Poisonous - Do Not Eat!

Mushroom time! I know these lovelies are plentiful in our forests right now, but so far I've only gotten to hunt them once this fall. Anyway, they make a fun card theme as well!



And no, I don't pick toadstools or other poisonous mushrooms - in Finland it's quite common to eat forest mushrooms and one needs to know the edible ones to do that. So maybe next weekend I'll go find some!

Syksy ja sienet! Ihania saaliita on tuttavien Facebook-postaukset tulvillaan, mutta itse en ole ehtinyt kuin kerran vasta sienimetsään tänä syksynä. Tykkään myös sienten kuvista ja muodoista, eli niistä on kiva inspiroitua tekemään korttejakin. Punaisen kärpässienen täytyy kyllä olla sienistä kaunein, ja niitä näyttää olevan erityisen runsaasti meillä päin tänä syksynä. Lieköhän näissä ATC-korteissa muitakin satumaisia myrkkysieniä!

Allt om Scrap DT: Summer's Almost Gone

When the light summer evenings of the Nordic countries begin to get dark towards the end of August, it means that summer is soon over. This week at Allt om Scrap, we've created pieces to celebrate the end of summer. Our inspiration was the lovely Pinterest moodboard by DT member Jeanette Nyström aka Jeany. With this lovely end of summer atmosphere, I say also goodbye to my DT post at Allt om Scrap. It's time to look forward to new responsibilities!



The moodboard inspired my choice of photo, first of all. In Finland, a hotel with an outdoor pool is a rare find, and for my son it was the first time ever to swim in one! I knew about the pool when I booked but thought it best not to mention it beforehand. The season might just be over when we were to arrive on the last day of August. But to our happy surprise, it wasn't!



My journaling continues on the back and it is about how glad my son and I were about the swimming pool. It was particularly exciting to swim at dusk, just before bedtime, so the nightly swim theme suits perfectly that of the moodboard. I also wrote about how great it feels to make one’s child happy with something like this and how grateful those of us can be who can afford to share the luxury of travelling (whether big or small) with their kids every now and then.



I'm also participating in the Once Upon a Sketch September challenge with this layout. The prompt was Anything handwritten, and the sketch was like this.



You can see how I rotated it and substituted one of the photos with the framed title. I was quite happy with how I did the writing vertically - in the direction of the run down paint drops.

By the way, I just began to wonder if this might be my first ever layout without any ready-made patterned - or coloured - papers. I'll need to check that out! The one under the photo is a leftover from my mixed media ATC backgrounds.



If I didn't say it already, I always love staying at a hotel with an outdoor pool! Thus I am also linking my layout in Berry7Bleu challenge, with the theme of Things we love.

Have a nice weekend - and for lingering just a little more in the memories of late summer, I recommend listening the Doors' song called Summer's Almost Gone!



Edited on October 8, 2014: Fixed a link.

Fiskarettes DT: Cards with AdvantEdge Border Punch

Hello all, and happy September! The new month also means the end of my 4 month post as a DT member at Fiskarettes Finland. I'm a bit behind in posting my DT projects here on the blog, so I'm showing a couple today!

For both of these cards, I have used borders cut with Fiskars' new AdvantEdge border puncher. In this Thank you card, I painted the border first with an acrylic paint in a shade called Payne's Gray, then used some crackle medium and painted with a mix of bronze and gold acrylic paint on top.



Hei vaan, ja hyvää alkanutta syyskuuta! Uuden kuukauden myötä on aika kiittää DT-tehtävästäni Fiskarettesissa. DT-projekteja kerkisi kertyä neljässä kuukaudessa aika pino, kun niitä tehtiin kerran viikossa. Töiden postaaminen tänne blogiin laahaakin vähän perässä, joten tässä tulee pari!

Kiitoskortin kuva on itse ottamani ja käsitelty ilmaisella verkkopohjaisella ohjelmalla nimeltä Pixlr Express. Kultaboordi on leikattu Fiskarsin AdvantEdge-laitteella, ja maalasin sen ensin tummanharmaalla akryylimaalilla, sävyllä nimeltä Payne's Gray, joka on tosi kaunis ja monikäyttöinen. Sen kuivuttua laitoin kerroksen krakleerausainetta ja jälleen odottelin kuivumista, jonka jälkeen maalasin kerroksen kullan ja pronssinvärien sekoituksella.



In this Butterfly ATC, I cut a butterfly from the punched border and embossed one half of it with Sunny Yellow and the other with Metalline Dark Blue from WOW Embossing powders. I attached the butterfly to the background with just the stitching in the middle, to let the wings fly free for some 3D effect.

Happy weekend to you all!



ATC-kortin perhonen on niin ikään AdvantEdgellä leikatusta boordista. Embossasin sen toisen puolen keltaisella ja toisen metallinsinisellä, ja kiinnitin perhosen korttipohjaan vain keskeltä ompelemalla. Ihanat WOW:n kohojauheet on ostettu Espoon Askartelu Amaliasta!

Fiskarettesin sivuilla on muuten nyt julkaistu syksyn uuteen DT-tiimiin valittujen nimet, joten käy ihmeessä toivottamassa heidät tervetulleiksi ja kurkkaamassa heidän töitään!

Kaunista viikonloppua!