SOUS December 30th - SNOWFLAKES

This will be a short post, and my last post for this year! I can't believe that there is just one more day to go before we write 2012. I have not done much crafting the last week as we have had visitors, but I plan to make 2012 another crafty year. I finally got my cricut expression, so am so looking forward to lots of time spent creating :) (Thanks to hubby :)

The challenge this week is SNOWFLAKE. I have used the two different snowflakes on the Christmas cart to make the snowy sky in my layout. Picture is from  April 1st 2011. Last winter we had snow from october till April - it is a little milder this year, we did not get a white Chritmas, but now it is beautiful and snowy outside.

The beautiful background paper is by Maja Design, and then I have just used pearls together with the snowflakes and my Dymo for the journaling.

Make sure you visit the rest of the girls. 

You find them all at Stuck On U Sketches!

December 23d - SOUS sketch challenge

The days are obviously too busy - I am late again, but now the house is decorated and quite clean, I just have some more wrapping to do and then we are ready ( In Norway we celebrate Christmas Eve, so tomorrow is the big day). The christmas snow we got the other day is replaced by a rainy and stormy weather, but I am thinking that we will get the Christmas spririt anyway.

I went for a card this week too. Needed one more Christmas card, and the sketch was great for that too :)

Be sure to visit my teammates. You will find them all HERE.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!! 

SOUS December 16th - baking for the holidays

I am SO late with this post. I just realized this morning that it was friday already, and I had forgotten my blog post... I blame Christmas LOL
I will keep this short!

The challenge this time is Baking for the holidays. I really wanted a gingerbread man for my layout, but none of my carts had one, so I went for pictures with our annual gingerbread house instead. Pictures show Konstanse with the gingerbread house on demolition day. It is fun to decorate it, and it looks great as a decoration for christmas, but it is even better to break it and eat it hihi. I have used the house from Christmas solutions, and papers a misc. leftovers. Enjoy :)

Hope you will join the challenge and visit my teammates. Just pop by Stuck On U Sketches.

SOUS December 9th - a sketch by Sandi Clarkson

Happy friday to you all!! Hope you will take a break from your Christmas preparations to join our challenge at Stuck On U Sketches this week. We have a gorgeous sketch by our own Sandi Clarkson for you. Maybe you have another christmas card to make or maybe new christmas pictures of the kids - this sketch will be perfect for both.

That said - I did not go for anything christmassy on my project this week... I am making something for christmas for someone, and this is the start of it, but I don't know if (s)he comes around my blog, so I cannot tell you more ;)

My project is 8x8", so not an ordinary card. Have used this very cute couple from Magnolia, and I have colored them with distress ink - only Pumice stone. Papers are from Papirdesign and 3ndy Paper. Flowers are from Prima and the lace I have picked up from my favourite craft store TreL. 

Pearls re also from Papirdesign.

SOUS die cut challenge - CHRISTMAS TREE

It is December - one of my favourite months! This year I have done so much preperations beforehand, so I hope for a peaceful Advent with lots of joy, crafting and candles. It is dark most of the time now, so for me there is nothing better than making a great cup of tea, light some candles, listen to Christmas music and make something for Christmas. Hope I can inspire you to do the same.

The die cut challenge at Stuck On U Sketches this week is the Christmas tree. I know that a lot of my american friends have this up and lit already, but in Norway we don't usually decorate the tree till December 23d. Last year we spent at my parents house, and we got to cut our own tree. This year we are at home in Bodø, so we have to settle for a store bought one,  but I long as I can smell the needles on the tree I am happy!

My dad, husband and daughter with one of our trees from last year

Enough chatting and on to my card: I have used one of the Christmas trees from the Christmas solutions cart for my card. I love this swirly tree. there is a quite similar one on the Lyrical letters cart, but I think this is the more elegant one.

