Welcome to Swirlydoos' May Kit Reveal Blog Hop Block Party!!

 

 

 

If you came here from Miranda's blog, then you are on the right track. 

If not, go back to Swirlydoos' blog and start from there. 

We have some amazing projects for you to see today !! 

Make sure to leave a comment on all of the blogs for a chance to win!!! 

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Look at this Beautiful kit

*Au Naturale* 

I simply couldn't stop creating with this kit, in fact I still am.
 If you would like to get a kit yourself, take a peek in the BOUTIQUE

maybe there's one left. 

 

My first project is based on this month's sketch.

and here's my take on it.
 

*Good looking Clothes*

 Our sweet Dasha, got her (I don't know if I'm using the right words for it)

tubes removed, and when she woke up, she was biting at the stitches, so our vet gave her this, bathing suit looking thingie, that she needed to wear for 10 days. Poor thing.

 

 

 

*Miss Know It All*

 This is probably one of my most favourite pictures of our middlest daughter.
The white background piece, is the packaging, those chipboard circles came in.

 

Aren't the butterflies gorgeous???? They come in the Main Kit!

 



 

*You - Clear Pillow Box*

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 In the Main kit came this beautiful felt embellishment by

I, however took it apart, and used it on multiple projects, like this clear pillow box.

The Petaloo flowers (I'm in love with these) were also in the main kit, as well as the Pink Paislee's tags.

 

 I first Gesso-ed my felt bird cage and then rubbed Platinum stickles over it. After it dried, I gave it a layer of white puffy paint.

 

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*Butterfly card*

 I sometimes make cards without a sentiment. I love to have cards on hand. And when I need one, 

I can add my sentiment then.

 

 I love the muted colors of these Pink Paislee's papers. They work like a charm for me, and the bright Petaloo flower and the butterfly give this card just that little freshness.

I loved working with all the Pink Paislee's tags too.

 

The pompom trim is from our previous, Hello Beautiful, kit.

The little brown pearls came from my stash.

 

*Two little Birds*

 Here's another one of my *On Hands Cards*.

 

 The Swirly birdies are part of the felt embellishment that comes in the Main Kit.

I gesso-ed it first and then added some faux stitching here and there.

The birds got treated with a bit of puffy paint.

 

 

 Also in the Main Kit came this Pink Paislee circle sheet and I just loved it!!!

For this card I cut a strip off, 1 circle more, then needed, cause I wanted it to bend a little, so that I was able to run some voile through it.

 

Again, I used some of the tags that came in the Main Kit.

 

*Sitting Pretty*

 Whenever our dog get's a cookie, she jumps on this chair, and waits impatiently till she gets it.

I just love how Krissy always seems to know, what we wants in our kits. And she loads these kits with lots of goodies. I have used some stuff on here, that came in previous kits.

 

 This flower is handmade, after a tutorial by, fellow DT member Vicky Alberto.

She made this tutorial for our NSD Challenges. You can find her tutorial right HERE

 

In our kit came a bag full of Pink Paislee's tags.

The buttons you see here, came in our previous kit, as well as the pompom trim.

 I added some griddy texture to my page, by mixing Gesso and sand (from the beach)

together. I love how it turned out.

 

This lace, you see here, is also from a previous Swirlydoos kit.

 

 



You have until midnight, eastern time, on Friday 5/17 to complete the hop.

Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on Saturday 5/18. 

In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Become a follower if you're not already. Take your time. There are REALLY beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down.
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence.
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had, tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected. Can't wait to hear from you.

My special words are: IF QUIZZES

The party continues over at Irene's blog.

 

Have fun!

Swirlydoos celebrates NSD!!!!

 

We are having a fun day with challenges that last all week long!

Come check out my challenge.

Here's the example:

 

 

Hope that you can join us in a scrapping FUN DAY!!!!!

Second reveal Swirlydoos

 

 

 

Hello there,

Today I'm going to share my last projects, I made with Swirlydoos April kit.

This kit was so super gorgeous and I still have some papers left.

Krissy always packs our kits with the most gorgeous stuff!

 

 

Beautiful

This page is based on this month's sketch, which is absolutely amazing.

 I wanted lots of dimension on this page and this beautiful Prima paper has such a beautiful center that I wanted to raise it. The butterfly was actually in my way (of the plan I had) so I cut half of it, with my craftknife to pop up the wing.

 

 In this picture you can see how high the center part is raised of the background.

 

 I was so in love with the Prima wood embellishments that came in the kit.

The easily fit on every page.

 

 And look at that gorgeous Merci flower... so so pretty!

 

 I also loved those awesome "stitches" stickers. They are perfect for adding some details.

 

 I found this shell kind of thingie in a floral shop and thought that it was a great base for my flowers.

 

 

Get Well.

 For this card I used up some of the scraps I had left, and even some things that came in previous Swirlydoos kits.

 

 Remember these Prima Got flowers? Yes they are old. I've been hoarding them for quit some years.

 

 I glued some metal ball chain underneath the flowers, hanging down toward the sentiment.

 

 Just some fun detail.

 

 I highlighted the place where I wanted my sentiment to go. I used Gesso to do so.

 

These are some flowers from the previous kits. Also those satin rhinestone leaves.

 

And my last project with the April kit, is also my Round Robin layout.

This layout need some explaining though, so ............ here we go:

 

 

 BARE with me!!! My printer died, so I had to come with a solution.

 

This page might be silly to you, but it means so much to me. I'll explain a bit.
Seeing my daughter being pregnant and me becoming a grandma, gets me mushy all the time!
Whilst doing some gardening this week, I found this little baby doll, all covered up in mud.
This is one of the dolls my daughter used to play with.
I gave it a nice warm bath and whilst doing so, I got a bit emotional (can't be preggers hormones)
and well, long story short... I decided to use it for a page. To closure the childhood of my daughter
and to celebrate the new baby to be born. I'm really looking forward to it. (hence the title)
So...
The big doily represents the womb, where he is savely growing. The (sun) bursting:
represents the birth and the joy he will be giving us (2 way thinking)
The colored voile and cotton balls, stands for the love he will be surrounded with.
In the Netherlands we have a saying: laying him in cotton balls, which means something like: 

Treat a person with all the love you have in you and nursing over him. Make sure he feels loved.
The distressed edges rubbed with gesso, stand for the raw diamont that needs to be polished, which
means, raising him up to a sweet caring boy. The messy thread behind the flowers... he hee....
stands for the fizzles/crazyness (I know that for sure) he will give his mom. Topped off with a flower,
which means, for every problem is a solution and with patience, it will be all good in the end.

 

So here's my page:

Looking Forward Meeting You!

 Do I have you in stitches??? LOL

 

 

 Some more Prima Got flowers.

 

 I colored my voile with 1 drop of Stormy Skye Distress reinker and some Iridescent Medium.

 

 To keep all those sunburst/banner looking strips of paper in place, I glued beads underneath them.

 

I added some gesso with my palet knife and gave the Prima alpha sticker a Iridescent edge.

 

My May kit is already waiting for me. And once again... an amazing kit.

We will ofcourse have a Reveal - Blog Hop, so.... watch this space or even better......

Go to Swirlydoos and say Hi

 

Hugs,

Paulien