Color Combos Galore # 224, a Happy Birthday tag.

Time again for a new color challenge at CCG!

This is the second week working with this beautiful combo on the inspiration board. 

Unfortunately I was not able to take part in the previous one and I really missed it!

This week you can make tags, cards, mini albums and/or altered projects.

I made a largeish birthday card-tag that I plan hang on a present and make it double as a gift tag. 

As I am sure you can tell it is actually fairly straight forward.

The designer challenge calls for use of some metal element on your project

For my metal I used a small heart charm tied on with yellow twine.
I used kraft coloured corrugated cardstock as a base to mimic the texture on the cupcake liner.

The light blue paper and the yellow twine was bought from local manufacturer Panduro Hobby.

The corrugated cardstock is from the dollar store.

The yellow roses are a non-brand type that I bought from a shop on the internet.

 At first I was thinking this would be a bookmark for one of my girls. But then I ended up with those bulky yellow roses that would not fit very well between a couple of bookpages,...lol!

I hope you will try this combo and mabybe make some sweet spring cards yourselves.

It is great to stock up on them for when you need one but don't have the time to pull out all those supplies. I am off to  make a few more myself now for all those birthdays coming up.

Thanks for dropping by.

Do What You Love. Using those gorgeous Authentique Papers again!

A couple of months ago I bought three different whole collections from"Authentique Paper".

 The one I have used the most Is called "Uncommon" and has the most feminine colours and patterns. That is the one I used for this layout.I really had so much fun doing this one.

I made it nearly two months ago and had almost forgotten about it.

That photo of Beatrice is so cute (Fotograf Gisela Ackerup took it, she's on FB)

What I love most here is the, for me, unusual shape and outlay. Mostly my layouts are pretty square in form and I normally just leave a little white space. 

So for me this one is a bit different.

To make the 'cornucopia-shape' I first fussy cut  a whole lot of those beautiful red pink and grey roses they have. I placed my photo in the right spot and started dding the roses from there. 

When I was content with the look I proceeded adding my dimensional roses on top.

I picked a beautiful flourish from Imaginarium Designs to 'frame' my photo. I cut in two after covering it with white paste.At the bottom of this post I will show you what it looks like bare.

 I have a doily as a photo mat and the doily in the upper corner is cut from one of the AP papers that has a doily pattern. I used my trusted Cheery Lynn die to cut that one.

The black letter stickers are fabric stickers by Prima Marketing. I really love that they are so textural.

 

I distressed all the edges of my textprint patterned base.

I cut a frame about 1,5 cm wide and sewed it on, after first securing it will a couple of drops of glue.

As it is not completely stuck down it can easily be torn and lifted in the way you want to leave you with a beautifully distressed border.

Here is a picture of my beautiful ID flourish:

And HERE is the link to it.

I have just started using my blue collection of Authentique Paper. 

 I almost never use blue so this should be fun,...lol!

                                                                   Watch this space.....

Yesterday I received my large box of goodies from Stop and Scrap and I am in scrap heaven!!

Don't forget you get a slightly larger discount (12%) using the S and S code in my sidebar compared to most of the newsletters they send out. Just write 'paperglue' in the right spot.

That was all for today.

Tomorrow I am off with my girls to a scrap fair about an hour from here by car. 

I feel like a kid in a candy store!

Keep safe!

"Combo de mars" on the Pandore blog. I loved the gorgeous colours!!

Hello and good morning to all my friends!!

Today I have a beautiful combo to share and a layout I made for it.

Instead of making the monthly combo,sketch and tutorial a part of the webzine as until now, Julie has decided everybody should have a chance to take part and not only the ones subscribing to the newsletter.

To achieve this there will be a schedule on the blog as follows:

On the 10th of each month a sketch 

On the 20th each month a colour combo

On the 30th each month a tutorial.

This is the first combo for the blog

I made a layout with a sweet photo of our eldest DD Alexandra and the youngest member of our family, my gorgeous little godchild, Nicole.

 I mixed up a few of the recent collections from Les Papiers de Pandore . (If you press the link Julie has added a list of the supplies underneath  my layout.)

And also on the Pandore blog you can see the beautiful and stunning cake ornament creation that Parvati made for the combo. She is a real paper whizard!

I chose this title as it reflects the fact that Alex is the oldest and Nicole is the smallest/youngest of the cousins. I used some older Thickers from Ameican Crafts for it.

There is a slight glitter effect to the surface. (And if you look closely you will see that the glue had not yet dried when I took the picture,...it was getting dark quickly!)

I didn't want this page to feel as layered and 'heavy' as some of my other pages. 

I wanted the focus to be on the sweet photo and of course the combo.

To avoid it looking too clean and simple I decided to make an ornamental grill of papers with some 

half pearls added. I quite like the look and may take some pictures next time to show how easily 

it can be made. I just cut strips of paper and added to the page, cutting more as I went. 

I did it all freehand but next time I might use the ruler to make it look more tidy.

I hope you like it!

I have been so busy lately with work and travelling that I have a backlog of things I should be blogging about.

Since the end of February I have been to the UK, Frankfurt in Germany and Milan in Italy!

 And last Friday I had a dinner date with my lovely friend Eila here in town. Lucky me!

(I will tell you a secret; she's like me...we both looked at the desserts first,...LOL!)

 Oh well, I will be back tomorrow. 

-And I still have not blogged about who will receive my Liebster awards. I will be giving it to 20 fabulous blogs, but maybe not all at the same time,...

Take care and be good!!

Once Upon A Sketch March 15th. "Miss You" "Perfume de Camélias".

Due to a business trip to Milan I am a bit late in posting about our latest challenge over at OUAS.

I cannot believe it has been a week since my last post!!

I just sent my layout to Nadia and will do a quick share here of the challenge and my new page.

 I used the shabby collection from Les Papiers de Pandore and it is called "Perfume de Camélias"

The journalling criteria was to do a page about someone you miss. In our family we miss Alexandra, who is away abroad to attend university.

My journaling is simple and says;
It has now been six months since you went away to start university in the UK.
Here at home we all miss you a lot,but we are lucky that you are not too far away for us to be able to go and visit you!

The photos were taken in France on holiday a couple of years ago.

March 15th Challenge

Journalling Criteria:   Finish this line "I miss...". 

 Tell us about someone you are missing right now and why. Your journalling can be as long or as little as you like, but we want to hear all about someone you are missing!

Ideas for journalling: missing time alone with your partner, missing your old self, missing your children because they are off to school, university or living away from you, missing your children being young, missing a friend you have not seen in a while, someone in another country, someone that has passed away, a mentor whose advice you could use, a relative you wish you lived closer to, someone you regret having an argument with, missing a pet

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..

To read all the fine print and to see the examples of the designers and guests  please head over to OUAS HERE.

As I promised; just a short post.
Enjoy the rest of your week end!!