"Simple Stories" "Baby Steps, my last two layouts as YSS GDT

Hi!


I am back to share some more of  that I made as a guest designer at YSS for October. Your Scrapbook Stash blog.


 This time I will show you a couple of layouts I made using the "Baby Steps" line from"Simple Stories"

As I don't have any babies at home any more I used the papers in a different way, just like 'any old general papers with soft patterns'. The colours are very sweet and likeable and for those who do have babies or toddlers at home they can be used for both boys and girls.

I loved the darker paper with dots on them together with the lighter ones.

For  my first layout I cut out a frame and wrinkled it, then fastened it to my page using my sewing machine. I grounded my photos with a circle of black cardstock . As a base for my title I used a couple of the journaling cards. 

You may notice too, that I painted with a lot of gesso on my base using a mask with small holes. 

I quite like the texture from it! 

There are so many nice bits to cut out here. You can do fussy cutting, or just cut out the different squares and use them as page elements.

In the photo below you can see some of the gesso. 

The little black painted piece of chipboard peeking out from behind the photo mat is from "Imaginarium Designs"I love it!!

I know banners are ooold by now, but I can't help myself; I still love 'em....

I  cut out triangles from the pp's and stitched them together. I recommend you use a thinner thread/twine than I did though...lol! I had a few of my flags tear.

Then for my next layout:

I had these sweet photos of my youngest DD on my scrap desk and thought they would go well with this collection.

I chose a couple of sheets of pp and  a matching sheet of cardstock.

I placed a photo in each circle and added a Prima flower vine with a suitable fall feeling to it. 

I cut a balloon image from one of the elements sheets and added a balloon sticker as well.

The small green letter stickers are from the same sheet as the balloon. So great to have all the matching letters and some sayings on the same easy-to-grab sheet! 

I needed some more dimensional embellishments and reached for my "Vintage Vogue" goodies.

With my green/black theme I think they work well on this. 

I used the rosettes, the spool buttons, lace and the ephemera.

I hope you liked my take on the "Simple Stories".


I have really enjoyed being a guest designer at YSS this month and and I send a big thank you to Erica for having me!

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!!

New "Basic Grey" "Hello Luscious" For YSS and CCG 194

I don't get the concept of time, really!
It just keeps going faster and faster when all the time you want it to slow down...Is it the same for you..?

I am being kept quite, quite busy with my design teams and guest designing lately. I love that, I only wish I could have time to enjoy it a little more. I am so happy that so many good things have happened to me the last six months scrapwise, and I am also happy for you  my dear blog readers,..-but now I am just rambling on and I probably dont make any sense, so I'll stop and get on with what I wanted to share today!

In the middle of the night (my time) the new combo at Colour Combos Galore was revealed.
As always I got started on the very last day. And as always I managed to finish it. :-D
This is my take on the colour combination.

And this is the Inspiration board.
These are pretty vibrant colours , but maybe some would see the combo as a little chalenging.
The colours look beautiful together though.
For me the colours feel quite familiar, I did a lot of layouts with Echo Park "For the Record" and these colours can all be found in that collection, among others.



There always have to be flowers, ...and buttons...
As you can see my glue has not even had time to dry properly  ( lol! ) , there's a white dot on the black button.
Actually there was supposed to be numbers too...But being in my usual hurry I missed that and no numbers ended up on my layout this time. I am a bit unhappy about that bcause I think numbers look cool and I rarely think of using them. -Obviously not this time either..LOL! Sorry.

I used my DT kit from Your Scrapbook Stash. This month I got the sweet saturated colours of "Basic Grey".
They call the new collection "Hello Luscious"
The ball fringe in the happy yellow colour is also from YSS. But then you can find almost anything in that store ,...at least when it comes to scrapbooking...lol! The letter stickers are "Jillibean Soup" , "Strawberry Soup" collection. I even got papers from that collection, and the patterns are printed on Kraft paper with soy based inks (which is good for the environment actually).



























I love the colour of these pretty flowers. They are like gardenias and I bought these and a some other colours in bulk somewhere so they do not have a particular brand name that I can tell you.


























The white flower is Prima's Alabaster. These are good because you can paint or mist them any colour you like.This time I kept them as is.


























I really like the look of old bookpages on my layouts. Here I used part of a page and tucked it underneath my mat. The corrugated cardboard was painted and inked around to make it stand out more.


























I love the layered look you get by just tucking your embellishments partially into the layers.
If you count the layers I think in some places there are as many as thirteen.


























