Scraps of Elegance are guesting at Scrap Around the World.

Hi! Today I am happy to share that my fave kit club Scraps of Elegance is guesting at  the awesome
Scrap Around the World .
We are a permanent sponsor for 2014 and this is the month that we get to show our stuff :-) 

The members of the design team have prepared a page each with inspiration from the lovely mood 

board prepared by Marilyn Rivera. We have all used material from SOE kits.

I used the July kit , Chasing Rabbits, to make this page and the papers are by
Marion Smith Designs and Kaisercraft.

August 2014 Challenge 16 - An Elegant & Textural Mood Board by Marilyn Rivera.

And HERE is a link to the challenge.

I even prepared a few 'closies' for you:

The little cutie is my nephew and I took this shot of him last Summer when he was just a few months.

One of the things I love about SOE is that I get to use an abundance of beautiful flowers and other great embellishments that come with the kit and the various add ons.

The teal and the pink flowers are by Petaloo and the orange and black ones are made by Prima Markting. And that cute tiny resin frame just makes me smile.

 The red cherry blossoms are also from the kit/add on but the large pink bloom was hand made from cardstock using the Sizzix Bigz die Tattered Florals.

I hope you enjoyed my page and also the pages of my talented DT sisters.

Don't forget to check out the challenge at SATW!

Hugs!

Scraps of Elegance sponsoring SATW, and a feature at Scrapbook.com

I am lucky to be guesting the popular challenge site Scrap Around The World not one but TWO times this month! This time I have a sweet page to share that I made as part of the DT of Scraps of Elegance who are one of the sponsors of the  .............celebration.

This is the pretty mood board that we were given as inspiration:

In the photograph my colours turned out a little darker than those in the mood board, but I think that is ok as the board is for inspiration.

Here is a short pictoral description of how I made the page.

 And here are the usual close ups of the details. I love this photo. It was taken of my middle daughter when she was a couple of years old and she will actually be 20 next birthday :-) 

We had chicks in the garden and it was so much fun to see the joy on my three girls' faces! .-)

I used mostly the April kit from my fave kit club Scraps of Elegance for this page. The papers are by Bo Bunny and Glitz, and the red paper inside the trellies is by Papirdesign.

 To add texture I used a mask with gesso and a similar trellis pattern cut with one of my new Sizzix dies. I love the versatility of those dies. Here I have cut them out, glued them to a red backing paper and then cut around the shapes for added interest.

You can find the dies HERE

Even the red flowers were made using a die from Sizzix die. (Tattered florals by Tim Holtz) HERE

 I used letterstickers from Prima for my title and the splatters are made with mist.

I hope you enjoyed my page!

This morning I woke up to a nice notification that my recent page for Inkido called 'Milan Trip'
had been picked for the new feature called  'Layouts we Love'



You can see all the features on the Scrapbook.com blog HERE.

Have a lovely day!!

'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!!

Inkido will take part in this Epic Event!!

  Hello there! 

Today I just want to tell you about an event that will be taking place all this month. Inkido will be one of the awesome sponsors and the DT will take part as well!

here is what Helen has to say about it:

Epic Anniversary Event PRIZES, Sponsors & Guest Judges! Part 1!!

Hello YET again!!  Finally it is TIME for you to see the wonderful prizes we have on offer for you this month, to read about our amazing sponsors & to see who will be judging your passionate entries!  As you can read in the last couple of posts, we have TEN SPONSORS this month, each offering prizes of very similar value - $100 US DOLLARS each PLUS POSTAGE!  Not too shabby now is it?!?

First up we have INKIDO {Papercrafts Scandinavia} from Sweden.

Inkido is  a family run business who have been in the paper industry

 since the early 90's.  We design, produce & market papers with a 

Scandinavian vintage design feel , flowers, embellishments & bling

 for the scrapbooking industry.  Please visit our website & blog

 for more information & inspiration.

www.papercraftscandinavia.com

Our Blog: http://inkido.blogspot.se

Here is the prize being offered by Inkido!

Loads & loads of beautiful recent papers, embellishments,

 flowers & gems!!  

And as the Inkido Guest Judge we have the very lovely Agnieszka Bellaidea, 

the Inkido Design Team Co-ordinator!

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For SATW using Les papiers de Pandore collection 'Crochetin'.

Hello and happy Sunday to you! Hopefully your week end has been a good one so far!!

Here is a page I made as part of the DT for Les Papiers de Pandore, my fave French manufacturer.
It is kind of an old fashioned page using different paper techniques and not so much the different mists that are on almost all the scrapbook pages at the moment. I LOVE to use those too, but today I wanted to show off the beautiful products I am lucky  to work with!

Here are some closeups of the details on my page:

I was inspired by the February mood board at Scrap Around the World.

I loved the yummy layers of beautiful colours and the pink and yellow tones.

I wanted to create something frilly and feminine to go with it.

You still have a few days to enter before they close this months challenge. 

Why not give it a go...? You can read all about it on the blog HERE.

Thanks for dropping by.

Hugs!!

A closer look at my GD page for Scrap Around the World.(And some bragging :-) )

This is the page I made recently as a guest designer for

 Scrap Around the World. 

Inkido was a previous sponsor and we were delighted when Helen asked us to interpret the September mood board. This is such a fun challenge!
I promised I would post some close ups of my page today so here goes .-)

And here is a picture of the mood board and sketch for Gayle's challenge.

Isn't it just gorgeous?!!

 I started out taking inspiration from the stripes (background sheet), the words 'flying' out from the head (my butterflies), the large title (also a quote) and the black and white photo of a person. 

I also did a loose interpretation of the available sketch, picking just a few  of the elements.

 I fussy cut a lot of tiny flowers from one of the sheets in the 'Beautiful Memories' collection.

I believe the flowers are are poppies.

 I picked Inkido's  small butterfly stamp  and combined it with some other butterflies that I cut out. They were all embellished with some bling and pearl stones. Inkido do these in several colours and they are so great to add to all kinds of projects.
 
  I find the internet is such a great source when you are searching for various inspiration, and for
this challenge I decided I needed a good quote. This was just one of several quotes that I found.
 
 After cutting out the words with my Silhouette Cameo I backed them with pink paper, except for the words black and white that I wanted to stand out against the background.

As you can see from this close up I also added some freestyle sewing with my machine. I find it adds a lot of interest without being intrusive or  taking anything away from the design.

Talking of design,.... I was very pleased to finf out this page was a winner in the latest challenge over at Scrap & Music. I have hardly taken part in any challenges lately but that is something I would like to change ,.)

Thanks for checking out my page today. :-)

There is still a lot of time to take part in the challenge at SATW, or why not Sabrinas September challenge at Inkido to use layers and borders?

Hugs!