Cutest Ever!

Having a great Friday everyone? And ready for a new amazing palette from The Color Room? Well, it's the day in the week where it's time for another great palette and sketch, the day in the week where we get new inspiration to push our creativity!

Here is this week’s palette, palette #8, {Family Room};


And here is my work for this palette;


And, some close-ups;






The baby face is my daughter when she was about 5 months old. And yes, I do think she is the cutest one ever! ;o) But she grows up so fast, and the time flies, so I love to scrap some baby photos of her now and then.

Thank you for dropping by everyone, and wish you all a wonderful weekend! *hugs*

Lace Bucket Tag Card filled with Prima flowers!

Hi everyone.

Today I am going to show you a Prima project. I created a bucket made of Prima laces, and filled it with flowers and a tag, perfect as a little gift or a card with a personal message inside.
Here it is;







If you check out Prima's blog here, you will find instructions on how to make this, and a list of products I used. But, as soon as I have some time available, I will make a tutorial on this for you and post here in my blog ;o)

Thank you for dropping by, and I wish you all a wonderful day!

Weekend Sketch #4 on our National Day!

Hi everyone, and to all Norwegians; HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
It's 15 minutes over midnight right now, so its the 17th of May, our National day here in Norway! So this has to be a very short post, because I need to go to bed right now so I can get up in time tomorrow morning and get ready for parades, hot dogs, ice cream, baloons and lots of noise all day long ;o) But before I go, here is this weekend's sketch, hope you like it! ;o)

Weekly News- week 19

It's in the middle of the week, and its time for some "Weekly News".

This week picks;
Project; I came across this tag today, and I think it is so sweet and so special. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us agnieszka-piskorz!
Layout; This LO touched my heart when I saw it. Beautiful title to some very sweet pics, and the whole design looks great! Thank you for showing us this amazing LO Melanieh!
Card; This card just pop'ed up from the gallery and catched my attention, I really love the colors in it and how fun it is! Thank you for sharing your beautiful card KAREMAL!

Goodbye Scrap In Style TV!
Jeanette Herdman wrote in her blog on April 29th these sad words; "After several months of wrestling back and forth with this, I have finally made the decision to shut down the Scrap In Style TV website". After 3 years online, the well known scrapbook website will go off the air on the 15th of May 2010. I think this is really sad news, and I will truly miss this place where I have been a member for almost two years now. Thank you Jeanette for the hard work you have put into this site in these three years it has been online!
You can read her sad blog post here. I just did my very last gallery update in the SiS TV gallery yesterday, my saddest update ever; - Goodbye SIS TV!

Now I need to jump to bed. It's almost 01.00 in the morning, and I do have to get early up...

Take care everyone! *hugs*

Prima's Build-a-Page for May

Hi my dear blog readers, how are you doing today?

I'm going to scrap soon, but first I want to share my latest Build-a-Page layout based on Prima's Build-a-Page sketch for May. This time I created a vintage page with a picture of my daughter, taken inside of an old house, where she is looking out trough a window.

Here is my layout;


And some close-ups;






Prima products used on this layout;
#850197 Flocked Transparencies- Meredith (as main background, #812836 Journaling Notecards (as a mat under the photo),#812751 Flirty Little Secret Papers (for the shaped vintage paper. Used a die-cut paper from Making Memories to draw the lines and then cut it out. Then I used a scalloped edge scissors for the scalloped edge, and Dabber Snow Cap on the edges for making them white),#539689 Autumn leaves - October (leaves), #841140 Shabby Chic - Morning poetry (paper hand cuts), #536473 Clear Stamp - Nameplates (under title), #536299 Clear Stamp - chandeliers (black chandelier), #529055 Petite Fleur Vines - lily ("brench" with flowers), #536251 Clear Stamp - vintage script (stamped script on the background), #527921 Ribbon Lace - black banner (black lace) and #537548 Winter roses - Cherry frost (pink rose).

Please drop by at Prima's blog here and check out the great sketch designed by Anam Stubbington. And remember, you are all welcome to join the Build-a-Page contest and to upload your creations at Prima's gallery; - hope to see your work there! ;o)

Thank you for dropping by, and have a wonderful day!

Weekend Sketch #3

Hi everyone, had a nice weekend so far?
I just finished up this weekend's sketch, and here it is;


Hope you like it, and if you do, please feel free to use it for inspiration. I will love to hear from you with a comment and a link to your work if you do use it, so I can drop by and check it out! ;0) Please just link to this post if you want to share this sketch with others; - Thank you! *hugs*

A photo shoot of my daughter

Hi everyone. Having a great day?

