Some Summery Pages + More Good News

Hello everybody

We are finally having some glorious sunshine and proper summer weather. Although I am not sure how long is this going to last for, I will just take each day as it comes and enjoy, maybe I should use this unique opportunity to wash all winter jackets - might dry before needed again LOL.

Now I have more good news to share - I have been featured on the Get Creative Blog Challenge with my mixed media page:

I am soooo happy about this as there were so many gorgeous entries.

Today I would like to share with you 2 pages from our last family holiday in tropical Fuerteventurra. First page I did shortly after we came back and the second page was made recently, you can tell it from my style:

Both pages use Bo Bunny papers that I bought last year for these photos and all flowers were hand made; Sizzix dies, stamps, canvas, inks... Title of the first page is coming from the fact what they said about the ride that it was scary but fun :).
My old DSLR camera did not like high temperatures over there, obviously is begging to be retired and replaced by something newer and better, so we were left with our mobile phone cameras and daughter's small camera, but that did not prevent us from taking lots of photos :). 

Thank you very much for your visit and enjoy your day.

News to Share and a Layout for Prima BAP

Hello everybody

I have wonderful news to share with you, my layout

 

mymomentstotreasure.blogspot.ie/two-of-you-once-upon-sketch-berry71bleu.html

was chosen for 3rd place on May Berry71Bleu Challenge. There were so many gorgeous submissions and I am so honoured to be one of a chosen winners.

Now I would like to show you a page I did for May's Prima BAP Challenge. The layout had to be based on this sketch:

 
and one has to use Prima products, this challenge is closed now but you can find the details about the next one here.

So there is my page:

The photo is of my daughter, all products are Prima except:
inks, crinkled ribbon, alpha dies, glossy accent, plain chipboard which are all by Ranger, Glimmer mists by Tattered Angels  used for colouring Prima wooden pieces and pen is Zig Kuretake!
There is a big pull-out tag behind the photo with journalling about my daughters likes and dislikes as a newly formed teen!

Few close-ups:

Thank you so much for your visit and enjoy your day.

xx

Prima Goodies Pages

Hi All,

I have been always admiring Prima products but did not have many opportunities to purchase them, only recently I had a chance to see and feel some of their new papers and all other goodies and could not resit but buy some of them.
I made a two pages based on Prima BAP sketches using mainly Prima products:

Photo on the first page is of my DD2. The doily is one more hand made that I got from my mum, and my mum was happy with the fact that I will use them on my pages, after visiting me over she understands that I have no safer place for them in my contemporary home but my scrapbook pages ;-).

And some close-ups.
  

 

 

Papers, stamps and all embellishments are by Prima, inks, paints and alpha dies (second page) are by Tim Holtz. Wooden shapes are painted with distress paint.

That is all for now, have a nice day and thank you for the visit.

Hello Spring Layout

Greetings to all my readers.
One quick post today, this is for  just for fun challenge over at the Do-crafts scrapbooking forum. Theme for April is Spring/Easter. So there is my take:

 

The photo is back from 2009 and so are those  Basic Grey papers, I remember  taking lots of those photos and ordering the papers few months later having in mind scraping my spring photos, it has been taking while but I am getting there and at least I am using the papers for the purpose I bought them :-).

Other ingredients are BoBunny doily, ribbon by Webster pages,  alpha stickers are from the same Basic Grey paper pack.

Everything else is hand made out of white  mulberry papers (the flowers) and white mixed-media papers (branches, fence, birdie, birdhouse) using die cutting stencils;

• cherry blossom, flourishes by spellbinders, 
• birdie and fence by Mariann, tattered flower by Tim Holtz). 

The flowers are coloured  using distress markers, inks, and some mists. The fence, branches, birdie and the house are cut in tree layers of mixed-media papers, the top layer is embossed too, then they are stick together (to make them like chipboard) using Studio multi-medium matte.Once the medium dried I paint them with acrylic paints and inked the edges.     

Thank you very much for your visit.

xx

Using Up Scraps of Paper - Who likes hexagons?

Hi bloggers, 
I love hexagons, not only because of my scientific background, aren't they just perfect structures and bees will agree LOL, and they are so simple to draw. And they are so 'IN' at the moment, which is great as that has been helping me to use up some scraps of my papers that I have for ages and could not trow away.

So there is my first page:

 

I scraped this photo 2 times so far and this page is remake of the first page. I just could not stand the page and had to take it a part. Used stamps and washi tape for the background, some Prima and some of my own flowers, dies are by Tim Holtz (alpha and swirl), Memory box (clouds) and Spellbinders (hexagons), and few close-ups of this page:  

The second page: Hexagons again and some Prima flowers, Sizzix dies and EK Success Punch, Unity stamps (label) and Spellbinder dies (label and hexagons) 

And my last page today: 

and this one is the oldest - probably made last summer, used Tim Holtz stamps, mists and gesso to make the background, added some scraps of paper, Prima flowers, doily die and machine stitching.

