Time for the May challenge at Scrap for Help using ''Papirdesign''.

For the latest challenge at Scrap for Help I decided to go for some lovely lovely lilac and Spring like papers from two different collections by Norwegian Papirdesign. I just love that colour!! 

This is my layout;

The challenge this time is to use a napkin somewhere on your layout.

The little cutie in the photos is my goddaughter. I took the photos one day I was looking after her
at our place.

You can easily see here how I used the napkin. I tore off the upper patterned layer and cut out the leaf motive and then attatched it on either side of the large white bloom (Manorhouse Creation).

The canvas banner by Prima Marketing got a dash of yellow glimmermist and some gesso on top of that to tone down the colour a bit. The mini roses are from Papirdesign and only show a few of the gorgeous colours they have and in several sizes too. Awesome!! I would like to remind you that we have an awesome prize feady for the winner of our Papirdesign blog hop ending on May 17th. Click on the link and you can read all about it!!

The chipboard ornament is also by Papirdesign and it says something like ''Our fave little girl''.
The honeycombe chipboard is by Wycinenka, I just love their lazer cuts!

The brick overlay is part of a larger sheet by Hambly that I have been hoarding. The bricks around the edges I drew using a mask as a template and then filled in with some ProMarker and some gesso.
 

 I hope you will check out this latest challenge and see what napkins you have that would look good on a scrapbook page :-) !!

An earthy combo at Color Combos Galore using Hambly and woodgrain.

I can't believe it has been almost a week since my last post,...Where did time go?

This week at CCG the colours are tones of brown and tan with a burst of amber orange. The colours  look very lovely together but I will admit that I had great difficulty going through my extensive stash looking for anything that would match the combo. I pulled out everything that would work and just added it all to my page.
Rummaging through my stash I found I have little brown and little or no orange. I realized I am more of a pink, green, teal,and cream girl.
But this is how my page turned out anyway;

The designer challenge said use  for example woodgrain and lined paper which I did. I used a piece of transparency by Hambly tht had a woodgrain pattern. I bought two but have still been hoarding them. They are so pretty. For the middle photo mat I used a paper from DCWV that has the pattern of a tree trunk.My journaling was written on some graph/lined paper from Prima arketing.
I had to use a lot of editing on this and the contrast I applied made my page look a little lighter than in real life.

And this is the Inspiration Board for this week;

And then the customary close ups;

The chipboard butterflies and the large branch are by House of Three, Parisian Anthology. The same goes for the piece underneath my title.I added some half glass beads to the tips of the branches.

The little bird house was cut from a piece of the Hambly woodgrain transparency and I made a small roof for it as well as added a tiny button.In the background underneath my photo mat I have use cheese cloth or muslin that I dyed with strong coffee to get the right tone of light brown. At least my lo smells good!

I put a lot of my embellishments down the side layered on top of the transparency. The round spots are made with a Spellbinders die.

I love to use a sepia or black/white photo with these kinds of colours. It can be difficult to find a suitable photo otherwise. I used Webster's Pages letter stickers for my title.

The photo was taken in Provence this Summer when Beatrice and I went for a walk and we had our own little photo shoot. We took a lot of nice photos and had a lot of fun until my memory card was completely full and it was time to walk home for a new one.

I hope you enjoyed looking at what I have been up to.

And a report on my computer,... As Monty Python would say IT IS NO MORE, it is completely deceased like the dead parrot.My two beautiful memory drives that were for all my photos had been ruined by lightning. When the nice computer repair man tried to replace them with a new one that one broke as well. So we have mutually decided that I have to make a change. Fortunately I made a copy of my pics in the eleventh hour and fingers crossed I got all of them. I have not been able to  check yet. Now I am on the look for a new PC.
I am blogging (far too seldom, though) on Alexandra's laptop, but editing and posting on the laptop takes me FOREVER,...it does ...really!
Hope you are all enjoying your week end.
Bye for now!