Scrap Around The World July challenge - close-ups of my page "On Wings of Love"

Hello weekend! hello summer holidays YAY!

Breakfast out on our balcony, cats lazily lounging around our feet. Boy does the coffee taste better than ever! Going from Mach3 to the cloppety clop of a horse-drawn wagon is heavenly. I so need this break.

While I was away earlier this week, Scrap Around The World (SATW) went live with our July challenge. HERE is the link to the reveal.

And here are also the gorgeus moodboard by Keren Tamir and the yummo sketch by our resident sketch designer Julienne McKenna-De Lumen;

 

All you need to do is be inspired by the mood board (in ANY way) & use our sketch as your starting point. 

The above image MUST appear on the blog post containing your challenge entry -you also need to mention that you are playing along with the current challenge at Scrap Around The World & link up to it please.

You have until midnight, 25 July 2013 EST to play along!

And here is my take on it - "On Wings of Love";

It is deceitfully simple but IRL there is a massive amount of very subtle transluscent background work applied.

I immediately fell in love with the ornate gables, the shimmering gold & the delicate & romantic feel of the mood board. The photo of the dreamy view through the draped whispy curtains (in the first image on the mood board) reminded me of the photo I used (courtesy of Mrs Brigitte Grenfeldt). The butterflies were of course inspired by the sketch too.

Papers used on this are, going from bottom up;

Basic Grey, reverse side of a paper from the "Piccadilly" collection (delish whitish shabby pattern)
The ScrapCake, reverse side of a paper from the "Sweet Childhood" collection (palest greenish tealish)
Bazzil white cardstock
KaiserCraft, reverse side of a paper from the "Pickled Pear" collection (whitish board)

Here I've used the Blue Fern Studios chipboard The Garden Window without the shutters. 

Photo is courtesy of Mrs Brigitte Grenfeldt (world gold medal winning Swedish portrait photographer, blog: www.brigitte.nu)

 

The Garden Window (074691)

I used loads of brown and grey distress ink and floods of gold mist on it.

I was also inspired by the keys in the third photo of the mood board and the flowers of course.

Lush and opulent pearls, lace, gold netting, gold acrylic paint and LOTS of Glimmer Glaze in Icicle, Palo Verde and Misty Green as well as Glimmer Glam in Chandelier and Twinkling H2O in Gold and and Lindy's Stampgang Seaglass Green. All of these were used throughout the whole page.

Here I used the Blue Fern Studios Quatrefoil Garden Panel under the top cluster. It was treated in the same way as The Garden Window.

 

Quatrefoil Garden Panel (273841)

Wish you could see this IRL, the shimmering effect is if I may say so myself, dazzling.

The fussy-cut butterflies are from a paper by Inkido. I painted them in Glimmer Glaze Icicle and Glimmer Glam Chandelier for shimmer and stiffness.

Et voilà, that's it! I have also made a second more liberal take on the SATW July challenge which I will share with you next week.

During July my blog posts will be weekly instead of bi-weekly or tri-weekly as they have been during May and June.

Now off to enjoy the Stockholm sunshine! See you next Saturday if you want to!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

Scrap Around The World July challenge - "On Wings of Love"

Hello there friends of Scrap Around The World!  


We present you with our exquisite mood board for July, created by talented Design Team member Keren Tamir, together with a lovely sketch from our resident sketch designer, Jules McKenna-De Lumen!

All you need to do is be inspired by the mood board (in ANY way) & use our sketch as your starting point. 

No need to tell us HOW the board inspired you if it is OBVIOUS, otherwise please let us know - a couple of lines explanation is all that is vital for us).

How to use our mood boards

Our mood boards are for your INSPIRATION only.  

You can be inspired by one of the images, all of the images, or any number of them, or even parts thereof. 

For example:- on this board you may be inspired by the colours (either all of them or just one, two or more) but you do not have to use any colours on the board if you don't want to.  Other aspects of the mood board that could inspire you are, for example, the pleating/draping of the curtains, the soft organza type fabric, the chandelier, flower clusters, wood(from the table) the green from the grass, the misty background in the first image that could prompt the use of vellum or baking paper, hearts, ribbon, rafia, wreath elements, keys, clear elements, 'door-knob' type embellishments, corsets, dress-forms, floral vines, moulded resin embellishments & frames!

It's entirely up to you!  Be Inspired in any way!!

How to use our sketches

As you would any other sketch.  We would like to see that it definitely inspired you & was your 'starting point' but you can 'make it your own' by flipping it, turning it, inverting it & moving things about if you like.  You can also change the photo orientation and number of photos to be as few or as many as you like.

The above image MUST appear on the blog post containing your challenge entry -you also need to mention that you are playing along with the current challenge at Scrap Around The World & link up to it please,

Please link to your ACTUAL POST - not to your entire blog - to do this you need to CLICK ON THE TITLE OF YOUR BLOG POST then copy & paste that entire URL into the linky tool {you will notice that it is your blog address but it contains an extension}. 
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, along with DISABLING WORD VERIFICATION. If you are concerned about SPAM please change your settings to enable Comment Moderation instead rather. We CANNOT GUARANTEE to find your layout or to comment on it if you do not help us out here so please.... 

Onto our prizes & sponsors for this challenge!

Our design team votes on all entries, thus selecting a winner & 3 features.

A random winner is also drawn. 

There will always be a prize for the Merit Winner & the Random Winner.
If we get lucky there will be prizes for the featured layouts too!
This month we are again blessed with 5 PRIZES!!
 

