.

In this photo you can appreciate the pleating used for the photo mat. I did it freehand , but I recommend that you measure out lines to make the work more accurate.

Thank you for visiting me. I appreciate each and every comment!



The Color Room # 39

This is the palette for week 39 at the Color Room. I am a bit late posting it and my layout was also long in the making!

Due to all my different commitments at the moment I opted for a more simplistic style of lo this week. 

Normally a lo can take me a log time so it was nice for a change to get something done in a jiffy!  

I am quite please with how it turned out anyway. I think it has a certain serene feel to it. I wrote a little journalling on a tag underneath for Beatrice to read later.

 


In the photo is Beatrice playing a small musicakl instrument that her grandfather gave to her long ago.

 This is my take.  

The dressforms were made using a stamp from The Girls Paperie. I was astonished at how good the quality of the stamp was. Normally I make a mess, but these worked fine!

I recycled the cut-out  from a cardstock-heart ( TCR #25 I think...)
I punched some holes down one side and thread a strip of tulle through. I attached another piece to the back and made a bow.
Papers and letter-stickers are October Afternoon and flowers are Prima. I believe the lime ribbon is Prima as well.

 A close up of the bow.

I just thought I would post a photo from what the lo looked like when I was trying out different positions for the embellishments.

As usual I like to use texture and this time I used a piece of recycled cardboard for my base. I do not know beforehand how a lo will turn out. I play as I go along. Therefore I painted the whole piece even though I would later cover up most of it.

The finished lo looked a bit different from my work in progress....

Tomorrow I am going to be guest designing with the rest of the Stash-Girls over at Color Combos Galore.

I am so excited!  Make sure you head on over!

Thanks for taking time to visit me and maybe leave a little comment!!



A NEW FEATURE AT THE COLOR ROOM.

Just before going to bed last night (ok, it was pretty late...) I looked in at TCR to find they were just loading the new features. Imagine my surprise when I saw that my card was up there...! It looked so funny because my last weeks lo and this weeks were next to each other for a moment. 

We did not get to know who chose us this week so I don't know who to thank!

This time I did not even think I had a chance as I uploaded it so late. Normally they would already have made their decisions by that time. I was lucky they made their selection later this week!

WoooHooo!

A photo by Bente Fagerberg was featured

MERRY CHRISTMAS

So many things to do before Christmas at our house there is not much time for scrapbooking! Still it is important to me to be able to complete the palettes in time. So I decided to make a quick card this morning. Normally I am not very fast but that…

8 hours ago

To see the card bigger go to yesterdays post!

Now off to do my last minute preparations!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES!

xoxo// Bente