Prima January 2014 PPP & BAP

Hello there!

January is almost over, February is knocking on the door within short. Snowflakes have been gently falling over Stockholm today. The weather forecast warns for heavy snowfall this night. Let's see what tomorrow brings! 

Today I am sharing both my Prima January PPP and Prima January BAP, starting with the PPP. Here is my take, a door hanger;

 

I made it for a young lady who looooves fairies and pretty things. 
She calls her secret world "Humlebo" which of course doesn't translate
into English, but means sort of "the home of bumble bees".

That's her little nook where she has her dollies and books, 
crayons and music box with her trinkets.
The hanger now hangs on the wall above her nook.

I am still a good girl, everything on this is stash-raided.

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I also made a page for the Prima January BAP;

 Everything on this one is also stash-raided. 

Can you see the gold stars in my good-girl report book? 

Earning points to use for the massive order I am going to

place the second I see the new Prima stuff

hitting the online stores in da US!

 I have used papers from Prima Lyric, Rondelle and 
Fairy Belle on this one.
It is unusually dark for my style, but I kind of like the
richer and darker tones of it.

 Fussy cutting, layering, modeling paste/masking, misting, flicking, stamping.

Hasn't my friend C got THE most beautiful eyes? 

She sings like an angel too. 

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 I'll be back on 1 February

with the reveal of Scrap Around The World

February challenge.

Have a fabbo weekend everyone! see you if you want to!

Ta ta! xoxox Eila

A mini album for someone special - the last part

Hi there! so glad to have you popping by for a visit!

Today I'm sharing the last 3 pages of the mini album that I created for the young lady that holds a special place in my heart.

If you are interested in taking a peek at the other pages, HERE is the link to my first blogpost, HERE to my second one and HERE to the third.

On to the photos!

Page 12
 
Ester, beautiful and wise!
 

Page 13
 
 A man with a special bond with animals,
THE best vet there is.

Page 14

Three things will last forever - faith, hope, and love - 
and the greatest of these is love.

Here is one of the albums seen from the side. 
Me thinks bumpy lumpy 
has just been given a new meaning!

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The End

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A massive THANK YOU for your beautiful comments,
I am absolutely bowled over!

I'll be back on Thursday, 30 Jan
with my take on the Prima January PPP.

Toodeloo! xoxo Eila

A mini album for someone special - part 3 of 4

Hello hello!

Hope you're having a really good weekend. I am busy creating for something that will be revealed early in February ...

Today I'm sharing the next 4 pages of my mini album. 3 more pages to come, and then I promise I'll be done :) 

If you're interested to see, HERE is the link to my first blogpost and HERE is the link to my second blogpost.

Page 8

 

Have you seen what this muscular young man has

got inside the collar of his cardi?

It's an 8-week-old little chihuahua puppy!

The Churchill look-alike cuddling on his lap

is Lennox, an Old English Bulldog

who thinks he's a tiny puppy too.

Page 9

And this strapping young fellow also has

an itty bitty furbaby in his arms :)

 

Page 10
 

Page 11

 PRODUCT LIST FOR ALL PAGES

Papers
UHK Gallery "Winter Is Coming" collection
Teresa Collins "You Are My Happy" collection
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Record It - Heirloom" collection
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found 3 - Ruby" collection 
Tilda "It's All About Spring"

Embellies
Resins from local store
Prima metal trinkets
My Mind's Eye brad
Teresa Collins chipboards
Teresa Collins buttons
Teresa Collins dimensional stickers
Tilda dimensional stickers 
Chipboard music notes from stash
Webster's Pages heart trim
Handmade lace flower from Etsy

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Have a beautiful week everyone! 

I'll be back on Tuesday, 28 Jan with the last 3 pages.

xoxox Eila

A mini album for someone special - part 2 of 4

Hello Thursday, hello you!

Today I'm sharing the next 3 pages of the mini album that I created for a very very special young lady in my life.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I made the album pages myself from thick watercolour paper. As the album is very dimensional, I had to split it into 2 albums and use extra large binder rings.  

To avoid photo overload, I am sharing the 14 pages split into 4 blogposts, today is the second one. If you want to have a peek at the first 4 pages CLICK HERE

Page 5

Yup! that's hubby and me in a selfie!