Yesterday Iselina and I had a little photo shoot in our home. We needed some new shots to send in to a modelling agency, because we are going to try out for their kid models! And she loves to be in front of the camera, so this is something she really wants to do!

Here are three of the photos taken yesterday;






Ok, I am really not a talented photographer at all, so I am a bit happy with these photos ;o) The rest of the shoot you can see in my "Family Photos" gallery in the left menu bar.

Now, the sun is shining outside and it's really a BEAUTIFUL day today, so I need to get out and get some sun!

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend too! *hugs*

Weekly News- week 18

Hi everyone, how are you doing this week?

Today I’m having a wonderful day. Iselina and I got up a bit earlier this morning, because her kindergarten were just chosen as Norway’s Best Kindergarten and we wanted to go to the kindergarten early today to celebrate with them; Huge congratulations to Hanne’s Lekestue, Norway’s Best Kindergarten! Every single person working there is just amazing, they are just the worlds sweetest! And today they had THIS BIG chocolate cake for breakfast! Actually it was so big that they had to use a real door as a plate to have the cake on! And there were tons of photographers and journalists there today, from magazines, newspapers, and television channels and so on. Everyone wants to get a bit of this amazing news!

It’s a great day today, and it’s a beautiful day too! And guess what, - now I will scrap for the rest of the day :o)

Here is my Weekly Recommendations, beautiful works I have came over this week;
Project; Look at this great M&M vase! So fun and so creative, what a gift to give to someone you appreciate! Thank you for sharing tayloredexpressions!
Layout: This layout is just so beautiful and sweet, totally live it! Thank you for sharing MichelleLanning!
Card; And I came over this amazing card, just love how creative it is. Thank you for sharing your creativity ScrapChrys!

Live classes over at Prima!
Please make sure to check out Prima's live classes tonight! Here you can read more about all the fun going on over at Prima!

Published!
It's always an huge honour to be published, and I'm so lucky to be published in Australian Scrapbook Creations, No.77 (Vol.9 No 9)!

Scrapbook Creation is a really great mag, and if you are a lucky owner of this issue or can get your hands on one, you can see my work on page 45 ;o)
I'm also so honoured to be published in Scrapbooking.com Magazine, and you can see my work here.
And, I'm also in Scrap Info in Russia in the very last issue. I'm so honoured to be a part of a really great article, so if you have the chance to get a sample of the issue, please make sure to get one! ;o)
Thank you to Australian Scrapbook Creations, Scrapbooking.com and Scrap Info in Russia for this great opportunity, really appreciate you all for accepting me work to be published; - you all made me really happy!

Wish you all a great day, and thank you for dropping by. And PS; don't forget there is a new palette coming up from The Color Room tomorrow! ;o)

Tutorial on "natural" wings.

I love wings, and I love to make my own wings. But often I miss more dimensions in stamped designs. I also love when wings can look a bit "airy" and natural. So, yesterday I was so honored to play with some beautiful wing stamps from Layers of Colors, Beloved Wings art stamps, and they was so fun to play with! So I decided I would try to make my own dimensional and "airy" wings, and this is how the result looks like;



Here are what I did to make them, step by step instructions;

1. Add some white Liquid Applique (Marvy) on a piece of plastic or paper.
2. Fasten your clear stamp wings on a acrylic block.
3. Add white Liquid Applique to the wings with your fingers. Make sure they are totally covered (not too thick).


4. Make sure both the wings are equally covered.
5. Take a piece of transparent and lay gently over the wings while they still are on the acrylic closs. Gently touch the transparent with a finger until you see the applique "grabs" the transparent and are totally covered over the wings.
6. Remove the transparent carefully.


7. It is recommended the Liquid Applique dry overnight before you heat it up, but it is not necessary. I did not do that for my wings.
8. Use a heating gun to heat up the Liquid Applique. Be careful and not use the heating gun too close to the transparent, because then it can curl too much. It will curl a bit anyway, but that only makes the wings more natural.
9. When all the Liquid Applique are white and "phuffed", you are finish heating. Do not heat longer then that.


