''Love Winter, Love the Birds''

 Hi friends!

Today I have a page for you that I actually made with the latest Summer release from 

Les Papiers de Pandore. Just have a peek and see that they are great for this coming season too. 

I love the subtle colours here. I made this page a couple of months ago but as it was published in PaperHaus Magazine I had to wait for a while before sharing it on my blog.

 I cut some stars from the yellow houndstooth paper and added some gorgeous glitter chipboards from Papirdesign.  They are simply beautiful!!

 Once again I had a lot of fun cutting out a few things with my Silhouette cameo. I think it is a great tool, but I seem to go through the mats at high speed...

 As always (or almost) I used my sewing machine to stitch around most of my pieces.

 The cute flowers that are such a great colour to these papers are also made by Papirdesign and 

brand new for this season.

Finally a close up of my title that I stitched to the background paper. And alphabetstickers once again from papirdesign.They do these in lots of different colours and with the scandinavian letters that cannot be found with other brands.

Thanks for looking and welcome back soon again!

Hugs!!

Inkido December challenge.

I hope you are enjoying lovely crisp early Winter weather where you are.
Here a storm just passed for now and it is mainly raining and very grey and drab. Perfect for staying  inside scrapping or making seasonal cards.

Today I want to tell you about the latest Inkido challenge which I am hosting this month.
This time I want to see a project incorporating stars and/or snowflakes. I am sure we all have many of those planned for this time of year, so why not share them with us here at Inkido.
Please remember we do not like 'backlinking' though :-) All the entries have to be new and made especially for this challenge.

Here is my page:



(Sorry my photos are not up to my normal standard. I still have no internet connection at home so I had to use my IPhone...)



For this challenge you can use all kinds of stars and/or snowflakes. Inkido has some great stamps with stars that would look awesome on a page or a Christmascard! If you cannot get hold of that one you can use chipboard or diecuts like I did and I also used a petterned paper with tiny stars on it. Mine is from the latest collection by Inkido called 'Happy Christmas'. In the collection there are even some awesome papers with snowflakes on them!!



 A few more closeups:



 Finally here's a sideways photograph of how I built up my page in layers.

Challenge Rules

1. You must submit your project / layout /  using the Link tool on the sidebar.

2. You may submit more than one project and you are allowed to combine this challenge with two other challenges.

3. You are required to mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Inkido. We also want you to link back to our challenge.

4. If you use any Inkido product for your project, do mention the product in your post.

5. The challenge will end on 31st December  2013.

Prize
Since we have so many collections and beautiful papers at Inkido we have a very special prize this month, you can create a collection of your 12 favorites papers from Inkido and we will send it you asap in 2014!

And here is the LINK to the challenge!

"So Special" - My first post for Inkido

Hi all you sweet blog friends out there!

I feel like I have been slightly missing in action lately due to my internet problems and now being away for three days with my DD's Victoria and Beatrice on violin camp. I am in charge of making all the meals etc during our stay so I don't really get to see much of the youngster except, for during the meals of coure. We are three people helping out and it's hard work and long hours. But also a lot of fun. I wish I had more time to go out take pictures of the surroundings because it is so so pretty here.

Anyhow, I am delighted to share my first page for Inkido with you today.

All the patterned papers are by Inkido, and I love these designs because of their small patterns. They do not distract from the photos. This particular photo is a lucky shot of my middle DD Victoria before getting on the school bus one morning. (Some people have just got "it" ) 

On the paper that I cut into a circle with scalloped scissors I stitched a grid and added liquid pearls. 

I think it adds a nice texture to the layout.

I love the abundance of yummy flowers clustered together and those pretty blingy stones.

To add even more texture I pleated a piece of light blue paper and added it underneaath the photo.
I was planning on placing some of those awesome Inkido on top all the time, but may have gone a little over the top as now the pleats are almost entirely covered up...LOL!

Love those pink chrystals too. They came in two shades, tone in tone.

Another close up, this time to show some of the layering.

Ok, that's another Winter page done,...at least sort of. I am not very fond of the cold and am looking forward to the Spring sun gracing us with it's company.
Please head over to Inkido as well to see my post as I have added photos of some of the products that I used here. Thanks for dropping by. Mwoahh!

Fabulous new issue of PaperHaus Magazine, and I am lucky enough to be in it!!

Hi friends!

