'My first Home' for Blue Fern Studios.

Recently I posted a few pages on the Blue Fern Studios blog.

I was in the UK last week celebrating my eldest daughters graduation from university and must admit I am a little behind wity posting my projects here on my own personal blog,....But here is one of them !!

This page is based upon a pink paper from the Montage collection. 

On top is a paper from the Deja Vu collection. As yo can see the collections mix very well.

-Especially when you add a litttle mixed media here and there. :-)
I 'framed' the whole page with the largest sized Graduated Squares, painted white then inked around.

 The gorgeous piece of chipboard below the picture is one of the recent shapes and called

  Rock Wall Bits. I painted it beige, stamped on it and added some pink glitter. 

The part of the Grunge Frames chipboard piece visible above the photo was given the same treatment. 

I just love to add glitter to my pages at the moment :-)

The cute small dots scattered all over my page are the insides of then alpha stickers that I used.

Finally a better look at the Prima resin by Ingvild Bolme. It is such  a beautiful and decorative piece!!

That was all for now, Hope you feel a little bit inspired and that I'll  see you here again soon!

Take care!

A shabby beach page for Blue Fern Studios.

Hi, We have already reached the last part of  June and Summer should be upon us Big Time!!
 Unortunately the weather here seems to be stuck at 'April showers' and the occations to barbeque have been few and far between.....In Sweden we love to celebrate Midsummer outside with our traditional food and a dance and sing around the 'May-pole'.Well, I guess not much of that going on this year as yesterday was an utterly blusery and rainy day alas. 

-So I stayed inside scrapping... What better substitute, -for almost anything...?

Here's my first page:

I based my layout on the beautiful Montage collection and particularily one of my fave sheets

the blue and white side of 'Fairyland'. I did use a lot of media on top, but that is one of the 

many great things about the Blue Fern Studios papers; they are very thick and awesome 

quality so they are able to take a lot of experimenting!

I picked a pretty picture of my youngest looking for seashells on the seashore last Summer.

As this is a beach themed page I decided to frame my picture using the gorgeous Seaside Frame. 

It's got a little seahorse, a star, an anchor, etc so it's just perfect!

At first I primed my page with gesso. When dry I added a layer of a blue paint. I mixed several shades to get it just the right colour. I added a layer of crackle glaze on top. 

Before the crackle dried I sprinkled  some special fairy glitter and some tiny glass beads on top. 

After all we were looking for treasure :-)

The cracks in the paint are really small but look very cute in real life. 

Unfortunately they don't show up well in the photos.

Thanks for looking in today!! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

xoxo

'My Happy face' for Papirdesign.

Hello all my scrapbooking friends! I hope you are well!

Today I have a page to show you that I  made for the Norwegian manufacturer Papirdesign a little while ago. 

It features a recent picture of me (gasp,...) taken by the multitalented Paula Pascual when we met at the Sizzix HQ this Summer. I don't usually scrap myself and I know I should really do it more often.

I really like this picture. Of course I look far better in the photo than IRL but I don't mind LOL! 

We were three girls having a fun photo shoot with Paula and she is such a great photographer :-)

I am afraid that the colours in the first picture are a bit off . I tried to correct them but not very successfully. I think it's the gesso that do it. It's far less prominent in real life.

The gorgeous flowers here are part of the new collection by Papirdesign and Line does really have an incredible selection. Lots of lovely colours and shapes to choose from. 

-And did you know that soon you'll be able to buy wooden shapes and sayings,too? Soo cool!

I love to combine different sizes and shapes of flowers. It can sometimes be a challenge, but with so many to choose from this was a breeze :-)

I made this page after a sketch by fellow team mate Ulrika over at the Papirdesign blog. 

Even though it's a little late to take part in the challenge you can see the original post HERE.

I hope to be back soon to share some more. I have so much that I have not shared here yet. 

So little time so much to do,...if you know what I mean:-)

Tomorrow I'll have a new post up for the Sizzix  DT sharing something I made with 

my favourite dies!

Take care and thanks for popping in to see me today!

'My Beautiful Girl' for Inkido/Sizzix

 Today I have a sweet page to share that I made for both the Sizzix and Inkido design teams. The pictures were taken the other evening at the nearest beach and I decided to convert them to black and white. I love working with black and white photos because they blend in so well with the coloured papers and embellishments. They match with everything!

I primed my 'Beautiful Memories' paper with gesso and a little mist using a stencil as well for added texture.

I cut two large circles using decorative scissors and stitched them to my paper. With a paintbrush I added gesso diluted with water to tone down the background music pattern. It could esily look very busy. I cut and embossed a smaller circle and used it as a mat for my two photos.

I made these gorgeous flowers in two sizes with the Tattered Florals die set that I love. It is just soo good for when you need some flowers to tone in with your papers.

I made my flower clusters tying in a swirly chipboard piece and also a light blue lace ribbon rosette.

I fussy cut some pretty butterflies from a matching patterned paper using the Susan's Garden Tool Kit which has become one of my absolute favourites to use when I craft.
All the tools in the kit are really very useful!

I love the texture added by the sweet handmade blooms made with Inkido papers.

-And being the same collection they are a perfect match!

Here you can see I layered different mediums too.
-Diluted gesso, modeling paste through a stencil and Prima Color Bloom mist.

