Enjoy The Ride by Karita

Hi everyone!
Karita here today with a new layout made for the May challenge.
Here you can see the beautiful mood board:

 And here´s my layout:

 I was so inspired by the colour scheme of the mood board.And I just love those cute fussy cutted butterflies.

Blue flowers	SM12229 Mathea Croissant	Spring Time Sweet Angels	Beautiful Memories - Blue Butterflies	Forever Spring/Summer - Turquoise Bird
Beautiful Memories - Butterflies Border	Rose medium Turquoise

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Thank you looking!
Hugs,

 

Mixed Media Tutorial with Inkido for Scrap 365, HERITAGE

Today we a little tutorial for you.
I made this project for Scrap 365 when Inkido was sponsoring our DT there.
I hope you will enjoy it!
Bellaidea

APRIL's challenge by Agnieszka Bellaidea OUR ROOTS

Hi!
It's Bellaidea today with a new challenge, OUR ROOTS.
Knowing we have participants from all over the world we can not wait to see your projects.
This time our Mood Board should just inspired you to use some interesting elements specific to your country.
Folk art, costumes, national decorations, anything like this and please don't forget to tell us about it!

I had several ideas what will I do for this challenge but since it's April and Easter coming I used the idea about very nice Polish tradition of painting /decorating eggs.

"There are many schools and techniques – some people paint them, others scratch or paste patterns on their surface, others still dye them in special extracts. But one thing has not changed for centuries – the tradition of decorating Easter eggs is alive and well all across Poland.

Easter eggs in Poland are commonly known as pisanki. These are usually chicken eggs covered with intricate decorations to look nice on Polish tables and in Polish homes during Easter. The name pisanki derives from the verb pisać which used to mean “draw” or “engrave patterns” (compare with Latin pictura). The first pisanki found by archaeologists in Poland date as far back as the 10^th century. Today, all decorated Easter eggs are called by this name, but there are different terms for the individual artistic techniques of making them.

Pisanki are created by drawing designs on egg shells with molten wax. Then, the eggs are dyed and the wax is removed, leaving a pattern on the surface. Lambs, crosses, flowers and other springtime motifs are the most popular symbols depicted on pisanki.

Kraszanki, also known as malowanki, are single-colour dyed eggs. To make the shells yellow and orange, you need to boil eggs in water with onion peels; brown hue will result from adding some oak bark; while dark hollyhock flower will give yourkraszanki a beautiful violet colour. Extracts of young rye, barley, grass or mistletoe leaves will dye your eggs green, and to get black colour use some alder bark. Eggs soaked in cornflower decoction will turn blue, in coffee – brown, in beetroot extract – dark red. In addition, there are plenty of chemical dyes available today.

Dyed eggs are traditionally covered with decorations, e.g. drawings made with a sharpened pin. Pisanki created this way are called skrobanki or drapanki. Eggs decorated with flower petals, pieces of cloth or paper cuttings are oklejanki andnalepianki, while those with their contents removed and shells painted are known as ażurki.

The Rev. Krzysztof Kluka Museum of Agriculture in Ciechanowiec (Podlasie region) houses Poland’s biggest collection of Easter eggs: close to two thousand pisanki from Poland and across the world. Apart from chicken or goose eggs, the Museum boasts artefacts made from penguin and seagull eggs, as well as minute hummingbird and giant ostrich eggs. The museum collection is based on over a thousand exhibits donated by Irena Stasiewicz-Jasiukowa and Jerzy Jasiuk from Warsaw, who spent thirty years collecting and cataloguing Easter eggs from across the country.

Monika Kucia"

The was a time in my life I was very busy with ostrich eggs too :).
For my page I used eggs chipboards and flowers from friendly company from Poland, Wycinanka. Very Polish accent!

Beautiful memories collection and stamps from Inkido were used to create my page.

Challenge Rules:

1. You are allowed to make a card , layout or

 altered/off the page project as long as you follow the

  challenge specifications.

  2.   Projects must be linked up via our Linky .

 3.  You may submit as many entries as you like for

 this  challenge and combine your entry with up to 2

 other challenges.

 4.  It is required that you mention in your blog post

 that you are playing along at Inkido  TOGETHER with

 a link back to our blog and you post our Mood Board in your post too.

 5. All entries must be received by the end of April   2014.

6.  If you are using Papercraft Scandinavia / Inkido

 product please let us know what is it.

7. Have fun!!

We have a fun prize for this challenge, all new stuff from our shop!

Sweetheart... February Challenge by Hera Sugitani

Good morning, my friends!!!
Today I'm here to share with you my LO inspired by the challenge of this month... so sweet and lovely!!!
And also a mini album that I loved to do... with my little sweet daughter. Hope you like them...
Our inspiration...

Sweetheart Layout... The strawberries and the chantilly got my attention... I love this combination, and I used it to inspire me!!!

Here go some details...

The sweet butterfly...

Gorgeous Inkido flowers...

And this sweet cupid caught my eyes...

Now, the mini album "My Angel"...

Closer...

 My baby (now she is 6!!!)...

 Many layers here...

I love this paper / pattern...

 So cute!

Another page...

Here I also used an Inkido stamp...

Detaisl...

The last page...

The back cover...

I really hope you like my projects... They are made with all my love... Love for memories, for scrapbooking and for INKIDO AMAZING PRODUCTS!!!

Kisses and thanks so much!!!

Products used:

 Inkido - Papercraft Scandinavia:

Cartas Royal Red
Carta Satin Pink
Butterflies Borders
Pink Memories
Old Pink Rose
Stamp
Heartpins Mixed
Flowers - Gardenia
Roses
Dreams - Pink Stripe
White Lace

Pink Flowers

These are our new papers;