PRODUCT LIST

Papers
UHK Gallery "Winter Is Coming" collection
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Collage Strip Paper
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper
Teresa Collins "You Are My Happy" collection, file folder
 Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words paper


Embellishments
Tilda "It's All About Spring" collection die-cuts and dimensional stickers
Doily, matte white pearls, lace washi from local store

Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dusty Attic, 
Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach

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Page 6

 

PRODUCT LIST

Papers
UHK Gallery "Winter Is Coming" collection
Teresa Collins "You Are My Happy" collection, file folder
My Mind's Eye "Lost and Found Collection 3 Ruby", Medallion paper
Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words paper

Embellishments
 White, pink and teal flowers are Prima
Teal itty bitty flowers are Petaloo

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 Page 7

 

PRODUCT LIST

Papers
UHK Gallery "Winter Is Coming" collection
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Collage Strip Paper 
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper
My Mind's Eye "Lost and & Record It Collection Heirloom", pockets
Tilda "It's All About Spring" collection
Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words paper

Embellishments
Cream handmade lace/fabric/pearl bloom from Etsy

All other flowers are loose Prima flowers in a box

Tilda "It's All About Spring" pennants

Twine
 Spellbinders "Moroccan" die

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 I really appreciate and value your visit, thank you!

My next post will be on Saturday, 25 Jan 
when I will share the next 4 pages.

Cheers! xoxo Eila

 

A mini album for someone special - part 1 of 4

Hi ya!

I have a very very special young lady in my life. She is the daughter I never gave birth to myself, but who has blessed my entire life by being in it.

Many evenings and many nights were spent putting together a gift for her, a mini album with photos of the people who are dearest to her. Each page has little symbolic messages that only she can decipher. 

I made the album pages myself from thick watercolour paper. A left over single album page was used to draw the outline before cutting out 2 sheets for each page. They were glued together with gel medium, and then dressed in 2 layers of form-cut paper on each side before the edges were chalked and dry-gessoed. Only this prep work took 10 hours to do. So each page has 3 layers of paper even before I started adding more paper layers and embellies to them. 

As the main focus is the album itself, I simply tied a bunch of 3 Tilda ribbons from my stash around one of the binder rings.

The album is very dimensional, so it had to be split into 2 albums. Extra large binder rings make it easy to flip the bulky pages. I will be sharing the 14 pages split into 4 blogposts to avoid photo overload.

Here are the first 4 pages, hope you like them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Front Cover

 

 

PRODUCT LIST

Papers

Carteria Magnani fine graned watercolour paper "Italia"  140 lb

My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Collage Strip Paper

Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Bee Paper

Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words Paper

My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper

Embellishments

Lace washi, matte white pearls, feathered angel wings 

from local store

Webster's Pages heart trim

Petaloo stick pins

All flowers are Prima, loose from a box

Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dark Bark, Dusty Attic, Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach

Cream, fine hessian (don't have a proper name for it in English)

Gesso

Memory Box heart die

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Page 2

 PRODUCT LIST

Papers
UHK Gallery, "Winter Is Coming" collection

Teresa Collins "Now & Then" collection, reverse side of Words Paper
Teresa Collins "Now & Then" collection, Words Paper
My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper

Embellishments
Lace washi, matte white pearls and white felt from local store
All flowers except the tiny teal-blue (Petaloo) are Prima, loose from a box
Fussy-cut butterflies from a scrap of Maja Design paper
Cream, fine hessian 
Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dark Bark, Dusty Attic, Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach
 

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Page 3

PRODUCT LIST

Papers

UHK Gallery, "Winter Is Coming" collection

 Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Bee Paper

Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words Paper

My Mind's Eye "Lost & Found Collection 3 Ruby", reverse side of Floral Paper

Embellishments

Lace washi, matte white pearls and white felt from local store

Webster's Pages heart trim

Fussy-cut butterflies from a scrap of Maja Design paper  

Floral vine from Prima and turqoise bloom from Petaloo

Cream, fine hessian

Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edgers in Turqoise Stone, Dusty Attic, Pastel Pink and Pastel Peach

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Page 4

PRODUCT LIST

Papers

UHK Gallery, "Winter Is Coming" collection
 Melissa Frances  "Bits of Paper"
Tilda "All That Is Spring" collection
Teresa Collins "Now & Then", Words Paper

 Embellishments

Hand-made lace flower from Etsy
Teal blooms from Petaloo
Peach glittery stars and pointsettias from Prima
Cream, fine hessian
Lace washi and matte white pearls from local store
 

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Thank you so much for taking the time to come for a visit!

I'll be back with the next 3 pages on 23 Jan.

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila