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 :)

I'm alive!!!

Just letting you guys know that I'm alive and everyone are well.
I've been rather busy at work and my daughter was finishing kindergarden last friday so there are many changes at this point. She'll be starting in 1. grade this fall so my mothers heart is a littlebit broken :/ She's getting sooooo BIG!!!
And we will also be moving in the end of august / beginning of september and we are so happy because we are gonna have an extra room wich will be hobby room /office / guest room :D
So, finally I'll be able to organize my things, just the way I want to ;o)
Oh, and I just have to tell you... Last friday I ordered a small package from Papirloftet (online Norwegian scrapbooking store) and I just can't wait to get what I ordered and try it out!!!
The package contains 3 Magnolias, 1 set of Nestabilities and 3 different colours of pearl brads that I've had on my wishlist for months!!! I hope to recive it soon so I can start to do something fun with it :D
Well... I'm off to do some cooking for my hubby and daughter.

A weddingcard using Tilda with Love Rice

Hi everyone!!!

Well it's time for some more cards I think ;o)

My friend, Jónína, also asked me to make a weddingcard for her, she is attending a wedding in June and needed a card.

Well, I don't have any weddingstamps so I had a little problem on my hands. I checked out Papirloftet, a Norwegian online Scrapbookingstore, but they didn't have anything that I liked. So... I desided to go with the Magnolia stamp "Tilda with Love Rice" and it really came out quite well, I think!

The papers are from Bazzill and The Paper Company. Flowers are from Prima and the roses are from Papirloftet. I also used the Flower lace punch from Martha Stewart. I don't know where the charm is from, sorry. Tilda is coloured with waterpencils (but Copics are on my wishlist, that's for sure!). I also added Stickles glitter to the roses, Tilda's bow, apron, shoes, hearts in the basket and to the hearts she is throwing in the air.

Here is a close-up of the Stickles glitter, I overdoesed it with glitter!!! Wedding is all about the glitter, right???

Here is a close-up of the roses in the bottom right corner. They got some Stickles glitter as well.

Here we have a close-up of the flower/rose combination, charm and the "weddingday" stamp that has 3D cutions under.

Here we have more of a closup of the flower/rose combination and the charm. The rose has a Stickles glitter. I made a bow to fasten the charm in and glued it on.

Well, that's it for tonight.

Now, I'm just gonna lay back and relax. I've been over my head in the kitchen the last two days baking for my 30th birthday, that's TOMORROW!!!

I feel like I'm turning old... :o/

Graduation card, blog hop and a sketch from Friday Sketchers!!!

Hello everyone!!!
Well, here I am with my newest card :D
This one is made for my oldest and dearest friend of all, Jónína.
Her brother is gratuating soon as a carpenter (not finished with the workpart though, only school) and she asked me to make a card for him.
This card is made with the Friday Skechers sketch 101
That sketch was designed my dear Jacque and of course I had to participate!!!
This is a Magnolia image, Edwin with a balloon, papers are from Bazzill, Shabby princess and DCWV.
I also used my new Nestabilities classic oval circle and classic scalloped circle. I gave myself those two Nestabilities sets as a birthday present because I'm turning 30 on Sunday, May 16th!!! :O

Since the boy is graduating as a carpenter, I wanted to have some screws on the card because I felt it needed a connection to his gratuation. I tried to find a Magnolia Edwin which had a hammer in his hand, but didn't find one... So, this was the best thing I could do. The screws are from Tim Holtz (the small ones) and I think the large ones are from Making Memories.

Here is a close-up of the Nestabilities and Edwin. I desided to follow my favorite cardmakers advise, Jacque, to round the edges of the image a little bit for a dimension. This became so cute!!! I surely recommend it to anyone :D




The layer under the image and the Nestabilities are on 3D cusions for more dimensions.

I hope you liked my card. And I would love a comment or two and some more followers ;o)

Jacque's Blogaversary giveaway!!!

Please check out Jacque's blogaversary giveaway here on the right.
Jacque is one of my favorite cardmaker and she is celebrating 1 year of blogging!!!
And her giveaway is just AMAZING!!!

Some brand new cards :)

Hello everyone!!!

Hope you all had a great Easter last week, at least I did ;)

Here in southern Norway the weather today was just fantasic but I spent most of the day inside though, since I woke up last night with sore throat, cold, headache and coughing :o/

I did NOT find that amusing :@

Well, I've done some cards since last time and I'm actually kinda proud of them. They turned out really well I think. All the stamps are from Magnolia, the punches (both the butterfly and the borderpunch) are from Martha Stewart (my hubby gave them to me for christmas!!!), the papers are from Bazzill, Fancy Pants, Basic Grey and some others that I can't remember the names of (I know, I'm bad with names).

For the first two cards I used the sketch from last week over at Friday Sketchers #96 but I forgot to put them on the Internet before the due date.

Those 3 cards that are here below are made by Terry over at Sketch Saturday. Here is the link to their blog. I just loved the sketch and I'm pretty sure I'll use it again soon!!! It was just sooo much fun to work with :)

All those cards qualifyes for the Just Magnolia challenge this week, which is "punch it out", so I'll be entering them there as well.

Well, now I have get to the kitchen!!! It's my daugther's 6th birthday tomorrow and I have to decorate the cake!!! Have a nice weekend everyone.

A new card!!!

Hi again!
Yes, when I finally got around to do some cardmaking, I sure managed to do more than just one!!!
This one was supposed to be for a spring-challenge, but I didn't finish it in time... But here goes anyway. It doesn't show, but there is Stickles on the apron and the broom.