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
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.
A new company 7 DOTS STUDIO is born! It's a Polish company owned by Tusia. The designers of the beautiful new lines of papers are Anna Iwanowska-Pietkiewicz and Anna Dabrowska-Pekocka also known as Finnabair on the internet and in the scrapbooking/mixed media world.
Elise Rebel designed by Anna Iwanowska-Pietkiewicz
Dreamer designed by Anna Dąbrowska-Pękocka
I'll be one of the lucky ones to be able to participate in Finnabair's scrapbooking/mixed media classes organized by Barbara - Timbroscrapmania in Rome at the beginning of December (there might be a couple of spots left) and I really hope that Barbara will have these beautiful papers in her store by then.
Just head to the 7 DOTS STUDIO's blog to participate in their blog candy!
of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and love today!
Love this quote and used it on my canvas that I made during Nathalie Kalbach's workshop in Athens. Loved all the media we worked with and love the result:)
Photo courtesy of Paola Saccarola. I have edited the photo and changed it to b/w.
I participate in The Color Room's color palette #54 with this since the colors I chose for the canvas are exactly like the one's in the palette even though I made the layout even before the palette was released.
If you don't know Nathalie Kalbach, you've missed out on some fabulous talent and a great personality. She is a riot to be with. Why am I talking about Nathalie? Because I get to see her in a couple of weeks' time in Athens!!!! My best Greek friend Elina has organized a fabulous event (Google translation because it's all Greek to me!) where she invited Nat and I'm going! Did you have any doubts? LOL
Here you can read all about the workshops Nat will be teaching and these are the logos.
I met Nat at Pacs Paris last November and took all her 3 workshops filled with new techniques (for me) and luscious products. At the time I didn't have time to photograph the projects I made - I even finished two of them right then and there - but here they are in all their glory.
Two canvases and one layout. Even though that was a sad and difficult period for me, I chose, maybe unconsciously, bright and spring-y colors which reflect my usual state of mind which is pretty optimistic.
One more thing: I was featured in Nat's monthly newsletter Scrapbook-Trends (March issue) to which you can subscribe on her website.
Last year was my first visit to Mykonos and I fell in love with the island and of course the fabulous Kouros Hotel. I had a fantastic time with my hubby and my son.
This year I'm going alone... well, I'm flying alone but will meet with 50-60 avid scrapbookers from all over the world and we will be staying of course at the fabulous Kouros Hotel. I couldn't believe it when Elina, my dear scrapbooking friend told me last year that Cocoa Daisy will hold a scrapbooking event at her hotel with Ali Edwards, Jenni Bowlin and my so talented photography instructor Karen Russell. I think I had booked the ticket even before the event was announced :)
I'll be leaving on Friday and will have 10 days of sun, pooltime, scrapbooking, photography, lovely Greek food and wine, naturally some champagne cocktails and quality time with my scrapbooking pals Paola, Lisa and Elina and of course with all the new friends I will be making over there. I have even packed already... Can you believe it!
This was one of the projects that Céline Navarro taught us in Montpellier last January. During the class I finished the structure and misted and stamped and put together almost all the pages. When I got home life got hectic once again and I didn't have time to finish the album.
Now it's done. I actually finished it two weeks ago but then I didn't have time to photograph it or to post it.
We made the covers from chipboard and covered them with fabric. I used a long leather strip and a button for the closure.
Here you can see the three signatures (groups of pages bound together).
I ended up putting more pages than I had originally planned. The album is of events and places we went to last year and there were quite a few of them. Here is just a sample of them.
A year full of photos, trips and special occasions.
We used Studio Calico papers and also white cardstock with Glimmer mists, stencils and stamps.
We really traveled a lot: the Caribbean, Finland, Crete, Mykonos, London and Mexico.
Our 2009 was full of special occasions and events: my best friend turned 50, we completed the renovation work in Kristina's house, Valentina graduated from university.
I love this album. It was fun to create and now I have a special keepsake of things that happened in 2009.
This past weekend there was big scrapbooking event in Naples. I signed for it at the last moment because I waited for my daughter to come home from London. As soon as I knew she was staying a whole week, I decided to sneak out for a day to scrap with Heidi Swapp, Wendy Senger, Céline Navarro and an Italian scrapbooker Manu who always has really cute projects to propose.
But let's start from the beginning. I arrived in Castellammare di Stabia in the wee hours of the morning: my hubby and son took me there, then they spent the day at Franco's family's who live in Naples and then they came to pick me up at 9 pm after 12 hours and 5 fabulous classes.
I started with Wendy Senger, the owner of Tattered Angels with whom we had the Glimmer Mist 101 class which is full of techniques.
Here are some samples of the 25 pages we misted. That class was an eye opener for me: I had previously used the glimmer mists but just spraying them quite timidly:)
then it was Manu's turn.
We made a fabulous little keepsake to carry in a purse.
With Céline we created a minialbum.
On the covers we put gesso and then we "painted" them with Alcohol Inks. I still have to put photos in the album. They will be of the cruise to Mexico.
The last two classes I had with the sweet Heidi. She had all of us in tears, herself included, after she told the story behind the Once in a Lifetime album.
Here are some piccies of my Once in a Lifetime album. I have to add photos in here too.
The last class was the new Fastenation Folder where we could put to good use the notions and tricks we had learned the same morning with Wendy about the Glimmer mists.
We decorated the back spine with glimmer misted crepe paper. I made one more at home and stamped on it with black Archival Ink to emulate a little bit the Crepe Ribbon Heidi had on her album. Unfortunately those and other Tattered Angels products are hitting the market only a couple of weeks from now so I couldn't buy them :( Well, my wallet is happy about it.
The day went by very fast. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to take wonderful classes from wonderful instructors and to have shared 3 classes with my best Greek friend Elina, with whom we travel all over the world to take classes:)
ScrapZimutDays was a fantastic experience, everything I had hoped for and much more thanks to Valérie and her ScrapZimut girls. A weekend full of fun, great classes, good food, lovely company and the chance to use my dormant French. The icing on the cake was to be able to share all this with my friend Elina.
Here is the group photo by Guillaume Despont
Here are some of my photos of the event.
Me and Elina, my consolidated partner in (scrap) crime :))))
Here I am with Valérie and Céline Navarro with whom we had two workshops.
Denise Laborde, a wonderful teacher and a good friend.
Some candy to give us energy in between the workshops.
Edwige with one of her cool class projects. We also made a mini album with her.
For dinner PAELLA!!!
Saturday night finished with some country dancing!!
Sweet Michou with her fantastic layout.
Julie, Elina, Helena, Sandra
Here are my finished projects.
This is a canvas we made with Céline.
This is my layout from Michou's class.
These are the two layouts I made with Denise. I still have to write the journaling.
This is the frame I made in Edwige's class.
I have yet to finish Céline's and Edwige's minialbums. The structure is done, I just have to embellish them.
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