'once upon a time'

Good evening crafty ladies....I am back to share another layout I created over the weekend...

This one has a very romantic feel to it inspired by tales of girls 

locked in a tower yearning to be free....

'once upon a time'

I saw that several of my favourite Greek scrapper girls are on the design team at Scraps'n'Pieces, a great Greek challenge blog, and when I saw that this month's challenge had a fairytale theme, I just knew I wanted to create something with my 'Cold Country' papers with a kind of gothic look to it.

Here is the moodboard...

and the sketch...

For more info on this month's challenge please go here...

and to see all the beautiful work and great tutorials please go here....

I used different colors than the moodboard, but followed the sketch, 

I just moved it over to the middle a bit. 

Here are some close ups....

I used my new Finnabair diamond stencil (I can never have enough of new stencils) to create a diamond pattern in the background, and while the gesso was still wet, sprinkled on some Prima glass beads, then added some stamping.

I also used some Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces of the diamond panel and this great lock piece. I embossed them with Ranger silver embossing powder and then went over them with some black paint and microbeads trying to make them look old and weathered.

I added some of my new Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays in Hydrangea Blue, Pop Rock Purple, Whale Watch Blue and Midnight Rendezvous Raven to highlight some of the colors from the photo.

See you next time...

Lisa xo