Tag riddle - part 1

Sheesh! 2 months to Christmas!!

I am waiting for my Christmas card supplies to arrive. Last year I made cards and sold at a charity event - 70 of them found new mantel pieces. I know exactly what I'll be doing every single free moment once my parcel has arrived :))

If you like Christmas home decor pieces, save Tuesday, 11 November in your calendar! I'll be up on Live With Prima with a Scandinavian Christmas project at 7 p.m./UK time or 8 p.m. CET.

Back in August I made tags for a riddle that a birthday girl was to figure out. Each tag has a letter and all tags form a sentence. 10 tags all in all. I'll share them with you in a couple of posts.

Here are the  first. Serious stash raiding - all papers are DCWV Linen Closet and all embellies and blooms are from my box of loose Prima.

It is nearing the time of the year when I always go to 

the European Management Assistants' Annual 

General Meeting.

This is year is special as we have our 40th anniversary.

Last year it was in London and this year it's in

LA BELLE PARIS!! whohoo! T minus 4 days!

Thanks a bunch for peeking in!

xoxoxo Eila

Second take on the Prima October BAP 2014

Hi ya!

Autumn is in full swing and leaves are falling off the trees. The apple trees look so beautiful, almost bare except for the fruit that are like colourful dots in the gardens where it has not been picked.

I really really love Jennifer Snyder's sketch for the Prima October BAP so I made a second take on it. This time I removed the square that indicates the photo and went with the flow of details only. Here's the sketch again to jog your memory, I rotated it the same way I did for my first take.

Another 8 x 8 little thing on water colour paper. The colour scheme is different on this one compared to my first take that was in russet hues;

PRODUCT LIST

Prima Color Bloom Spray Antique Gold

Prima Color Bloom Spray Gilded

Prima Color Bloom Spray Sorbet

Prima Color Bloom Spray Peony

Pri,a Color Bloom Spray Pearl White

Prima Glass Beads Butter

Prima Glass Beads Plum

Prima Winthrop Topaz flowers

Prima Amanac collection

Prima Something Blue collection

Prima Flower stencil

Prima metal die-cuts leaves

Prima resin frame antique - 2

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Thank you ever so much for popping in for a peek!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

Prima Product Review

Hello hello!

It's Tuesday and I'm up with a Prima Product Review on the Scrap365 Magazine blog .

HERE is the link to the full reveal with detailed product lists.

One of my pages is based on the Prima October PPP and the September BAP sketch by Keren Tamir.

 

 

 Here is my take - "Grow". Close-ups on the Scrap365 blog;

I will be back on Saturday, 18 October with another

Prima-based project!

Till then, xoxox Eila

Prima October BAP 2014 - Life

Hello weekend, hello you!

Said bye bye to my boss today. He's going on a business trip to Nepal among a couple of other exotic spots on the map. So look forward to hearing about his adventures when he comes back. His itinerary mentioned a helicopter ride up on Himalaya. Dropped hints about pashmina shawls being the thing to bring back home ... :))

I haven't been able to play early in the month with the Prima BAPs or PPPs for quite a while but this time I actually prioritized some creative me-time instead of doing a mountain of laundry. Ah well, one's got to catch the inspiration when it comes on a visit don't you think!

First the beautiful BAP sketch by Jennifer Snyder that I rotated like this. 

I was inspired by the diagonal flow and the circular shape in the centre and created an 8" x 8" little something on water colour paper.

 

Here is my take, letting the photos speak for themselves.

PRODUCT LIST

891282 - Ingvild Bolme Fluid Chalk Edger Fall Leaf

891015 - Ingvild Bolme Fluid Chalk Edger Dark Rust

891091  - Ingvild Bolme Chalk Edger Rusty Bucket

 573911 - Color Bloom Spray Gilded

573874 - Color Bloom Spray Sorbet

573836 - Color Bloom Spray Tea Stain

573843 - Color Bloom Spray Antique Gold

573942 - Color Bloom Spray Glistening Waves

571931 - Florella leaves

570620 - Pebbles

961718 - Art Ingredients Glass Beads Plum

961701 - Art Ingredients Glass Beads Butter

572839 - Metal Die-cuts Leaves 

575434 - Stationer's Desk Pencil

577414- Capistrano Milkshake

577384- Capistrano Ginger Ale

572365- Resin Frame Antique White 2

960247 - Vintage Metals Roman Numerals

892180 - Ceiling Light Bulb

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Silk

 Acrylic gold paint

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I will be back on Tuesday, 14 October

with a Prima product review over at the

Scrap365 blog!

