Guest designing at 13 Arts!!!

I was delighted a few weeks ago when I was offered to be a guest designer at 13 Arts, the trendy Polish manufacturer of beautiful scrapbooking papers.

I knew of their two collections and also of their awesome and very talented owner/designer Aida Domisiewicz aka Ayeeda in the scrapping world, from among other places the CSI site. She makes the most beautiful textured pages. -And as you will see she even designs lovely papers.

The latest news is that she is brancghing out into mists, gesso etc for mixed media work.

Here is the first of three pages I have made so far, and I have a couple more in the pipline so to speak...

 

I primed my paper with gesso and used a mask with large dots. I used different mists and ink on top and blended them. I wanted to accent the pink colours in the paper and show that they can easily be adapted to a romantic style.

The pretty yellow flower is by Manorhouse Creations as well as the pink one.

The white rose is from 13 Arts. I cut my title from the accessories-sheet which has a lot of great elements like banners and stuff.

I love the look of the brick patterned paper. I cut a frame from it to go all along the edges of my page. I added some cute pink buttons from Doodlebug as a contrast to the paint and shabbiness of the overall page.

The cute frame was made using a Sissix framelits die. It is one of my faves at the moment.

And for the fence I used a die by Cheery Lynn.

That's all for today my friends. I make this a quick one as I am having internet trouble (...again..!) and am typing this at work after hours....

I hope you like my page and will be back to see the rest of what I made for 13 Arts.

Soon I'll be back to share the new colour combo from Les Papiers de Pandore and my take on it!

Hugs, and thanks for any comments!

Winner of my RAK for the Spring Fling hop and a card for baptism.

Hi! Just a quick post today with a card I made for a baptism of a beautiful baby girl last Saturday.

I wanted to have a handmande card, and was able to make one really quick one using some of my scraps and a few embellies. I used the collection 'Beautiful Memories ' from Inkido which has quite a few designs that are perfect for these occations. The baby-image was cut from one of the sheets that has so many of these similar designs. Really quite a perfect supply to have at home if you have many babies 'near you'.

This card is up on the Inkido blog today together with a layout that I shared a few days ago as my contribution to the Scrap 4 Help challenge for March

Scroll down to the previous post if you would like to see more close ups of this one .-)

We also have a challenge at the Inkido blog right now, hosted by Kelly.

Scrap an outdoor photo.

Now to the announcement you have been waiting for.... Ta daaa...

My winner is:

My commenter number 20 is

Pam: Love your LO ! The stitching is awesome.

(Please get in touch with me with your address within a week.)

Hugs, Bente!!

'You and Me', - A valentine style layout using Inkido.

Hi!

I am back to share a new layout I made for Inkido, Papercraftsscandinavia.

Their sweet, romantic, feminine papers are a perfect fit for all those Valetines projects we like to make this time of year.

Here is what I made:

I love this cute photo of  Beatrice and me taken by my sweet and talented sister Sylvi when she visited us in  Provence a summer ago. We look so happy and natural.

Being a flower girl I love the abundance of roses in the patterned papers, and also the great variety of paper flowers in different sizes. The stick pins can be had in different styles and colours as well as all the half pearls and bling.

I wanted to add some of this exquisite lace to help make my photo stand out. I think it looks so good with the pattern on my rose paper.

I decided to go with a Valentines theme and besides using the heart punch by Martha Stewart I picked a mask by Panduro to add a small sprinkle of hearts on my page. 

The large pink peony is from an assortment pack called Harmony flowers and come in a variety of matching colours and sizes.

I hope my mojo will be returning soon as I have received such beautiful new collections from Papirdesign and Les Papiers de Pandore that I am itchng to use as well. 

Finally I would like tominvite all of you to take part in a Blog Hop for the upcoming issue of PaperHaus Magazine starting on March 1st. So much FUN!! I hope to see you then!!

Hugs to you all!

A feminine layout using mainly Prima goodies

Today I want to make a quick post just to share a layout I started at the free scrap after the workshop last week end. I finally finished it and am quite pleased with how it turned out.
The photo is of Alexandra reading in the shadow on vacations in Provence.

I distressed the edges and used a lot of paint and ink to give it the effect I was after.

 I think the new Lilliput roses from Prima look so very pretty.
They come with three tones of pink in the same package. The butterfly is from the Parisian Anthology chip box, and i added some pink half pearls.

 All the pretty papers here are from different Prima collections.

 Don't you just love such crisp pretty flowers?

 The paper with the blue line is from the new Prima "Pixie Glen".

Alexandra looks good in all these flower. I like this photo of her very much. 

I have not worked much in these softer colours lately, but I really enjoyed it and I think I might do that again soon.

Thanks for your visit and welcome back tomorrow for a new layout from Les Papiers de Pandore!