Below you can see some of the distressing (this time I used water), inking and painting close up.
I had a new ide for using buttons.I think sometimes it is hard to get the twine to be pointed enough at the ends to make it go through a hole in the button.I was lucky this time and decided to thread both buttons while my luck lasted. Looking at the two buttons connected I thought it looked kind of sweet, so I decided to keep the buttons tied together like that.


























Beatrice is so cute  in this photo. She's got the sun in her eyes and her hat pulled well down over her ears. We were doing some late Autumn gardening and sometimes it is okay to help.



























This is my last close up. Hope you are still with me peeps!

Thanks for taking a look.
Why don't you have a go at this colourful combination??

Your Scrapbook Stash at OUAS. Second sketch

In my previous post I promised another totally different take on the latest sketch at Once Upon A...Sketch.

This one I did for the YSS blog.

To see the sketch and all the DT and guest DT samples please visit the OUAS blog HERE.

Also look for a for a link to the WINNERS OF THE STASH CASH at YSS at the end of this post!

I have loved the "Pink Paislee" "Sweetness" collection for the longest time, yet this is the first layout I make using those lovely papers.

I turned the sketch on its side to accomodate my picture and  embellishments.

The beautiful golden lace as well as all the pp are from Your Scrapbook Stash. The yellow stickers are  by Pink Paislee and the green letter stickers that are real favourites of mine are October Afternoon.

"Sweetness" is 25% off right now (may be running low) and using the code MAY15 will earn you an additional 15 % off your whole order!! Great isn't it...?

To mimic the circles on the sketch I drew some circles of my own, and did some sewing by hand.

That's a rare thing , but ...hey,.. what will I not do for scrapbooking...? 

The cute picture was taken last weekend when we all went to Denmark (except Victoria who was a contestant at Lund in the Swedish finals for the European Youth Parliament....................).
The girls' 14 year old cousin Nicolay, was having his confirmation and we were invited. All went well and Nicolay passed with flying colours.
Some of you may recognize this little man from pics taken at a gathering here for the Swedish tradition of St Lucia in December. He has grown since we last saw him and he will be one in not too long.
Beatrice was proud to be found old enough to be in charge of Silas. He is really a goodtempered boy but at this moment he was getting a bit tired after a long day and not much of a nap.... Who wouldn't be grumpy...?

I just love babies, and with no chance of any more own babies around here it was such a treat to have one to play with. Especially one as sweet as this little boy!


























I covered another one of my chipboard pages from 'the same old album' and inked the edges with pink. I used a pencil for some faux stitching and used pop dots to add it to the page.
The OUAS journaling requirement this week is for it to be typed. I stuck the strips on and below the title, more or less in the fashion of the sketch. Journaling is just saying that it is the second time they meet and that Beatrice utterly enjoyed taking care of her baby cousin.
She is also happy that she will have another little cousin, a girl, at the end of August.
That is so great!


























I added a pretty mulberry flower and a couple of Prima leaves to balance all the pretty roses from the pp.
The strips were made using an EK Success punch.


























I decided to go with black/white for the photograph on this because the colours are very bright and sunny.  I did not want the colours to overwhelm the picture.


























A couple of more close ups. This layout was so fun to photograph....lol!




















































Finally a close up of the gorgeous chipboard corner ornament from Imaginarium Designs.
I have previously told you about Jane at Seriously Scrapbooking sponsoring the OUAS Design Team.
We are so lucky!!

Erica has chosen some random winners for the STASH CASH and you can see the details in her post

 HERE

Thank you so much for your visit. So happy to see you here!!
Take care!

Once Upon A...Sketch reveal and Your Scrapbook Stash sponsoring!

This is what I came up with for Once Upon A...Sketch this time.

The sketch is versatile and I actually did two layouts with it that are completely different from each other.
I will share the second one tomorrow after it has been posted to the YSS blog.

And here is the sketch :


Quite interesting looking I thought  and for the most part  I kept quite close to the layout of the sketch.


























This beautiful lazer cut chipboard frame is from Imaginarium Designs. Would you believe it,...Jane from Imaginarium and Seriously Scrapbooking is so generous that she has given each of us in the DT chipboard to use on our layouts. I think that is just awsome and very kind!!
The beautiful Imaginarium chipboards can be bought at Seriously Scrapbooking.

I painted this frame in a soft green/yellow colour to match my layout.
I think, however, that these chipboards look fabulous raw too.



























