Get Creative - Once Upon A...Sketch mix it up for the second time! New "Les Papiers de Pandore"

Hi friends!

How are you? -Ready for a new challenge yet?

Today the second half of the designers at OUAS get a chance to play along at Get Creative , 

the awesome Greek challenge blog and brainchild of Irini Liolia !

This is the beautiful sketch created by the talented Elina.

Normally if you joined in one of the challenges over at OUAS we'd have a journaling prompt for you.
Get Creative doesn't have taht but hey,...why not keep up the good work? I have gotten so used to doing journaling now, so this time I put plenty,- on the back of my layout.

This is the layout I made. I tried to keep faithful to the sketch,but will admit to having executed a bit of artistic freedom,...lol.
I used the gorgeous new collection from "Les Papiers de Pandore" for this.
It's called 'Perfume de Camélias' and as you can see (and as I have said many times already,...)
it is beautiful!!

To create the 'brick' background I used the Crafter's Companion 12x12 mask. It is just great to work with, but it does feel like it 'swallowing half a bottle of mist every time I use it! 

It is great to use with paints too, by the way.

After spraying the mist and letting it dry, I traced the bricks with a pencil, and then painted with gesso in between each brick. I find that creates the impression of mortar.

I embellished mostly with Prima blooms and some others from my stash. I used two different punches from Martha Stewart to make up  the large cross element in the sketch. I added some lace to to soften it up.

Lately I seem to have a fanfold flower on most of my los...

.... -And a banner,too...lol!

To create a space for my title I cut off a piece of corrugated cardboard from a box laying around as evidence of  a recent shopping spree. I painted this too, with gesso and inked the edges. 

A gorgeous piece of lace then serves as a mat for some of my favourite alphas at the moment. 

These are also from Prima Marketing.

The pretty little chipboard butterfly in th lower left corner is by Imaginarium Designs.

You can find it HERE.  

They have some gorgeous product.  And they have started a new Ning site too.

I had another welcome surprise these last few days,too.

Sweet  Laurence  from France decided she wanted to award me this:

It was such a sweet and unexpected pleasure. 

The award is for blogs that have less than 200 followers  and the giver thinks that maybe they deserve to have more,.... :-) Thank you so much Laurence.

Now I have to decide who I want to give it to. There are so many great blogs around. 

I will be back with that news soon!

I hope I have not forgotten anything.

I am writing this I between running the kids to all the different activities.

I hope you have a lovely evening and a sweet Valentines Day, even if you are not celebrating with that special someone. 

My hubby went to China last Friday and will not be back for another couple of weeks.

But I am enjoying having at least two of my girls at home with me!

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Le Parfum de Camélias "Mots Doux" New Les Papiers de Pandore.

This evening I will share the first of the pages I have made using the new collections from Les Papiers de Pandore. I started with "Le Parfums de Camélias"

As we are nearing Valentines Day it is quite appropriate to use a photo of my eldest brother and his wife.. I snapped a few shots of them last time I went to Norway to visit with my family.

 Here are also the usual close ups:

I am running back and forth between computer and kitchen (running very late with dinner ;..lol , as we always have so many activities to run to ,..today 2 X violin and 1 X Youth Club..)

So I do not feel the need for so many words today.

I think the close ups speak for themselves. You will absolutely see that this collection is gorgeous and so lovely to work with. 

Sometimes I get nervous I will not do it justice,...lol!"

I think the feather adds a sweet softness to all those flowers. 

 

 

                        I also love the big clock that says Paris and comes on the cut out sheet.

 Thanks for dropping by and for any comments you may leave me.

I love reading them!!

TWO new collections from Les Papiers de Pandore. Terribly beautiful!!!

And I mean really, really, terribly beautiful!

Instead of doing one collection per release like she has done in the past, 

Julie Blanc of "Les Papiers de Pandore" has done a whale of a job and produced no less than TWO absolutely stunning collections.

(And I am lucky enough to have been creating with them already!!!)

Today I will give you a peak at the two collections.

The first one is called "Cherry Chérie" (isn't that darling...?)

 Don't you just love the freshness of this? I think it is a collection that works very well for boys but can be equally lovely for creating pages about girls. Look at that paper with the cute clouds , or the lovely soft flowers,...or the brick wall.....or..or....

 These are the stamps that come with the collection.

You can buy them on one larger sheet instead of several small ones.

I can see many great uses for these. 

Happy I already have them in my stash,...lol!

And all this goodness is only half of it....

The second collection is called "Le Parfum des Camélias".

Just say the name out loud,...it is so so romantic and a perfect name for this feminine shabby chic collection with revishing overtones of pink, purple, lilac and green.
I just love that one,too!!.....I think you can tell lol :-)

There are plenty of cute designs like butterflies and flowers to be fussy cut and used on your projects.
And both collections have a large sheet of cut-outs to match.

I particularily love the butterfly stamp in two sizes and the nifty set to make your own banner.

 

This is such a sweet layout with Julie's little girl.

If you love these collections it might interest  you to know that there is a candy on the blog. 

If you post about the releases on your own blog and check back at the Pandore blog with a comment on each post there, you may be eligible to win. Good luck!!

Julie has decided that some of the revenue from these collections will be donated to the organization Doctors Without Borders.

Tomorrow I will have more to share. I will at least show you the first of my pages I made with 'Camelias'. My second page still lacks a title,....

This is where you go for the candy

Enjoy the rest of your evening!

Lovely Valentines inspiration at Color Combos Galore #217. "Authentique" Uncommon

Valentines Day is quickly approaching and maybe you want to make a sweet project for a special someone...
At Color Combos Galore this week we have the perfect combo for you to apply to such a project. Check this out:

Pretty isn't it?

For the designers  challenge I decided to focus on my gorgeous first born who is now away in the UK at university. Of course we miss her lots and worry about her, but with all the wonderful qualities she has I trust she will be fine. In March she is coming home for a break again, and we can't wait. 

Actually, I hope we will be able to go and visit her before then...

I used the Collection "Uncommon" by "Authentique" and had a lot of fun cutting out all the roses from one of the patterned papers. They are so feminine and I just love the pretty colours!

The large photo corners that  have painted with dimentional paint are by Imaginarium Designs and they have a similar one that  looks like this before it's  painted.

I also have some close ups to share:

 From the challenge board I was inspired to use a heart punch for my border and also to look for letter stickers that were similar to those in the photograph. I punched a border on the white Bazzil paper to mimic the wavy plate in the picture,too.

I hope I have inspired you to try this challenge.
Thanks for dropping by!!

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