"So Special" - My first post for Inkido

Hi all you sweet blog friends out there!

I feel like I have been slightly missing in action lately due to my internet problems and now being away for three days with my DD's Victoria and Beatrice on violin camp. I am in charge of making all the meals etc during our stay so I don't really get to see much of the youngster except, for during the meals of coure. We are three people helping out and it's hard work and long hours. But also a lot of fun. I wish I had more time to go out take pictures of the surroundings because it is so so pretty here.

Anyhow, I am delighted to share my first page for Inkido with you today.

All the patterned papers are by Inkido, and I love these designs because of their small patterns. They do not distract from the photos. This particular photo is a lucky shot of my middle DD Victoria before getting on the school bus one morning. (Some people have just got "it" ) 

On the paper that I cut into a circle with scalloped scissors I stitched a grid and added liquid pearls. 

I think it adds a nice texture to the layout.

I love the abundance of yummy flowers clustered together and those pretty blingy stones.

To add even more texture I pleated a piece of light blue paper and added it underneaath the photo.
I was planning on placing some of those awesome Inkido on top all the time, but may have gone a little over the top as now the pleats are almost entirely covered up...LOL!

Love those pink chrystals too. They came in two shades, tone in tone.

Another close up, this time to show some of the layering.

Ok, that's another Winter page done,...at least sort of. I am not very fond of the cold and am looking forward to the Spring sun gracing us with it's company.
Please head over to Inkido as well to see my post as I have added photos of some of the products that I used here. Thanks for dropping by. Mwoahh!

A card for the new combo at Pandore

As always around the 20th of the month there is a new colour combo at Les Papiers de Pandore.

This time I decided to make a quick card.

And here is the inspiration photo with the colours:

Most of my elements here are die cut from Pandore papers or cut from the patterns like the butterfly.

All the patterned papers have different strips at the bottom and I used one of those to make my paper ribbon. I think that music-notes pattern is so cute. 

I simply formed the strip into a ribbon shape and stapled in place before glueing it to the brown circle.

I am off to do some more work now. I am having some difficulty getting around to as many of your blogs and commenting as I would like as I am having some internet-trouble again....
Mostly surfing on the IPad works but commenting does not work very well!!
Hoefully I will soon find a way to fix it and I'll be back!
Hugs!

Pink and grey combo,..an older layout that will finally see the light.

Hi !
Today I have a layout I made months ago but have been holding on to just in case,... I made it for a combo at Color Combos Galore the once so fabulous challenge site that unfortunately seems to be gone for good this time...So I'll go ahead and post this:

This is my original post in which I have just edited away a few things.

We were given some lovely feminine colours and I decided to do a layout about Alexandra,
our eldest daughter, from when she had her 20th birthday.

An assortment of different flowers here. I added mini roses and bling to the centers.

These stickers are made by Pink Paislee. They came in my warehouse box last year and I still had not opened them. I quite like the look of them though...

I took a piece of light coloured cardstock, or you could use lightweight cardboard, and painted with snow paint. I think gesso too would be great for this. After I dried it with my hair drier ( I am impatient when I'm creating...) I cut it into little pieces of 'brick'.

I think it adds a cute effect to my page and I am sure I will be doing something similar again soon.

Most of the papers here are from MME  Miss Caroline. I love that musical paper that I used for my border around the edge.

If you look closely you can see I used my trusted sewing machine again to add texture to the required round element in the middle. I think it shows up better in the first photo of the whole page.

I hope these feminine summery colours were able to add a little brightness to this dreary Autumn/Winter weather. At least all the grey gives us a good excuse to stay inside with a cup of cocoa!

A new Design team for me!! So excited!!

Hi and happy Thursday to you indeed!!

Today I have some Happy Scrappy news to share. Yes, finally I can share the news that I am a new deigner with Inkido, Papercrafts Scandinavia. I was originally asked to be a guest designer and now I am happy to say that I will in fact be staying the whole year!!!

  

It has been a hard secret to keep as most of the other girls have already been announced. -And I wanted my name to be 'out' too :-) If you check out the Inkido blog you will see that I am in very good company. From next week we will start posting our projects. Only today I received the new Collection designed by Lise-Lotte Leksell called "Beautiful Memories" hot off the press and you can seee it here:

Gorgeous isn't it?

Just these last few days Inkido has been present at  the large CHA event in Anaheim US and maybe some of you saw them there!

I cannot wait to start creating with this new collection and am looking forward to sharing my creations with you!

If you love Inkido you could actually win some of their goodies at the moment.. 

Read all about the 'Like and Share' on the blog in THIS post.

Now I am off to play with my new papers!!

Have a nice day!! Hugs!