A page for Blue Fern Studios November sketch challenge.

Hi there!

Today is the day the new sketch is revealed on the Blue Fern Studios blog and I want to share that with you here as well to make sure you dont miss it :-) It truly is a great looking sketch!!

Don't you agree?

And here is my page using the new Vintage Christmas collection so full of gorgeous design and Christmas cheer. I used Deck the Halls, Noel, and Greeting Cards, 

I love how the large piece of chipboard in the back mimics the crown on my daughters head. I actually thought of this photo of her the moment I saw the sketch. Here in Sweden we celebrate 

St. Lucia on December 13th  and it's kind of a festival of light and our family go to church to listen to our youth choir sing beautiful seasonal songs. It's very special. 

Last year Beatrice was picked to be Lucia and she was so happy about it!!

I wanted to keep the colouring quite simple and traditional for this page so I added decorations in red white and green mainly, as well as some hemp string.

I painted the large chipboard piece, and piece de resistance, with an acrylic paint in a golden colour.

The magnificent piece of chipboard is called French Ironwork. When dry I stamped it with the Essential Textures stamp and also embossed the pattern with the Petal embossingpowder. 

I even used the stamp on my background. The other stamp set I used was Parisian Ironwork.

 I cut the caption 'Christmas Joy' from the Greeting Cards paper.

 To get some flowers that would match perfectly I decided to pull out my diecut machine and make some from scrach. I added pop dots between the layers to make the flowers more realistic.

I inked around the outlines of the pieces to make them stand out more. 

I used red dimensional Thickers with glitter for my title.

I hope you enjoyed my first seasonal page of the year!!

You can read all about the November challenge HERE.

Lucia celebration, Papirdesign

Hi, I'm back to share a layout about a typical Swedish tradition celebrating Santa Lucia. 

It is a festival of light taking place on December 13th. We really appreciate the lights so much during the darkest period of the year here in the northern parts of Europe.

Normally I find it hard to scrap this kind of photos, but using the new Christmas papers from Papirdesign (and some of the other beautiful products they make) really helped make a lo that I actually quite like!

I used some Spellbinders and Cheery Lynn dies  and a mask by Prima Marketing. 

I added some glitter to the dots and some other places in the design to make it more festive.

Pop dots behind the cut out elements help add dimension to my page. I love the sweet cherubs and the glittery chipboard stars as well as all the flowers.

I have combined the latest collection with some earlier Christmas papers.

"Mens vi venter" "Munter Melodi" has ready printed banners just for you to cut out. How neat is that!

I hope you like my Lucia page and that I was able to provide a little scrapping-inspiration on the way. Tomorrow we are back to work/school and all the regular chores! 

And hopefully I can sneak in som scrappy-time just for me.

Hugs!!

Papirdesign produkter som jeg har brukt:

Klippeark Engler

Bokstavklistremerker- Röd

Gardenia-Vit

Kirsebärblomst rosa/lys rosa

Kirsebärblomst lyseblå

Petals-Röd

Glitter chipboard-Snöfnugg

Mens vi venter-Litt av hvert

Mens vi venter-Julesopp

Naturlig-Strie

Mens vi venter-Munter Melodi

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