Welcome To The Scraps Of Elegance Blog Hop!!!!

If you have arrive here from Lisa Novogrodski's blog - http://lisas-livingincolor.blogspot.com/ then you are on the right track!!

*** This month we have 3 manufacturers joining us on our hop*** 

PION DESIGN

FLOURISH WITH A BLING

3^RD EYE 

~~ We also have a special announcement~~ 

Please welcome our newest designer to the Scraps of Elegance team!!! 

RACHAEL FUNNELL

 

We are thrilled to have Rachael joining our team and are sure we will be inspired by her talent… 

~~And meet our special guest designer this month~~ 

LYNNE WOOLGAR

 

We are so happy to have Lynne joining us this month and can’t wait to see her work with our kit throughout September… 

The hop begins here at the “Scraps of Elegance” blog

Where our September kit “Nostalgia” has just been revealed!

 

 

This kit is featuring Pions “Grandmas Schoolbook”

&

Flourish with a Bling beautiful “Adhesive Pearls”

 

SCRAPS OF ELEGANCE

Is giving away prizes to

TWO

***LUCKY WINNERS***

 

**1**

WINNER

Will receive “Inkadinkadoo  Stamping Gear Deluxe Starter Set

 

AND

**1**

Winner

Will receive the “Inkadinkadoo Stamping Gear Intro Set

 

In addition to this the manufacturers participating in the hop are giving away their own prizes, as well as our designers!!!

Lot’s of chances to win! 

All you have to do is become a follower of the Scraps of Elegance blog AND visit each participating blog, become of follower of those blogs and leave a comment.

When you have visited everyone return to the Scraps of Elegance blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had!

If you post about this blog hop on your own blog you will be entered into the drawing twice for and extra chance to win! 

We are sure you will inspired by our talented design team to

 ~create something beautiful today~ 

This Blog Hop is open to both US and international entries.  

You have until Sunday September 2^nd 11:00 pm PST to complete the hop

The Scraps of Elegance winners will be announced on this blog on September 4^th.  Our Designers and participating manufacturers will be making their winners on their own blogs.

Be sure to check back on that day to see if you have won… 

Have Fun!

BLOGS TO VISIT

Scraps of Elegance

Helena Johansson- http://willeasscrap.blogspot.com/

Pion Design- http://blog.piondesign.se/

Lisa Novogrodski- http://lisas-livingincolor.blogspot.com/

Renea Harrison- http://www.myglittercoatedlife.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Snyder- http://scrap-escape.blogspot.com/

Mandy Harrell- http://forscrappingoutloud.blogspot.com/

Rachael Funnell- http://awindowtoomyworld.blogspot.com/

Lynne Woolgar- http://mymadkow.typepad.com/mymadkow/

Karolina Stopyra- http://drycha.blogspot.com/

3^rd Eye- http://3rdeyecraft.blogspot.com/

Karen Zuegar- http://lostcoastscrapper.blogspot.com/

Flourish with a Bling- http://www.flourishwithabling.com.au/blog/

Elena Olinevich- http://eleele-handmade.blogspot.com.au/

Escape Kitty- http://escapekitty.blogspot.com/

Michelle  Phillips- http://fullmoonscrapping.blogspot.com.au/

Here are some of my layouts that I created with this gorgeous kit! Each month, you get a sketch created by Sue Pup to inspire you:

 And this is my take on this month's sketch. I did flip the sketch 90 degrees clock wise and took my inspiration from that perspective;

 

This layout features a photo of my son, Draven with his Grammy. He is such a good hearted, young man and is so good to his Grandparents. He has always enjoyed spending time with his Grammy and drops by to help her out, to take her to eat, or just to keep her company.  The Pion and Anna Griffin papers were perfect for this layout, and the Flourish With A Bling Pearls were perfect accents to my chipboard pieces! All the flowers where from the Flourish add on except the centers on the daisies, those are Shabby Terra Cotta Texture Roses from my Etsy Shop. I have the honor of creating the Butterflies for the Scraps Of Elegance Kits, and the ones on this layout are my Harmony Butterflies that were created especially for the papers in this month's kit.

 

 

 Over in the Scraps Of Elegance and Scraps Of Darkness forums, we host a CUTE Challenge each month, and this is my fun play along with for that challenge. It features a photo of our Jack Russel "Jack" righ after we brought him home for Christmas, he was 5 weeks old and loved to nap in front of the fire place, belly-up, on his sherpa bed. The photo in the frame is one that I took of him with my son, Draven. The soft, sweet blues and creams int he Pion papers were a perfect match for the black and whites of Jack's coloring. I used lots of technique and layering with texture on this one.

 

Here are some close ups of some of the details:

 

 

I used painted corrugated board, Shimmerz paints, and seed beads along with the netting from the kit to create lots of texture behind the photo.

 

 

Here I used layers of torn tissue paper, netting from the kit, Dusty Attic bricks and snow tex to create visual interest.

 

 

I did lots of random stamping, with the Ingvlid Bolme Ink that was included in the embellishment add on to add dimension.

 

 

 

 I love Vintage Images, and this is one that I found on Pintrest and it worked so well with the sweet colors, and "little girl" theme of these Pion Papers. I love that Melinda gives us such unique items in our kits, like the trims from the Embellishment Add On that I twisted together and placed at the top corner and bottom for loads of texture.

 

And now, for the prize that I am giving away!!!! The winner of my blog hop will receive the following:

 

A $10.00 Gift Certificate from the Scraps Of Elegance Store, and a prize pack of the following butterflies that were created by me for the Scraps of Elegance kits!!

 

 

 

To win my prize, you must  **Become a follower of the Scraps of Elegance blog AND be a follower of my blog.  The winner will be announced here on my blog, September 4th, and you must respond to the announcement in order to claim your prize.

 

Happy Hopping!!

 

Your next stop is my super talented, SOE sister, Jennifer Snyder's blog- http://scrap-escape.blogspot.com/  Have fun checking out all her amazing work!!!