Yellow/black masculin card

As I promised on Tuesday, when I showed a card in traditional masculin colors & patterns, I have a card today with less tradtional ones. What about yellow and roses on a man's card?

Papers: AC (b/w stipey), Crate Papers (yellow w/roses). Moustache clip: Tiger. Cardstock, riobbon, button & twine: unknown

The design is from Feeling Sketchy's DT call sketch:

Close up of card:

What do you say - still masculin, even with yellow & roses?

Friends: Cliff, Guiness & I

Guess where we are, the hubby & I ?

Petterned papers: Basic Grey, Crate paper, unknown (green). Die Cuts: Glitz Designs, MME, AC, Ampersand & paper clip: Freckled Fawn. Alphas: Jilliebean Soup, Echo Park & Basic Grey. Beer stickers: Paper House. Camera brad: Eyelet outlet. Overlay &button: unknown

Yepp, that's correct: Dublin, Ireland. June 2014. You can't go to Dublin for the first time without visiting Guinness, the famous brewery!


I got the idea for this layout when I saw the October Challenge from Scrapfriends, three scrappers who cooperate about challenges - you can pick either one of them or combine two or three. I did all three.

Let's start with the sketch from Brenda:

I followed the sketch pretty close with just a few adjustments to make it my own.

Then Rochelle has a Tic-Tac-Toe board to inpire you:

I chose the horizontal line on top - here is some details to prove it :-)

Die cut & camera:

More die cuts & paper clip:

There are die cuts scttered all over this layout.

Finally, Kelly is throwing a word challenge

I picket the word Friends and used it as the title on my layout.


OK, Guinnes is a tourist trap, I knew it before we went there, but it was still interesting to see the beer making process! Do you visit tourist traps, too?

Arbeidsuke (work practise week) - The Paper Bakery Sketch #26

Two weeks ago DS14 had "work practise week" and he stayed with me to test what a construction engineer's week was like. He was with me on loooooong meetings, we were out on our construction sites, the marine ones, too, and he did one of the most important jobs on a Friday: operating the waffle maker to keep the staff happy :-)

Papers, stickers & chipboards: various The Paper Bakery Kits (featuring Studio Calico, Bella Blvd, AC)Studio. Alpha: Crate Paper. Washi & brads: Freckled Fawn. Brown stars: Pretty Little Studio. Buttons: Europris

In his opinion the best part was to be out on the sites and the worst part to get up at 6am - we usually start work at 7am :-)

Details:

Young man at work :-)

Brads, washi and stickers

I stll love using buttons

Lately I have challenged myself to use busy bacground papers instead of white cardstock or neutral ones. I'm happy how it turns out, even if the layouts get more busy.



I found the inspiration for the design from this fun sketch at The Paper Bakery:

I have stuck pretty close to the sketch's overall design except for replacing the half circles with squares and the trinagles with buttons. But you'll fin the triangles in other places on my layout!


Now tell me, how have you (scrap) challenged yourself lately?

Exterior Design - CSI Special case

This month, CSI has collaborated with the challenge site Archi-scraps and the image and clues are related to this:

Here is my take on it:

Patterned papers: Club Scrap (background), MME (teal), Simple Stories (red), LYB (red), Crate Paper (yellow).
Overlay: Freckled Fawn. Alpha: Basic Grey (white), AC (green). Houses & buttons: unknown. Paint: Panduro

Osterøy is an island on the west coast of Norway and the journaling says: "In older days, they had to use what was found in nature: rocks for the walls and juniper for the coverings"

Detail photo:

How I solved the case:
*Colors: all used
*Evidence: Stripes, decorative border, paint
*Testimony: Document something about architecture

You have until March 28th to play along, and the winner will earn a spot as a Special Investigater (guest designer). Do we see you?

