Joy,.Les Papiers de Pandore and OUAS

I am a bit behind with my blogging lately!

Those of you who are frequent visitors here will know that it is due to my PC acting up on a regular basis.

Last period I was not required to make a lo for Once Upon A Sketch,

but I loved the sketch so much I had to give it a go anyway.

There is a new sketch up as of today and I will get back to that one in my next post,but decided that first things come  first and I will start with  my lo for Dec 1st. I already shared the sketc in a previous post.

Yesterday I could only share a sneak and this is what the whole page looks like:

 Don't you just love the beautiful new collection from "Les Papiers de Pandore"?

It is called "En Attendent" ( Waiting ).

For those of you who live far away from France and don't know how to get hold of it I have some news.

Julie is sponsoring the current challenge over at OUAS.

Go over there and check out what you have to do to be eligible to win no less than TWO whole  collections from "Les Papiers dePandore"!! 

We were supposed to journal about what we love and look forward to in December. 

I chose to write about spending time with family and seeing the happiness shared by my children

 enjoing time together.

This holiday will be precious as Alexandra is coming home for the first time since going away 

to University in the UK.

 The cute flowers I made using a die from Marianne Design, a Dutch manufacturer. And the doilies were made with a die from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I love the little cut-outs and journalling spots from "En Attendent".

Together with the gauze and felt snowflakes they add a lot of dimension to my lo.

I chose to only add glue to the center and thus have the possibility to keep sticking things underneath  

(and on top...) as my lo evolved.

I hope you enjoyed a little Christmas Joy here and that you also will experience a lot of that in your lives!

Thanks for dropping by!

From Rapunzel to ordinary princess,...and a sneak...

Last week Beatrice finally had her wish and we booked a date with the hairdresser.

I had promised that after we had a 'proper' photographer round to take pictures of her she could

 cut off her very loooong hair.

The previous Sunday we had the sweet Gisela round for a photoshoot and from the sneaks she posted on Facebook the photos look great! I can't wait to see them,

She has had no second thoughts about cutting off such a large chunk of her hair. I think she enjoys being able to comb her own hair in the mornings. I know she must feel more independent and self sufficient now!

And now a little sneak peak of my latest lo.

It is not that I cannot show it yet,of course I can.

It is just that being without a PC it is difficult to print out the journalling and therefore I have no photo of the finished lo.

I made it because I was so tempted by the December 1st  sketch at OUAS.

I wll share the whole layourt soon if you are curious. 

I used Les Papiers de Pandore "En Attendent"

Thank you so much for your welcome visits. 

As always I really appreciate you dropping in on my little blog!

BRB!

Hugs!

A Prima "Pixie Glen" layout for Sketchabilities and TCR.

It has been a while now since I posted, I think actually a whole week has passed!!

I hope you are all well on the way with all the Christmas preparations.

I now I am really, really looking forward to some quiet (hopefully....) family time soon!

I have not had much time or inclination to scrap lately, but I wanted to share this page that I made for Sketchabilities sketch #60.

I also combined it with the palette #87 from TCR this time.

Here you can see the colours of the palette.

And this is the sketch I used.

I chose  pretty papers from Prima Marketing called "Pixie Glen" and "Alla Prima"

I also used the chipboards from the "Alla Prima" coolection.

I don't have a lot more to say as I am still waiting for my PC to be returned from the repair shop and working on this borrowed laptop takes too much energy....

I will talk to you son again. Actually, I will post some photos of Beatrices new do tomorrow!!

"Snow much fun" "Les Papiers de Pandore" "En Attendent"

Tonight I have another page to share that I made using the new "Les Papiers de Pandore".

I like the slightly untraditional Christmas/Winter colours alot!

I used the different elements from the cut out sheet as decorations and added some glitter to enhance the wintery feel. The long strips are the pieces at the bottom that you would normally throw away, but here you cut them off to save them as they are the perfect colour accent.

I cut some circles and layered them. Around the outline I fastened a length of pretty white lace.

Again I used my new "Shape Boss" to help with the pleating to make the rosettes.

I layered the photo mat on top of the gauze to mimic snow. On both sides I stuck a journallingspot underneath the mat.

The gorgeous chipboard letters I love to use are from Imaginarium Designs. They are an Australian manufacturer with some awesome products. I used white acrylic paint to give a touch of Winter to the letters.Here and there , like on the small snowflakes I added some pearl dots.

You can find the alphas HERE

Here are some more close ups for you.......

The photos were taken last February when the whole family went to Norway, where I am originally from,

It was Beatrice's first time skiing. At first she was very excited, but then despaired when she disciovered it was hard. But when time came to call it a day she did not want to go home...The youngest learn very fast!

It's almost Friday,folks......I hope you'll have a lovely weekend.

Thanks for dropping by!