Lovely feminine combo for you at Les Papiers de Pandore.

Just got back from my hols a day ago and am loving the chance to get back to my blogging 

and visiting all your blogs again. I had a wonderful time on vacations 

(who can fault three weeks in the Provencal sun...lol..?) 

but it is also nice to be back to 'normal' again.

While in France I scrapped some more pages with the beautiful new collections from 

"Les Papiers de Pandore" called "Invitation" and "UrbanEssence". 

I really hope some of your stores abroad will be carrying them because they are really beautiful.

This is one of my "French" pages. It does not have a lot of bought embellishments as I only brought a small kit with me on holiday. I made it for the July combo.

And here is the lovely colour combo for those who like to take part. If you post your pages on the Pandore  Facebook page, you have a chance to be the winner of some Pandore stamps.

I am very much into using strips of patterned paper on my layouts at the moment.
You will notice that on some of the layouts that I made while on holiday.
-Maybe because I was working out of a small kit... I now need to add some titles and other details to finish off the pages and in a day or two I will have more to share.

The photo is one of Beatrice from the Spring when she still had her long braids.

 A close up of my very simple but to me very decorative lollipop flowers. 

-As I said I was low on supplies while away,...lol. I can truly say that almost everything here is made with the "Invitation" collection!

When I first showed my page to Julie she almost fainted that I could wrinkle her beautiful papers up like that. With a big smile on her face she told me that she always did her utmost for the paper to reach me in pristine condition. I am now afraid that after seeing IRL how I treat her papers maybe next time she will not be so careful....LOL. I am sure she will though, just kidding. And I promise you my next pages will be less wrinkled :-)

It is absolutely right though that I often completely roll the papers up into a ball and pull them in all directions to make them more pliable, if that's the right word.

And sometimes I prefere the nice and flat ones.

I leave you with a close up of my layers and I hope you will check out the combo HERE  and see the other DT projects for it.There is a fabulously detailed card with Parvatis famous 3D flowers and an adorable page by Jennifer.

Hugs!!

"Combo de mars" on the Pandore blog. I loved the gorgeous colours!!

Hello and good morning to all my friends!!

Today I have a beautiful combo to share and a layout I made for it.

Instead of making the monthly combo,sketch and tutorial a part of the webzine as until now, Julie has decided everybody should have a chance to take part and not only the ones subscribing to the newsletter.

To achieve this there will be a schedule on the blog as follows:

On the 10th of each month a sketch 

On the 20th each month a colour combo

On the 30th each month a tutorial.

This is the first combo for the blog

I made a layout with a sweet photo of our eldest DD Alexandra and the youngest member of our family, my gorgeous little godchild, Nicole.

 I mixed up a few of the recent collections from Les Papiers de Pandore . (If you press the link Julie has added a list of the supplies underneath  my layout.)

And also on the Pandore blog you can see the beautiful and stunning cake ornament creation that Parvati made for the combo. She is a real paper whizard!

I chose this title as it reflects the fact that Alex is the oldest and Nicole is the smallest/youngest of the cousins. I used some older Thickers from Ameican Crafts for it.

There is a slight glitter effect to the surface. (And if you look closely you will see that the glue had not yet dried when I took the picture,...it was getting dark quickly!)

I didn't want this page to feel as layered and 'heavy' as some of my other pages. 

I wanted the focus to be on the sweet photo and of course the combo.

To avoid it looking too clean and simple I decided to make an ornamental grill of papers with some 

half pearls added. I quite like the look and may take some pictures next time to show how easily 

it can be made. I just cut strips of paper and added to the page, cutting more as I went. 

I did it all freehand but next time I might use the ruler to make it look more tidy.

I hope you like it!

I have been so busy lately with work and travelling that I have a backlog of things I should be blogging about.

Since the end of February I have been to the UK, Frankfurt in Germany and Milan in Italy!

 And last Friday I had a dinner date with my lovely friend Eila here in town. Lucky me!

(I will tell you a secret; she's like me...we both looked at the desserts first,...LOL!)

 Oh well, I will be back tomorrow. 

-And I still have not blogged about who will receive my Liebster awards. I will be giving it to 20 fabulous blogs, but maybe not all at the same time,...

Take care and be good!!