Fur Ball (Chic Tags Feb. Sketch Challenge)

Background paper: Crate Paper. Alpha: Jillibean Soup. Twine: the twinery. All others: Chic Tags' february kit

Journaling says: "If her feet weren't black, it would be hard to tell what's up and down on Mercedes"

A close up photo on Mercedes, the cat - the fur ball:

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The Chick Tag kits might be designed for pocket scrapping, but I find them perfect for traditional scrapping, too. I cut the cards into pieces, or use just parts of them, to fit my style.

I found inspiration for this layout at the Chic Tags blog: February Sketch It Out:

I loved the blue/pink/grey color combo in their February kit, and it turned out the Crate Paper doilie paper was a perfect match. This was one of the papers I had laying around, thinking "how on earth am I going to use this". I just love when "impossible" papers turns out to be the perfect one.

Thank you for stopping by - you know I really appreciate it! Have a wonderful week!

The Studio Challenges: Scraplift yourself!

This week's challenge at The Studio Challenges:

Scrap lift yourself - take a layout that you loved that's at least a year old and scrap lift yourself!

Please include both your layouts!

I usually scrap with 7,5 * 10 cm photos, but I had this photo I wanted to be larger, 10*15 cm. So I browsed my 2012 layouts to see if I could find a design suited for a larger photo. I picked this layout made in September 2012:

Here is my new layout, featuring my youngest kid (laying in the snow) and his BF laughing about his big failure when attempting to do a trick with his snow toy:

Background paper: AC Dear Lizzy. Other papers: Lily Bee Designs, MME, Lemon Owl, Crate papers, Echo Park. Alpha: Fancy Pants Design. Epoxy stickers, metal clip, flair, wood flags, snowflake brad: Freckled Fawn. Buttons & fiber: unknown. Snowflake dies: LifestyleCrafts

Close up photos/details:

Please visit The Studio Challenges blog to see the rest of the DT's loveley examples and to play along!


Do you ever scraplift yourself (or others), btw?

I'm too sexy for my cat (CSI #107)

I've stolen the title from Right Said Fred's song:

Patterned papers: Lemon Owl. Hearts: Freckled Fawn. Flairs: The Paper Bakery, Cre8tive Cre8tions. Alphas: Webster's Pages, Cratepaper, Adornit. Ribbon: unknown

 A few close ups

Me in a winter storm earlier this month

I got the idea for this layout when I saw this week's case at  CSI:

How I solved the case:
*All colors used.
*Evidence: flair, hearts, long title
*Testimony: Compliments, inspiration words

Are you to sexy for your cat, too?

Memory Maze's Blog Hop

Welcome to the Memory Maze's first ever blog hop!!

If you didn't come from Sharm Nidyanandan's blog or you popped upon this blog and didn't realize we were blog hopping you need to go to the Memory Maze blog and start the HOP! 

You will need to comment on ALL of the blogs to be eligible for the prize. Plus some of our awesome designers are giving away a prize on their blogs as well. 

 Here's what you could win from Memory Maze.

The Winner will be announced at the Memory Maze blog on the 26th May !

Our theme for this blog hop is Technique, each of our wonderful design team members will show you how to decorate those chipboard pieces or create new chipboard pieces.

My contribution is to show how  to make skin structure to chipboard - I'm going to do it on a dinosaur chipboard.

Start with covering your chipboard with gesso or other paint.
This will prevent your chipboard from sucking ink/paint and
will give crisper colors

Paint or ink your chipboard in desired colors. I have used both
acrylic paint and ink (Ranger Distressing ink)

When paint/ink is dry, cover areas you want a skin structure
on with crackle paint i(t's easier to see the crackles at this photo 
 angel, even if it means colors are not)

To make the crackles more visible, paint over crackle paint with
acrylic paint when crackle paint has dried. While acrylic paint is
still wet, wipe off access paint with a baby wiper. Cover other
parts of chipboard with a glossy varnish for a more even surface.

When completely dried, mount painted chipboard on project.

Memory Maze Product used 

Dinosaur2

Other products: Patterned papers: Kaiser Kraft (Background), Studio Calico. Rubons: Basic Grey.

