Jacque's Birthday Sweet Stuff!!!

Hi everyone.

Just to let you know that my absolute FAVORITE cardmaker in the WHOLE WORLD Jacque, is celebrating her birthday by giving away this wonderful sweet stuff. So Jump over to her fantastic blog and add your info to be eligible to win!!!

Hugs and kisses from the Norwegian sun that finally decided to join us ;)

A scraproom in the making...

Hi, there :)
Long time, no see or such...
Lately I've been rather busy redoing my scraproom and organizing everything. I'm not quite finished but I'm almost there... For now, at least!!!
The only thing that I'm missing is a new and a lot bigger, desk ;)
I will upload some pictures soon :)

RRR Giveaway

Hi, there everyone.
Hope you're all doing well.
I'm fine, I've just been busy those last weeks with work and birthdays!!!
I just wanted to share a giveaway with you from RRR and here is a direct link to the giveaway.
Oh, and I can proudly tell you that I've now bought some ink for my printer so that I can now start to print out some pictures to scrapbook!!! I can't wait!!! :)

The Rest Of The Kristiansand Zoo Pages!

And here are the rest of the pages from the Kristiansand Zoo - Norway.
Hope you liked them :)

The Reptiles:

The Kardemommeby:

The Tigers:

More new scrapbooking pages...

Hi :)
Here are more pages...

Animals in Africa:

The Forest:

New scrapbooking pages!!!

Hi everyone!!!
Lately I've been doing a lot of scrapbooking. And that is something that I haven't done in quite some time. There's been well over a year since I made a scrapbooking page last time so this is BIG, for me at least :)
I've made totally of 15 single pages and 14 of them are double pages.
I have now completed one of my New Year's resolution, to scrapbook our trip to Dyreparken - Kristiansand, Norway in July 2007!!! Hoooray for me!!! :D
I used Bazzill and the designerpaper is from Cosmo Cricket - Wanted.
I'll show you two double pages in each post, so I can add pictures of each page as well.
Soooo... Here they are:

The Lions:

The Giraffes:

Magnolia's Tilda thinking: Friday Sketchers and Just Magnolia challenges

Hi, for the third time tonight!!!
Here is my 3rd card made after Janneke's sketch over at Friday Sketchers

The base is Bazzill and the designer paper is from Doodlebug??? I'm not quite sure, but I think so... The flowers are from Prima, the roses were a gift from Lene in Sweden. I made them more orange in color and added some Stickles to them. Tilda is stamped with Staz-on ink (black) and cut out with Nestabilities, Labels One. The edges are distressed with Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink and then I added some Stickles to the edges as well.
The pearls I used to soften the corners are from Kuttut.


The brads are from American Crafts and the ribbon was a gift from Hanna Kj, an Icelandic scrapper.

This card qualifies for following challenges:
Friday Sketchers - Janneke's sketch
Just Magnolia - Favorite Color Combo

Well, that's all for tonight.
But stay tuned because I'll post some LO's soon. I've done like 15 of them that I´ll share with you soon.
Hugs to your part of the world from my little village in Norway.

Magnolia's Bridal Couple: Friday Sketches and Just Magnolia challenges

Hi again!!!
Here comes the second card made after the same sketch made by Janneke.

The base is a cream colored Bazzill and the designer paper is from somewhere, I don't know the name - sorry.
The Bridal Couple is stamped with Staz-on ink (black) and colored with water pencils and then I added some Stickles to the lace on her dress, the bouquet, the flowers and around the edges, which I also distressed with Tim Holts Walnut stain distress ink.


The flowers are from Prima and Skrapp og gaman, the pearls in the corners and the string of pearls that I use along with the flowers are both from Kuttut.

This card qualifies for following challenges:
Friday Sketchers - Use this sketch
Just Magnolia - Favorite Color Combo

Magnolia's Loving Bridal Couple: Friday Sketches and Just Magnolia challenges

Hi everyone!!!
Well, after some days of cardmaking, trying to take pictures of the cards and then transferring them to the computer - they're FINALLY here!!!
I've actually made 3 cards, using the same sketch so there will be 3 posts with 3 different cards.
This is the first one: Magnolia's Loving Bridal Couple.

