March 1st challenge at Once Upon A...Sketch. Meet our guest designers.

March 1st Challenge + Meet our Guest Designer **Iris Babao Uy**

Well hello everyone! How are you all going? I hope you all enjoyed the switch up with Get Creative last month as much as we did. Thank you all for embracing the concept and our new sister blog and I am so happy to see that many of you played along with both challenges. We are back to normal this month, and this is actually our 12th month that we are posting challenges and next month it will be our one year anniversary. Unfortunately this is the last month for some Design Team members who will end their term here at the end of this month, but we will talk about all that plus some new changes on April 1st!

For the time being a new month is upon us which brings a new challenge for the next 2 weeks. 

The current challenge is one that will push you out of your comfort zone because you have to scrap a layout or create a project about YOU. Many MANY people find this daunting...I can understand that. I personally do not have a problem scrapping my self as I want my children and those I leave behind one day to know the real Nadia. But I was SO SO SO surprised to learn that my Design Team really struggled with this. This saddened me...it saddened me as I see SO many wonderful qualities in all of them, yet it astounds me how hard us women are on our selves. We truly are. I think one thing we are ALL good at for certain, is just being WOMEN in this day and age!! 

SO I am particularly keen to see you all find something that you are good at, as little or as big as that might be and be confident enough to share it with us here. I cannot wait to see your entries!! Come on ladies..its time we believed in our selves and put our selves first just this one time..!

March 1st Challenge

Journalling Criteria/Theme:

All About Me!

The focus of your journalling and the theme of your layout has to be based on YOU and something/s that you are really good at. Don't be shy! We are all good at something as small or as big as it might be.

Ideas for journalling: being a good mum, cooking, talking, understanding people, organising, cleaning, gardening, studying, computers, fashion, exercising, scrapbooking, good at my job, maths, languages, writing , drawing, painting, photography, running, craft, sewing. Maybe you can talk about an aspect of your personality..your sensitivity, your 6th sense, your patience, your strength or bravery, your ability to stay positive. 

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and theme and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You MUST combine our journalling criteria with this sketch..

We have two wonderful guest designers this month. 

Iris Babao Uy has made this gorgeous page for us:

And Cathy Cafun who won the previous challenge made this stunning  page:

I recommend you visit the Once Upon A...Sketch blog to have a look at all the ten lovely pages made by the wonderful design team mambers. 

As always the work is outstanding!!

Thanks for dropping by!!

"Your Smile Brightens my Day" Les papiers de Pandore, -"Cherry Chérie"

This is my first layout using the more clean/simple line of the two new releases from Las Papiers de Pandore. It is called "Cherry Chérie" and is very versatile. It is a perfect line to scrap the hopefully many beautiful spring/easter pictures we will have soon.

This collection has crisp clean lines and dots combined with script, clouds,bricks and lovely flowers to fussy cut. So yummy!

I used my trusted sewing machine and different border punches for this. I did not forget the fanfold flowers either,...lol! 

I cut out the small aqua coloured letters from the elements sheet in the collection and that's where I got the ticket strip,too.

I fussy cut the springlike flowers and added a button with some twine to the centers.

That's all I have prepared for you today in this pre-scheduled post. 

I hope you can read it all ok! 

Thank you so much for taking the time to come and check out my ramblings! 

I'll be back soon!

She's Growing up. -Mixing up the two new collections from Les Papiers de Pandore.

Hopefully this will work and Blogger will behave well and let me preschedule this post!

I am away for a few days visiting my eldest in the UK.

I am keeping my fingers crossed.... :-)

Lately I have had a lot of fun playing with all the new supplies that sweet Julie sent me from 

Les Papiers de Pandore. This time I made a layout combining the two; 

"Le Parfume de Camélias" and "Cherry Chérie"

 It was snowing as I took my lo outside to photograph it. You can actually see  some tiny snowflakes on the brown brick-paper, that had not yet melted,...lol!

 The little gate in the lower right hand corner is from Polish manufacturer Scrapiniec.

They come in white and I only inked a little on this one.

I quite like this picture of my little princess. 

It's one of the photos from the photoshoot with the sweet and lovely Gisela Ackerup.

Hope your day is a good one!

"Authentique" "Uncommon" - "Remember you are special"

A while back I oredered three different collections made by Authentique Paper from 

the online store Stop and Scrap which only happen to be my very favourite spot to shop for scrappy supplies!!
 I will just give you the tip that if you want to shop there do use the code on my sidebar PAPERGLUE to get 12% off your order  which normally will be more than you get from the newsletter they send out. Just  a tip....

Now for my layout, I actually have several to share but am waiting to get better photos of them.

I did quite a bit of fussy cutting here. Those roses are so pretty.  I made a fan fold rosette from the striped paper, I love watching the effect made by the stripes on the rosettes.

As you know by now I am in love with "Imaginarium Designs" chipboard .

They have a beautiful selection of shapes and sizes for all kinds of projects. The 'tinies' are great for cards or as an accent, and the larger pieces make for great focal points on a layout.

Here I have used the flourish and the small frame that accentuates my quote.

The letters for the title are by Prima Marketing and are textile covered. 

They are my go to letter stickers at the moment. 

The fence-chipboard is by the Polish manufacturer Scrapinec.

I cut out the large round background and glued it to my base after distressing it. 

To stress the feminine nature of the layout I added some lace all around the edge. 

The lace was made by "October Afternoon".

 I painted the flourish with some dimensional paint or snow paint.

I pressed the little frame onto my white stamp pad to colour it and I like the effect I got.

These are the chipboard pieces I have been using from ID:

 

 Code:IDFL0011

I like to cut this swirl in two and use  just half of it.

Code:IDT0002

The tiny frames will add interest to any scrapbook project!!

Ok enough from me. 

Thanks for dropping by. (Any comments you feel like leaving are very welcome.)

Keep safe!