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I BELIEVE IN KISSING...

KISSING A LOT! I do, and that's the title of my layout for ScrapFriends     Sketch challenge #11

 

Here's the sketch

 

And here's my take on the challenge

Loved the sketch and loved working on it. Used gesso and stitching and layers of paper and washi tape and paint splashes and had loads of fun.

 

close ups

 

 

 

LOVE STORY

Valentine's Day is getting near... and also our wedding anniversary which is the 13th of February. Last year Franco and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary and had a big party.

I decided to partecipate with my layout Love Story to ILS = I lowe scrap 's Colors of the Month - February challenge.

Here's the color palette

And this is my interpretation

Loved working on this and used a lot of mixed media as usual to create layers and texture: gesso, mists, Distress inks and stencils,stamping, overlays, rub ons, diecuts, book paper, washi tapes and stitching.

Here are some close ups

 

I used one of Em Stafrace's page drafts from the Christmas release, the #17.5

 

TFL!

@15

is the title of my layout with which I participate to Paper Stories February challenge. Go and check this fantastic new challenge site with Em Stafrace's gorgeous sketches.

This is the sketch for February challenge

 

This is my interpretation

I took these photos of me and Andrea with a self-timer a month ago in New Zealand.

The journaling reads: @15 not afraid to hug Mamma and show her how much you love her.

 

closeups

 

SWEET SENSATION

I participate with this layout to Skissedilla sketch challenge #185 and also to BITW challenge where the word to incorporate is "sweet".

I turned the sketch 90°.

The photo is of the best French croissant with berries and raspberry coulis I've ever tasted. It was yummy. Had that at the French restaurant in Chicago I was talking about in my last post.

CSI and Once Upon a Sketch united

For the month of September CSI and OUAS have teamed up.

The weekly challenges are combined. They have to include the CSI evidence and testimony AND the OUAS Sketch (by Nadia Cannizzo) for each week.

These are this week's color scheme and the sketch

EVIDENCE - CHOOSE AT LEAST TWO ELEMENTS:

• mesh (inspired by the net)
• Use letters as embellishments
• leaves
• misting
• fibers (inspired by her hair)
• tone on tone
• elements that float across the page
• include curved, organic shapes in your design (inspired by the rocks)

TESTIMONY - CHOOSE AT LEAST ONE ELEMENT:

• Write your journaling in the form of a letter (inspired by the letters).
• Write an acrostic using the letters of a person's name or the subject of your layout.
• Use some of the letters in the inspiration image to generate words that describe your topic.
• Scatter your journaling across your page.
• Write your journaling in speech bubbles.
• Inspiration Words: catch, [on] top, float -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title

 

 Here is my take on the challenge

I absolutely fell in love with the colors. The photo is of Valentina. I loved to work on the background and incorporating the photo into the background.

My evidence include misting, tone on tone and leaves (stamped around the flowers). I also used mesh but decided to take it off later on since I didn't like the effect.

I  scattered  my journaling across the page.

"We are gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

"There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible."

 

Here are some closeups

Layers of mixed media techniques: decoupaging book papers and strips of patterned papers, gesso, stenciled dots with Adirondack's Dabber (copper), misting, applying acrylic paint with a brush (black and gold), adding tiny silver pearls to wet gesso, stitching

 

Some of the flowers are fussycut, smeared with gesso and misted, some are fabric flowers which I painted and misted. I added different flower centers and also coppery pearls here and there.

 

Traces of gesso, stamping and flicking watered down black paint

 

gesso, stamping, tiny silver pearls, doily. Here is where I had put the mesh, you can see the pattern it left onto the gesso, but later decided to take off.

TCR #125

 

Loooooved this week's color palette #125 at TCR.

 

Rich, warm colors which made me think of family/love.

 

So I decided to scrap a photo from Andrea's christening back in 1998.

The background is full of mixed media techniques: decoupaging ripped patterned papers which almost get covered entirely by the following layers of gesso, acrylic paint, misting, stamping and stitching. 

 

Here are some close ups

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for looking and leaving your kind comments.

 

TCR #124 - edited

YIPPEE!!!!!! MY LAYOUT WAS FEATURED AT TCR!!!

Life's Little Moments is my title for TCR #124 challenge. It's been awhile since I played at The Color Room last time. Loved the palette and loved working especially on the background of my layout.

 

This is Andrea in 2009 only 3 years ago but oh boy, what a change. He's grown so much and not only in height. Love to look at some older pictures and remember how we were.

Played with mists, gesso and stamps and of course my sewing machine and achieved a mixed media look that I particularly like - messy and grungy :)

 

And here's a sneak of the upcoming challenge at CSI which goes live tomorrow night at midnight (in Italy)

 

TFL and thanks for any kind comments you may want to leave. They are always very much appreciated!

OUAS August challenge - EDITED

 

MY LAYOUT WAS FEATURED AT THE IMAGINARIUM DESIGNS BLOG! COULDN'T BE HAPPIER :)))

The theme for the August challenge at OUAS is 

Season (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring)

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Season" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Ideas for journalling: current season in your part of the world, favourite season, seasonal traditions on your part of the word, a childhood memory, a summer romance, what summer/autumn/winter/spring brings for you, baby it's cold outside, summer loving, spring is in the air, autumn breeze, summer holidays, seasonal changes, etc etc. Anything goes .. 

 

Here's the sketch

And here's my take on it

My favorite season is summer, but I made a layout about spring. The photo is of my godson and his girlfriend. Loved working on this page using gesso, découpaged book papers, stamping, acrylicsand, stitching. I used our sponsors' Imaginarium Designs chipboard and Scrapbook Fantasies ribbon on this layout.

To get more inspiration, go see what the talented ladies of the DT have come up with.  You can find them here and here.

REMEMBER THAT...

 

is  my latest creation for CSI.

The color palette #20 was fantastic.

I used once again Solange's fusion technique. I mixed acrylic paints, gesso, modeling paste and stamps to create the background. I especially love the texture the modeling paste gave me.

As for my evidence I used stitching, white space and paint drops (the black drops are watered down acrylic paint)
My journaling is some word of advice to my daughter Valentina. Even though our kids grow up and become adults, I guess we mammas never cease to give them advice.

4 important things to remember:

Attitude is the little things that make a big difference.
If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.

 

BEACH BUM

is the title for my layout I created for TCR #111 . This is my third week over there as their Revolving Door Artist and I love it:)

I was inspired by Solange Marques  after watching her tutorial at Miss Art's.
It was fun to mix colors, gesso, modeling paste and stamps to create what she calls "fusion technique".

This is Andrea at the beach in Crete back in 2006 (or was it 2005?) I doubt he'll play in the sand with a pail and a bucket this summer when we return there:)

 

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I'll post another layout created with the same technique later on if you are interested:)

It's for CSI and here is a sneak peek to this week's color palette.