Alphas: Crate Paper (Scrabble), Basic Grey. Washi: Unknown

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To celebrate this blog hop, I feel like giving away a small prize, too. All you have to do to have a chance to win a card kit, is to be a follower of my blog, either by BlogLovin, NetworkedBlogs or Google Follower - see badges on the right hand, and to leave a comment on this post. Winner will be announced on the May 26th.

Our blog hop runs from today, Monday 20th May, invite your Friends to play along. You must comment on all the blogs for a chance at the Grand Prize. 

The Winner will be announced here on the 26th May, as well as on the Memory Maze blog!

The next stop on the blog hop is Victoria Freze, so pop on over and let them know what your favorite piece of Memory Maze chipboard is.

 Here is a list and order for our blog hop.

JuleneMathews
Kylie Symons
Susan Moy

AmandaLawrence

TraceyCampell

DonnaO'Leary

Lucy Ohanyan

Erin Reed

RebeccaMosher

SharmNidyanandan

Hilde Aaslund --- (You are here)

VictoriaFreze

Linda Thompson

Memory Maze Chipboard

Thank you for playing along with our first Blog Hop, we hope that you had fun and will be back to join in again.

The London Eye (A new The Studio Challenge is up!)

Hi!

Are you as much as a sketch fan as I am? In that case, check out this great sketch from The Studio Challenges, created by Valerie.

I used this sketch to make this page about the London Eye:

Petterned paper, washi & banners: Teresa Collins. Chipboard: Memory Maze. Flairs: The Paper Bakery
Alphas: Webster Pages (thin), Crate Paper (fat)

Closeup photos focusing on chipboard from the May sponsor Mamory Maze:

Chipboard painted with acrylic paint.

Inked chipboard words. Painted hipboard cogs

I took my family to London during the Easter break, and it was a wonderful trip, even if it was cold and without any signs of spring. I just love London, and have visited the city several times, but this is the first time with kids. And thay had a blast, too - there is so much to see and do in London. We visited the usual tourist traps as Madame Tussauds, the London Eye, the aquarium and Hamleys, but we did a lot of walking, too, and got to see a lot of known places: Big Ben, Trafalguar Squares, parks, Covent Garden etc etc. We only had four days, so we didn't reach every place worth seeing, but we're surely coming back. And beware of more London layouts in the future :-)


What do you say - do you want to play with us at The Studio Challenges, and maybe find out how to win a fabolous prize from the chipboard manufactorer Memory Maze? You have the entire month of May to do so. Welcome!

You'll never know if you don't try...

My youngest son, the 10 years old, is a very creative boy. He has tons if ideas, and is very DIY - and he has technical skills and the patience to try out what occupies his brains. The internet is a true source for getting clever ideas, like transforming an ordinary electronic fly killer to an electro shock baton - oh, was I happy for that one (insert ironic grin here), but he also wants to invent new, never seen or done before, creations.

Last summer he wanted to test out what happened if he attached an oversized A-framed wing to his bike. Would he jump longer with the wing on? Would he be able to fly if he run fast enough? He claims he jumped longer, but admits he never succeeded in taking off...

Patterned papers: AC, Lily Bee Designs, Studio Calico. Die Cuts: Crate Paper. Alpha: Jillibean Soup
Flairs: The Paper Bakery

I got the idea for the design of this layout when I saw Sketch #2 at The Paper Bakery blog. I have rotated the sketch to make it fit my three landscape oriented photos better, but except for that I have stayed pretty close to the sketch.


Did you notice the fun mix of papers and the lovely flairs? They are all from The Paper Bakery.I have been looking for a scrap kit club for a while - some times it's handy to grab coordinated papers and embellishments when you have an idea and don't want to spend time on putting it all together yourself. I have tried out a few clubs, but haven't been happy with them - either the kits weren't my style, they were over prized or had lousy customers services (or a combination of these three). Then I stumbled upon The Paper Bakery, put in an order as I fell in love with both their kits and the flairs, and so far I'm very happy with them. No, I'm not sponsored to promote them - I just wanted you to take part in my experience :-)