'My Beautiful Girl' for Inkido/Sizzix

 Today I have a sweet page to share that I made for both the Sizzix and Inkido design teams. The pictures were taken the other evening at the nearest beach and I decided to convert them to black and white. I love working with black and white photos because they blend in so well with the coloured papers and embellishments. They match with everything!

I primed my 'Beautiful Memories' paper with gesso and a little mist using a stencil as well for added texture.

I cut two large circles using decorative scissors and stitched them to my paper. With a paintbrush I added gesso diluted with water to tone down the background music pattern. It could esily look very busy. I cut and embossed a smaller circle and used it as a mat for my two photos.

I made these gorgeous flowers in two sizes with the Tattered Florals die set that I love. It is just soo good for when you need some flowers to tone in with your papers.

I made my flower clusters tying in a swirly chipboard piece and also a light blue lace ribbon rosette.

I fussy cut some pretty butterflies from a matching patterned paper using the Susan's Garden Tool Kit which has become one of my absolute favourites to use when I craft.
All the tools in the kit are really very useful!

I love the texture added by the sweet handmade blooms made with Inkido papers.

-And being the same collection they are a perfect match!

Here you can see I layered different mediums too.
-Diluted gesso, modeling paste through a stencil and Prima Color Bloom mist.

I used these Sizzix products for my page:
Sizzix Big Shot starter kit (Powder Blue and Teal)
Sizzix Accessories Susan's Garden's Tool Kit
Sizzix Bigz Die, Tattered Florals
Life Made Simple, Sizzix thinlits basic set (I used the small heart)

Patterned papers: Inkido Beautiful Memories, Spring Time
Mini roses: Papirdesign
Lace: Papirdesign
Other flowers Prima, Petaloo

Thanks for visiting and hopefully you'll take some inspiration with you when you leave :-) !

Hugs!

My Sunday project for the Sizzix UK blog.

Hello all! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful Sunday afternoon!

I have a new project up on the Sizzix UK blog today.

This will give you an idea of the page I made. It is definitely shabby chic and I hope you'll like it!!

  

Click on the link below to see the full reveal:

Bente's Sunday page for the Sizzix UK blog.

I used these Sizzix products for my page:
Sizzix Big Shot starter kit (Powder Blue and Teal)
Sizzix Accessories Susan's Garden's Tool Kit
Sizzix Bigz Die, Tattered Florals
Life Made Simple, Sizzix thinlits basic set (I used the small heart)

I would love it if you paid a visit and as always I really appreciate those little comments that some of you leave me there :-) Thank you so much!

Hugs!

'Happy' for Inkido GDT at SATW.

I guess by now it's no news to any of you that Scrap Around the World is celebrating their anniversary and that there is a lot of things going on over there. One of their awesome sponsors is Inkido, and the DT was invited to guest design for them. You can read about it here:

“This month we are excited to announce that we are one of the TEN EPIC EVENT ANNIVERSARY event sponsors at Scrap Around The World & are also one of their Guest Design Teams!  Our DT coordinator Agnieszka is also representing us as one of the 10 chosen Guest Judges & we are so pleased to be involved in this great event, celebrating SATW’s First Birthday!

 This is no ordinary month at Scrap Around the World.  9 out of 10 of the prizes awarded will be going to past Winners, Features or Finalists (those featured on their legendary Wall of Fame in the past year) & one prize will be awarded to a totally NEW winner {someone who has never featured on their Wall of Fame before}.  This is so that TEN EPIC WINNERS can be selected as the TOP TEN PLAYERS of 2013/14 at Scrap Around The World! 

This will be a yearly competition held at this fantastic challenge blog & we are honoured to be a part of this inaugural event.  Please support Helen & her team at SATW by playing along this month.  There are 10 prizes, each valued at approximately $100 up for grabs, including free postage as usual, so it is so worth it, plus the inspiration is amazing!”

Inkido supplies used  

Spring Time {Romantic Roses}

 Beautiful Memories {Pink Butterflies}  

Summer {Old Pink Lyrics}  Harmony flowers (plum)

Mini Rose (turquoise)  White /Pink gardenia  half pearls

This is the anniversary mood board:

And of course I have a few close ups for you !

The Harmony flowers look so pretty! :-)

I used the Tim Holtz mini rosette die from Sizzix here. It is one of my favourites.

Click HERE to see it!