See you then if you want to!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

Where Souls Blossom - canvas in Aug/Sept 2014 issue of Scrap365 Magazine

Hello hello!

I am back again after another super busy week at work, several late evenings and far too little sleep. Have been sooo looking forward to the weekend because it also marks something very unique and special;

Scrap365 Magazine has gone digital!!

 HERE  is the link where you an subscribe to the digital edition of the magz. You can get the a free trial of the first issue for a month - NO COST! how good is that!

And HERE is a link to YouTube with a fabulous teaser! Just listen to that fantastic voice of Ali Parris', she just could make voice overs for films left and right!

It's my LOVE anvas on the cover and it is also featured in the Pinspired 360 degrees article. So cool!

In the August/September issue I had another canvas featured in the Inspiration Station article - Where Souls Blossom.

It was all about misting.

This was my starting point; white and cream Prima blooms and a table full of mists!

SO many different mulberry blooms, different

shapes, different sizes, different textures. Just yummie!

Here is the misted and masked base that I used

as starting point.

And here is the result of day 1.

I continued the next day when all mists had dried.

The finished result with all embellies in place.

PRODUCT LIST

Tattered Angels Mist

 Crushed Shells

Sand

Wheatfield

Gold

Suede

Chalkboard Banana Pudding

Chalkboard Splash

Plain Jane Sky

Rolling Tide

Atlantic
Autumn Nights

Honey Dew

Garden Fairy

Sweet Clover

Key Lime Pie

Chalkboard Cotton Candy

Sunflower

Coral Reef

Peach Delight

Red Velvet

Patina

Other mist

Mr Huey's Opaque White

Prima Marketing

545994 - Innoscence 2 mulberry flowers

546076 - Innoscence 2 mulberry flowers

545963 - Innoscence 2 mulberry flowers

571498 - Le Mia Mulberry roses

571412 - Layla mulberry flowers

573454 - White Petal Flower trim

891992 - Shabby Chic Treasures resin butterflies

573546 - Resin angels

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Et voilà!

Thank you so much for coming by, really really
appreciate it!

Toodelipip! xoxo Eila

Prima PPP September 2014 - two autumnal canvases

It's a beautiful Sunday here in Stockholm. The trees have started to shift in blazing autumnal hues even if the lawns are still sort of green. Time to start thinking of sweaters and warmer shoes. The snow has already arrived up north, even if it was only for a short visit. As far as I'm concerned, it can stay away for the whole winter.

Just finished my take on the Prima September PPP, here's first the moodboard with its beautiful golden hues;

 

I made two  8" x 8" (20 cm x 20 cm) canvases for a birthday girl. They were designed to either hang side by side, or separately. 

First the left one;

And then the right one;

Both unframed next to each other;

Both in their shadow boxes;

PRODUCT LIST

Papers from the Life Time collection

573836 - Color Bloom Spray Tea Stain

573843 - Color Bloom Spray Antiqe Gold

961701 - Glass Beads Butter

961718 - Glass Beads Plum

 573096 - Stationers Desk paper clip

572693 - Stationers Desk flair button

574628 - Ivy Bay gold leaves

 578268 - Providence paper leaf stem Clove

578206 - Capri burlap flowers Cabernet

577384 - Capistrano mulberry flowers Ginger Ale

577414 - Capistrano mulberry flowers Milk Shake

 577940 - Sarasota lace flowers Dreamy

552886 - Cradle birds nest Sparrow

 575427 - Stationers Desk mulberry roses Typewrite

 574543 - Cartographer mulberry roses Globetrotter

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Et voilà!

Wishing you a beautiful weekend and start to the week!

xoxox Eila

Prima shadow boxes

Good morning Thursday!

Two days to go and then it's weekend yay! It's been a busy week again, got a couple of long trips to far away countries to plan and coordinate for my boss. Many visits and many legs of transportation to consider. Wouldn't mind joining him to Nepal where our company has one of our offices, that would be SO interesting!

It's 25 September, which means I am up on the Scrap365 blog with a post on 3 Prima shadow boxes. 

I am showing how older and newer Prima collections can be beautifully combined to create new combinations. Just love how they can be mixed and matched for new inspiration, one of the reasons Prima continues to wow me over and over again.

Click HERE for the link to the post with close-ups and full product lists.

Here comes a sneaky peaky of one of them!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit

the Scrap365 Magazine blog!

It would mean the world to me if you would

want to leave a word.

Toodeloo! xoxo Eila