I used these Sizzix products for my page:
Sizzix Big Shot starter kit (Powder Blue and Teal)
Sizzix Accessories Susan's Garden's Tool Kit
Sizzix Bigz Die, Tattered Florals
Life Made Simple, Sizzix thinlits basic set (I used the small heart)

Patterned papers: Inkido Beautiful Memories, Spring Time
Mini roses: Papirdesign
Lace: Papirdesign
Other flowers Prima, Petaloo

Thanks for visiting and hopefully you'll take some inspiration with you when you leave :-) !

Hugs!

'Look Book' for Papirdesign.

Hi there! I hope your day started out great. In this part of the world we can see the sun promising to shine on us today and another beautiful spring day on the way.
And here is a Spring-inspired page from me...

I mixed a few sheets from different collections on this page. That is one of the very best things about Papirdesign; that all can be so easily matched.

 

 This page was originally made for the PaperHaus magazine, but alas recently it was decided it will no longer be published. I mixed the lovely flowers from Papirdesign with some other brands.


 

 I fussy cut the tiny butterflies from one of the lovely patterned papers.

That's all for now. Enjoy life 'til  next time!!

Forventning; 

En Ny Vår, Sommerfugl i solskinn

 Julehilsen:

 Julebakst

miniroser, 

rosenknopper,

peoner,

kakeservietter; rosa,vit

halvperler; rosa mix

alfabetstickers; lilla

buttons; strikk

For SATW using Les papiers de Pandore collection 'Crochetin'.

Hello and happy Sunday to you! Hopefully your week end has been a good one so far!!

Here is a page I made as part of the DT for Les Papiers de Pandore, my fave French manufacturer.
It is kind of an old fashioned page using different paper techniques and not so much the different mists that are on almost all the scrapbook pages at the moment. I LOVE to use those too, but today I wanted to show off the beautiful products I am lucky  to work with!

Here are some closeups of the details on my page:

I was inspired by the February mood board at Scrap Around the World.

I loved the yummy layers of beautiful colours and the pink and yellow tones.

I wanted to create something frilly and feminine to go with it.

You still have a few days to enter before they close this months challenge. 

Why not give it a go...? You can read all about it on the blog HERE.

Thanks for dropping by.

Hugs!!

Guest designing at Lillblomman Skissar. Inkido layout.

Hi peeps! Today I have a lovely sketch to share with you and also a layout to go with it. 

A good while ago I was asked by my double team mate Ulrika aka Lillblomman if 

I would like to be the October guest on her sketch blog Lillblomman skissar. 

Those who have been around for a while know that I love me a good sketch so of course I said yes!!

This is the beautiful sketch that Ulrika made just for me! :-)

I used papers from Inkido one of the DT's that Ulrika and I share and they are also this months sponsors.The base paper is called Cartas de Amor, royal red. The rest of the papers are from the ''Beautiful Memories'' collection.

Firstly,...I don't know what makes this lo so hard to photograph, 

I took pictures three days in a row without any improvement and finally ended up sending 

the first set to Ulrika in the end . Personally I think it looks a lot better IRL :-)

I used a mixture of flowers here , both Prima and others from my stash and some mini roses etc from Inkido. The bling stones and the  lovely embroidered sheer ribbon is also from Inkido.

I used Rangers distress ink for my pink bricks and as you can see I put my sewing machine to good use again as well. :-)

There are several round design elements in this sketch and I used my Silhouette to make different corresponding shapes that I added to my page.

I love the delicate and feminne touch that you get from adding liquid pearl in different areas 

of a page. They are such pretty accents.

 I hope you liked my page and feel tempted to try this sketch.

You have got the whole month to join in and I would be delighted to see you there. 

The lucky winner will receive the new lovely new Christmas collection from the sponsor:

called ''Happy Christmas''and a meter of glorious lace.

 

Hugs!! :-)

My first page using the new Inkido collection 'Happy Christmas'.

'Liten tomte tittar ut' is the title of this new page and it is about Beatrice wearing her long Santa-hat that we had been looking to buy in so many places before we found it.

I used the latest beautiful collection from Inkido called ''Happy Christmas'' for this page.

 The small chipboard is from Imaginarium Designs, and the large one is from Dusty Attic.

 I made my title using the Silhouette Cameo. It has become such a fun tool to play wth!

I wanted to use the pretty tags on my page and ended up attatching them as an embellishment 

with a large bow.

I just wanted to get this post up before leaving for work this morning. 

I feel there is no need for a lot of words as there are so many pictures, and we all know that a picture says more than a 1000 words :-) LOL!

Have a good day everyone!!

'You are my Happy' for Papirdesign

Hi, I'm back to share a little something I made recently for Norwegian Papirdesign.
I have been a bit of a slacker during August and have not posted much here on my personal blog:-) .

I picked out an older photo of my youngest and wanted to make a page with fall feling to it. Hopefully we will still have some good Summer-days, but early mornings you can definitely feel a little nip in the air that tells us the seasons will change soon.

I have used a mix of older and newer collections here.

That is one of the many good things about Papirdesign; it all goes together so well :-)

I think you can see that I based my design on this lovely sketch from Cest Maqnifique.

I did not bother so very much that everything would be in the right position as I wanted a more 

carefree feel to the page. Although I did start out using a sketch.

A closer look:

Of course I had to use some of the gorgeous mini roses!!

For my title I used the lovely alphabetsickers in two different colours.

Apart from the roses and stickers I used mainly two sheets of papers and they are:

PD 10532 Treverk

PD12648 Sommerfugler

Klem/ Hugs,

Bente