And the good news is: I used up those papers, so I am not going to bored you with more pages made out of those, I know I posted lots of them for last year created out of this paper pack.

I started re-designing my blog and what you see at the moment is just temporary solution, don't really have much time for it, but I will get there.

This is all for today, thank you for reading my post and for your comments and enjoy your day.

xx

Love

Donna's February challenge from docrafts.com  forum was love. This  time I went from 12x12 page using some of my wedding photos, some very old papers and my current shabby style:

and some close up:

The papers are Fancy Pants, dies; cage and alpha, tickets, tissue tape, inks, distress tool are all by Tim Holtz, doily is Cherry Lynn die, red flowers are Prima, white flowers are my own made using mulberry paper and Spellbinder dies, gems and pearls are by Peprmania, ribbon and  twine are by Kaisercraft, key is  Karen Foster. I also used some Prima flowers packaging  underneath the red paper. I run it through crimper to make it as corrugated card. I usually put packaging into my recycling bin. but I think the Prima one is made to be used on projects.

Have a nice day and thanks for your visit.

xxx    

I Found My Mojo

Hello from the worst blogger ever. But I have some good news, even I am still looking for a job and that is my main occupation at the moment, I am having a urge to scrapbook as well, hooray!!!
I found lots pages I started last year and left unfinished, now I am getting there is finishing them off. I am also doing clearance of my old papers. So two pages  sharing with you today are made out of scraps of an old Fancy Pants paper collection. Of course, Prima flowers, Webster Pages, Sizzix, spellbinders, Gesso, Hero Arts stamp, Kaisercraft mask, inks and so on helped those pages to look up to date. So here they are:

 Close up:

The second page:

Flowers, raisin and bling are Prima, a part from the pink roses that I did myself: 

Photos of my two little darlings, I already scrapped those photos and I will probably do it again ;-)
Thank you for reading my post. Have a nice day.

Svjetlana xxx

Happy New Year and Thanks Helen!!!

Hi everybody,

I know I haven't blogged for while and there are many things I would like to share with you, but first of all I would like to wish everybody very best for 2013. 

Now I would like to say big 'Thanks You' to Helen from Scrap A Little for this

fabulous giveaway she sent me just before the Christmas. Scrap-A-Little is an awesome blog full of fantastic tutorials, sketches and inspiration and I would recommend it everybody to visit.

There were far too many things happening in my life recently that prevented me from crafting and blogging even from reading all my favorite bloggs.  I hope I will be more regular in 2013 - this is not really resolution it is only hope :-) ! I also hope I will make some decent design for my blog.

Right now I managed to find a page that I made probably last summer and never post it before, there it is now:

My DD2 dancing dressed up as a fairy. 2012 was a year of my messy crafting phase and this page is probably the most extreme of them all. I nearly destroyed it by using two opposite colours inks, but gesso came in rescuing. I made all flowers myself, big letters are sizzix dies and small stickers and scrap of patterned paper are form a Basic Grey collection. Not my favorite page so far, but we cannot be always happy, can we?

This is all for now, have a nice day/night.

Svjetlana xx  

Golfing Aroud

Morning Everybody

It is Saturday morning, everybody is still sleeping and I have been up before 7 a.m., very unusual for me!! Am I getting old??

Never mind, I was tiding up my photos and came a cross photos of two pages that somehow I haven't posted so far. They are both from our holiday in Co. Wexford from 2010 and they are about mini golf and I made them both using Fancy Pants very girly, pinky and summery collection: Wishful Thinking or something like that. But enough of bla bla there are pages here:

      
I used some stickers that came with the collection and rest are home made embellishments.

Thank you very much for your visit.

Svjetlana x

12x12 Layout

Hello everybody

2011 is nearly over, I hope you all are getting ready to say good bye to 2011 and hello to 2012. I really hope that 2012 will bring only happiness and joy to all of you.

It was probably Halloween when I did few 12x12 layouts and since then I was busy with various things those that include crafting would be cards and mini books (read gifts) and so on.

Few days ago I wanted to do 12x12 page and I did not know were to start. Complete absence of inspiration. Then I remembered Once Upon a Sketch , I like this blog because it does not give you only fab sketch to work with but also journalling criteria gives you extra help with the inspiration.
So there is a sketch:

 
Journalling criteria was to write about Christmas day - what you do on the day. So it was just perfect for the day, and here is my page:

and a close-up of my journalling:

The light was very bad here today and I couldn't do very good photos of the LO. I will try tomorrow again before it is too late to enter this into the challenge. 

