Blue Fern Studios March sketch challenge.

Wow, didn't March came very quickly this year!?  ;-)

 Well, that's what the calendar says so that means a brand new sketch and challenge on the Blue Fern Studios blog.  This one was designed by Michele Singh.

 If you have it you can use the beautiful chipboard frame (Keepsake Frame) on this month's sketch, but if you don't you can just use any other piece. In fact you do not have to use a frame at all on your layout. 

I recommend that you check out the BFS blog to see some gorgeous examples of what you can do with the sketch and some beautiful Blue Fern Studios products.

Here are some rules for you (taken from the blog):

''One lucky winner, selected by a random draw, will receive a prize package of Blue Fern Studios chipboard!

In addition, we will also select 3 (or more) layouts to feature.

We have just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or 

flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs! 

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please - a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on March 31, 2015

We look forward to seeing how you use our sketch and Blue Fern products!''

January sketch at Blue Fern Studios.

Just popping in today for a quick share between driving back and forth and moving furniture. 

I wanted you all to see the lovely new sketch for January over at the Blue Fern Studios blog.

I promise I'll be a good blogger again after the week end :-)

''Welcome to January and a brand new year!  We are going to start the year with a new sketch challenge.  Each month we bring you a new sketch, designed for Blue Fern Studios by Michele Singh.  You have the entire month to create and upload a project using the sketch.

Here is this month's sketch:

One lucky winner, selected by a random draw, will receive a prize package of Blue Fern Studios chipboard!

In addition, we will also select 3 layouts to feature.

We have just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or 

flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs! 

2). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please- a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch

- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE.
 {Do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project please!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on January 31, 2015

We look forward to your entries!''

On the Blue Fern Blog HERE you can see some beautiful examples from the DT as well as link up 

your own page.

Hugs!!

Gaze, my latest lo for Inkido.

Hi friends!

  Hi ,...long time no see,...!

Today I'm back to share a layout with you for Inkido and Ulrikas beautiful sketch challenge.
Most of the papers I used are from Inkido's  Beautiful Memories collection.

Here is the page I made:

And here are a couple of close ups for you:

That cute ruffled flower is by Inkido and come in a collection pack called Harmony Flowers (pink).

-I started with two sheets of paper, one forming the border around the dotted paper.

 -I added a layer of gesso. 

-When dry I sprayed some mist on and smeared it out with my fingers. 

-I used a stencil to get the dots.

-On top I placed a sheer layer of organza.

-All the layers were fastened using my sewing machine.

-Then it was time to add the 'crossed' element of the sketch and the matted photo on top.

-VOILA!! Time to embellish!

I would really love to see what you come up  with for the challenge.

This truly is a very inviting and easy to do shetch that I know you are going to love! 

Ulrika also has her own sketch challenge where she puts up a new sketch for us 

every month HERE

I promised I would share some of the photos from my trip and I will di that soon. 

I just haven't gotten round to editing them yet :-)

Hugs!!

Blog hop hos Papirdesign! Time for our first hop at Norwegian Papirdesign!!

**Hello and welcome to our

International Blog hop April 22nd-May 17th!

You should have arrived here from the Papirdesign blog! **

 For å feire våren og kickstarte vårt design team med gode gamle og nye designere steller vi nå istand med BLOG HOP! Vi håper virkelig at dere har lyst til å komme på besök hos de ulike Papirdesign-jentene; vi lover tonnevis med INSPIRASJON og også muligheten til å vinne 

TIDENES PREMIE!

Alle jentene vil i tillegg trekke hver sin vinner av en mindre premie, så pass på at du ikke glemmer en av oss!

**To celebrate Spring and our fantastic DESIGN TEAM we're throwing a blog hop.

Visit the Papirdesign-girls and get tons of INSPIRATION and a chance to win this AMAZING PRIZE!

All of the girls will draw one lucky winner for a smaller prize so be sure you visit us all!**

På Papirdesignbloggen kan dere lese alt om  hvordan en sånn blog hop fungerer.

 For all the explanations about how to proceed please visit the Papirdesign blog and read it all there.

Her kan du se den fine premien som jeg deler ut til noen som blir fölger på bloggen min og kommenterer på dette inlegget om blogg hoppen.

And this is the special prize that you can win right here on my blog!!

 For a chance to win I would like you to become a follower ansd leave me a comment on this bloghop post. 

Those are the exact stickers I have used on my lo! Love the yellow colour!!

This is the lo I created using sweet Ulrikas gorgeous sketch and the beautiful supplies from Papirdesign.

HERE'S THE BLOG HOP ORDER:

Bente Fagerberg (you are here)

Cathrine Sandvik

Christin Grönslett

Elisabeth Bakken

Linn Sjåfjell

Lise Seivåg

Marianne Sjöberg

Renate Sarassen

Tanya Privalova

Ulrika Blomfelt

Papirdesign

 As there is a lot of text about the hop etc to take in I will let the close ups speak for themselves.

 Neste jente å besöke er/ **Your next stop will be:**

Cathrine Sandvik.

HAPPY HOPPING!!



'Remember the Good Times' from PaperHaus Magazine using some Prima goodness.

Hi, seems I don't update this ol' blog very often.....

Oh well, I am now back to share a lo I made especially for the PaperHaus sketch section of the Spring edition. I am proud to have been part of this great publication. I really feel it is the best one so far. I used  this and that from different paper collecrions by  Prima Marketing.

