Smil by SGD Christin Grønnslett

Christin here, with this layout I say thank for you for the last couple of months, it's been fun visiting here and challenge myself to do different things.  We have just entered December - a dark month - and I keep dreaming back to warmer days, even though I enjoy Christmas... I have used the wonderful Beautiful Memories II collection.

For this layout I started with clear gesso, added mist and waterbrush. Next layer is distress ink with a stencils. For the layers I this time ripped the edges and crunched them a little. In between the papers I added tissue paper and paper doilies and something that looks like magic mesh, but it used when remodeling a house - before perhaps putting up wallpaper. 

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Have a happy Holiday everyone !!

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Do not open until Christmas by SGD Christin G

I am in a Christmas mood lately, and I can honestly say that is has never happened this early. This weekend I started Christmas shopping - well, that is Christin window shopping. I went around the stores with my Iphone and took a lot of pictures to put on our Christmas wish list.  No gifts, put I did buy new Christmas decorations. Last year I started a new job a month before Christmas and Christmas decorating wasn't part of my priorities, so this year I have started early.   So while in Christmas spirit, I have made a Christmas layout with pictures from last year - from Christmas Eve morning where the kids in their PJs were allowed to open one big present each.

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Helt ny - en uke by Christin Grønnslett

This weekend I was at a lovely crop in the swedish city Karlstad and met up with a large group of lovely ladies and a few men to scrap.  The layout I am showing you today was made for a challenge at the crop.

I started preparing the background with clear gesso and then I used a waterbrush to spread drops of mist. When dried I sprayed different tones of brown mist to the background and added some drops of mist.

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Forever from Christin aka Umenorskan

When I work with the Inkidopapers I can't help myself - I just have to work tone on tones with the different papers.   Today I have addes some more air to my usual layers by crunching the papers a litte more and bending the corners. I also found and old knitted (not crochet) doily - probably made by my grandmother a long time ago.   

And at last I will show you how I made the background with some gesso, stamps and stencils - which I unfortunately almost covered all of...   (Picture taked slightly from above)

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Special Guest Designer - Christin Grønnslett aka Umenorskan

Hello, I am back !! For those of you that don't remember me, I popped into the blog for a little visit back in May (2013), but now I am back for a liiitle longer time. You will see me once a month until Christmas as a Special Guest Designer.  I will do a briefer intro to myself this time...

Who am I ? My name is Christin Grønnslett. 39 years old, lives in Norway with husband and two kids (6 and almost 4)  My blog: http://umenorskan.blogspot.com. I am one of those night owl scrappers. Every evening when the kids are asleep, I sneak down to my scrapcave way in the basement and scrap. If you look at my pages there are a few things that easily points to me. I mostly scrap using a white cardstock, I use stencils and stamps with distress inks, doilies are present and I use several layers, but most important - I am allergic to using up a whole page  so you will always se a lot of white space.  I am no documentation scrapper, allthough I often use my own handwriting. I love just capture different facial expressions as the kids grow older.

If you want to know more about my creative process, you can go back to my May post (linked above).

"Huske" is the name of this project - with a picture of my 3 year old in the swing the garden. She is not happy - I am not giving her a push - I am just photographing her - not very popular....

If you see the two projects in the other post you can see that I first used color products, stamps, stencils and THEN added my layers of paper, well, here I have done a mix of those two layering techniques.  Here is my thoughts on the different techniques: If you prefer a rather flat layering style and no big flowers and want to have room for a lot of pages in your albums I would recommend using this approach which goes as follows.  Glue down every layer on top of each other, leaving not much air between the layers, stamps, stencil and add gesso ON TOP of all the layers, and then add the picture and decorations.  This style is very common in Eastern Europe and if you are familiar with especially polish scrappers you would see this style.   Then there is the style in which I am most familiar. You do all the color work on the page before you start adding layers, and then staple the layers giving the papers a lot of air to tuck things in between. 3d adhesive is commonly used too.







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