June Guest Designer for Scrap Africa.

Hi! Today I am happy to say that I am guest designing with Scrap Africa.

I was the wnner of last months challenge with this page and got to prepare a page for the June reveal.

Here is the soft and beautiful mood board that Denise sent me:

It was a joy to create with this mood board. The colours are so yummy. Apart from the colours 

I was inspired by the stacked trays and macaroons to use layering on my page. 

I tried to add a couple of round shapes as well. 

The spidery legs of the chair are reflected in the stencilled swirl on the right hand side of my page.

Lots of Prima products here. Apart from the ever gorgeous flowers I used the leaf die and a few 

of their texture stamps.

I made some long 'branches' I had in my stash into a circle to put behind my matted photo as 

an added element of layering.

At the very bottom of my layers is a bit of cardboard box that I had rescued from the trash. 

I peeled of some of the paperlayer and  applied gesso and a few paints on top as well as more 

layers of patterned paper.

 Apart from the paints I used many different kinds of media on here. -Different brands of mists, 

water colour pencils and gel medium to stick down the different micro beads, pearls 

and art stones to name a few.

The flair button is by Prima as well as the wooden shape underneath it. I love the subtle elegance of the pink and green half pearls in the 'wilder' mixed media setting.

 Ok, so just a couple more close ups and I'm done! LOL! ;-D

Please pop over to the Scrap Africa blog HERE to see some gorgeous examples from the 

design team. I think you will feel inspired and want to take part in the June challenge as well. 

Looking forward to seeing what you create!!

Thanks for looking!!

A mixed media page using Les Papiers de Pandore's 'Carte Postale'.

Hi there!

Today I want to share a page using the new Carte Postale collection from Les Papiers de Pandore.

I love these new papers and also the stamp-set that have matching designs. Soo pretty!

You can see the ollection HERE

This was a really fun page to make. I used many of my mixed media goodies with the Pandore papers.
I started with gesso and some mists, then I added some watercolour pencils and some different media and things for texture. The Finnabair art stones are great for just texture and even the tiny microbeads.

The beautiful Blue Fern Studios chipboard got a lick of white paint and I even stamped with a small script stamp on top. You can see how I added the art stones inside the tiny frames while letting the dotted washi tape underneath shows through.

Here I used the 'Say Hello' from the stamp set and made a kind of a title together with the word 'friend' from the Sizzix Tim Holtz Friendship Script Words.
This is one of my fave  die cut word sets.

The large white flower is by Prima and  the leaves were made with a die also by Prima Marketing.

A couple of more close ups.As you see here;  with just small means you can achieve a lot of texture.

Finally I would like to share with you the challenge at Scrap Africa where I will be entering my page:
I actually took the liberty of adding some yellowy tones to the mix . (Initially I saw the lighter greens as yellow on my screen) My page kind of evolved on it's own. I took my inspiration from the first and last picture of the board. I associated to layering and mixing things up very freely.
And that suited my mood just perfectly

This is the enticing moodboard over there.

I hope you liked my page and maybe even feel a little inspired to create your own version of a mixed media page. They are just so much fun to make!!

Hugs and thanks for looking!! 

A round canvas for Blue Fern Studios October sketch.

Hello again!

This round canvas is my second project for Blue Fern Studios this month. I had this canvas for a while, but being mostly a 'layout-girl' myself, I didn't quite know how to approach it. In the end I opted for creating the most beautiful and delicate background, (in my own humble opinion LOL ) 

just to cover the entire thing up..... I should have taken an in-between shot,... :-)

As inspiration for my canvas I used the October sketch by Michelle Singh. 

Lovely isn't it?

 I turned it upside down and took a free approach as you should with a sketch, 
but I think you can still see the resemblance. Read all about the challenge HERE.

I used calling cards from the Frolic collection as a title for my canvas.

The Butterfly Friends chipboard received a coat of white paint, some glitter and a light application of the green mist Imagine Ink Leaf. Also the large Frolic Mesh Bits chipboard was treated similarly.

I added a few leftover pieces of chipboard here and there, you can see them in the photo above. 

I dont ever throw those little tresures away :-)

Finally one more close up close up of the gorgeous Butterfly Friends, inked and glittered !

Thank you so much for taking a lok at my canvas and I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday!!

XOXO