WE WILL REMEMBER - Single Page Layout (More Than Words DT - May Main Challenge & Words & Paintery May Challenge)

I got punked this month by the More Than Words Main Challenge...

steampunked, that is! :P  And this is what I created in the process.

Last month, at More Than Words, we celebrated mothers,

so this month we celebrate fathers with of course, as always, a creative twist!

Word Inspiration - FATHER

Creative Challenge - STEAMPUNK

You can find all you need to know about this challenge and the fabulous prizes

up for grabs as well as inspiration from the very talented MTW DT right HERE.

Along with the challenge above, I was also inspired by 

the May challenge at Words & Paintery right HERE.

This gorgeous color palette was just the right fit for my steampunk layout!

For my More Than Words DT reveal this month, I intended to create a page about my FATHER. However, while looking through my 'to scrap' photo box, I found this photo of my maternal grandfather and thought it would be perfect for the creative challenge. 

As far as the creative challenge is concerned, I went STEAMPUNK by adding to my page lots of cogs and gears, some metal and some chipboard, as well as a fancy mustache and a top hat brad.

Inspired by the Words & Paintery palette, I used different mediums from embossing powder

to metallic paint to distress ink to more embossing powder to make my chippies 'rust'.

I even added metallic copper paint on the flowers

and colored some of the metal accents from silver to bronze.

The papers from the Blue Fern Studios' Artisan Chesterville collection

were absolutely great for this layout.  I added some stenciling work with blue paint

and then sprayed on some light turquoise green mist here and there.

Pepere Allard was very young during this pose, long before I came into the world, 

and I so wish I could have known him then. I knew him as a big burly man who was

 renowned for his loud laugh, his wooden cane and his beautiful vegetable garden. 

Sadly, he passed away when I was just 15.

I will always hold this page dear to my heart, just as I do my grandfather.

Thank you for visiting!

You Are Wonderful (Scraps of Elegance "Sunshine & Sweet Tea" kit & Words & Paintery challenge)

Have you seen the brand new kits from Scraps of Darkness and Scraps of Elegance?  They are gorgeous!  Click HERE to see them and find out how to subscribe to either or both monthly kits!

Over the next few days, I will be sharing with you my DT projects created with the Scraps of Elegance kit called "Sunshine & Sweet Tea", the perfect kit name for July!

As you can see, this kit features the beautiful Butterfly Kisses collection from BoBunny combined with some Blue Fern Studios papers, chipboard and flowers.  Along with the different add-on kits are also included flowers, wood icons, twine and stamps from Prima, more flowers from Petaloo and even more pretty embellishment pieces and mixed media products!

Element Add-On

Floral Add-On

When I saw this challenge at Words & Paintery, I found that the colour palette matched this kit to a T so I decided to play along.  Click HERE for details on this challenge.

And now let's take a look at some close-ups of my layout which is all about my niece Ella who is truly wonderful.  She is growing up so fast... the picture was taken at her 5th grade graduation.  Her story is just beginning!

I added some stenciling with modeling paste on the right side of my page and lined up the 2 different paper patterns with fussy cut butterflies from the BoBunny papers.  I sprinkled a bit of Imagine Ink glitter on the wings and added a Prima wooden heart into the center of each.

 Ella looks so sweet in her coral Summer dress with which some of the kit papers and flowers match perfectly.

I hope you've enjoyed this glimpse into the SOE "Sunshine & Sweet Tea" kit.

Come back in a couple days for more!

Frolic In The Sun (Blue Fern Studios DT Reveal Part 1 / Words & Paintery and Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo challenges)

It's time to share with you my monthly DT reveal for Blue Fern Studios, and this month, in wait of the brand new BFS collection, Seaside Cottage (click HERE to see it - it is absolutely gorgeous!!), I decided to dig into my BFS paper stash and pick some of my all-time favorites... oldies but certainly still goodies!

Let's start today with this very sunny layout featuring the beautiful Frolic collection!

I thought that these papers were perfect for this very Summery page, also inspired by the latest challenge at Words & Paintery. Click HERE for all the details on this challenge.

I am also entering my layout into a brand new challenge blog for me over at Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo and this month's challenge is all about sunshine! Click HERE for the details!

The colour palette and sunshine theme have such a happy inspiring feel that I tried to incorporate into my layout, starting with the title 'Frolic in the Sun' colored in an ombre effect over some stenciled yellow sunrays, all using different Imagine Ink embossing powders and glitter.

Below you see some of the pretty Attic Charm Daisies.  The yellow one was an Attic Charm Glitter Rose from which I removed the center and replaced with a royal blue brad to go with my palette.

I created the illusion of a sun to go along with my sunrays by using the smaller Looped Frame in the upper right corner of my design while using the larger one behind my photo. They were both covered with a combination of Buttercup and Honey embossing powders.

I fussy cut some of the butterflies from the patterned paper and popped them up throughout.

This sweet photo of little Jade 'frolicking in the sun', very proudly showing off her parasol, was the perfect photo for my page and the Words & Paintery challenge!

I will be back tomorrow with details of another of my Blue Fern Studios DT reveal creations!

Blue Fern Studios products

Patterned Papers: Frolic (Veranda, Dans le jardin, Friendship)

Chipboard: Frolic in the Sun, Looped Frames, Leafy Page Accents

Flowers: Attic Charm Glitter Roses, Attic Charm Daisies

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (In the Navy, Cerulean, Bonny Blue, Buttercup, Honey), Glitter (Sunshine)