10. Add ink to the wing stamps in a color of your desire. (One wing at the time on the acrylic closs.)
11. Place the wing stamp over the "phuffy" wing, DIRECTLY over the motive, so the design fit perfectly over each other. Then stamp carefully, not too hard, because that can press the Liquid Applique flat and you loose dimensions.
12. Do this with both of the wings, one at the time. Now they should both be phuffy with ink that shows the design and the edges.


13. Now you can cut out your wings and they are ready to be used on your designs!

Here is the tag I used them on;


Good luck everyone! ;o)

Tags with Layers Of Colors art stamps!

Today I had fun creating some vintage tags where I used some beautiful art stamps from Layers Of Colors.

Here are my results;








Layers Of Colors Art Stamps I used on these tags:
Beloved Wings (White Wings), Regal Wings (crown), Garden Borders (sand coloured branch/leaves) and Nature Walk (strawberries).

I used a technique for the wings to make them a bit "airy", and I will share a tutorial for that technique here tomorrow. So, if you like the white wings, please make sure to drop by again tomorrow to check out how to make them ;o)

Take care everyone! *hugs*

Prima layout with Tattered Angels

Hi everyone.
Prima just had a Tattered Angels feature, where they showed samples where we used Tattered Angels products on Prima products. And, if you ask me, it's a really great product mix! Prima is my *heart*brand, and I just love to play with TA products too!

Here is the layout I did for this feature;
Bedtime for Bath Nymph


Prima products used on this layout;
Raspberry Tea - Blueberry Pie #841256 (Pattern paper background),Raspberry Tea - Peach Cobbler #841249 (Pattern Paper hand die cut), Fairytale roses - Coral #538651 (small coral roses), Calcutta Petals - Maize #538392 (large flower), Lilliput Roses - Lemon #537654 (yellow flower), Ribbon Lace Braided rose grey #537241 (Lace), Devine - Bird of Paradise #536930 (Felt DeVine), Glitter cardstock stickers - Umbrella #536756 (Jorunal sticker), Say it in Pearls and Roses mini Swirls - Brown #535698 (Pearl Swirl), Clear Paintables - Beautimus mix #812560 (bricks).

Tattered Angels products used on this layout;
Glimmer Mist colours; Olive Vine and Key Lime Pie (on Prima Felt Devine), Frost, Midnight Blue and Lemon Meringue (in background) and Creme Chocolate (on owl).
Clear Stamps; Nature Collection - Graceful Journey (owl)and Garden Collection - Blommsom Trees (black tree).

Here is a close-up that shows a Prima felt DeVine where I added white acrylic paint on and then misted it with Olive Vine and Key Lime Pie mist for more dimentions;


Thank you for dropping by everyone, and I wish you all a fabulous week! *hugs* :o)

Weekend Sketch #2

It's weekend, and its even National Scrapbook Day, so it's time for another Weekend Sketch, and here is Weekend Sketch #2



Please feel free to use this sketch for inspiration. If you do use it, I would looove to hear from you with a link in a comment so I can drop by and check it out! ;o) If you wish to show your bloggers and friends this sketch, I appreciate if you just link to this post; Please notice my copyright for use of images -Thank you!

Hugs everyone! :o)

Palette #4 from The Color Room!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day everyone! Are you all feeling creative today? Hope so! :o)

I will do some posts today, and first up is this palette from The Color Room, palette #4 {Family Room}. These colors inspired me sooo much! I just love all the orange colors, and so do my daughter and I think she even fit these colors so well! And I had this photo of her taken last month that was perfect for this palette. And even this sketch was perfect for the photo I wanted to scrap this time, so I had really fun playing with the color palette and the sketch!

Here is the palette #4 {Family Room}


And here is my take on the palette and sketch;


And some close-ups to share ;o)






Prima products used on this layout;
Primrosa-Sangria #539498 (large flower), Exotic Gardenia #537876 (orange flower), Lace Nikki #534974 (white lace), Collage Stamp - Brick (bricks), Caboodles #528669 (brown flower), Clear Stamp - Songbird #536398 and Clear Stamp - Shabby #536343 (stamp on photo/background).

I have to say that I just looove that brick stamp from Prima, so fun to play with! I have been a lucky owner of that stamp for months, but for some reason I never remember to use it. But Finnabair's beautiful works really inspired me to start using it! Thank you for the inspiration Finnabair!

Thank you for dropping by, and I wish you all a great National Scrapbook Day! (Btw; who do I need to write to get this day renamed to International Scrapbook Day??? ;o))