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A new layout

I've been slacking in the scrapbooking department too but here's my newest layout for The Color Room using their color palette #95

Chilli Pepper Red, Musk Stick Pink, Gum leaf Green and Licorice Black. Oh, so yummy and so right up my alley. Had to create as soon as I saw this palette and here's what I came up with. I even used the sketch!

The reds on the layout are a little bit darker IRL. The photo was taken in Athens two weeks ago. I was practicing with the self timer and Hubs was nice enough to go along;)

Year long projects...

I've started a couple of year long projects. Yes, me. The whole year. Let's see how long that lasts...

The first is 365+1 photos or A Photo a Day 2012 on facebook with my friend Lisa from Australia and the other one is Becky Higgins' Project Life.

I've taken photos every day whereas I'm already behind with the Project Life, but I'm not stressing. I'm just happy that I started it and it seems to come along actually quite well taking into consideration that we took a 5 day trip to Athens on the second week of January and after that I've been busy planning our 30th anniversary on Feb 13 with friends coming from Finland, Belgium and Greece other than from Italy. But I'll tell about the anniversary in a couple of weeks' time. And I will show you photos of my PL layouts as soon as I get them photographed.

Here are the first 8 photos of the 365+1 photos:

1/366 - New Year's candle

 

2/366 - New Year's decorations

 

3/366 - I do gel nails every 4 weeks

 

4/366 - Christmas present from Valentina and Andrea. Makes the long walks on the treadmill so  much more enjoyable

 

5/366 - Preparing for Project Life

 

6/366 - My new earrings

7/366 - Andrea made a cake for Valentina's birthday. Half of the cake mix ended up on the floor.

 

8/366 - Yummy bruschetta

 

More to come in the next few days.

 

Sweet Dreams

is the title of my layout for TCR palette #92

Antique Blue, Eggplant, Custard Cream and Rustic Rose.

Wonderful names but I really struggled with these colors. Finally I found a sweet photo of Valentina and my godson Tiziano back in 1989 when Tiziano's mother used to come after work and pick my girls and take them to play at her apartment which was right on the floor above ours.

 

 

and a couple of detailed shots 

of the texture :gesso, doilies, stencils and mist, paint splatters and punched circles + my fave technique of the moment which is free motion stitching. I finally found a free foot for my Doris (my Bernette 15) last time I went to Finland and so I gave myself an early Christmas present;)

 Now I have to run and finish packing our suitcases. Leaving for Athens at the crack of dawn tomorrow. My dear dear friend Elina will tie the knot! See you next week.

 

 

THE FIRST LAYOUT OF THE YEAR

EDITED: I WAS FEATURED AT TCR WITH THIS LAYOUT:))))))

 

I created this layout for TCR color palette #91

Very summery with Sunflower Yellow, Poppy Red, Powder Blue and Sunny Orange.

I chose a photo from 1989 with Kristina and my godson Tiziano. The title is The Right Attitude From The Start and the subtitle is: Let the men work for you :))

 

Painting, misting, masking and stitching.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Buon Natale

Hauskaa Joulua

Merry Christmas

Joyeux Noel

Feliz Navidad

Frohe Weihnachten

Boas Festas

Anna Finnabair's workshop part 2

Sunday we had Creative Grunge workshop and here's my masterpiece:

Luv, luv, luv!!!

I never knew I had hidden grungy-steampunk love in me;) Thank you Anna for showing me that. My dear hubby's comment after seeing my layout and this canvas: "Aha, NOW I understand why you needed all those metal pieces you kept asking me."

Here's a shot of Anna and Barbara 

and one of me with Anna

Anna (Finnabair)'s workshops in Rome

I had the pleasure and privilege to attend one of Anna's workshops today and I will be attending the second one tomorrow.

She is as sweet as she is talented. We made a layout today and I'm extremely happy with mine.

 

This is it in its early stages:

 

And this is how it turned out.

Love it!

Here are a couple of shots of Anna and one of Barbara, the host of this event and the owner of Timbroscrapmania, the best online store in Italy. A million thanks to Barbara for having invited Anna to Italy and given us the opportunity to learn from one of the BEST in the industry.

Sketchy Thursdays challenge

edited: I was chosen as Sketchy Thursday's fave with this layout!  *happy face*

Here's this week's Sketchy Thursdays' sketch 

and here's my layout.

Some gesso, use of stencil with mist, splashes of paint and some stitching. 

The Color Room # 85

The last time I participated in TCR challenges was back in June with the color palette #64. Hmm I guess I have some catching up to do ;)

Here's the palette #85

 

Raspberry, white, fuscia, sunflower. Yummy colors. I picked a photo of me and C.D. Muckosky when she was a guest at our house with her sweet hubby Cam back in June 2008. We had a wonderful time and she taught me some crafty tricks;)

 

Used a Crafter's Worksop stencil and glimmer mist, book pages, acrylic paint, some stamping, melted some wax from old crayons, stitched around the blotches of melted wax, added washi tape and Tim's tissue tape, adhered 3 buttons and the title and called it quits;)

Here's a detailed shot of the branch I stitched on the layout.

Thank you for those who visit and want to leave a comment. Much appreciated.

I'm done with the crop...

 

Anja's Poster challenge was next. She has a whole section of gig posters on Pininterest and I chose this one as my inspiration:

 

and made the following layout of Kristina and Matteo.

 

 

 

Then Vicki Boutin's sketch challenge.

 

Here's my take on it:

I made a very simple background because I wanted all the attention to go the eyes and the catchlights.

For Lisa's Creative Labels challenge we were given some inspirational photos and were asked to use labels/tags on our layout.

I used a cut tag, a journaling spot and a real label on the journaling spot. The photo was taken in Athens last April.

 

Kim's Repurposed Challenge was fun. She challenged us to come up with new creative ways to use up scrapbooking waste.

For the flower I used the acrylic packaging of some of Tim Holtz's embellies. I inked book pages with Distress Inks, glued the page to the underside of the packaging, passed it through Cuttlebug with Tim's Alternation Die "Tattered Flower" and assembled the flower using a pencil to curl the petals. In the center I glued a Prima vintage button.
I also used a piece of Prima packaging on the left side of the page.

I created the pink splashes and the darker brown ones on the page melting crayons. Learned that trick from Mou Saha at Pacs Paris a year ago;)

The photo is of Kristina's 8th birthday. I had ordered a huge cake for 25 people and then Kristina contracted rosolia (rubella, German measles) 2 days before her birthday. Had to cancel the party but the cake was already ordered so we had it made, took some pictures and ate the cake for a WEEK!