Member sketch challenge at the Nook. July kit. MME "Indie Girl", "Ginger".

Hi there, hope you are all well and feeling happy!!

Yesterday was my turn on the blog of 'My Scrapbook Nook'.

This month I am in charge of making the July member sketch from one of the lovely layouts in the gallery.

If you go HERE you can see the sketch and which member lo I chose for the sketch.

We also have  a GDT for the sketch.

This is my layout :

And as always ; some closeups:

 Some photos of the flowers I made with a die from Nellie Snellen.

The letter stickers are by Jillibean soup and came with the July kit from the Nook. 

Two posts down you can see the entire kit pictured. 

The tiny chipboard word 'Together' is bautiful and delicate and made by 'Imaginarium Designs'.

The different buttons in various materials are also by MME from  the ' Indie Girl Ginger' collection.

I wanted some dimension and added handcut double hearts sewn to my paper.

You can keep adding more layers of hearts, but as mine are rather small two layers are enough.

I think the sewn little garland is so cute. it is the same one I used for my card the other day.

To achieve this effect I gessoed through a mask. After that dried entirely I wanted to add some colour to enhance the circle that was in the sketch. I cut out a large circle, put the mask on again underneath and used my stamp pad to colour the gesso. 

I think the effect is quite neat. I did that before on a lo with a blue ink pad and I was equally happy!

 It's just so simple and no mess!

Some sewing added here and there as usual!

Thanks for dropping by. Hope you enjoyed my page :-)!

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"Happy Birthday" MME Ginger using July kit from My Scrapbook Nook.

Hi!

In between watching as much as possible of the sports from the Olympics I'm here to do a quick post to share one of the pages I did with the latest kit from My Scrapbook Nook.

Here it is:

The photos are from Alexandras 20th birthday when the family came over to celebrate.
We spent a lovely afternoon in the garden.

Here are some close ups. I think they are pretty self explanatory. :-)

I was trying to come up with a fun idea to use the embellishments in the kit. Over at the "Nook" they don't use many flowers, and as you know I use them on almost all my pages. Making what can be called a clean and simple page takes me much longer than one with layers and layers. I guess that's what it's like when you try a different style. -Not so very simple at all.

I do believe it is good to challenge oneself to go out of your comfort zone now and again....

I also used soem MME washi tape on here. As well as JillibeanSoup twine and journalling spot. 

The small hearts were the result after punching the heart border.

If you would like to see the kit from "My Scrapbook Nook"  just scroll down one post and you can see the card I made with it as well! Enjoy the rest of your week end.

Thanks for dopping by!

Catching up!! First share using the beautiful July kit from 'My Scrapbook Nook' .

Hi there! 

First of all I just want to say thanks so much for all the lovely comments you left me on my previous post with my layout for 'Les Papiers de Pandore'. It means the world to me!! Really!! 

Thank you so much!

Since I went away at the end of June and just got home a few days ago I only recently got to play with this beautiful new 'Nook ' kit. I was so happy tro find it in my mailbox waiting for me!

It is jam packed with beautiful papers and embellishments, mainly MME Ginger but also some 'sprouts and cute letterstickers.

I made sure my assignments would be needed late in the month this time, and have completed a few things so far. I did a couple of cards, this first one being for the fun challenge that Shellye has posted on the Nook blog for us today. I also finished a layout and have one more half-done on my scraptable. 

I will be able to share those soon!

This is what Shellye has to say about her challenge:

"This challenge shouldn't be TOO challenging given that there are soooo
many circles in this month's Nook Kit :)
For this challenge
ROUND-AND-ROUND
You will need to use atleast FIVE circles on your card
and don't forget to corner ROUND those edges if you'd like!"

 I used two gorgeous sheets of paper from The MME Ginger collection in the kit.

There are so many great matching embellishments in there and many of them round, so I decided to go with the garland on this card. Lots and lots of round lements there :-).  I added one of the Jillybean journalling spots on top. And with a few  buttons and some twine to finish it off; voìla!

I hope you enjoyed my card and thanks so much for taking the time to drop by!

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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!!