Here I used:

1. Papers: Bo Bunny
2. Dies: Spellbinders, Tim Holtz
3. Stamps: Unity, Tim Holtz
4. Inks: Ranger Distress
5. Ribbon; Prima
6. Bling: Imaginisce

And the photo of 2 little darlings from Christmas 2009.

Have a nice day

Svjetlana 

Hello Nanny Goat - more summer pages

Greetings to all my readers


It is getting very cold over here and everybody is getting into Halloween spirit and there are sings of Christmas everywhere as well.
I am trying to worm up myself buy scrapping summer and even Easter photos (LOL). I have one page for you today that is based this time on the pencillines.com sketch. Pencil Lines is one more great sketch blog and I would advise everybody to visit it, they do new sketch every week and have fab designer team.
Now, this is my take:

Once again I used Fancy Pants papers, Tim Holtz dies, inks and stains. Background was a plane white paper once. I took a stamp that I had for ages, but never seen ink before, stamped and heat embossed (not seen very well on the photo) then I inked the paper, I am very pleased with the results. Funny thing about this page is that I started off to do clean and simple page, ended up with this messy background, but then what 'clean and simple' has common with farm, LOL?

And one close-up:

Oh, it seems I am not even late to enter this into RAK challenge, so I will try to do that.
That is all for today, I hope I will write something soon again. Have a nice day.

Svjetlana x

Once Upon a Sketch - 15th Sep. Challange

Hello everybody

After longer break from 12x12 I am back with freshly baked page and that is not even all, I am ready to participate in  Once Upon A Sketch Challenge  again. This time the sketch is:

 
and a journalling criteria is to write on the photo.

Now, the most important part- they changed the voting criteria and the winners will be chosen by YOU, all readers. I am not much in favour of that, but never mind I always end up with beautiful page and for that reason I can consider my self as a winner. I am not going to say go over and vote for me, but I would definitely recommend visiting the Once Upon A Sketch   for your own inspiration, it is full of amazing work. The sketches are fab and the designers are top class. If you decide to vote for me you can do it on 30th September  Once Upon A Sketch  andI will certainly appreciate that and say one big THANK YOU for everybody who did for me. Now, without further delays there is my page:

   
The photo is of my two little darlings, papers and rub-ons  are very old Fancy Pants and flowers as usual my own - have an indoor garden full of these (LOL). The rest is made using Sizzix dies and border is made using Martha Stuart punch.
And one close up:

So this will be all for today. I will have few more posts in following few days, so keep an eye on them. Thank you very much for the reading and one big thank you if you voted for me (this will be possible only on 30th September -Australian time) on Once Upon A Sketch.

Svjetlana xx

Few Old Pages

Hello everybody

It seems I cannot really get back into my routine of everyday chores + scraping and blogging.
I haven't done any 12x12 page for while but have a pile of never posted pages done while ago. I would like to share 2 of them with you today. I did them just before going on the summer holiday, they are similar in design and use some of very old and some of new stash as well.

 

Ok, I know we are approaching Christmas and everybody had forgotten about Easter so far, but I was doing kind of stash 'clearance' and those spring style MME papers were perfect for the Easter photos, they also go well with kraft card that I just bought at the time and my raffia flowers that I was in a mood of making. I have few more sheets of these MME papers and I just want to use them up. I toned down the paper using white acrylic paint  and dry brush technique.        

Little birdies are stamps; Hero Arts (the birdie) and Technique Tuesday (owls), coloured them with promarkers, added gloss on top and little gems to highlight the eyes. Ribbon is by  the Webster pages and punches are Fiskars and Martha Stuart. The title is hero Arts stamps and Sizzix dies, love this bigz dies as I can make my own chipboard letters with them - I pained them first, then applied clear cracked paint- love this stuff.  And one close up:

This page is special to me because it was probably our last egg hunt which both kids enjoyed equally. This year's was disaster as the big girl (DD1) who is 11 was looking for something far more exiting and for the little one was too complicated and all ended up in tears, I did not even take any photos.

Second page, uses similar design:

 
I was trying to take a passport photos of my DD2, and it all took us 3 photo sessions and lots of photos taken untill we got something where she wouldn't be making faces or smiling or laughing.
Again I used kraft card that I just got at the time and stamped it on the left hand side with my brand new butterfly script background Hero Arts stamp and distressed it with the Ranger stain. The papers and paper flowers are from one of Papermania goody bags and fabric flower is hand made using the Webster pages netting. Title is stamped using Autumn Leaves and Hero Arts stamps. Borders are Martha Stuart punch and small craft tonic square punch used with border system to make a 'film'.

   
This is all for now. Thank you for reading my blog and all kind comments.
Svjetlana xx