Let's get lost in Dreams!

Hello Paper friends! 

So fun to be working with all the new  Prima Marketing releases from CHA this year. With the new Challenges for February the colors are all just perfect.

Link to Prima - February Challenge

Link to Berry71Blue February Challege

For my background I went with some stamps and stencils and paste. I wanted to keep it light and sparkly. I mixed some Mica powder in the paste to get some color. After that adding some misting and splatters.

I combined 2 of the new Prima collections - Love Clippings and Wild + Free. Gorgeous colors and the one note card just put me on the right track. I stamped several feathers and used embossing powder to make it stand out. Lots of fuzzy cutting and I'm on my way to a dream catcher. 

Decorated with flowers from the new collections and chipboard. 

Some close-ups.

I used some real feathers too with the paper ones. 

I hope you like the dreamy look!

List with used items:

Prima - Love Clippings - 12x12 collection - 992064

Prima - Love Clippings - Mine - 594381

Prima - Love Clippings - Love Clippings - 594343

Prima - Love Clippings - 2 the Moon & Back - 594428

Prima - Wild + Fire - Note Cards - 992309

Prima - Wild + Fire - Clear Stamps - 992323

Prima - Wild + Fire - Chipboard and More

Prima - Wild + Fire - Wander - 594664

Prima - Heavy Gesso - 961442

Prima - Modeling Paste - 961411

Prima - Mica Powder - Cold Pink - 962869

Pima - Royal Menagerie - Stencil -582975

BoBunny - Glitter Paste - Blush

Scrapiniec - Monograce Circles

Scrapiniec - Leaves - 4251

Tim Holtz - Stencil - Dot Fade - THS006

13@rts - Stencil - Shapes Art

Feathers

Recipe Map - Mediterranean Dreams!

Hello Paper and ScrapBerry's friends!

Lucky me I recently received my new DT package from ScrapBerry's and boy did it come with all kinds of new and wonderful paper collections. One of these collection is Mediterranean Dreams. It got me thinking about warmer weather and entertaining. Living in Houston, Texas it means we don't have much of a winter so before you know it we can go out and start our Spring and Summer parties. Time to start to collect those recipes. I created this handy map to keep them all together.

I first cut out my two background pieces of paper, and chose the stencils I wanted to use. I love the bright colors on this collection so I also used a paste in a yellow and a white paste. For added color and texture I used some splash-inks and mists. From the Cards papers I chose the details I wanted to cut out, using all the delicious food pictures and little details to make it pop.

Once I started my layering I added chipboard pieces, a flair, the cute metal charms and Polymer cake to make the whole display come together. Some final splashes and the project was done. Summer here we come!

Let's party!!

Item list for ScrapBerry's:

Mediterranean Dreams Collection

Maroccan Plaid - SCB220609501

Colourful City - SCB220609504

Cards 1 - SCB220609507b

Cards 2 - SB220609508

Discover Italy  

Metal Charms - SCB 25002028

Summer Joy 

Polymer Items - SCB26002007

Exquisite Embellishments - Flairs - SCB340001074

Item list for other manufacturers:

Shimmerz - 

Prima - Paste - 961411

Prima - Stencil - 575908

Prima - Stencil - Tile - 584566

Prima - Color Bloom - Cobalt - 573898

13@rts - Splashink - Silver, White, Yellow, Blue

Blue Fern Studios - February Projects

 Hello Blue Fern Studios friends. 

It's Lydia here today showing you my 3 projects for February. 

So excited to be using the soon to be released Chesterville Collection. The first 2 layouts are made withe that and the third with the Serendipity Collection. Here goes!

Capture the Moment

For my back ground work I started off with using the Postal Textures Stamp and Antique Gold Embossing Powder to create some interest. After that I followed with a stencil and paste. 

The Swirly Doodle and Swirly Circle Chipboard pieces I embossed with Black Sand BFS Embossing Powder and the Roman Clock Set and Captured Words with Copper BFS Embossing Powder.

Once I had all the preparations done it was time to start layering. Adding Late Winter Lilies and other embellishments to get the layout together. Some finishing touches with some mists and ink splatters and we're done with the first one.

Paper

Chesterville : Bretton - Holmes

Chipboard 

Swirly Doodle

Swirly Circle

Roman Clock Set - Small

Captured words

BFS Embossing Powder 

Black Sand

Copper

Antique Gold

Stamps

Postal Textures

Flowers 

Late Winter Lilies

Explore

For my second layout with the Chestervile collection I used another picture from our trip to the Grand Canyon. The mountains fit perfectly with the colors of these papers. To make things pop I decided to go with a contrasting color. I had my eye on the gorgeous Peacock BFS Embossing Powder for the Manchester Frame. Working my way back to all the other accents with that.

For my background I used the stamp and embossing technique again. Going with the Scratched stamp and Antique Gold BFS Embossing Powder. Followed by a stencil and paste, some misting and ink splatters. 

