CSI # 52 "Lost & Found" and Happy New Year!

10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 ... almost a brand new year with blank pages to fill. Thank you for this marvellous 2012 when so much happened, wonderful things and sad moments. In other words - Life is what happened!

January brings a couple of scrappy changes for me. I am saying farewell to The Color Room, my first scrappy love that has a very special place in my heart. I am forever grateful to Lydell Quin and Janine Kocswara for inviting me to the TCR family and for so many years of inspiration, friendship, generosity, loyalty and warmth. Without TCR I would not have been able to make the journey I have and for that I will always love you guys! To my beautiful friends on the DT - once a friend, always a friend!

As most of you know by know, I have an amazing new experience starting in January as one in the first DTs ever of Blue Fern Studios in the US. I am superthrilled to be part of the fantastic journey of BF that is starting now. I couldn't be more convinced of that their gorgeous chipboards will snowball out and around the globe at super sonic speed. 

I have stellar world-renowned DT mates on Blue Fern, with Valery Serfozo holding firmly at the helms of DT co-ordination, amazingly talented Michele Singh as designer and Lesley Kammerdiener as the engine of all this marvellous unravelling now - Blue Fern will have a success story seldom parallelled in the industry!

Before I share my page for Color..Stories..Inspiration case file # 52, I will make a recap of my fave 16 pages from this year. Couldn't narrow them down to only 10 as each and one of them means something special for me and my scrappy journey.

There is no doubt about it, these are all "Eila pages". I am very happy to have found my style in 2012 och really look forward to discovering little new details to add to my projects in 2013. Here goes!


Pages made for Color.. Stories.. Inspiration;






 

 


Pages made for The Color Room;

 




Pages made for Prima;







 

 





 


Pages made just for me, as gifts or as GDT;
 

 

 

 

And now we've finally come to CSI case file # 52;

As usually Michele Singh has created gorgeous co-ordinating printables, check them out!

THE SCHEME (USE ALL 5 COLORS)

• Red Ribbons  - deep cranberry red, taken from the package on the left - 164.58.62
• Winter White - creamy white, taken from the painted polka dots - 255.252.243
• Coal - black, taken from the tag on package #1 - 40.38.39
• Brown Paper Packages - taken from the brown paper packages, of course! - 216.195.152
• Gifted Gray  - taken from the wood in the background   - 193.181.165

EVIDENCE (USE AT LEAST 2 ELEMENTS)

• wood/woodgrain
• twine/string
• metal-rimmmed tags
• paint
• kraft paper
• newsprint paper
• tags
• circles
• burlap/gauze
• number stickers
• eyelets
• washers

TESTIMONY (USE AT LEAST 1 ELEMENT)

• Document a gift (literal or figurative).
• Write your journaling on tags and tie it to something on your page with twine.
• Handwrite your journaling.
• ...brown paper packages tied up with strings...document a few of your favorite things, likethe song.
• Choose a prompt from here.
• Label different things in your picture with numbers and have your journaling explain each number.
• Make a layout as a gift and write a letter to the recipient for your journaling.
• Inspiration Words: gift(ed), favorite, remember-- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title.

We trust we've left enough clues for you to solve the case!

The deadline for completing Case File No. 52

is Sunday, January 6, 11:59 p.m. EST.

Thus, you have a week plus the two weekends to complete your layout.

(See count-down timer on the right-hand sidebar of most pages.)

We can't wait to see what YOU create!

Here is my take, I've called it "Lost & Found". You will understand why when you read my journalling.

 
Papers are from Simple Stories collection Life Documented and one of KaiserCraft's Christmas collections 2012. The polka dotted one is from Graphic45.

 
Subtle background masking/modelling paste and stamping.

 
The greatest gift of all - you. I thought I had lost love when I divorced from my first husband back in 1998 and was left with a heart shattered in pieces and no hope for finding love again. But love did come back into my life when I met Bengt, the man I married in 2000. 

This gentle man with beautiful trusting blue eyes, incredibly strong yet sensitive hands and a courage like that of a lion, loves with a steady flame that nothing can quench. I know that he would give away the last food he has, the last pennies he owns, the clothes off his back and sacrifice his life without hesitation if anything or anyone would threaten his little family. The only thing he needs in return, is to be loved back. I have never met a more loyal and trusting person than him. Because of him, my life is beautiful and I am rich beyond money. 

Getting mushy here but this is the way I truly feel about my soul mate and greatest love.

 
Bengt is a fantastic listener, you can tell him everything and anything and he will not judge. The record player is a symbol for that gift and also for the fun we have when listening to music and he grabs me in the kitchen for an unexpected swirl.

 
The evidence I have used are; string/twine and kraft paper (the little parcel). My numbers are not stickers, I've used a metallic one from Tim Holtz on the parcel and stamped ones throughout the background of the page.

 
The chipboard flower was first misted in Tattered Angels Black Magic and Graphite before randomly embossed in gold and then touched up with Stickles Gold.

Before I sign off, here's a sneak of the next CSI case file # 53, soft soft and dreamy romantic spring colours;

I am currently trying to sort out my January and will be creating madly behind the scenes, so my apologies in advance for being a wee bit absent here on my blog and online during the next few weeks. During the Holidays I have spent in average 4 hours every day online commenting, I fear it is far far from enough and some of you may think I've forgotten you entirely. Rest assured, I haven't!

I will be back next Saturday here on my blog.

Edith Lovejoy Pierce
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Happy New Year to you all!