'You are my Anchor' using Prima's 'French Riviera'

Can you believe it!!,...? Another post from me already... :-)

Today I have made another page with the French Riviera collection. 

I used an older photo of my two youngest daughters that was laying on my desk. 

We actually have some gorgeous beaches here up north, shame the temperature does nothing 

to make me want to go there,....

The pretty flowers I used are mainly by Prima from the Cartographer collection. 

I decided they were a great match for my theme. The small daisies are from Bedtime Stories.

I actually mixed in some paper from 'Tales of You & Me', between the layers. I wanted to 

experiment and see what that would look like....

 I love the look of the Art Stones that I coloured with Blue Fern Studios mist 'Sky'.

Those die cut leaves are so darn pretty!!

Another close up of the layering and decorations.

This photo was taken a few years back. I have a feeling the girls will probably protest that they don't look their best. You know: 'hair is messy' etc etc,..but to me they always look like princesses :-D

Well done for getting this far,... Only one more close up and I'm done,...LOL!

Actually, I like it when I visit a blog and there are many pictures of the details. 

I feel I can get a closer look at the page, almost as if I were there. 

What do you thnk? Do you like to look at close ups on your blog round?

I will enter this page into the April challenge over at Let's Get Sketchy.

Here's the sketch:

Thank you so much for visiting today. I hope you have a nice and restful week end <3

Hugs!

A mixed media page using Les Papiers de Pandore's 'Carte Postale'.

Hi there!

Today I want to share a page using the new Carte Postale collection from Les Papiers de Pandore.

I love these new papers and also the stamp-set that have matching designs. Soo pretty!

You can see the ollection HERE

This was a really fun page to make. I used many of my mixed media goodies with the Pandore papers.
I started with gesso and some mists, then I added some watercolour pencils and some different media and things for texture. The Finnabair art stones are great for just texture and even the tiny microbeads.

The beautiful Blue Fern Studios chipboard got a lick of white paint and I even stamped with a small script stamp on top. You can see how I added the art stones inside the tiny frames while letting the dotted washi tape underneath shows through.

Here I used the 'Say Hello' from the stamp set and made a kind of a title together with the word 'friend' from the Sizzix Tim Holtz Friendship Script Words.
This is one of my fave  die cut word sets.

The large white flower is by Prima and  the leaves were made with a die also by Prima Marketing.

A couple of more close ups.As you see here;  with just small means you can achieve a lot of texture.

Finally I would like to share with you the challenge at Scrap Africa where I will be entering my page:
I actually took the liberty of adding some yellowy tones to the mix . (Initially I saw the lighter greens as yellow on my screen) My page kind of evolved on it's own. I took my inspiration from the first and last picture of the board. I associated to layering and mixing things up very freely.
And that suited my mood just perfectly

This is the enticing moodboard over there.

I hope you liked my page and maybe even feel a little inspired to create your own version of a mixed media page. They are just so much fun to make!!

Hugs and thanks for looking!!