We have prizes for the Merit & Random winner AND for all 3 features!!!

AS WELL as winning our first prize,  the winner will be invited back as Guest Designer for the next challenge.

Our challenges are open to everyone, anywhere in the world

 & all this month's prizes include FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING!!

This month our merit winner will receive the June Kit 'Dreams in Pastel'
from C'est Magnifique Kit Club, full of Maja Design's new papers, '
'Vintage Spring Basics' plus lots of Prima loveliness...

 

 

2nd place will receive paper collection 'Vintage Memories' from Polish company Studio 75!

See their full range here in their online store.

  

 

3rd place will receive a $25 chipboard prize-pack from Scrapmatts Chipboard in Australia, containing a selection of their latest releases!

  

 

Above is just an example of some of the awesome products they stock HERE.

4th place will receive a $15 prize-pack of your choice from Purple Pumpkin!

  

Our random winner will receive this prize pack of assorted goodies kindly donated by Keren!

 The deadline for this challenge is 

midnight EST Thursday, 25 July 2013.

And here is my take on the moodboard and sketch;

(Photo courtesy of Mrs Brigitte Grenfeldt)

I will be back in the weekend with close-ups!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

Skissedilla sketch 217 - "Sunset" - and a birthday card.

Hello friends near and far! 

This is a pre-scheduled post as life has once again called me to the side of a friend in dire need. Things we take for granted every single day, such as our health and another day tomorrow are not necessarily there for us to have when tomorrow comes. I will be back in about a week.

Norwegian Skissedilla went live with their sketch 217 on Sunday, 30 June. HERE is the link to the reveal. You have until next Saturday to play!

Here's the super super cool sketch to begin with;

Here is my take - "Sunset";

Papers used on this one are going from bottom and up:

KaiserCraft "Timeless" collection
Webster's Pages "Plum Seed" collection (red)
Webster's Pages "Plum Seed" collection (yellow)
Webster's Pages "Plum Seed" collection (woodgrain top layer)

I've used this photo before, it's by the daughter of a friend and is from New Zealand. What an amazing sunshet!

All fussy cut details from Prima "Ladybird".

Also sharing a birthday card I made some time ago;

Both Scrap Around The World and Once Upon A Sketch release their July challenges today 1 July. As it is team A's turn over at OUAS, I have no page to share with you.

Therefore I will share the page I made for SATW's July challenge In my next blogpost.

Take care all of you and thank you for stopping by!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

 

Prima MAY PPP - two projects

Hi ya, so glad to see you!

Midsummer was as beautiful as I hoped for. Sunshine every day. Got bitten by the summer hols bug but it's not quite time to put on the shorts and enjoy lazy days yet. A couple of more weeks in the office before work is out for summer.

Making this a short post. Sharing the 2 projects I made for the Prima MAY PPP.  First the colours;

 

May and June so far have been crazy crazy months both scrappy and workwise. Really so sorry for being MIA in so many places but the day simply doesn't have enough hours - yet.

Some of you might remember that my life turned upside down last winter when two of my friends died in cancer withing weeks of each other.

The daughter of one of these friends graduated some weeks ago. My 2 Prima May PPP projects were created for her; a card and a gift box. 

In the box we extra-aunties and uncles put a pair of diamond studs for her. A reminder of how she is surrounded by the love of many people and how something that seems the end of the world still can lead to other beautiful places and discoveries.

Here they are; first the card

And then the box, this is what it looked like raw before I painted it in the minty teal green and started decorating;

 

The box was rather difficult to photograph, as always it looks so much better IRL but now you've at least got a hunch of what it looks like.

Ta ta! and see you again if you want to. Thanks for popping by!

xoxox Eila

Prima MAY BAP - hello Midsummer!

Hi there!

Hope you're having a beautiful autumn or splendid prelude to summer wherever around our good Mother Earth you are. Stockholm has definitely notched up its summer feel. Today is Midsummer's Eve, the lightest day of the year when day and night are almost one.

I feel as light as the fairies dancing in the meadows at midnight, like the butterflies fluttering over buttercups and daisies, like the sunshine and lapping of water against our shores. Life is good, life is blessed. Thank you Prima for having me as one of your GDTs 2013-2014! Dancing also for all the talented, amazing friends on their new DT - here's to you all - CONGRATULATIONS!

About time to share my Prima MAY BAP. Here's a reminder of the sketch;

 

and my take on it - "Ye Old Mill"

A mix of old and new collections on this one. That's what I think is so amazing with Prima's collections, you can mix and match them with a fabulous result. Everything just goes so well together!

Papers used going from bottom and up:

Fairy Rhymes
Zephyr
Sun Kiss
Divine 

I will let the photos speak for themselves. Misting, masking, pearls, lace, twine, gesso, acrylic paint used throughout my page.

Here I've also used the ornate top piece of the Blue Fern Studios Layered Bordeaux Frame.

The base is Prima Ingvild Bolme Edge Chalker in Dark Bark. Then layers of Mister Huey's in "Water Cooler", TA "Patina" and acrylic paints in Sky Blue, Peking Red, Pumpkin and Gold.

 

 Layered Bordeaux Frame (075261)

Photo of the old mill courtesy of my fave Finnish photographer.

Listening to an amazing young singer, for those of you old enough to remember the British singer Mick Hucknall and the band Simply Red, this is a young version of Mick. Amazing voice! check him out on YouTube:

 JAMES MORRISON "Awakening"

I'll be back in a couple of days to share the two projects I made for the Prima MAY PPP. Till then, toodelipip!xoxox Eila