The Notebook Edges chipboard piece I embossed with Black Sand BFS Embossing Powder. The Seasonal Wild Flowers and Journey, Explore, Discover chipboard pieces with Oatmeal BFS Embossing Powder. Adding Autumn Glitter to the tips. With this all prepared I cut some pieces of paper from the Chester and Holmes papers to create some layers adding the chipboard pieces and Dark Tropic Lilies and other embellishments to finish of the layout. A final touch of ink splatters and we're done. 

Paper

Chesterville : George - Chester - Holmes

Chipboard

Manchester Frame 

Seasonal Wild Flowers

Journey, Explore, Discover

Notebook Edges

Embossing Powder 

Black Sand

Oatmeal

Peacock

Antique Gold

Glitter

Autumn

Stamps

Scratched

Flowers 

Dark Tropic Lilies

Memories Captures

For my last layout this month I chose the brighter color scheme of the Serendipity Collection. Getting ready for Spring this part of the world. 

For the back ground I started with stamping around the page with a combination of stamps, Postal Textures, Christmas Collage & Shabby Edges. Followed by a stencil using an assortment of pastes. The gorgeous Janie's Frame chipboard piece was embossed with Oatmeal BFS Embossing Powder. After it was done I cut it through half to position on either side of the page. 

I fuzzy cut some pieces from the Merriment sheet to use on the layout and several butterflies. Assembling it all I used an assortment of BFS Flowers : Dark Tropc Lilies, Soft Blossoms & Courtship Roses. Adding some final touches with some Burnt Copper & Sunshine Glitter for a bit of extra sparkle and we're done.

Paper

Serendipity: Glee - Merriment

Chipboard 

Janie's Frame

Captured Words

Embossing Powder 

Oatmeal

Glitter 

Burnt Copper

Sunshine

Stamps

Postal Textures

Christmas Collage

Shabby Edges

Flowers 

Dark Tropic Lilies

Soft Blossoms

Courtship Roses

Thank you so much for checking in!

Hugs, 

Lydia Guijt

Our Story - Maja Design - February Mood board

Hello my wonderful Paper friends. 

This month is the month of Love and what better way to celebrate then to use one of my favorite wedding photo's on a layout.

For this layout I'm using the gorgeous Maja Design February Mood Board. 

The Summertime (in the Garden) papers are just perfect for the feel I wanted to go for.

After using a clear Gesso on my background I started with a combination of stamps. If you look carefully you can see the old car stamp from Prima, peeking through on the left. This is a similar car we had on the day. I thought it was very fitting. After the stamping I continued on with the stencil and paste. Now that I have some of my texture I continued with some watered down gesso to soften the background at some spots. Followed by 2 colors of Color Blooms. 

Having done most of the background work, it was time to get started with my layering. I cut a couple of pieces of paper and one from the die-cut sheet to create them, started stacking chipboard, flowers and all sorts of other elements to create the desired look.

I just wanted to use a lot of flowers this time and I think it really worked. I love all the colors and different shapes and sizes in the flower arrangement.

Now that we have that done some final touches with microbeads, splash-inks to finsh of the layout. I hope you like the layout. I had a lot of fun creating this one. 

As always I appreciate you dropping by my blog. It means a lot that you support me and want to have a closer look. If there are any questions or you'd like to know more about the layout just drop me a line.

 Thank you and I hope you'll have a wonderful day!

List with used products:
Maja Design - Summertime (In the Garden) - Smell the Roses
Maja Design - Summertime (In the Garden) - Flowers Everywhere
Maja Design - Summertime (In the Garden) - Die Cuts
BoBunny - It Is Written Stamp

Prima - Cling Stamps - Romance Novel - 559335

Prima - Cling Stamps - Garden Fable - 655350

Prima - Heavy Gesso - 961442

Prima - Color Bloom 2 - Golden Oregano - 588854

Prima - Color Bloom - Ginger Coral - 580285

Prima - Spring Prism Floralia - 942724
Prima - Garden Fable - Perrinial - 580780
Prima - Tales of You & Me - Amour de Ma Vie - 586300
Prima - Love Clippings - Ephemera - 992163
Prima - Wild + Free - Chipboards & More - 992347
Prima - Micro Beads - Blush - 962593
13@rts - Stencil - Always the Music
13@rts - Colored Fine-grained Grit - Faded Pink
13@rts - Splashink - White
Petaloo - Mini Canterbury - Lime - #1823-313
Wild Orchid - Assortment of Roses
Scrapiniec - Lavender Mist - 4297

Maja Design February Challenge - Love!

February is the month of Love! This year I've not used the traditional colors yet on any of my projects, so it was about time.

Maja Design is having a beautiful mood board this month and I've made this card for it. 

The Summertime collection is perfect for this challenge.

