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01 april 2014

APRIL's challenge by Agnieszka Bellaidea OUR ROOTS


Hi!
It's Bellaidea today with a new challenge, OUR ROOTS.
Knowing we have participants from all over the world we can not wait to see your projects.
This time our Mood Board should just inspired you to use some interesting elements specific to your country.
Folk art, costumes, national decorations, anything like this and please don't forget to tell us about it!



I had several ideas what will I do for this challenge but since it's April and Easter coming I used the idea about very nice Polish tradition of painting /decorating eggs.
"There are many schools and techniques – some people paint them, others scratch or paste patterns on their surface, others still dye them in special extracts. But one thing has not changed for centuries – the tradition of decorating Easter eggs is alive and well all across Poland.
Easter eggs in Poland are commonly known as pisanki. These are usually chicken eggs covered with intricate decorations to look nice on Polish tables and in Polish homes during Easter. The name pisanki derives from the verb pisać which used to mean “draw” or “engrave patterns” (compare with Latin pictura). The first pisanki found by archaeologists in Poland date as far back as the 10th century. Today, all decorated Easter eggs are called by this name, but there are different terms for the individual artistic techniques of making them.
Pisanki are created by drawing designs on egg shells with molten wax. Then, the eggs are dyed and the wax is removed, leaving a pattern on the surface. Lambs, crosses, flowers and other springtime motifs are the most popular symbols depicted on pisanki.
Kraszanki, also known as malowanki, are single-colour dyed eggs. To make the shells yellow and orange, you need to boil eggs in water with onion peels; brown hue will result from adding some oak bark; while dark hollyhock flower will give yourkraszanki a beautiful violet colour. Extracts of young rye, barley, grass or mistletoe leaves will dye your eggs green, and to get black colour use some alder bark. Eggs soaked in cornflower decoction will turn blue, in coffee – brown, in beetroot extract – dark red. In addition, there are plenty of chemical dyes available today.
Dyed eggs are traditionally covered with decorations, e.g. drawings made with a sharpened pin. Pisanki created this way are called skrobanki or drapanki. Eggs decorated with flower petals, pieces of cloth or paper cuttings are oklejanki andnalepianki, while those with their contents removed and shells painted are known as ażurki.
The Rev. Krzysztof Kluka Museum of Agriculture in Ciechanowiec (Podlasie region) houses Poland’s biggest collection of Easter eggs: close to two thousand pisanki from Poland and across the world. Apart from chicken or goose eggs, the Museum boasts artefacts made from penguin and seagull eggs, as well as minute hummingbird and giant ostrich eggs. The museum collection is based on over a thousand exhibits donated by Irena Stasiewicz-Jasiukowa and Jerzy Jasiuk from Warsaw, who spent thirty years collecting and cataloguing Easter eggs from across the country.
Monika Kucia"

The was a time in my life I was very busy with ostrich eggs too :).
For my page I used eggs chipboards and flowers from friendly company from Poland, Wycinanka. Very Polish accent!


Beautiful memories collection and stamps from Inkido were used to create my page.




Challenge Rules:

1. You are allowed to make a card , layout or

 altered/off the page project as long as you follow the

  challenge specifications.


  2.   Projects must be linked up via our Linky .


 3.  You may submit as many entries as you like for

 this  challenge and combine your entry with up to 2

 other challenges.

 4.  It is required that you mention in your blog post

 that you are playing along at Inkido  TOGETHER with

 a link back to our blog and you post our Mood Board in your post too.

 5. All entries must be received by the end of April   2014.

6.  If you are using Papercraft Scandinavia / Inkido

 product please let us know what is it.

7. Have fun!!

We have a fun prize for this challenge, all new stuff from our shop!






17 mars 2014

A giftbag

Hi there!

Cathrine here to show you my latest Inkido project for the March callenge. I decided to make a giftbag, and got inspired by the vibrant colors in the mood board, and used green and coral/pink.



A closeup. I love to frost my flowers whit glitter.


I hope you got inspired, and that you'll join us for the march callenge. Can't wait to see your contribution :-)

This is my list of Inkidoproducts that I've used for this my bag;






Wish you all a great week!
Hugs from Cathrine


30 juni 2013

Hello Sunshine.

Hi, Bente here today to share a steaming new lo with you with the glue just about dry!
I have made so many pink romantic layouts lately that I felt like making a different kind today. Conveniently I had a couple of photos laying on my desk from when my youngest sister and her family was visiting here. So I did a boy page,...( still with flowers mind you ;-) )

And here are some shots of the details:

 I decided I wanted to try a different combo. Normally I might still have combined the blue with pink or white or something. Instead I decided to use some of those tan coloured leaves and flowers I received in my latest Inkido kit. I think they work pretty well with the boyish blue.

 Those cute butterflies that I don't seem to ever get enough of, are cut from an Inkido paper and they really have so many that are great for fussy cutting if you are into that.

 The woodgrain in the background was done using a bought mask. 
If you still have not tried let me tell you it is so very easy and you could start trying with a mask that  you make yourself, or maybe a leftover from a chipboard sheet. 
I promise you it is great fun!!


Finally, there is a sprinkling of half pearls in the right hand corner.The three colors come from the same package. I think they look so pretty and add an extra dimension to the page.

Spring Time No 5 (30) - Click Image to Close
 Singing Birds (30)

Cartas Satin Turquoise 12x12 (25)


Dreams - Blue Check 12x12 (25)


PP Fashion Flowers olive (6) 

Cherry Blossom Latte (200)

Hortensia Latte (100)

Mulberry leaf light brown (200)


 Mulberry rose medium turquoise (200)

That's all from me today! I hope I was able to provide at least a little inspiration so you'll go to your scraprooms and enjoy yourselves this Sunday!!
Hugs!!