Once Upon A Sketch August challenge - "My Girls"

Hi there!

1 August - goodness gosh!

Today both Once Upon A Sketch (OUAS) and Scrap Around The World release our August challenges. This time I start with the OUAS reveal, SATW follows shortly.

It is team B's turn to share pages over at OUAS, and as I'm in team B it means I've got a page to share with you. As from September, we will change into having just one big team contributing for each monthly challenge.

I will have close-ups for you tomorrow when I will also reveal the names of the winners of my July purge take-away.  


and HERE is the link to the OUAS August reveal.

Journalling Theme: "I'll never forget".

You are free to interpret our theme any way you like but please make sure your layout is based on the sketch below and includes some journalling (hidden journalling is fine)

  

The deadline for this challenge is 

 midnight 25 August Australian Eastern Standard Time 

 

Please welcome the winner of our June Challenge

Zaneta Glowa aka Zanka (Sweden)

 

My name is Zaneta Glowa a.k.a Zanka. I’m originally from Poland but I have been living in Sweden for quite few years now. Came here for job reason and stayed for love ;) I have a little family, my little daughter, two stepchildren and my hubby. As you might’ve noticed, my works mainly feature the photos of our kids.My adventure with scrapbooking started in 2010, with some Christmas cards and an idea to make an album with the photos from our daughter’s baptising. Before I knew it, I was totally hooked and I now could almost start a little store with the amount of scrapbooking supplies I have! I currently design for Papercraft Scandinavia, Let's Get Shabby challenge blog and Color Stories Inspiration. 

You will find my blog HERE 

  

Journalling: "I'll never forget...the year when a tiny miracle,  our daughter came to our life"

 Journalling ticket is tucked  behind the photo, on top.

Supplies: 7 Dots Studio & Prima (papers) , Inkido (flower)

The winner of this challenge,as voted by the Design Team will be invited to come back in October as our Guest Designer. They will also win the main prize from our main sponsor for August.

Our August sponsor is 

The Reneabouquets Etsy Shop offers unique and creatively beautiful scrapbook embellishments that are perfect for scrapbook layouts, cards, tags, mini albums, altered items, special events,  and weddings.  The shop also offers other Items that include:  premade scrapbook layouts, altered memory boxes, mini albums, decorative items, cards and tags.

**Let Reneabouquets create something unique and beautiful for you! **

This month, our winner will receive a US$30.00 voucher to the store with FREE domestic or international shipping!!

 
Imaginarium Designs chipboard, is donating a chipboard pack full of their newest releases valued at AU$50.00 , with free domestic and international shipping

Scraps of Elegance kit club is donating their main kit valued at US$35.95 value, with free Priority shipping within the USA, or free First Class shipping for international winners!

 

The Flying Unicorn online store is donating a US$25.00 gift voucher to spend at their store with free domestic and international shipping ! 

 

 

 

 

and here is my take - "My Girls";

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The world famous super talented scrappers Evgeniza Petzer and Irina Gerschuk have a wonderful Russian site called "Scrap Lifting". Just my cup of tea! HERE is the link to today's blogpost with a page to inspire lifting.

I cannot believe that they actually chose one of my pages for inspiration *blushing* THANK YOU so so much my darlings!

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Thank you so much for your visit. See you tomorrow if you want to!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

Extra post - Prima July PPP

Sorry, it's me again! now with my Prima July PPP.

First the inspo photo;

 

and then my take, which is in a different size, A4 than I normally work with. I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

 

Photo is by my very special Finnish photographer. A very common view during summer in Scandinavia - rain! Our summer is so short, and most of it just rains away.

Not only do I have two blogposts today, I'll be back again on 1 July - then with the OUAS August challenge!

Thank you so so much for your time! xoxox Eila

 

Extra post - PRIMA BAP JULY 2013

Hello on this rainy Tuesday!

I was supposed to do something that requires sunshine, so when I heard yesterday evening that the weather forecast predicted rain for today, I changed my plans. Instead I started on the Prima July BAP which I would not otherwise have been able to do this month either.

First the lovely sketch;

  

and then my take;

As you know I've been moving around my stash lately and of course I found some older Prima papers that I combined with one of the newer collections.

Here I have used going from bottom and up;

Sunset Sunrise (green with lace)

Fairy Belle (blue patterned) 

Sunset Sunrise again

Londonderry

Romantique

This little fellow is not one of our furbabies, he is the new family member of the Finnish photographer whose photos I am allowed to use in my scrapbooking. May I introduce Mr Bigge! cute huh

 

 

I also found some Dusty Attic chipboard, this corner flourish that I've layered under the fussy-cut blooms from Prima's "Romantique".

I will share my Prima July PPP in a separate blogpost today.

Cheers! xoxox Eila

Prima JUNE PPP - wedding bells and some cards

Oopsadaisy! 

Should have posted yesterday but a wedding and some behind the scenes creating changed my plans.

One of my younger cousins had her nuptials on one of the most beautiful days this summer. Here are a couple of photos of the couple and their two children.

So a short post today to share my Prima JUNE PPP and some cards.

First the PPP, which is an 8 x 8 canvas.

And then some cards;

G45 "Place In Time".

The ScrapCake "Sweet Childhood".

 Pion Design "Alma's Sewing Room".

Pion Design "Alma's Sewing Room".

Thanks for popping by! I will be back on 1 August with the OUAS August reveal, and then again on 2 August with my close-ups and the names of the winners of my July purge give-aways.

Toodelipip! xoxox Eila

July purge = give-away!

Hello hello!

Summer is progressing rapidly and a sign of me getting near that point when I can say I am relaxed, is when I wake up one morning feeling a dire need to PURGE my stash! As I've mentioned many times before, we live in a city flat and I have my itty nook in the corner of the spare room that is far too small to even be called a study. That's where we have all our closets too, so NO wall space whatsoever, everything is piled up in IKEA boxes. I also have a pile of papers that is at least 1,5 m tall ... do you think I will ever use them all?!

Aaanyhow, you might guess that I have a substantial stash of flowers too. Many of them without their original packaging and others with one flower missing from the packaging. I also have packages of buttons, brads, stickers, dimensional stickers, bundles of ribbons and more that I don't use.

I am really so happy to send these unused or partly used products from my first day of purging to anyone anywhere in the world if they come to better use.

I have divided the give-away in 3 lots:

The 1st contains this: 

8 packages of Prima and 1 package of Zva Creative blooms + 2 bundles of seam binding + 1 pack of ribbons/lace

plus 7 packs of MME brads and 2 packs of MME buttons

 

The 2nd contains this;

Kaiser Craft "Devonshire" alpha stickers + stickers + rubons

 plus 2 packs of Crate buttons and 2 packs of brads + 1 pack of Crate dimensional stickers.

plus over 20 different ribbons and lace

plus BoBunny dimensional stickers

 

plus 3 sheets of Melissa Frances stickers

The 3rd give-away is a pizza box full of miscellaneous loose blooms, mainly older Prima ones

The only thing you have to do is to leave a comment here telling me which of the 3 give-aways you are interested in. I will then pull a name from each category. Please do remember many of the packages are openened!

My give-away closes on 1 August 2013 at midnight CET.

I will announce the 3 winners on 2 August.

Now some well deserved coffee!

Todelipip! xoxo Eila