Instead of the little circles spread on the sketch I decided to scatter some flowers over the page. I then painted over them to make them less obvious and to achieve a more artsy feel to the layout. I punched the retro flowers from pages of an old novel. I stuck the pages together by twos to make them more sturdy. I added tiny mulberry roses from Your Scrapbook Stash to the center to get some dimension.


























The pieces of patterned paper that you can see here are from "Pink Paislee" "Sweetness" collection. You can find it in the YSS store now with a 25% discount. I think they are very pretty. On tomorrows layout I will use the same collection but it will look very different from this. I love the big tea roses on those papers.

Here you can see that pretty frame again. The yellow letter stickers are from the same Pink Paislee collection that I mentioned above. The b/w letters are by "Echo Park" collection "Be Mine".

I used mostly cardstock on this project and I think it looks okay even though I am really a big pp 'junkie'.
I distressed the papers with different techniques and then painted and inked the edges. I  painted several layers of differently coloured paints, without covering the cardstock completely. I even 'grunged up' the letter stickers because from the beginning they looked to pretty and priestine to match the rest of my layout.

The pictures are of my middle DD Victoria, taken last Summer when she was 15.
She still has a thing for hats and flowers, and who can blame her...? They make her look good and compliment all of her other good qualities!
Let me hasten to add though,..Victoria herself  'hates'  these photos..

If you have not already checked out the challenge I recommend you go HERE to see the sketch and read all about the rules.There are not many, but one important rule is that you have to journal. It is NOT enough to note time and place OR add a title. You MUST write something more.... A good thing is that you ARE allowed to combine OUAS with other challenges as you wish!

Just like last time you can double your chances of winning by submitting your layout both to OUAS and to YSS. We all enjoy winning prizes, right... I mean...prizes are FREE stuff...lol!!

Thank you for taking an interest in my little blog.
I really appreciate each and every one of you so much!!
Welcome back tomorrow!!

Some card inspiration.

Just a quick post to share some cards I made with "Websters Pages" "Trendsetter" collection and "Fancy Pants" "It's The Little Things".

These are birthday cards, and the word GRATTIS means congrats in English in case you are curious!
I quite like all the manequin and dress forms found in the Trendsetter collection.



For this card I cut out a window with a Quickutz die. I misted an old book page and used it to back my window.I added curtains on pop dots and a potted plant.

Thanks for stopping by.
I really appreciate you taking an interest in my creations!

New challenge up at Once Upon A...Sketch.

During the month of May we have two sponsors at Once Upon A...Sketch.

One is Seriously Scrapbooking with Imaginarium Design who so very generously is sponsoring OUAS all year long.
Jane from Imaginarium Design has sent beautiful lazer cut chipboard to the girls in the design team and we are so happy !
The other one is Your Scrapbook Stash where, you may remember, I am a part of the DT.
So this time I participate in the challenge not as a DT member for  the sketch blog but as one of the
Stash Girls.


This is what Nadia has made for us this time.
Really something to get your teeth into,...I found it quite hard to do...but that's why it's called  a challenge
I guess...lol!
I hope to see many of you taking part in the challenges this month!

Go HERE to read WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!!
And even to check out this months fabulous guest designer Sarah Mullanix.

Winning the prizes at OUAS is not your only chance of a prize this month! If you post a link to your finished layout to THIS POST about the challenge on the YSS blog you have a good chance of winning some Stash Cash as well. Isn't that great? So many chances to win this month!!

This is how my layout turned out in the end.
I used a chipboard as a mask for the little scroll behind the flowers. I misted around it and on the other side of the strips I used a red paint dabber . I discovered afterwards that my red colour ended up in the shape of a heart!...But then again; I really heart these girls!

The patterned paper I used for this came in my April DT kit from Erica at YSS. They are  from "Fancy Pants" and called "It's The Little Things". The collection is very pretty and I seem to be seeing  a lot of it in the scrapping world right now. For the strips that are very prominent in the sketch, I used one punched with a Martha Stewart border punch and one pleated one from the elements sheet. The third one has the text Love Live Laugh on it. The black dotted base was partly covered up with some older book pages that I painted with some gesso.



The journaling is about my girls and how they relate to eachother. I used one of the journaling cards from the cut-out sheet in my kit.



What is a layout without a banner I say....? And the small letter stickers are from October Afternoon and the chip letters are by Pink Paislee.

The pretty blooms in colour aqua are made by Prima Marketing. I love that colour!!

And then some more close ups,...I hope you enjoy!

Remember that there is a journaling requirement for these challenges.
Always remember to read what is stated for the current challenge!

Thanks for dropping by.
I much appreciate it!!