Color Combos Galore 190. "Nikki Sivils" "It's Raining it's Pouring"

At Color Combos Galore we are playing with the cute papers from "Nikki Sivils" again this week.

She has been sponsoring the site this month and this is the second week that we in the DT make a layout using the line "It's Raining It's Pouring" that she so generously has given us.
Thank you so much Nikki!

This is the layout that I created with this weeks combo.

And here is the Combo 190 that you should use for your entries this week.





The inspiration photo with the three children is very pretty and the added challenge this week is to scrap about siblings or/and pets.
I am sure the gallery will be overflowing with beautiful creations this coming week!!...lol! I can't wait to see what stunners you will upload in the next few days!

This would not be my blog should I not post a lot of close ups.... :-)...right...?
Actually, my layout this week was pretty straight forward, and did not have many 'special features' to accentuate. I used a lot of my Nikki papers last time so I had to think about this one a little.
I decided to stretch the collection with some DCWV cardstock in the right olive tone.

I used the cardstock mainly to create a sun shape. I added some pleated Maya Road ribbon from            Your Scrapbook Stash around the edge of my sun to get the impression of little sun rays.
The cute little cloud is cut from the elements sheet in Nikki's collection and so was the little sentiment.

I made a rosette flower, I seem to be very fond of those at the moment. i think it is because I finally found out that I have to make the pleats really narrow for it to work. Previously they always turned out very 'high'. I did not like that, as I have so many other things that will normally add bulk to my pages.
Even the little banner was made with the NS collection papers. It was held together with twine. The blue strips underneath the photos are from the Nikki Sivils element sheet,too.

My journaling is about my youngest DD Beatrice and our kitten Lady ( popular in my photos, she is sooo cute!!)
They love each other those two ,...that's for sure!
I added quite a bit of precious lace to this layout to make it soft and sweet to frame my two little darlings.

I am photographing this in the grass outside.Isn't that fantastic...?
Finally Spring is definitely here and Winter has withdrawn at last. Thank God for that!

Thanks for visiting me!

Color Combos Galore 187 / Nikki Sivils

It is that time of the week again.
Lovely Friday morning with promises of a looong weekend approaching.. I love it!!

This week the design team at Color Combos Galore were graciously sponsored by Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker.
Her products are such a delight to work with and the designs are so fun and whimsical! We were given the collection 'It's Raining it's pouring' to play with and I recommend you go HERE to see what the rest of the design team came up with. -Some seriously cute and cool stuff!

This is my take on the challenge:

And here is this weeks inspiration board:

To fulfill the requirement of using wet medium I used acrylic paint and I applied some liquid pearl as raindrops underneath the clouds. The wettest part of the process often is when I spray or drench mu papers with water. This time I immersed the white paper and wrinkled it . After inking it I used it as a photo mat for my two photos.

I just the other day received some mists I ordered from Your Scrapbook Stash ( BIG sale on, up to 50% off mists now!!!!  GO THERE! ) what you see here is actually my very first squirt of mist that I ever used. I found it to be very scary stuff indeed!! I just wanted a little but I got A LOT if you see what I mean. It is totally incontrollable....I now admire the excellent misters EVEN MORE. I foresee a steep learning curve , but with oh so much fun...Watch this space...

I was lucky to have these pictures from last Summer where Beatrice is dancing around with a big red/white golf umbrella.
From her big smile I got the title 'Rain or Shine you Always have a Big Smile on your Face'. It is the plain truthe and not just my effort to make life seem rosy. She is a happy girl my Miss B!

To add a little more dimension to my quick page I decided to use the back of the clouds I cut out from the pp as masks. I ended up with two cute stark white clouds on my paper. I then inked around the edges of the cut out clouds with blue and added them on top with pop dots. Then of course I had to add my buttons and decided to use them as rain. I added some liquid pearl and some bling to make the rain 'sparkly'. I cut a small strip of the rain-paper and added it along the top to complete the rain scene.


In this close up you can see the difference made by the pop dots:

I hope you enjoyed this, and I can recommend that you visit CCG to see what the rest of the team came up with!!