Hello Imaginarium friends...

With the countdown to Christmas in full swing, I want to share two cards I created with some of the lovely items available from Imaginarium Designs!

These are the gorgeous Christmas Trees...I prepared them with a layer of Gesso and once dried, I stamped a background image with Weathered Wood Distress Paint.

I added texture with some Coarse Texture Gel and micro beads and some white paint once it was dried. I also sprayed them with Lindy's Stampgang mist, Ghostly Gargoyle White.

The Happy Christmas title was just covered with some white texture paste and some glitter.

I used Pion Designs papers. 

 Silent Night: Snowfall

                   Waiting for Santa II: Santa is coming

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On this card I used the layered Baubles...

These come with a background and a hanger and are ideal to layer... Again they were gesso'd first, the background was inked with Storm Sky Distress Ink.

The top layer just got a sprinkling of Fairy Dust glitter to finish it of.

I painted the Music with Holly Symbols with Luck O' the Irish Glimmer Glam from Tattered Angels.

Pion Papers used are...Silent Night: Church

Waiting for Santa II: Stars in Heaven

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Music with holly Symbols

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Christmas Tree

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Happy Christmas

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Two Baubles, Background and hangers

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Leaving you with this thought till my next post...

One of the most glorious messes in the world 

is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.

  Don't clean it up too quickly.  

~Andy Rooney~

My Boy ~ LO for Tresors de Luxe

A hearty Hi to all my Blog friends!

Today I want to show a LO I made using several beautiful laces that I received from Lucy's Etsy shop, Tresor de Luxe, in my DT parcel for the month...

The photo's are of my son and my brother from way back when Francois was only about 3 and Mike must have been about 17 at that stage...The two of them were so close to each other and I often wonder how it would have been to see the two of them grow old together...Mike's untimely passing has left such a big void in Francois life.

For this page I used the following papers from Pion Design,

Silent Night: Winter

                                Nativity Scene

                  Tags

Did some hand stitching and paper folding and curling again. The clock is one of the new Prima Resin pieces.

Also did a little bit of stencilling with texture paste.

I absolutely love these Flower Embellishments from Tresors de Luxe...They are so Darling with their Ribbon Flower, Leaves, Twine, Grasses and some Beads...

The tiny piece of lace was left over from my previous project...Flowers are from Prima.

This must be my all time favourite from the shop! It is the most beautiful cluster of flowers and dangling vines, and look how pretty it is with the added half Pearls.

I cut this Piece of Ivory Venice Lace apart and used the top part as a border and placed the appliqués as elements on the page. 

I painted one of the appliqués with Tokreen to stiffen it and formed it into a Tussie Mussie for my Flower Embellishment. I inked it with a light blue ink and stuffed some fibres in it.

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These are the products I used from the Tresors de Luxe Etsy Shop...

Rustic Ivory Shabby Chic Flower Embellishment

FL 029 

Ivory Venice Lace

LA 020

Ivory Venice Lace

LA 025

Ivory Venice Lace

LA 019

Please feel free to visit the shop...Lucy has the most astonishing range of Laces, Fabric Flowers and has also added glorious Rhinestone and Pearl / Crystal Brooches to add sparkle to your projects. Me and the rest of the Design Team would also love a visit from you at the Tresors de Luxe Blogspot...

Till next time, thank you for your visit and also thank you in advance to those leaving me a kind word...it is always much appreciated!

A child who does not play is not a child, 

but the man who does not play 

has lost forever the child who lived in him.  

~Pablo Neruda~

Thank You card / Sketch 21 Scrap Africa

Although I created this card for sketch challenge nr 21 hosted by Scrap Africa...I want to dedicate it to all of the friends who faithfully follow my blog and especially those that leave me a little comment and words of encouragement! I am not going to make any exceptions, but please know that it warms my heart each time I receive an e.mail notification that I have a comment waiting for me...I truly appreciate every single comment from you all...

I used Pion Design papers, Alma's Sewing Room and Studio of Memories. The doily is Die-cut with Spellbinders Venetian Motifs, and I also used Sizzex Alterations Pediments. The foliage is a Marianne Die-cut.

                        

My layers are given definition and lift with foam circles. Also did a little hand stitching.

Don't ask why, but the German version of Thank You just felt right for me, maybe it suited the European papers best?

