The Color Room #120 and Stockholm

A very good sign of me being relaxed is when I have no clue as to what day of the week it is. Have to check the date on the computer and watch the news on telly. Another good tip is the release of The Color Room, always on a Friday morning our time.

It's the third week of our July sponsors The ScrapCake and the palette is a darling one of light green, petal pink, eggshell blue and barely beige. Have a peek!

Without further ado, here's my take;
 
The papers used are of course from The ScrapCake, but also a mix of Swedish Maja Design and Norwegian Vibeke Spigseth from my stash.
 
The pic is from our wedding back in 2000 and yes, 12 years on we have all changed. Emelie, then an awkwardly long-legged tweenie, is now a beautiful and still long-legged 23-year-old beauty with a complexion to die for.
 
Prima mask and modelling paste.
 
 Modelling paste and gel beads for some random texture.
 
Torn and punched paper strips, torn lace doily and some fussy cutting in the layers.
 
Nope, no food for imagination here - the title means KISS KISS in Swedish!

Sending you off this beautiful Friday with some photos from the Old Town of Stockholm, it is the oldest part of our city and is more than 1 200 years old.
 
I used to live 2 blocks up this street that runs across the whole island that is the Old Town.

 

 
This is my girlfriend's daughter. She summer works in a cute old-fashioned store where the make hand-made candy and fudge.
 
Well, anything remotely linked to vikings sends hoards of hmm ... visitors into frenzied photo shoots and hysterical giggles ... Took a lot of coaxing and a couple of kisses to make my man put on this helmet and I can understand him. Wouldn't be seen alive in that thing!

Happy Friday to ya all!

Toodelipip! xoxox Eila

3 pages for CSI # 28

Good morning peeps!

Stockholm has woken up to a cloudy Wednesday. Yesterday the sun suddenly disappeared and we had rain and hail coming down in sheets! It's been a miserable summer so far in most parts of our country, harvests are rotting away and our legs have none of the longed-for summer tan. No wonder all the travel agencies have sold out on all the trips to southern Europe!

Have to bring out some imaginative sun and fun in my scrappy nook instead!

CSI case file # 28 was released last Friday. It being the National Ice Cream Month in the US, we continue with the theme. Here's the case file for you;

Beautiful printable coordinates created by our Michele Singh to match;

The colours are not what I would normally choose and it took me quite a bit of procrastination before I made the following 3 pages. The first one is painfully clean for my taste so I had to make a second one with more layers. Even that one felt rather too clean so I simply had to make a third featuring more layers.
 
Rather old papers from Theresa Collins.

My husband is an incurable hoarder and has a BIG box with his stash of old toys from his childhood. His absolute faves are his robots. Not the ones in the photo, they only serve as a visual reminder of the little boy that is hiding inside my man and who comes out when anything remotely technical pops up anywhere. 

Here the papers used are from Echo Park. Even if the photos are of Miss T, the daughter of my DH's youngest cousin, they actually represent me.

I absolutely LOVE roller coasters and any kind of swirling, rolling, swinging attractions found in an amusement park. It's me and the kids riding, DH stands at the entrance and holds my handbag. I can do it over and over again without getting woozy or feeling sick.
This page is all about how silly girls of a certain age can be about anything. No adult understands what makes them tick or what sends them off into hysterical giggles. Miss T's mother told me how she and her bestie found a visit to the Museum of Natural Science mighty amusing, especially when seeing eeky stuff in glass jars.

The papers used on this page are G45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe which have really quirky and odd details. Just like the eeky stuff in the museum, catching the curiosity of tweenies.
 
Ahhh satisfaction achieved - flowers!
 
Brads are from BG Curio.
 
*Smiling*
 
Washed everything with diluted cream acrylic paint and a sponge to tone down the rather sharp amber hue.
 

My stepdaughter Emelie, who works as a camera man for Swedish television, has some time off today from the production she's currently working on. Wants to spend her precious time off with her old nana (MIL) and us, isn't that so sweet of her. As nana didn't get to meet her only grandchild on her birthday last weekend,  we're splashing out on another lunch followed by coffee and cake of course. Taking them to a really fabulous café in town, very quirky eclectic furnishing and THE yummiest pastry! no scrunching on the whipped cream, chocolate or fillings ...

Hope the sun is shining on you wherever you may be, have a wonderful rest of the week! Thank you for all your wonderful comment, really really appreciate you taking the time to come for a visit! Mwah!

Cheers! xoxo Eila

My first DT page for OUAS

Veeery excited to share my first DT layout for Once Upon A Sketch! There is such incredible talent represented there that I feel trembles and trepidations each time I think about it.

We are divided into 2 teams; team A has their release on 1st of each month and team B ditto on 15th. Ergo follows that it's time for the team B reveal. This month's theme is FRIEND.

Theme: Friend

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Friend" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine. 

Ideas for journalling: one of your current friends, a childhood friend, an unexpected friendship,what having friends mean for you, a friend that you miss or have lost, family member who is your closest friend, a scrappy/online  friend,  a special person that has touched your life, someone who has helped you out lately, a friend that you couldn't do without, your children's friends / classmates etc., your pet and the friendship you have with it.

 

 

We have 2 new featured sponsors this month. The first one is a gorgeous etsy shop by one of our newest Design Team member's Kay Fatula.

