Blue Fern Studios June Sketch - "Onnenkoski Bridge" and Winner of my PHM bloghop prize

Hello hello!

My blogposts are coming fast and furious for a couple of weeks, quite a few challenges that went live simultaneously on 1 june.  Thank you so much for coming back and leaving so many beautiful comments! I am afraid I have very little time for visiting at the moment, everything works at a mad pace up till midsummer (21 June) when Sweden slows down.

First I'd like to announce the name of the winner of my PaperHaus Magazine SUMMER DELIGHT bloghop prize below;

  

*drumroll* ...  CONGRATULATIONS to ...... Kasha Gray aka MANDY ZIMMERMAN!!

Mandy Zimmerman1 June 2013 19:50

Simply gorgeous Eila! I'm already a follower! Thank you for sharing!!!!!

I was so overwhelmed by the number of comments that I asked DH to pull a couple of extra names. He loves to be asked to do this bit, pulling a name from the box and seeing my happy face. Don't we all have THE most darling hubbies!

This extra RAK goes to ...

Kavitha Vadhri7 June 2013 19:21

beautiful layout,loved all the details,especially those pebbles. loved how your coloured all the chipboard elements. iam your new follower.

 My 3rd and last RAK goes to ...

 

Keren Tamir1 June 2013 22:47

So so beautiful my dear friend. I love your LO. It's so serene. 

Ladies, I'll pop your prizes in the post if you send me an email with your postal address within a week from today. My email addie is: eila.sandberg@telia.com
  

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Today I'm sharing my take on Blue Fern Studio's June sketch. First the beautiful sketch itself, as always designed by the ever talented Michele Singh who also designs the BFS chipboards;

 

The main feature of the sketch is one of the Page Chains

 

Page Chain (074929)

Here's my take - "Onnenkoski Bridge". Onnenkoski is the name of a place in southern Finland. The photo was taken by the Finnish photographer, the photos of whom I am allowed to use on my layouts. 

All papers used are from Fancy Pants' collection "Winter Wonderland". Just proves how versatile the reverse side of most collections is. Not a snowflake in sight!

Fussy cutting/die cuts are from MME, Prima, KaiserCraft, Meg's Garden and Polish The ScrapCake.

I wanted to achieve a rusty feel to the chain, also mimicing the moss growing between the stone blocks of the bridge.

I first painted it in lime green acrylic paint before misting it in muted red and then randomly swiping Lumière acrylic paint in Metallic Rust over the whole chain. Then I used Winsor & Newston Glass Beads Texture Gel in lumps here and there. As a last step I dabbed the glass beads in brown ink and rusty red. Me thinks the result us kind of cool!

I will be back on Tuesday, 11 June with one of my last DT pages for Blue Fern Studios.

Thanks ever so much for coming by and for your loving support!!

Toodelipip! xoxox Eila