I found a tutorial for making the folding on my card HERE. Text is in norwegian, but I think you can understand it from the scheme (she uses metric measurings). I love these "wooden" papers from Papirdesign. They are from a collection from 2010, and can be used for every season. Pearls are also from the same producer. Not much going on on this card, but that is me LOL

Et par julekort til med "Julens gleder" - DT TreL

Det er på tide med enda litt fleire julekort. Her kjem eit par til med mønsterark frå papirdesign:

På det første kortet har eg brukt et stempel fra Nellie Snellen. Dette er clear stamps med utrulig skjønne motiv - meiner dette heiter "Falling star". Har fargelagt med distress ink.

Arka som er brukt er baksida på arket juletags (det med grantrærne) og baksida på Nissefar (anbefaler å kjøpe to av kvar av dei arka her, da begge sider er like flotte!!). Tagen med god jul er også fra juletags. Har også brukt kakeserviett og halvperler fra papirdesign - begge deler er å få hos TreL.

Her har eg brukt motiv fra et av Papirdesign sine klippeark. Mønsterakr er begge sider av arket "Julebukett" og tagen med julehilsen er fra baksia av arket "Pepperkaker" fra papirdesign jula 2010 og bling swirl er også fra Papirdesign :)

Takk for at du titter. Håper du koser deg med papir og lim i førjulstida!

Stine 

SOUS November 25th - sketch challenge

 It is time for a new challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches - this time with this wonderful sketch from Pagemaps.

I have had some problems with this post. As I am on vacation I had planned on using my phone to make my blogpost this week, but stupid blogwriter app just made empty posts and refused to upload my photo...I had taken a few other photos with the camera I brought with me, without photoshop I had a bit trouble cropping my photo. I finally gave up making it right - so sorry for the strange photo...

I made a simple layout out of the sketch. I love this photo, so did not want to have too much stuff going on around it (and symmetry and simplicity is me I guess LOL), but settled for the colors from his bathrobe and some bath bubbles. I have used a patterned paper from Bo Bunny. I cut a circle out of it and made a circle of liquid pearls around it. The frame around the title is  a spellbinders die, and the title is written with stickers from my stash. Buttons are also just from my store cupboard.

Glad you stopped by. Please take your time to visit us at Stuck On U Sketches, and if you are not a follower yet you are very welcome.

Hope you will have a great weekend. I am going to continue my knitting. So far this week I have made one hat and almost two pair of socks :)

Julepynt -DT TreL

Har enda litt ark igjen og har brukt litt rester og slikt til å lage litt julepynt. Fant maler i siste nummer av Magnolia Ink.

Artig å lage noko anna enn vanlige kort.

Aller først et lite julehus. Det er ca 5 cm høyt og ikkje store greiene, men feks passe

på eit juletre (her plassert på ein potteplante...)

Har brukt Bazill craft og baksida av arket Nissefar.

Taket er laga med Martha Stewart punchen Doily lace.

Døra er kutta ut med Cricut - Christmas,

og har fått julekrans av halvperler fra Papirdesign (mine nye favorittperler).

Det eine vinduet har fått blondegardin (TreL har utrulig masse fine blonder og bånd),

og på baksida er det bygd ein snømann (også fra Cricut - Gypsy wanderings).

Greina er stansa ut med ein punch fra McGill og pynta med halvperler.

Her er huset fra andre sida.

Stjerna er en brettemal fra samme bladet og er bretta av eit 12x12 ark (igjen bazill craft).

Har dekorert med arket Julekveld (begge sider).

Stempelet på framsida er frå Stempelglede og bakgrunnen er stansa ut med en spellbinders dies.

På baksida av arket har eg stansa ut engler fra arket Englebarn - enkelt og greit :)

 

Som sagt veldig morsomt å lage noko anna enn flate kort.

Har fortsatt juleting på lager klar til å legges ut, men bildene ville ikkje flytte seg over fra kameraet i går, så må prøve på nytt.

Massevis av  lekre juleark hos TreL no, så ta turen innom enten på nett eller i Storgata i Bodø :)

SOUS 11.11.11 - Sketch challenge

It is time for a new sketch challenge at Stuck On U Sketches - this time a sketch by Nanné Harry.

I really dreaded this sketch and postponed my start on it for a very long time because there were so much stuff on it, but when I started it was so easy to use.