The picture is not so good but it is taken in daylight and I tried to brighten it a little bit.
The base is a white Bazzill and the designer paper (the red one) is from BoBunny - Holiday Magic Wish. It's actually a Christmas paper but I think it fits perfectly to weddingcards, don't you think??? The white designer paper is from somewhere... I don't have the name, sorry. I used pearls to soften the corners and a string of pearls along with the flowers, both are bought at Kuttut.com The image was stamped with Staz-on ink and colored with water pencils. I also added some Stickles to the dress, the flowers and around the image which was cut with Nestabilities, Labels One.
The big flower is from Magnolia and the small ones are from an Icelandic store Skrapp og gaman



The ribbon was from Skrappa, an Icelandic store that doesn't exist anymore :/


This card qualifies for:
Friday Sketches challenge - This sketch
Just Magnolia - Favorite Color Combo

Claudia Rosa's Blog candy!!!

Oh, yes!
She's done it again!!!
Claudia Rosa is having another blog candy ;)
There is a link in my sidebar.

And I will soon post some new stuff on my blog!
Stay tuned!

Claudia Rosa is having a Blog candy!!!

Hi there.
Claudia Rosa over at Pretty Pressings is having a blog candy.
Just click at my link here on the sidebar to go directly to her blog candy ;)

Jacque's Sweet Stuff!!!

Jacque is giving away some sweet stuff to her followers.

It's just gorgeous!!!

My creative resolutions for 2011

Last night I couldn't sleep so I decided to sit down and write some resolutions for the year 2011.

Now, this is something that I normally DON'T do, but this time I felt like doing so... Don't ask me why, 'cos I don't know yet.

And I even made two different resolutions;

1. A list of resolutions regarding myself personally and regarding my family as well.

2. A list of creative resolutions which was inspired by Anna Sigga, a super talented Icelandic scrap-booker, but she has also made a creative resolution list for 2011. I found the idea so good and inspiring that I decided to make my own list! :D

My list however is divided in two; Knitting and Scrap-booking, since these are my two biggest hobbies at the moment.

Here is my creative resolutions for 2011, scrap-booking:

1. Finish my daughters album to the date.

2. Make my wedding album (we got married i 2006 and I have all the papers so this should be quite simple).

3. Scrapbook more about my hubby, Vidar.

4. Scrapbook our trip to Dyreparken (a trip we did in 2007!!!).

4. Make more cards and try out new techniques in card-making.

5. Use my stamps more both on cards and scrap-booking pages. I have a lot of them but I'm not so good in using them.

6. Try out Copics.

7. Try out different techniques in making flowers and altering flowers.

Well, this is my list.

And I'm planning on sticking to it!!!

Jacque's Sweet Stuff!!!

Please feel free to jump over to Jacque's blog and become a follower to have a chance to win this wonderful Sweet Stuff she's offering now!!!

It runs out until January 7th ;)

Happy New Year 2011!!!

Hi everyone and a happy new year to you all!!!

I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year's Eve :)

I've celebrated Christmas and New Year's Eve here in Norway, with my family and we've had a relaxing and cozy Christmas. No stress and it has been so wonderful!!!

Here is a picture of my daughter, Astros Erla and our dog, Lorry. It's been Photoshoped but the actual picture was taken here i the hallway :)

I have to admit that I wished I'd been better in making cards and doing some scrapbooking last year but I'm determined to do better now!!!

I participated in a "secret santa" game we had at my icelandic scrapbooking site and my secret santa sent me a beautiful gift for Christmas. I got 3 cardstocks from Fancy Pants, 1 Christmas transparancy from Fancy Pants, Prima bling with Fimo flowers on and a bag of Magnolia flowers!

I just love it all and I have to do some scrapbooking, using all this stuff soon :)