I will keep this fairly short and sweet. I think the close ups speak for themselves. If you are interested to know what supplies have been used all of tham have been listed together with a photo of the LO in  the magazine. (Link at the end of this post).

Don't you just adore all tha Prima goodness.....?

One of my fave things to do is to use a mask and gesso.

Right now PaperHaus Magazine is accepting submissions for the Summer Issue. 

If you would like to be a part of the magazine be sure to send in those beautiful pages etc.

Read about it below.

Finally I promised I would share the link to the magazine ..... HERE.

'Sweet Summer Souvenirs' for the sketch at Les Papiers de Pandore.

Time for a new sketch at Les Papiers de Pandore.
I loved the look of Julie's new sketch and had a lot of fun working with it. I decided on a slightly more C&S approach than my normal one, but am actually thrilled with how it turned out.
I think mainly because of the lovely colours in the pretty Pandore papers.

Here is the fun sketch that I used for inspiration:

The cute photo was taken by a charming young man and son of my friend Julie who is in this photo with me. We are spending time with another charming French friend that we met that day. Laurence was so kind as to invite us to her house for lunch and a chat. We had a lovely afternoon needless to say, and Julie and I experienced some adventures in the car on the French national roads...... LOL!.

I combined alphas fom Pink Paislee and JillybeanSoup to make my title, and stitched down the letters using my sewing machine. Both these alphas had kept well and did not actually need stitching down, but occasionally you will get one that has lost the ability to stick. Often I will just add some glue to the back, and voila!, but now and again, and especially on a more C&S layout I like to stitch across the letters.

If you would like to see the layouts that Francoise and Anya made please click your way over to the Pandore blog.

Les Papier de Pandore at Creative Scrappers and a feature at Craftgossip.com

 Today will be a pretty short and sweet post as far as words go... 

Today we celebrate our beautiful  Alexandra who was born in Santiago de Chile 21 years ago today.

We are having family over for dinner and I have a lot of preparations to do.....

Right now almost the whole DT from Les Papiers de Pandore is making a guest appearance at the Creative Scrappers challenge blog. We were given this lovely sketch by Kristine Davidsson as inspiration:

After turning the sketch on its side this is what I came up with:

 I used mainly the "Urbanessence" collection from Pandore. 

I seem to be doing a lot of pages in the blue/yellow combo lately....The whole base of my page is covered in gesso and I used a mask by Crafters Workshop. I love their masks,...all of them....
You will see little squirts and drops of mist here and there as well.

The swirls was made fro a row of pearls that I shaped and glued to the flower cluster.

The pretty buterfly is by Martha Stewart. I added some cheese cloth and misted with yellow Glimmermist. Underneath the flowers I put a rosette that I made using my Score Pal.

 Don't you just love that cute green butterfly with the pearls. 

So sweet. It came in one of the previous kits from My Scrapbook Nook.

 I cut out the fountain from an older Webster's Pages paper. The picture was taken in 'our' little village in Provence and there are a lot of fountains in those parts.

 The small brown butterflies were first punched out and then embossed. 

It is kind of like a 'double punch'....(it is actually two different ones)

 

 The letters for the title were die cut with a Tim Holtz/Sizzlits long die. I love that font!

 Just a fun photo to see a little of how I do my layering and the texture.

 All these beautiful blooms make me happy!

Some days ago I had a page requested as "Inspiration de Jour" for the CraftGossip.com blog.  

 Actually I remembered that I had one page on thet blog even last year :-)

The page is one of the recent ones I made with the September Nook kit.

Thanks Francine for sharing my page!

And thanks to you my scrappy friends for taking an  interest in my creations. 

I love being able to share my pages etc with you! 

If I don't see you again before; Have a lovely week end!!

New sketch on the Pandore blog and a page using" Urbanessence".

At Les Papiers de Pandore  we have  a beautiful sketch for you this month!!

I will keep this post short and sweet just to share the sketch and page with you while it's still new :-).

To read the fine print please go HERE .
If you make a page be sure to post it on Pandore's FB page and you may be a lucky winner of some goodies!

Some of you may know that my eldest DD goes to university in the UK. These photos were taken this Spring when we went to visit her and to see how things were at her end. In these photos we are visiting a large shopping mall in Birmingham, called "The Bullring",...maybe you got that from my title....

 And with these few close ups I leave you.... See you soon again!

My layout "Beauté" and a sketch from the webzine.

I made this layout a little while back and it was in the latest webzine from Les Papiers de Pandore.

I used the new collection called "Perfum de Camélias", and I think I used a bit of almost every piece of the collection.

 I may have gone a bit overboard here with my flowers and my fanfolds,...LOL!

I cut the frame from one pattered paper and placed it over the green paper.

I used a heart punch from Martha Stewart for the border on the pink paper.

I wanted the hearts to stand out more so I backed them with a darker colour.

After layering the pink paper on top and glueing it only down the middle so the sides would be loose, I added my doilies down each sideunderneath the heart border edges.

I love doing fanfolded rosettes with a striped paper because hey all turn out so different. 

If you have not tried it I think you should, because it is great fun!

Of course I ad to add some pretty flowers to my page. These are a mixture of Prima and others from my stash.

I love this photo of Beatrice with her long braids. It was one of the last ones we took before she cut off most of her long lovely hair. (Although some would maybe say it is quite long still...)

Finally I will share the sketch that Julie made for this page, The picture is a page from the webzine:

Enjoy your day! Today is a wonderful cold Spring day here.

Thanks for any comments in advance. You know we all love reading them!!

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