Not always easy to be a blogger!!

Morning m'ladys!

Just wanted to share some of the outtakes among my pics for the previous post!

LOL!

Hugs!

xx

Late appearance of Color Combos Galore 182.

The soft colours of this challenge made me really really want to take part in this challenge.
I knew I would not be able to do it in time for the reveal but hey,..now it is in the gallery at least and I had a great time doing it. The little boy is Silas, son of my youngest sister. In this photo I think he is six and a half months. He is such a darling!!

Thats all for now.

Take care and have a nice evening!!
xx

New "Les Papiers de Pandore" layout and a beautiful gift!!

Hello again my sweet blog friends!

Today I have a new layout to share with you that I did this week-end for Les Papiers de Pandore.

Some of you may remember that I am guest designing for them January - March. I feel very fortunate to get to use the beautiful collection called *Garden Party*.

The owner of LPdP is Julie Blanc. To those of you familiar with her style I can say  that the collection is every bit as chic and stylish as her scrapbook pages!

And I also have something else to share. At the end of February was my birthday. A very special and lovely lady sent me a beautiful  gift of something she created especially for me. This lady is Eila Sandberg. We have become good friends chatting on a couple of challenge sites and she is a very sweet friend to many of you I think!

The gorgeous card she sent me is at the end of this post. Make sure you don't miss it!

This is my layout with *Garden Party*.
The background is built up by using differently punched strips of paper and pretty lengths of lace.
Mostly covered up I grant you ,but still.....

And here are some close ups of the different hand made flower clusters.

I used a little stickles and paint. The buttons are a must!
The butterflies are made with a Martha Stewart punch.



























The petals are cut from the backing of a packet of Prima flowers. I love the look of the little border made from the rose ribbon.
The hand made flowers are the same kind I used on the Echo Park layout in the previous post. I love them because they are so easy to make.

Finally a shot in an effort to let you see that the layout is not at all flat. it is all bumpy just the way I like it!
My layouts DO take up a lot of space in the albums though, which can be a problem.....

And now to the piece de resistance.....VOILA....
Look at this gorgeous card that E¤ila sent me. You can imagine I was PRETTY happy!
I was happy because it was so lovely but also because she had made the time and effort.

Thank You so much my friend!!

A couple of close ups so you can really enjoy the beauty of it.

That's it for today folks. This is THE END of a very long post. I hope you are still with me....

Thanks for looking!

New Echo Park: For The Record

I was super-excited when I received my YSS March-kit that Erica picked for me.
It contained a lot of goodies from Echo Park and Pink Paislee.

When I looked at the papers from Echo Park it was love at first sight. The colours are very lovely and the patterns very happy.The collection is called For The Record

I started to work with it immediately, and this is the  first layout I made.





Lately I see bakers twine used on many layouts. I think it adds a fun tuch of flimsy to a page. Here I made a cluster with twine,buttons and hand made flowers. The flowers are so easy to make. Soon there will be a tutorial on the Your Scrapbook Stash blog on how to make them. I may even post it here.




I used an edge-punch on a piece of green cardstock. I then randomly pleated the strip without really knowing how it would turn out or what I would do with it.

That's the kind of scrapper I am;...a disorganized one....

I then decided to staple it underneath my photo as a border and I rather like the look of it.




I wanted to use black letter stickers on this page and decided to try and use up an old sheet of Thickers that I had for a long time. The trouble was that the r and l were missing. That's why the title looks a little homemade, I had to make those letters of the ones left.
The cool square white stickers are from the sheet by Echo Park. You get lots of different ones on that same sheet , and even some useful word-stickers.

I distressed the papers, painted, and used the sewing machine to achieve the finished look on this layout.
No wonder I am such a slow scrapper... Still I like to enjoy the process and try different things on my layouts before commiting to a final look.

Thanks for visiting.
And thanks for any comments you decide to leave. Much appreciated!

Take care!
xoxo