Pinterest challenge and Happy Go Lucky card

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I have a couple of projects to share with you today. The first one is a card I created using Let's Scrap's sketch from last week. I have been meaning to create a crowded and layered banner for some time, and this was the right sketch for it:

The second project is a double layout. Oh, I find double pagers soooooo hard, but I need to finish my sister's album; I've been working on it for too long and I have just a few pages left, so I started going through my favourite sites for some mojo. I ended up playing with Club CK's February Pinterest Challenge, using this image for inspiration:

Here is my layout, I'm not sure if I love it or hate it, it changes every time I look at it (does that happen to you, too?), but at least it is done! 

I tried to re-create the frames using cardboard, gesso and inks. There is some journalling space for my sister to complete, and a couple of tiny frames add an extra touch to the title. And only 8 pages to finish now!

Remember I am sponsoring this week's challenge at Sketch Inspiration, and giving away this lovely prize to a randomly picked winner. You need to go and play!!!!

Also, I will be having a big giveaway in March to celebrate my blog's new look with this fantastic prize so don't forget to come back once the contest starts and leave a comment for a chance to win!!!

A Martha Stewart bundle which contains: 12 neon glitter (4.4 oz. each),12 hexagonal glitter (.3 oz. each), 12 iridescent vintage leaf glitter (.14 oz. each) and 12 glittered flocking powder (.077 oz. each). The retail value of the bundle is around $80. 

Layouts x 3!

I am so happy to be scrapping again this week! First of all, I added a double layout to my sister's wedding album. I started with this page, based on last week's Sketch Inspiration's sketch.

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And then I added another page to the left, keeping the banner and the same kind of embellies.

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Almost all the materials I used for these layouts were part of last month's Studio Calico kit. Loved the colours, and all the butterflies. I even decided to use the negative of the kraft butterflies in the layout!

And that was not all! I had some creative time to spare, so I made a layout for this week's fabulous DT challenge at Let's Scrap. I had to use something on the layout that was not a scrapbooking supply, so I used some stars that I got from hair bands. We have plenty of those at home!

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I love the look of the tags as a background. I find it difficult sometimes to open a new pack of supplies and use it up on a single layout, like with these tags, but I think this was really worth it. If you want to play in this challenge, you have time until Thursday at midnight.

Dia de Playa!

I haven´t posted anything for a few days because of a huge mistake I made: I spilled coffee on my laptop!!!!!!!!!! I then had to leave it to dry for a few days, and while we waited, we went to the eastern side of the island to see a miracle: the leatherback turtle hatchlings being born!!! This was the first one we saw: I almost cried! 

And this is DD picking it up to take it to a tank with water. They keep them there and release them during the night, to maximise their chances of survival. 

And now, back to scrapping, but also by the sea! This is a pic of my daughter I absolutely love, so I´ve been saving it for some special papers. The Summer Fun collection by Pink Paislee is the kind of special paper I needed! The picture is not very good, unfortunately, as we are in the middle of the rainy season and it is hard to find a good chance to take a pic. 

I used stitching to give some texture to the waves and sun. And I used the rubber stickers, chipboard stickers, and paper embellies from the collection. Gorgeous! 

This LO is based on this week´s sketch at Let´s Scrap. you can still play until midnight, or visit the site tomorrow for a fantastic card sketch!


List of supplies

Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper, Chipboard, Stickers, elements: Pink Paislee
Acrylic paint: from my daughter´s stash!
Glue: GLue Glider Pro
Embroidery Floss: assorted

El Ramo (the bouquet)

I worked on a page for Practical Scrappers' Cameos and Silhouettes feature yesterday, but, since the page is based on Jannike's sketch for this month (a beautiful sketch, have you seen it yet?), we decided to leave it for the sketch reveal at the end of the month. I had to work on a page to put next to it in the album, however, so I created another page using similar elements. This page shows the bouquet toss, and it is based on Let's Scrap's sketch for challenge NSD2011#12. I think it's a fabulous sketch, which could be interpreted in many different ways, so I am looking forward to seeing what other people will post in the gallery. If you want to play along, you have until May 31st to post your take on it.

I'm not very happy about that HAPPILY EVER AFTER sticker in the bottom left corner; the problem is I tried to place a rub-on that came with the album and said "the bouquet toss", but they are very bad quality rub-ons and it ended up looking smudged, which would be OK in other pages, but not this one, so I had to cover it somehow!

I re-printed the picture and fussy cut the bouquet to add on top of the picture for more dimension, I like the effect on the photo, it makes the bouquet pop from it.

If you want to see the page that went next to this one in the album, you'll have to come back on May 30 for the sketch feature reveal. Want a sneak peek, though? Here it is:

List of Supplies:

Patterned Paper: K and Company, TPC Studio

Rub-ons: TPC Studio, Karen Foster

Pearls: TPC Studio, Mark Richards

Stickers: Basic Grey, K and Company

Glue: Glue Glider Pro

Foam squares: Scotch

Markers: Copic, Staedtler

Fabric and stitching

Fabric and stitching were the two elements that had to be included for this week's DT challenge at Let's Scrap. Great chance to use up some cute fabric scraps I've had for some time:

The fence, the strip and the banner are fabric, as well as the pieces behind the torn patterned paper. I hand stitched on the green strip as well as two of the buttons. There are 18 pieces of chipboard!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to miss this chipboard set when it's finished, it's just too cute. My Stockholm a,lbum is definitely getting thicker and I love just looking at how big it's getting!!! Far from finished, though. 

Pink is my favourite colour

Pink is not my favourite colour, but it is my daughter's. That's why when Challenge 87 at Let's Scrap asked for a LO using paint chips, that is the only colour I had, the paint chips we used to choose her bedroom colour. I used the chips for most of the elements in the LO: two of the flowers, the title, the journalling strips, the strip below the photo, and even to cover the chipboard butterfly. I made the butterfly's antennae and a leaf for the flowers with wire and beads.

Red close-ups

I've been playing a little with my camera this afternoon. Debby has started a great photo group with tips and challenges at Let's Scrap. The challenge this week was getting closer - using the macro funtion. Also, Sunday Shutterbugs had a red colour challenge, so I chose red flowers in my garden as the subject of my first two pics. The third one, the one I like most, is the stem of a cactus-like plant in our front yard. 

Live laugh love - Be happy!

"Live laugh love - be happy" is the sentiment in this card I created for challenge 86 at Let's Scrap. The challenge was to use a transparency, paint on the back side, and print on the front. I can't print on my transparencies as the ones I have are for the wrong sort of printer and I haven't found the right ones since I moved, so I used rub-ons instead. 

I'm having fun making matching envelopes for my cards, and I think this will also help them sell better, so here is the envelope for this one. It is simple, but I like the finished touch it gives to the card/envelope set.

FLY AWAY, KITE

This is my first layout as a Let's Scrap DT.

There's lots of stitching in it: the kite threads, the doodles on the patterned paper, the letters, the clouds. It is time consuming to hand stitch all over the layout, but I always like the results. I wanted the clouds to be different so for each cloud I cut three clouds in slightly different sizes and different patterned papers, inked them, played a little bit with the borders, and stitched them.

I didn't have any vintage paper for the kite, so I had to make my own by creasing some kraft paper and photocopying a dictionary page on it!