I mixed several of the older collections on this page. 

I think the Inkido papers are great for doing just that !

Please go check out the challenge at SATW HERE and DO JOIN to win one 

of SOOO many awesome prizes.

This is the prize from Inkido:

Have a great Tuesday!!

Handmade flowers and a mix of Inkido collections.

I hope you are all well and that you have gotten a lot of lovely pages or cards scrapped lately.This is my most recent page made using Inkido supplies. Actually,Inkido has a beautiful new collection out called Spring Time, and you can see it HERE.

But today I have a page to share that uses a combination of older collections.
 

 I layered quite a few beautiful patterned papers here and used my sewing machine to add decorative stitching and my punches for a cute border effect. The pretty vintage crochet lace add to the romantic feel of the page.

 
 
I used an awesome die by Sizzix called Tattered florals to make the larger flowers. I die cut the different parts from a patterned paper belonging to the X-mas collection. After spraying them with white mist to tone down the pattern there is nothing X-mas about them!! :-)

Link to the flower die : 656640 Sizzix Bigz die tattered Florals

 The Inkido papers have many gorgeous butterfly designs and I love to use fussy cut butterflies on my pages. The trellies pattern is also made using a Sizzix Frameworks die.

Link to the trellies die : 659431  Sizzix Frameworks die, Trellies

 

 I had a beautiful chipboard ring once,...but alas I managed to break it in two,... Here I found a way to put it to good use. :-) I also added some ink drips and splatters for an extra effect. 

That was all for today! I hope you enjoyed it.

Enjoy life!

Inkido papers used: 
Forever Collection, No 5  
Happy Christmas, Christmas Carol 
Beautiful Memories, Pink Flowers.  
Beautiful Memories Pink memories 
Spring Time, Roses of Romance
Scrap, Prick grön

Inkido share; 'Love this'.

I made this page as a contributor for PaperHaus Magazine April/Spring issue, but as there will be no more magazines I am allowed to share it already. I used some beautiful Inkido products for it.

I cut out a frame from one of the 'Beautiful Memories' papers and layered it on top of the sheet of  print paper.I added gesso and then some yellow Tattered Angels glimmer mist. I love the yellow drips!

I did a lot of stitching and added some torn cheese cloth to give the layout more texture. I layered some pretty pink and white doilies with corrugated tags from PapercraftScandinavia and those lovely mini roses are just the perfect finishing touch to my page. I used my Cameo to make the title from just ordinary patterned paper.

Inkido products used:

Beautiful Memories (Beautiful Pink, Butterflies borders), 

Tuva (Purple Orchid),

Cartas de Amor (Royal Red)

mini roses, cherry blossoms,

corrugated tags

Papirdesign products:

Doilies,

mini roses

letter stickers

Hugs!! :-)

A couple of Inkido shares.....

This is was the page that I made for my recent post on the Inkido blog. I enjoyed myself mixing a few different collections, old and new. I find they mix well as the designs  are mostly feminine and the colours mostly matcth beautifully.

Here are some photos with closeups of my details.

 I cut out the sweet vintage picture from one of the patterned papers. And I used my Silhouette 

Cameo for the lamp-post diecut.

We also had a Love/Valentines feature on the Inkido blog a couple of days agoand my contribution was a set of mixed media tags:

 I used gesso, ink and stamping to add texture to my tags. 

I painted some of the stamped butterflies with 'Silks' colour Pink Grapefruit.

 And here are a few shots of the tags individually.

I am so happy to see you today and I hope you're having a have a lovely day!! <3

Welcome to the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! Day 10

" Welcome to the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! 

You should have arrived here from the PaperHaus blog. 

We are celebrating the release of the Winter Issue of PaperHaus Magazine but also inspiring you each day with wonderful holiday projects, giveaways and inspiration! Our blog hop will run from December 1st to December 12th! Be sure to stop each day and leave a comment each day to win some fabulous prizes by our lovely sponsors! Don't forget to check out the Winter Issue for additional inspiration, holiday cheer and some amazing projects from our contributing team!" 

Many of you have probably already checked out the fab magazine. 
But just in case; HERE is a link to it. 

I only had time to prepare two pages for the magazine this time and you'll find my contributions

 on pages 40 and 62. One is a shabby page using Papirdesign products and the other one more clean using products from another favourite; Les Papiers de Pandore. I hope you like them both. I am not supposed to share them on my blog for a month so you'll se more of them here at the beginning of the new year.