I am here to share the fabulous Issue 2  of 'PaperHaus Magazine'.

A while back I was added to the contributors of the magazine and I am so thrilled to be part of this fabulous publication! I would say that if possible this one is even better than the first one!!

 This is the cover of Issue 2:
After taking a peek I tell you; You want to see this!!

 HERE is a link that will take you to the magazine.

I have a Winter themed layout in this issue and without further ado, here is a sneak

You can see my layout on page 69 in the magazine.

I would also like to remind you of the
12 Days of Christmas event taking place on the PaperHaus blog.

There is even a large prize involved.
Read about it HERE

Thanks for taking a peek.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!


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The November sketch at Les Papiers de Pandore,..-and a sweet win for me...!

Good morning and happy Sunday to you all!!

It's been a busy week here again and quite a few days between updates....

Still, I am very happy to see you here and want to share my latest layout that I did for Les Papiers de Pandore and that is also the base for this months sketch.

 I used the newest collection called "Little Winter Circus" which is so full of cute whimsy! 

In my previous layout 'Skating Fun' a couple of posts down, you can see the papers 'clean' with no gesso or paint on them. But for this layout I wanted to show that these papers can look shabby too, with some mixed media added.

This is the beautiful and versatile sketch:

 

On the Pandore blog you can see lovely interpretations from  DT members Helen and Jennife,too.

 The flowers are recent ones from Prima Marketing. And to add to the wintery feel I punched a bunch of snowflakes from the pp. I used a chipboard snoflake as a template for my oversized yellow one and added glitterglue to the edges. I used two different masks from Crafters Workshop, - bricks and diamonds.

I added some mist here and there, and as always it sprayed in directions I had not anticipated and left large splashes all over my photo...! Luckily for this post I was able to remove them digitally, but they are still left on my photo so I may try to exchange it for a 'clean' one later. 

Feels like it's the second lo in a row that happens to me...

 Underneath my flower cluster I matted with one of the 'petit coupons' from the cards sheet.

The pretty washi tape with golden dots was used to hold together the packaging on a DT-kit I received from the States. Don't you just love recycling.. :-) ?

A couple more close ups and I'm done...

I hope you enjoyed my wintery layout. For those of you with papers from Les Papiers de Pandore, and any collection is ok not just the latest ones please join in our challenge and post your layouts on the Pandore Facebook page. Who knows,..might be your lucky day!!

Oh, I almost forgot (I actually posted before I remembered...LOL )....

 I won the Mix and Match challene over at Websters Pages with this layout!
My first ever posted there. Talking about some serious beginners luck .. :-)!
I am delighted, and I will receive a kit of my choice. Isn't that great!?
Here's a screen shot:

All for now!
Hopefully I will get some creating done today!

Hugs!

"Skating Fun" "Little Winter Circus"

Yesterday I received the new collections that Julie sent me from France. 

The latest "Les Papiers de Pandore" are so cute and the colours very happy.

You can sroll down a couple of posts and you can see the collections there.

I just had to start making something with them right away. 

This one is my first and I have one more on my table.

I wanted to do something fun and in keeping with the spirit of the collection.There is a childlike abandon about it and I feel it should not be 'overworked'. I tried to keep things on the clean and simple side to let the pretty papers 'shine'.

Lately I have my sewing machine out and use it on almost all of my pages. 

So even here to add some texture to the edges and borders. I used a die from Marianne Design to make the different snow flakes.

The cute little penguin here is cut from the papers and layered on a die cut journalling spot.

I wanted my title to be on the fan folded border but had some difficulties making the small letters stick. I cut a bit of hard plastic from some packaging and added my letters to it. 

Now sticking down my title was much easier! 

I was so lucky these older letter stickers from Pink Paislee were just the right colour!

As you can see there is not a single flower in sight here,...Shocking I know!.... :-)

I used the snowflakes as  substitute blooms and added leaves and some bling. All the snowflakes in different sizes have been fastened using pop dots to make them stand out and add some dimension.

Ok that was a fairly quick post today. 

I wanted to do it now as I am going to the theatre tomorrow evening to see the musical EVITA and probably won't have time then.

I saw it many years ago with Elaine Paige in London when I lived over there,and that was fabulous.

 Lastly, I would like to tell you that the next International Guest Designers have been posted on the Pandore blog and you can read it HERE. Big congratulations to all of them!!

Hugs!