Les Papier de Pandore at Creative Scrappers and a feature at Craftgossip.com

 Today will be a pretty short and sweet post as far as words go... 

Today we celebrate our beautiful  Alexandra who was born in Santiago de Chile 21 years ago today.

We are having family over for dinner and I have a lot of preparations to do.....

Right now almost the whole DT from Les Papiers de Pandore is making a guest appearance at the Creative Scrappers challenge blog. We were given this lovely sketch by Kristine Davidsson as inspiration:

After turning the sketch on its side this is what I came up with:

 I used mainly the "Urbanessence" collection from Pandore. 

I seem to be doing a lot of pages in the blue/yellow combo lately....The whole base of my page is covered in gesso and I used a mask by Crafters Workshop. I love their masks,...all of them....
You will see little squirts and drops of mist here and there as well.

The swirls was made fro a row of pearls that I shaped and glued to the flower cluster.

The pretty buterfly is by Martha Stewart. I added some cheese cloth and misted with yellow Glimmermist. Underneath the flowers I put a rosette that I made using my Score Pal.

 Don't you just love that cute green butterfly with the pearls. 

So sweet. It came in one of the previous kits from My Scrapbook Nook.

 I cut out the fountain from an older Webster's Pages paper. The picture was taken in 'our' little village in Provence and there are a lot of fountains in those parts.

 The small brown butterflies were first punched out and then embossed. 

It is kind of like a 'double punch'....(it is actually two different ones)

 

 The letters for the title were die cut with a Tim Holtz/Sizzlits long die. I love that font!

 Just a fun photo to see a little of how I do my layering and the texture.

 All these beautiful blooms make me happy!

Some days ago I had a page requested as "Inspiration de Jour" for the CraftGossip.com blog.  

 Actually I remembered that I had one page on thet blog even last year :-)

The page is one of the recent ones I made with the September Nook kit.

Thanks Francine for sharing my page!

And thanks to you my scrappy friends for taking an  interest in my creations. 

I love being able to share my pages etc with you! 

If I don't see you again before; Have a lovely week end!!

Paper Variety and Scrap Cake layout. -And a Scrap Cake give away!

Today I have a layout to share that I made with "The Scrap Cake" collection "Life on the Bright Side"

The collection is not easily available here in Sweden so it has taken me some time to get hold of it!! 

I also made it for the challenge over at 'The Paper Variety' to use fanfold flowers on a layout.

I added some raspberry coloured cardstock that matched the Scrap Cake papers very well. It shows up a bit brighter in the pictures though.

I an doing the 'violin-run' in a few minutes so I will more or less post and run this time. 

I am taking a couple of girls to a week end workshop two hours there and two hours back!!

But I trust the pictures are self explanatory :-)

Before I go I just want to tell you about this Scrap Cake giveaway:

They have new collections debuting and would like some help posting about it. If you do you can win some of the lovely new product!

You post this picture of the new collections  write a little something on your blog about the giveaway and then check back in at the Scrap Cake blog to let them know you posted.

Ok, I am off to drive the girls!

Have a great week end!!

Les Papiers de Pandore's winter collection and my layout.

I am starting to get my mojo back and last night I actually scrapped a couple of layouts. That felt great and today I wish I had time to do some more, but I have other more pressing matters to attend to.

It happens to be Beatrices birthday today and we are preparing to receive the relatives for dinner and coffee.

That's why I will do a little "post and run today"

A while back Julie Blanc of Les Papiers de Pandore revealed her new winter collection called "En attendent"

Thant means "Waiting" and we all know what we are waiting for....

It is a bit early for snowy pictures this season but I found some of Beatrice from earlier.

The collection has some subdued colours matched with some lovely pink, red,aqua and turquoise.

This is my first layout made with the new papers. 

I hope you like it!

These are the beautiful patterned papers.

And these are the stamps to go with them.

I cut the banner from the sheet containing bits and bobs and also the journaling spot.

I cut the corners off the papers and layered them. Some machine sewing holds them together.

I used my new Martha Stewart punches to make the snow flake strip.

Beatrice was so proud. 

She had made a feeder for the little birds at school and could not wait to hang it up in a tree in the garden.

I admit I went a bit wild with my new Score Pal. Making these rosette flowers is a blast and is done in a minute with that great tool. 

That is all for now my friends.

Thanks for stopping by!!

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