Here is my contribution for the hop:

This is a page I made for Inkido as part of their DT and I used the delightful collection 'Happy Christmas' 

I used an older photo of my youngest and her BFF. 

(These are both very sensible girls but will occationally get up to some mischief :-) )

The title was made using red glitter Thickers and some older stickers from Pink Paislee (Old School).

The flowers are from Inkido. I used both Harmony flowers and Fashion Flowers (red).

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut most of these shapes and borders. For an accent I added some 

red Viva pearl maker to the vine underneath the picture.

 Finally a shot to show some of the dimension I was trying to add to my page.

I love using black and white photographs on my pages as they are so neutral and permit adding a lot of bits and pieces that us scrapbookers love!

Here is a full list of todays stops:

DAY 10

• PaperHaus Magazine www.thepaperhaus.com
• Bente Fagerberg www.paperandglueheaven.blogspot.com
• Eila Sandberg www.dollopsofscrap.blogspot.com
• Shellye McDaniel www.shellyemcdaniel.com
• Authentique www.blog.authentiquepaper.com

So your next stop will be my delightful dear friend Eila and I am sure she has prepared a treat for you!!

Hugs!!

Inkido December challenge.

I hope you are enjoying lovely crisp early Winter weather where you are.
Here a storm just passed for now and it is mainly raining and very grey and drab. Perfect for staying  inside scrapping or making seasonal cards.

Today I want to tell you about the latest Inkido challenge which I am hosting this month.
This time I want to see a project incorporating stars and/or snowflakes. I am sure we all have many of those planned for this time of year, so why not share them with us here at Inkido.
Please remember we do not like 'backlinking' though :-) All the entries have to be new and made especially for this challenge.

Here is my page:



(Sorry my photos are not up to my normal standard. I still have no internet connection at home so I had to use my IPhone...)



For this challenge you can use all kinds of stars and/or snowflakes. Inkido has some great stamps with stars that would look awesome on a page or a Christmascard! If you cannot get hold of that one you can use chipboard or diecuts like I did and I also used a petterned paper with tiny stars on it. Mine is from the latest collection by Inkido called 'Happy Christmas'. In the collection there are even some awesome papers with snowflakes on them!!



 A few more closeups:



 Finally here's a sideways photograph of how I built up my page in layers.

Challenge Rules

1. You must submit your project / layout /  using the Link tool on the sidebar.

2. You may submit more than one project and you are allowed to combine this challenge with two other challenges.

3. You are required to mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Inkido. We also want you to link back to our challenge.

4. If you use any Inkido product for your project, do mention the product in your post.

5. The challenge will end on 31st December  2013.

Prize
Since we have so many collections and beautiful papers at Inkido we have a very special prize this month, you can create a collection of your 12 favorites papers from Inkido and we will send it you asap in 2014!

And here is the LINK to the challenge!

I'm on the Inkido DT 2014!!

Hi all!! 

Today is the exciting day when everybody will find out who made the Inkido 2014 DT.

Let me first share my joy that I have been invited back for a new term and I am overjoyed to be working with such an amazing group of friends, old and new!!

HERE you can read all about the announcement.

Hugs!!

Getting in the advent spirit with this page.

Hi,it's me Bente here to share one of my latest pages for Inkido.

I hope to find you relaxed and well and enjoying your weekend.

Unfortunately this will be a rather short and sweet post as my regular Internet is down and I find myself writing my post on my mobile phone for the first time....

Ok, here is my layout, and I am

sorry I have not been able to edit my photos much.....

I used the lovely 'Happy Christmas' for this and added quite a few inkido flowers to embellish.

Here are a couple of close ups too:

I took a few pictures of my creative process but those are on my DSLR and I cannot get them transferred just now,but maybe I can add them as soon as I get my connection back. :-)

I very much enjoyed stencilling with the gold medium and also making the stars with gesso.

The burgundy geraniums match this collection beautifully.

I used the olive package of Harmony flowers. I just love that dark green glittered bloom. Soo lush!

I made the sweet green vine wreath by cutting the pretty green music paper of the Happy Christmas collection with my Silhouette Cameo. The Santa tag was also cut from one of the patterned papers.

Again, sorry for the 'crappy' photos!

Hope to see you soon again!!