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FOLLOW the white RABBIT - EASTER BLOG HOP

 

Happy Easter and welcome to the Easter blog hop! Today is the day when we tumble down the rabbit's hole and hop after the White Rabbit. The rabbit hops from blog to blog, from country to country all around the cyber scrapbooking world!

Although the countries and styles vary and designers participating had a free choice what to create for the hop, the pieces of art have all something in common. If you're familiar with Alice in Wonderland, you might remember that the White Rabbit, which Alice followed and found the Wonderland, had a pocket watch. So in this hop the common theme is the time piece. You can find an interpretation or a way to incorporate a clock in every creation! Inspiring, right? 

So please hop along and remember to leave a comment at every stage! That way you ensure as many tickets for the raffle as possible. You'll have just a week to participate (to April 8th at noon GMT) for the giveaway put together from donations from 7 Dots Studio, BadgesFolie, Garn&Mehr, Stromsvigt and Wycinanka.

So enjoy the hop and find the inspiring Wonderland of scrapbooking!

 

Here are the hop stops:

Elena Sevrina

Ashli Oliver
Riikka Kovasin
Em Stafrace
Eila Sandberg
Jessica Lohof
Georgia Heald
Cuchy
Marsha Valk

Nathalie Kalbach
Els Brigé
Adrienne Ford
Helena Virpi (THAT'S ME!)

Evgenia Petzer
Minna Enqvist
Drycha
Christin Grønnslet

and here are the wonderful prizes you could win hopping along and leaving a comment on each blog.

 

Here is my page for the hop!

The layout is a gift to this lovely couple Iira and Alysson who tied the knot in October 10, 2011. Iira loves purple which is quite obvious looking at her wedding dress and she asked me to incorporate her favorite color onto the layout.

I created the background with gesso and doilies, added some light and darker purple paint through a chicken wire stencil, added more paint and ink, washi tape and film strip,stamped Tim Holtz' clock (required in the hop) and other random stamps. For the final touch I added some coordinating brads and stitched all around. 

Here are some closeups

 

 

 

Thank you a bunch for your visit and leaving a comment. Good luck with the hopping!

 

 

FRIENDS

 

Case file #62 is open for investigation at CSI.

 

EVIDENCE

I used wood (camera) and circles

JOURNALING

I've documented a friendship with photos and a quote

 

TFL!

DARLING HARBOUR

The monthly challenge is up at Once Upon A...Sketch! This month it is Team A's turn to reveal their layouts.

 

 

Theme: "Its The Weekend!"

 What does your weekend look like? 

Maybe you work, or run around like crazy taking your kids to activities etc. Lunch with friends? Movies? Dinner? Or maybe you do all the exciting stuff like ...clean the house, tend to the garden , kinds birthday parties. You might like to tell us of an exciting weekend coming up, or a weekend past. Maybe a weekend getaway? Whatever it is that you want to tell us that has to do with the theme "Its The Weekend" we would love to hear it. 

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 . You are allowed to journal in any language but please tell us where on your page we will find your journalling. Remember journalling has to be a bit more than a title, or a generic comment. Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

 

Here's my interpretation.

Instead of one photo I used 6 smaller ones of our weekend in Darling Harbour, Sydney this past January. Loved the place (loved the whole adventure in Australia!) and took a bunch of photos. My journaling is hidden on the tag underneath the last photo strip.

To create the background I swiped gesso with a credit card, added layers with book paper, patterned paper, notebook paper, Hambly transparency, washi tape, Glimmer mist, stamping, stitching and modeling paste with a stencil.

some close-ups

 

TFL  and thanks for any comment you may want to leave. They are always greatly appreciated!

13.02.2012

 

The case file #59 is open for investigation at CSI.

 

Wonderful color palette

 

 

EVIDENCE

bird (die cut and stamped), cage (stamped), numbers (title, stamped and in the journaling), something transparent (overlay), texture paste

JOURNALING

List 14 things about your topic

I wrote 14 random facts about our 30th wedding day celebration last year: one of the best days of my life - 30 years of marriage - snow in Rome - 80's disco music by Roby - the best cake ever - 20 bottles of prosecco - all decorations ahand made by me - the day spent with family and best friends - the wedding movie from 1982 - black and red - rented a bust o tget to the restaurant (snow!) - danced hours on end - loved to plan everything - 30 gorgeous red long stem roses from Franco

 

I used one of Em Stafrace's Birthday release drafts,  the #18.5  

here are some close ups of the layout

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!

MERRY X-MAS

                                            Case file #58 is open for investigation at CSI!

Absolutely gorgeous color scheme and the icing on the cake is Em Stafrace's beautiful sketch to follow.

 

 

 

Here's my interpretation

I took thsee photos this past Christmas in Wellington, New Zealand where we spent 4 weeks at our daughter's house. This was the first time in 4 years that we spent Christmas together as a family. The previous years the girls had been/lived alternatively in London, Japan and New Zealand so it was quite impossible for all of us to be together. "Christmas in flip-flops" was a bonus :) 

EVIDENCE

wood (buttons), metal (snowflake, brad and staples), eyelets, twine

JOURNALING

look at your picture and let your thoughts wander and just write about what comes to mind : I wrote about the importance of spending time (Christmas) together as a family

 

And here are some closeups

Hello March!

This March has started out gorgeously, warm and sunny. Let's hope it will continue the same.

I have two layouts to show. One is for TCR #100 and the other is for a Norwegian sketch challenge blog Skissedilla.

 

This is TCR color palette#100

and this is my layout

This is a photo of me and Franco back in 94 when we spent Christmas in Finland at my Mom's. Lovely memories.

 

The second layout is for Skissedilla. This is the first time I play there. This is the sketch #153

I followed the sketch but moved the main accent=the hat and the weed to the right and replaced them with a huge number 12 for Andrea's 12th birthday

 

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. 

When...

I just finished this layout for OUAS (Once Upon A... Sketch) challenge blog where the sketch was this

When did my lil boy become a teenager?

The photos were taken in April. I swear in January Andrea was still shorter than me. It's almost as if he changed overnight. Incredible...

 

I started the layout using stencils and modeling paste on blue cardstock to give it some texture and roughness and then I painted strokes of red acrylic paint. I made the bracket and put some twine around it and a couple of eyelets for a masculine touch.

 

I added the washer and a piece of a measuring tape.

 

The clock is Tim Holtz's stamp. I used Distress Ink Black Soot and put clear embossing powder on it (it doesn't show in the pictures, not even in the closeup). The measuring tape and the clock of course show the time and the growth.

I mounted the photos on a piece of Fancy Pants pink paper with flowers to show that Andrea also has a softer and more affectionate side to him. It's not all  Mom-you-don't-get-it. LOL.

I stitched around the various papers and across the title. Finally I added my printed journaling

March 2011

This layout is for Sketchy Thursday's challenge. It's about me and dear hubs. We've been married for 29 years and it just keeps getting better and better. I feel so blessed.

A lot of paints, stamping, misting and stitching + handmade flowers.

some details

multiple layers of paint, stamping, misting and stitching