I paired it with some chipboards and gorgeous flowers from the latest Prima collections.

For my background I used a couple of stamps and stencils with paste. All in all creating quite the layered effect. 

A  couple of close-ups.

Thank you so much for stopping by and having a closer look. 

Items Used :

Prima - Tag

Maja Design - Summertime (In the garden) - Flowers everywhere

Maja Design - Summertime (In the Garden) - Die Cuts

Prima - Cling Stamp - Treasured Memories 2 - 580087

Prima - Clear stamp - 960810

Prima - Jamie Dougherty - Stencil - Spark - 980399

Prima - Modeling Paste - 961411

13@rts - Stencil - Memories

Prima - Color Bloom - Ginger Coral - 580285

Prima - Color Bloom 2 - Golden Oregano - 588854

Prima - Love Clippings - Love Clippings - 594343

Scrapiniec - Chipboard - Loveheart - 4279
Wycinanka - Chipboard - Butterfly
Prima - Micro Beads - Blush - 962593
Prima - Micro Beads - Grass - 962623

Love!

Hello Paper and ScrapBerry's friends. February is of course the month of love. Although traditionally we would think of using colors like red and pink, the new Art of Nature collection is so very romantic and well suited to create such a layout.

For my background I used a combination of stencils with inks, pastes and mists to create some interest. I love how you can still see all the words still coming through.

This collection has so many of papers I could fuzzy cut, and fuzzy cut I did! Creating layers and layers. Adding chipboard pieces, flowers and other embellishments to compliment the look. Some final splatters and the layout was done! 

Thank you so much for looking! 

List of Used ScrapBerry's Items :

The Art of Nature Collection

Tender - SCB220609104

L'amour - SCB220609106

Cards1 - SCB220609107b

6x6 Collection - SCB220609109

Wind of Travel

Set of clocks - SCB34001071

Floral Embroidery

Crystal Stickers - SCB53000007

Happy Holidays

Pearl Stickers - SB25002042

Butterflies

Set of stamps - Butterflies 2 - SCB4907002b

Sweetheart

Set of stamps - SCB4907008b

Flowers

Daisy - White Cream - SCB 280302

Roses - SCB280602

Gardenia - 5cm Set 7 - SCB29017

Together & Forever!

Hello Paper friends!

So it's been a while since I did a challenge. It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride here and have not had a lot of time to do anything besides my DT work. It's fun to do something else again too. 

More Than Words has this wonderful challenge and of course it's my favorite subject. Together. Not a hard one to do. 7Dots Studios has a beautiful challenge too and just to make it more interesting the girls from the old Flying Unicorn Creative Team were talking about using more of our older stash, so I'm challenging myself to start using more of that too.

Link to the February More Than Words Challenge

Link to the 7Dots January/February Challenge

Link to January/February Mixed Media Place Challenge

Now let's get started on this layout. For my background I began with some stamping work. A combination of Prima and BoBunny Stamps. Next I used an UmWow Mask with a combination of Prima paste and Lumiere Turqoise Pearl. The color fit perfect with the background. 

Adding to the background work splatters of Color Blooms, Splash-inks, glitter, Prills and grit. All the items are listed below. Time to get the layers done. Using some of the tags from the 7Dots Studios Cotton Candy Dreams collection, chipboard frame, bubbles chipboard and some other pieces. Adding some flowers and to finish it of some of the great tiny titles. 

I had great fun making this layout! Thank you so much for looking!

List with all the used products:

7 Dots Studios - Cotton Candy Dreams - Pucker Up 

7 Dots Studios - Cotton Candy Dreams - Tags - 12x12

7 Dots Studios - 9th Wave - Alpha stickers 6x12

Stazon Black

Prima - Jamie Dougherty Boom - Cling Stamp - Floral - 98031

Prima - Heavy Gesso - 961442

Prima - Modeling Paste - 961411

Lumiere - Turquoise Pearl

13@rts - Stencil - Aria Song

13@rts - Splashinks - White & Turqoise
13@rts - Colored Fine-Grained Grit - Blue light
mini Prills - Seas the Day

UmWow - Mask - Wonky Circles

BoBunny - It Is Written Stamp 

Prima - Cling Stamps - Coffe Stains - 580247

Prima - Color Bloom - Soft Teal - 573782

Prima - Color Bloom - Deep Teal - 580322

Prima - Color Bloom 2 - Fir Needles - 588847
Prima - Glitter Set - Carribean Seas - 961565
Heidi Swapp - Frames
My Mind's Eye - Now & The - Izzy Mixed Bag

Snipart - Chipboard - Circles

UmWow - Cotton Candy Smash Chipboard

Prima - Heaven Sent - Amelia - 588366

Prima - Del Mar - Quarter - 577575

Glitz - 77 - Giant Rhinestones

Wild Orchid Flowers

Black twine