Please welcome to Once Upon A...Sketch KAY'S CREATIVE CORNER

Arts & crafts has been my guilty pleasure since the first time I picked up a crayon. With time, my love of crafts ventured into drawing, altering items, painting, stamping & finally scrapbooking. Kay's Kreative Korner was opened in 2009. It began simply as a way of sharing a few of my handmade items. I opened my shop with a couple of handstamped cards & a few pre made scrapbook pages. Within a year, I stopped making cards and decided to sell embellishments--specifically butterflies. I've always admired the butterfly & what it symbolizes. Change, transformation, a new start, beginnings...with this concept I started making scrapbook embellishments based on existing butterflies from all around the world. Today I carry a couple of unique scrapbook embellishments. In addition to the butterflies I specialize in vines & beaded flowers. I make each item with much TLC and careful precison. My greatest reward is seeing how others use my embellishments on thier own projects & pages...

Direct link to shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/karlaskreativekorner

The second new sponsor for July is a new online store called SCRAP LOCKER

Scrap Locker is a brand new online scrapbooking store with a huge variety of products from many favorite manufacturers including Tim Holts, Prima Marketing, Zva Creative and many more. Scrap Locker also has many handmade items. Some of the handmade items include crochet flowers, bead sprays and albums. Scrap Locker ships to many international locations. Scrap Locker also has a gallery and would love for you to fill out a gallery inclusion form and share your crafty inspiration with fellow scrapbookers. Check us out today at www.scraplocker.com

Now here are our permanent sponsors for 2012.

How would you like to be our Guest Designer for the month of September? The winner of this challenge with the most points, as voted by the Design Team will be invited to be our GUEST DESIGNER in September and create along side our Design Team. This person will also win this fabulous prize from Kay's Kreative Korner

Prize consists of 2 mini embellishment kits (kits are called Desert Rose & Purple Rain). Both mini embellishment kits contain 1 vine, 1 five inch stick pin & 3 coordinating butterflies. One set of Auburn Rain beaded flowers (3 flowers in this set) & one set of Delicate Pink beaded flowers (2 flowers in this set). All beaded flowers measure approximately 1 1/4" in diameter. One set of 'glass' G1 butterfly embellishments. These butterflies are made out of transparency & coordinate with just about any page or project. Large butterfly measures approximately 3" inches in diameter. Medium butterfly measures about 2 1/4" inches in width & the smallest butterfly measures approximately 1 3/4" inches in diameter. Measurement based on widest wing span. Finally one set of Cinnamon Owl butterfly embellishments. Largest butterfly measures approximately 2 1/2" inches in diameter. Medium butterfly measures about 2" inches in diameter & smallest butterfly measures 1 1/2" inches in diameter. Measurements based on widest wing span.

The following prizes will be given to the next 4 winning entries

Mini June kit from C'EST MAGNIFIQUE

Scrapbooking Fantasies has donated TWO ribbon packs (for 2 winners) from SCRAPBOOKING FANTASIES . Each prize is valued at over $10AUS each and contains 25 half metre lengths of ribbons, trims and lace in shades of pink and aqua from quality brands, plus FREE international postage!!

Of course we do not forget our random winners. These are the prizes up for grabs for our RANDOMLY drawn entries..

 

**This is an international blog, so anyone can enter

**You are free to combine Once Upon A..Sketch challenges with other challenges. We don't mind at all!!!

**You are allowed to enter only layouts for our challenges **You are also allowed to flip or rotate the sketch or alter it to suit your needs, but please make sure its still recognisable.

**Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery and link it on the right hand side of this blog using the Link tool. Please provide a direct link to your post, not your entire blog.If the link tool is down, please leave a comment on the comments section and link your layout there.

** The deadline for this challenge is midnight July 31st, Australian Eastern Standard Time . The Design Team will vote and the Top 5 layouts PLUS Top 5 featured layouts will be announced soon after the challenge has finished.

**You may enter as many times as you like **Also, please consider turning off word verification for comments on your blog. For a complete list of the rules please see the top of this page.

Here is my DT layout for the July challenge on the theme of FRIEND - "Elsi and I"

All papers are from Swedish Pion Design's newest collection Grandma's Schoolbook.
 
Elsi and I have been friends for as long as I can remember. I'm the blond on the right and Elsi's on the left. I must have been about 3 years old and Elsi 4, so we're talking 1962. Our families were neighbours and as there were no kindies in those days, my mother had a couple of kids in day care in our home including Elsi.

Through thick and thin indeed, culprits in many crimes involving mum's cookie jar :))

Cut a very old Prima vine in two and placed on either side of the photo as a sapling/bush.
 

 
Layers of lace, lace, more lace, doily and muslin misted in soft soft shabby hues of blue, cream and pink.
 

 

 
LOVE that felt/doily/hessian/button yummy embellishment from Charm Koch's Facebook shop. One has to keep an eye out for the date/time that she releases her batches, they sell quicker than you can wink! It is also possible to place pre-orders if you have an invitation from Charm.

Here's the link to her blog: CHARM'S CREATIONS
 

I had a lovely day with Patrici Cugnod and her beautiful family showing them some highlights of my home town. As they are staying for a whole week, they will have plenty of time to check out this and that. Here is first Patricia and her hubby Pascale:

And then their niece Clarice (14) on the far left, followed by Armèle (17) in the middle and Ségolène (19) on the far right. Very spunky and fun-loving girls all of them!

In my next post I will share 3 layouts that I made for the CSI Case File # 28, here's a sneak of the colours;

These are SO not my colours and I had some long and serious moments of procrastination before actually making anything. Not happy at all about the result, but that's life sometimes.

Today is Monday in my parts of the world and it's the second week of our summer hols. I haven't disappeared from the surface of earth, just kept the hours by the computer to the very minimum. Still counting to at least 2 hours of commenting in blogland every day and still hardly any traces anywhere that I've been for a visit. Very frustrating I say.

Enough of the neggieness, here's to sunshine, icecream and a thick yummo book!

Take care, have fun! xoxo Eila