I have used pictures of my little boy from his Christening. He is so cute in the dress my Mother in Law made. Papers are from one of my favourites - the norwegian producer Papirdesign, and I have used flowers from Prima and flowers and lace from my local craft store.

Thank you for coming by, and please visit my fellow DT-members at SOUS.

Sketch saturday #180 - bursdagskort til niese

Det er lenge sidan eg hr deltatt hos Sketch Saturday, så tenkte det var på tide igjen. Hadde et kort å lage til niesa vår, og da passer det alltid godt med ei skisse. Vart eit kjapt kort med stempel fra Stampin' Bella og papirer fra Prima, og så fekk eg endelig brukt sommerfuglpunche min fra Martha Stewart :) Den og den fine blonden er kjøpt hos TreL :)

I finally found time to participate at Sketch Saturday again. Stamp from Stampin' Bella, and papers from Prima. Butterflies are a punch from Martha Stewart.

SOUS die cut challenge - LEAF

I am so sorry I am so terribly late with my post this week. It has been a busy weekend!

It will also be a short post, because I want to get back to my papers in the basement. Lots of projects going on that will appear on my blog soon I hope :)

There are some projects that you never really like, and this was one for me. I like some elements of it (the stamped image painted and then sprayed with mist, and I like the text stamp part. I also like the leaves I have used very much (from Gypsy wanderings), but I still don't like the card. 

So no need for a big drum roll - but here is my card:

I think my papers are from Sassafrass, but am not quite sure. I love them thoug. The leaves are as mentioned earlier from Gypsy wanderings, and the die cut circle and the text frame are Spellbinders. Rhinestones are from imaginisce.

Hope you take your time to visit the SOUS blog and the other designers. There are lots of wonderful projects this week too!

SOUS October 28th

We have another sketch for you over at Stuck On U Sketches today - this week designed by Leah. 

 I have wanted to do something with these pictures for a long time, and finally!!!

I don't have much to say about it. Patterned papers are from Maja design, and the little red flowers and the pearls are from Papirdesign. I have also used a punch from Martha STewart for the edges.

The letters are some felt letters I have had for a long time 

(BTW - Julegaver =  Christmas presents)

I have once again chosen a Tilda stamp from Magnolia as embellishment for my LO.

Isn't she cute??!

Hope you will take your time to visit my fellow designers. You find them all at Stuck On U Sketches.

SOUS die cut challenge - FENCE

It is finally friday and time for a new challenge over  at Stuck On U Sketches - this week it is another die cut challenge. You can use any die cut machine and even use a store bought die cut, and this week we want to see a FENCE on your project!

I started my project intending to make a christmas card, 

but suddenly I had turned it in to a layout of my daughter... 

I have used the fence from Every Day Paper Dolls, cut it three times and layered it for a chipboard look. I used bazill bling silver cardstock and also used some copper ink and silver ink to give it some patina. Did the same thing to my lamp post which is a cut from the Christmas cartridge.

I sprayed my white cardstock with blue glimmer mist and made a journaling spot using a spellbinders die as a mask,  and some distress ink. The patterned paper is from swedish Magnolia, as is the stamped girl image. For the flowers on the left a killed a holly branch from Magnolia (the leaves just did not fit...). I have also used some randomly placed blue pearls for embellishment. 

Hope you take your time to visit my fellow designers at Stuck On U Sketches, 

and to join us in our challenge!!!

SOUS October 14th

It is friday and time for a new challenge at Stuck On U Sketches! This week we have an original sketch made for SOUS by Leah.

I don't suppose that you have ever heard of Captain Sabertooth. He is immensely popular with norwegian children, and this summer we went to see him. Konstanse joined her cousins at the late night show, and this is them dressed in proper costumes for the occasion!

I have borrowed Konstanse's cuttlekids dies for embellishments - the chest, the scull and the swords. And another cuttlebug dies for the pirat's flag and the ship. 

The treasure in the lower right corner are buttons. 

Hope you will try out our sketch this week. You have two weeks to enter :)

Julens gleder - DT TreL

Det har vore fult av julestemning i kjelleren min i det siste, og eg har fått brukt endå meir av dei nydelege julearka til Papirdesign

Først ein LO med arka Hjerterad og Nissefar. Har også brukt ein tag fra arket juletags.

Har også laga to julekort, begge med motiv fra klippearket Julebilder fra Papirdesign.

På det første har eg brukt baksidene på Englebarn og Nissefar. Har også brukt "Julehilsen" fra Juletags.

På det andre kortet har eg brukt arket Julebukett, framside og bakside. Har også igjen brukt Julehilsen fra arket Juetags. Fuglane er også klipt ut av dette arket.

Håper du har fått litt juleispirasjon! Alt står hos TreL i Storgata om du holder til i dette området :)

Klem Stine

SOUS October 7th - A christmas card

Time for a new die cut challenge at Stuck On U Sketches!! and this week the challenge is TREE!

I love these challenges. Each time I find myself discovering cuts that I have not noticed before. I got the Christmas solutions cart when I got my Gypsy, and I love the cuts on this one. I had not noticed the trees on this one till I searched for something else, but these were perfect for a winter scene for a christmas card, and they suited my Edwin stamp perfectly!!

Edwin is painted with distress inks. If you have not seen my tutorial on how I do this, you will find it HERE.

have not used much more embellishments on this card. The papers are from my scraps and are from Daisy D., the snowfalke/star die is from Marianne Design and the text stamp I do not remember where I got (it is one of my first stamps).

Hope to see you participate at Stuck on U Sketches. We have another great prize for the month of October, and please go check out my team members tree projects :)

Juleanheng - DT TreL.no

Trudde eg hadde lagt ut dette i egen blogg også, men er tok eg visst feil :)

Fikk en bunke nydelige juleark fra Papirdesign - Julens gleder. Det første eg har laga er et juleanheng til å pynte opp med til jul. Har brukt dei to arka Englebarn og julebukett - på begge ark har eg brukt baksida. Rødt og brunt er en av mine favorittkombinasjoner til jul, så desse arka er berre heilt perfekte! Det oser rett og slett jul av dei :)

Har pynta med en liten kakeserviett, ei julestjerne eg hr hatt liggande i evigheter samt små raude blomster som også er fra papirdesign. Greinene er stansa ut med punch.

Dei små stjernene er en die fra Marianne Design som også er å få hos TreL.no, og perlene er fra Kaiser kraft.

Stempela er frå mi eiga samling og er fargelagt med distress ink refiller - hovudsakleg aged mahognany, walnut stain og pumice stone.  

Dei største panelet måler 9x8" og det minste er ca 7,5x5"

Takk for at du titter!

Ønsker du å sjå nærmere på det er det berre å ta turen innom butikken i Storgata :)

Klem Stine

SOUS - September 30th - "you are so big"

Happy friday!! It is time for a new sketch challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches, and the last chance for a chance to win the give away for this month. This week we have a sketch with room for several photos, and I loved working with it. The sketch looked kind of girly to me, but I wanted to do boy photos, so there are a little less flowers on my take on it :)

My layout is about my little boy who is growing up so fast (OK - he is only two, but too me he was just a  baby...). I have used a patterned paper in the background from Cosmo cricket, the flowers are from Prima, and the clock is cut from the flowers packaging (recycling!!). The brads I have had or ages, and the alpha stickers I think are Making Memories :) Not much more going on on this one, but Peter was happy (as his sister he loves looking through the albums with the pictures of "the baby").

SOUS September 23d

Hi everyone! So sorry I am late with my post this week. It is time for a new die cut challenge at Stuck On U Sketches, and this time the shape is HEART. I had a wedding card to make - how perfect!!

This is my take on the challenge using the scalloped heart from Doodlecharms.

This is me trying to force the card to lie flat on the table

I have used papers from Basic grey and some prima flowers in addition to my heart. Have also used some pearls from Kaiser Craft and a cake doily.

The card is a tri-shutter card. Easy to make and looks great. No need for much embellishments as the card is decorative enough on its own. 

Card standig up

Hope you will take the time to visit the SOUS-blog and hopefully join our challenge. There is still a prize up for participants in September so try it out :)

SOUS september 16th

Friday again and another sketch over at SOUS!

This week we have a gorgeous sketch by Alda Stevens at the Flying Unicorn.

I found this wonerful picture of my children. Love the look on their faces in this photo! I printet the photo in B/W on bazill canvas. Loved how that turned out!

Supplies I have used:

Petterned papers: Maja design and 7gypsies and a page from a book.

The clock is from a Bo Bunny journaling pad.

Flowers are Prima and paper roses from papirloftet and TreL and the lace is from papirloftet.

The little doily I found at my parents house, and the angel wings is from Panduro Hobby.

Title is cut three times with the cricut cart "Stamped" and layered for a "chipboard feel". i then stamped it with a text stamp from pink Paislee. the stamp in the lower right blue corner is also pink paislee.

Thanks for dropping by today. be sure to visit Stuck On U Sketches and the other designer's blogs.

It is friday and time for another SOUS die cut challenge! I have realized that summer is over this year, but am very happy to start a new season  - hopefully with lots of crafting time.  

The theme for this weeks die cut challenge is FLOWER. I have made a wall/door hanging for my daughter. She turns five the coming sunday, so this will be her card for this year.

I have used one of my favourite tilda stamps from Magnolia for this (from the fairy tale collection). She is so cute and dreamy - just like my DD :) Tilda is colored in distress inks. Papers are from inkido and Papirdesign. I have also used some stamping in the background along the sides (stamps from pink paislee). And then for my die cut flowers. I made a rosette for the top of my ribbon using my Storybook cart . Made two in different sizes and colors and layered them. The two other flowers are a die cut from Marianne design, cut on my cuttlebug. Have also cut her name with the storybook cart and the little bird is also a die from Marianne design. Other things I have used is liquid pearls, some paper roses and a cute little cake doily. Hope you like it :)

There is by the way something I forgot to mention last week. Alda Stevens at the Flying Unicorn Store have donated a give-away for us for september. We will be selecting a winner from all the participants in this month's challenges. The more you play, the more chances you have to win. Here is a picture of it, so come join for a chance to win :)

SOUS september 2nd

I am actually writing this post about 36000 feet above Paris (Love the inflight wi fi...) Having spent the weekdays in Barcelona, I am now very much looking forward to getting home to the kids. Home sweet home!!

This is what I made with the sketch Sandi has made for us this week. I have used papers from Melissa Frances, some gorgeous Prima flowers, and stamps from stempelglede and pink paislee. The die cut swirl is from Marianne design, and the tag is a doo hickey from Magnolia. Thanks for looking, and I hope u will koin the challenge :)

SOUS August 26th - a door sign for Peter - and a winner for my (one month old) give away

Happy weekend everyone. I am so sorry I am late with my SOUS blog post for this week, but here it is :) It will be a short post as my inlaws are here and I also need to prepare for my trip to Barcelona this week (mon till fri - so excited). I have also found a winner for my little give away on the blog hop in july, but you will have to wait till the end of the post for that ;)

This weeks challenged called for a project with something you see in the sky. I have wanted to make a door sign for my son's room, for a while and this was perfect for it:

Cuts I have used for this is:

Every day paper dolls: Space sip and the little aliens

Indy Art: the flame

Hello Kitty font (round) and lyrical letters for the text.

I started with painting a piece of wood with acrylic paint. I used decoupage glue to attach the patterned paper and later the letters and die cuts. Now I just need to find a good way to attach this to his door...

Now to the give away :) I wanted to include something made in Norway, so I choose this cool stamp by "Papirdesign" - great for boy cards. I also found some really cute cake doilies, and for a third little thing I picked out this cute little rub on alphabet from doodlebug design (I needed to keep this small as it will be traveling far...) First a picture:

Then a drumroll....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:

And the winner is the 7th comment which was from

Fern Riley

Congratulations :)

Send me a mail with your address (you have my mail address I believe) and I will send it to you!

SOUS 12. august - Playing with my new tractor

Welcome to the new die cut challenge at SOUS. Hope you stop by there to see all the new details if you did not come from there. The first challenge has the title "Play". You can use any cut from any cricut cartridge or any other die cut machine, but you need to make something that has to do with playing.

I have made a layout of my son and his toy tractor. It is a different kind of layout. Inspired by the norwegian scrapper Brit:

Cuts I have used (if I remember it correctly...):

Every Day Paper Dolls: Trees, barn, hens, pigs, tractor, sun and skies

Pooh and Friends: Fence, sign and grass.

Hope you liked my layout. Loved making it :)

PS! I am sorry but I have not yet had the time to find a winner 

for my give away... I have NOT forgotten. 

SOUS August 5th - A wedding card

First of all - thanks so much for all the wonderful comments from last week. I love blog hops. So many new acquaintances to visit (have not been around yet as I have been offline for almost a week but will visit you all during this weekend, and will draw a give away winner :)

Today on Stuck On U Sketches we have a beautiful sketch for you by our own Leah Schaeffer. I had too many things to do before I left for vacation, so I combined some tasks I needed to do and made a wedding card from this sketch:

Papers I have used are again scandinavian. The paper in the background is from the wedding collection from Papirdesign and the text on the paper is from 1 Corinthians 13 (in norwegian...). The pink paper is from swedish inkido.

Have used the combo grey and pink, with pink and grey flowers, pearls from Kaiser craft and liquid pearls in a grey tone color (do not remember which...). Have also colored my stamp from Magnolia in just Pumice stone to make a more vintage (B&W) feel to it.

On the inside I have used the backside of the text paper from the front page. I also cut out a piece with the closing phrase from the bible verse ("and now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love"). Stamp on my "greeting tag" is from pink paislee (butterfly garden). 

On the backside I have used my personal stamp for decoration :)

Hope everyone is having a great summer. I am on vacation and are knitting and reading instead of scrapping, but hope you will have time to join our challenge at SOUS, and visit the rest of the team. Especially to welcome Jane Stirling :)

Summer Mini Album Blog Hop

Welcome and thank you all for stopping by today..

You should of arrived here from Sandi Clarkson at Soft side of Sandi. If you are here by chance you should start at Stuck on U Sketches, so you will be able follow the entire hop.

This is my summer mini album that I have created with a chipboard house album from Creative Cuts and More (picture heavy - supply list under each pic):

Front of album. This album contains pictures from my in-laws cabin in northern Norway from the summer of 2007.  

The whole album is quite simple. Have used mostly scraps for my papers,  so I do not have much information about them. Here I have used sticker letters and two of my retro flower punches and some pearls.

Flowers are byPrima, the little swirl on top is a die cut from Marianne design, misc. buttons.

The frame around the picture is a chipboard frame from Creative cuts and more. Papers are fancy pants (the one I dressed the frame with) and Maja design. Flowers are Prima.

Tag is a die cut from Magnolia, flower is Prima and the paper is from Panduro hobby.

All die cuts are from Marianne design (text is cricut OA),  papers are  Maja design. (I took picture of about 20 different cloudberries this summer - the essence of northern Norway)

The midnight sun - view from the cabin. Not easy to capture, but I love trying.

Beach life. Flowers are Prima, and the frame around the foot in the sand is  once again a chip board frame from Creative cuts and more dressed in patterned paper.

Me catching cod...

Papers from MME and bright orange thickers. Boat ride to Lofoten.

The last page mirrors the front page. The green paper is from Nicki Sivils.

We have been sponsored this amazing blog candy by Creative Cuts and More so stop by SOUS after the hop. And for those of you who leave a comment here - you will be in the drawing for a surprise package from Norway :) (I will draw a winner when I am back online at the end of next week)

Thank you again for stopping by and taking a look at my mini album, i hope it has inspired you to want to make one of your own....

Your next stop will be Wanda Boardly aka Magic Wanda, and don't forget to leave some love..