SOUS - May 27th

Time for another challenge at Stuck On U Sketches, and for the second time this month we have a beautiful sketch by our own Ness Waller:

My DD will turn five this september, but here she is hardly a month old, together with her grandmother, my mother. Title means "proud grandma". Konstanse was her first grandchild, and she was very proud :)

Papes I have used are from MME and Imaginisce (both are backsides if I remember it correctly). I have also used a small paper doily in the background.

On this layout I have been inspired by my teammate Leah and have used embossing a lot, both dry embossing and heat embossing. Have not used my heat gun in years, but right now I am loving it and need to buy more embossing powder. The bird stamp from Inque Boutique are heat embossed with a dark red powder, so is the swirl from the same collection from Inque Boutique.

In the background you can see that I have used my Cuttlebug and the swiss dot folder, and afterwards inked it with distress inks.

Title are brown felt letters. 

Have also used a small felt frame around the text here that is a rub on.

Not much more to tell you about this. Hope you will join in on our challenge. Remember, there is a prize up this month. Also hope you have checked out my tutorial last week - coloring with ditress ink.

Noken konfirmasjonskort

Har laga litt konfirmasjonskort dei siste vekene.

Først et lilla kort med stempel fra Magnolia og papirer fra Fancy Pants og 7 gypsies. Har også brukt ei gammel bokside, en liten kakeserviett og en del halvperler. Alle paneler er rufsa med kantskrape fra Tim Holz og sydd fast med symaskin. Stempeltrykk er fargelagt med distress ink.

Dei to neste korta har begge stempel fra Whiff of Joy og papirer fra Maja Design. Også her er alle panel sydd på med symaskin. Har brukt et par die cuts fra Cricut Indy Art (fugl og sommerfugl). Blomster er fra Prima og fra papirloftet

Tekstempel på alle tre korta er fra Papirdesign si konfirmasjonsplate.

GOD HELG!!

Gratulerer med vel overstått nasjonaldag!

Det har vore en lang og begivenhetsrik dag for både små og store, med barnehagetog, tivoli, leikar , kaker is og brus i barnehagen og seinere borgertog. Værgudane slo til med sol og varme på formiddagen, og regndråpane på ettermiddagen var så spredd at dei regner vi ikkje med :)

Her er et lite bile av våre to små festpynta og klare for dagen i dag tidleg. Dei var ikkje like reine og fine då dagen var omme... Håper alle ha hatt ein fin 17. mai :)

SOUS May 13th - Love is in the air

This post is a little late, I know, but as Blogger did not work thursday evening and most of friday this was my first chance to do this. 

This week we have a fabulous sketch by our own Vanessa (Ness).  She makes amazing sketches with lots of detail and have made both of our May sketches for us! Ness and her store, Scrap with V has also donated a great prize for our participants in May. 

You can see all about in on the SOUS-blog. 

I do not have many pictures to show you I am afraid. Seems like I have been a bit too lazy picturewise this week, but here it is:

Another picture from our honeymoon - chilling in the park in front of the Eiffel tower. Have used bazill cardstock as a base (I always do by the way...) and some blue and green patterned paper from MME (Bohemia? I inherited these from a friend so not quite sure). The title is stickers from my drawer of misc. stuff. Have also used part of a paper doily as frame for the journaling (leftovers from my last LO), a heart punch from EK Success and some prima flowers. 

Nothing more to say tonight. Will enjoy my glass of wine and Nicolas Cage on TV.

Hope you will enjoy our challenge at Stuck on U Sketches!

SOUS - April 29th - Honeymoon in Paris

It is time for a new challenge over at Stuck On U Sketches. This week we have for you a sketch from Page Maps. Hope you will take the time to drop by to see all the different takes on the sketch from the Design Team.

I have finally started my wedding and honeymoon album (we got married in august 2005). We got a surprising wedding gift from the in laws introduced during dinner - a trip to Paris the following weekend. A wonderful trip to a wonderful city! 

Have used some misc. unmarked patterned papers from my stash. The embellishments and the letters I also found in my drawer of stuff... 

Around and under the title I have used parts of a doily (cut out the middle and the outer frame). 

Hope you will join us for this challenge! Remember you have two weeks to enter :)

SOUS - April 15th - Friends and Princesses

Since my last post I am finally happy to announce that spring is here!!! Yuhuuu! Not exactly warm, but at least the snow is gone :) Here is a picture from today of my kids in their new sweaters and hats that their grandmother have knitted. 

The kids with new sweaters and hats!

I am a terrible blogger. I even have several cards and two layouts that I have not posted from the last weeks, but I never seem to find the time. Will try to post some more the coming week though, as I have taken the next one and a half week off for the Easter holidays, and we are driving south to my parents house tomorrow (1137 km...) 

Enough chit chat though. I have a cute cute layout to show you this time. A picture taken of my daughter and her two friends a couple of months ago. The girl in the middle turned five, and she had a dress up birthday party, and of course all the girls came as princesses... (here you can see Cinderella, Tiana and Aurora). 

My daughter as Cinderella, and her two friends Tiana and Aurora :)

The sketch for our challenge at Stuck On U Sketches this week is by Liz Qualman. It is quite simple, so you can easily adapt it to your own style and theme. I chose the sweet and romantic style with soft colors, flowers and butterflies to match the cute princesses dresses. The title is partly a piece of chipboard, that I painted in a soft pink color, for the norwegian word for Friends (Venner), and Gypsy Font welded for the subtitle. I have also used my cricut and Indy arts for the pink and blue bird in the upper left corner of the photo, and Every Day Paperdolls for three butterflies in three different colors, pink, blue and green (that I later covered with diamond stickles). The flowers are from Prima and Papirloftet, and the leaves are made with a Nellie Snellen punch. 

On the other side of the picture I have used these beautiful bling brads from Papirloftet (my favourite norwegian online scrapbooking store) in the same colors as the girls dresses again.

I have tried using embellishments in the same colors
as the girls dresses.

Now it is time for bed. Make sure you stop by SOUS to see the creations from my team mates, and join our challenge. Remember you have two weeks to enter!

Happy Easter :)

SOUS - April 1st - Christmas 2008

This is what April Fools Day looks like at my house, and I am sad to say that this is no prank. Spring will be very welcome this year!!

Peter with what will hopefully be one of the last snowmen this year...

This week we offer for you a beautiful sketch by Beggahuna. I noticed that Nanné wrote on the SOUS-blog today that the sketch ahd spring written all over it. That might be, but I still chose a christmas picture. A family picture from our last christmas with only one child.

My wonderful husband, my daughter and me.

Papers I have used are mainly from one of my favourite producers, the swedish Maja design, but the music sheet is from 7gypsies. The title is cut from Cricut Blackletter - Got it with my Gypsy, and have fallen in love with it for Christmas projects!

Gorgeous Prima flower

Did no want to add much to the layout (I like it simple), but made a circle of pearls, and added this beautiful christmas vine from Prima.

Not much more to write about today. 

Hope to see you at SOUS.

And I continue to wish for warmer weather.