The backside was not forgotten and also got some treatment...

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The sketch to follow...

A gift from Evgenia Petzer...

And one from Denise van Deventer...

Gratitude is the music of the heart,

when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.  

~Author Unknown~

Tiara

Just after my scrap challenge with Heather Jacob a few weeks ago, I was contacted by Lucy Muraca about a new challenge group that she has started wanting to know if I would like to join...Having had so much fun in scrapping the same photo I naturally said "yes" ! The group is called "You show me Yours" ...Lucy will send us all the same photo and we will then scrap it to our own styles.

This is the image for this month...Isn't she just beautiful?

And this is how my page turned out...

I used the following Pion papers...

Waiting for Santa: Winter Bird

                                 Christmas Tree

                                 Angel Greeting

                                       Christmas Greeting

I saw this on Pinterest and just had to try it with paper!!!

What do you think...doesn't look to bad?

Of course I had to do some masking as well...just love the smell of Baby Powder on my page due to my home made Texture Paste...

My misting and droplets are as usually...Lindy's Stampgang Mists....

The following girls are also on the list and will soon have their pages up as well...

Lucy Muraca  

Helen Wallace 

Emma Stafrace  

Heather Jacbob  

Annette Gearside

Christina Panetsou 

Jennifer Waugh

Margaret Mifsud   

Kerry-Jean Watson 

Thank you for your visit...maybe some of you will join us in this challenge? Here is the link again...

You show me Yours

Pion Mask

 Not being that big on off the page projects, I must admit that making this mask just for the fun of it was really enjoyable! I used the lovely Pion Papers Doily and Mothers day Rose from the For Mother's collection... Michelle was the perfect and willing model...although it was Pink 'Ughh" and not Green...

Feathers, Die cut foliage, ribbons and trims and some pearly strings and flowers make a beautiful side cluster.

Made some crystal drops to hang on the other side of the mask...

This is just a very short post...hope you do enjoy this project though...

Thank you

Patricia

Everyday Goddess and a Photo Album

Hello again dear blog friends! Patricia with my projects for the month of April...

Today I have a LO of my daughter Michelle taken at one of her best friends wedding last month. I am scrap lifting myself with this design...I have used it before and always wanted to make another, similar LO.

I had the LO finished and was anticipating what title to use when I received my parcel with new chippies this morning and this just suited my feelings for my daughter perfectly! I coloured the chippie with some Micro Micas from Lindy's Stampgang and rubbed some bronze colour Paste onto it.

The Embellishment 1 Border was also coloured with Lindy's Stampgang and cut in half to form a corner for my flower cluster.

Don't you just Love this treatment of Prima's Typo Bulb? I scraped the wording of with a craft knife and then stamped and embossed it with black embossing powder...It looks amazing...even if I have to say so myself..... 

Embellishment 1 

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Other products used...

Pion Papers: For Mother Collection, Ranunculus 

                                                            Yellow Pansy

                                                                Beautiful Ladies

Petaloo Flowers

Prima Typo Bulb

Crystal Sprig and Dragonfly from Green Tarra

Photo Album

 This little gift will be going back all the way to Switzerland with a dear Face Book friend that I met personally this week. 

I formed the Edward Relief Border as a frame hoping it will resemble a very elegant door frame...Once again used Lindy's Stampgang Micas to paint the chippie. No treatment was given beforehand and I love the beautiful two toned colour on my ID chippies!

I achieved this look by placing a small Edward Relief inside an Oval Frame...doesn't it look to cute?

See how beautiful the Mica colours the chippie...

These are the Imaginarium Chippies I used...

Edward Relief Border

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Small Edward Relief 

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Small Oval Frames

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Other products used...

FabScraps Papers: Victoria's Tree

The Crafters Workshop 6x6 Template: Mini Birds of a Feather

A Prima Shabby Chic Treasures Window

This then is me signing out till next month...Please remember that by leaving a comment on this blog post you stand a chance to win an Imaginarium gift pack. Also feel free to visit our Ning page for more lovely creations by the rest of the Team and fellow scrappers and share if you have created with our chippies...we would love to see more projects!!!

You are also always more than welcome to visit my personal blog Between the Sheets!!!

Happiness is the only good.

 The time to be happy is now. 

The place to be happy is here.

 The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll