The empty cage

Ouch - I have obviously been slacking on blogging my creations again - It's so easy to just put them up on FB, and forget about the blog. But I promise, the baby cards I promised you in my previous post, will be up on Tuesday!

Last monday we put our old cocker spaniel Scoobie down, and her crate is now empty:

Papers: Doodlebug Designs. Black stickers: Authentic. Other stickers: Doodlebug Designs. Alpha: American Crafts.
Cocker Chipboard: Memory Maze

The house is empty - you know the small details like her begging for food or cuddling, barking when the door bell rings etc etc. But I admit I don't miss all the fur around!


Close ups

My English Cocker Spaniel didn't have a cut tail, but I still find this chipboard so adorable (Memory Maze)

I still can't let be drawing on my pages - iit seems to have become my signature :-)

The design for the layout is taken from the March sketch at Scrapping Clearly:

I flipped it to fit my photo, but bisides from that stuck pretty close to the sketch.

Thank you for popping by, and please come back as I have more pages to show you!

Life is a balance....

Do you have photos laying around you want to scrap, or stories you want to tell, and you have no ideas to start? I have had this photo from FIL's funural in August on my desk forever, and I knew what I wanted to say, but I never knew how to scrap it. Then this mood board from Scrap Around The World (SATW) gave me the inspiration I needed:

My FIL was very sick the last months before he died, and it was hard to see him just fade away. For the last weeks we debated almost every day: how long to hold on, and to what, and when to let go?

My FIL was very important to us and the images in the mood board pefect for my theme: he hold the keys to our hearts, the clock was ticking, and there was lots and lots of flowers in the funural. I let the saying in the board be the title of my layout, and as it was the essense of what I tried to express, I framed it and let it be th focal point.

Papers: Websters Pages. Frame:Memory Maze. Flowers: Prima. Cut files: Silhouette studio. Trim, key & pearls: unknown 

Details:

Thank you SATW for the inspiration to scrap this photo and memory!

Every photo has a story to tell (The Studio Challenges)

Hi!

This month we have this fun tic tac toe challenge for you at The Studio Challenges:

I picked one of the diagonals: Hot pink, chipboard and three kinds of alphas:

Background paper: Studio Calico. Other papers: MME, Lemon Owl. Amy Tangerine. Overlay: Fancy Pants. Chipboard: Memory Maze, Imaginarium Designs. Fabric "badge" Charms Creations. Alphas: Fancy Pants, Basic Grey, Echo park

Every photo has a story to tell - but it might not be the obvious one. I bet you are sure the journaling is about our kitten riding with my son, but it's not *lol*. Title/journaling says: " Every picture has a story to tell - like that 2014 was the year M decided he no longer would wear regular t-shirts, shirts with collars only, and that Polo Ralph Lauren was the only desent brand". He has become such a snob - sigh.

Drtails

Please head over to The Studio Challenges blog to see how the rest of the DT solved the challenge, to play along and to see how you can win i prize from this month's sponsor:

Love you - not! (The Paper Bakery Sketch #25)

My boys are 11 and 14 years old. Normally they are the best friend, but it's coming more visible that there is an age difference: there is one teenager, and one teenager wannabe and they are going on each other's nerves sometimes. Mostly it's about calling each other, but on occations they get into physical fights (sounds familiar?):

Patterned papers: MME, October Afternoon. Wood pieces & epoxy arrows: Freckled fawn. Brads & enamel dots: MME. Cut outs: Chic Tags. Flair: The Paper Bakery. Chipboars: Imaginarium Designs (Love You), Memory Maze (call out). Alpha: Basic Grey

 Details:

The papers are a true mix of left over papers from previous The Paper Bakery kits - I love how well they worked together, even if from different manufactorers !


I found the design for this layout at The Paper Bakery, sketch #25:

As my background paper had plenty of circles, I chose to substitute the circles in the sketch with smaller items as wood hearts and enamel dots, and I sprinkled them over other parts of the layout too, to balance it better.


Hands down - do your kids fight, too, or is only mine?

Happy new year!

Happy new year, scrapping and card making friends all over the world!

 

I want to thank you all for visiting my blog over the past year - it really means a lot to me that you pop in! Thanks again!

Papers: Lemon Owl (white w/print), LYB (grey/teal). Chipboard: Memory Maze. Stars: Freckled Fawn

One of my friends wasn't home for the holiday season, so I found it better to send her, and her family a Happy New Year card (Hi, Petra, this card is on the way to your house by snail mail :-) ).

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I found isnpiration to this card when I saw this fun challenge at CAS-ual Fridays:

For this special challenge CAS-ual Fridays has teamed up with 10 Minute Craft Dash, and I challenged myself to make a card in less than ten minutes. And I made it :-)

 

The stars were my starting point, and I knew I had perfect papers in my pile of stash, so I spent less than ten minutes, including collecting my supplies:

 

*Gathering supplies etc: 2 min 35 sec

*Inking chipboard: 30 sec

*Cutting, folding & gluing papers & silver tape: 2 min 10 sec

*Mounting chipboards & stars: 2 min 50 sec

*Drawing frame: 25 sec

 

Total: 8 min 30 sec. Not bad!

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Again - I wish you all a Happy New Year!

Are you as excited as I am about seeing what the new one will bring?

A card - just for fun!

OK, that's not completely true - I got an order from one of my frequent (card) customers, a young carpenter at work - he wanted a card for his MIL who turns 50 this weekend. He gave me pretty free hands to make whatever I wanted, so I made this:

Patterned papers: Webster's Pages (green dotted pp: MME). "What's up": Studio Calico.
Flowers, Pearls: Petaloo. Chipboard: Memory Maze. Numbers: AC. Pebble: Prima
Ribbon: Unknown. Dies: LifestyleCrafts

 Details:

My customer was thrilled when he saw the card, and said he couldn't wait to show it to his wife and give it to his mum. What a lovely feed back.

Do you make Cards for other People, or just for Your own use?

Mountain Flora

You may have noticed that Memory Maze provide you with chipboards in almost any size - from itty bitty micro ones, to large 12"*12". In my July post at the Memory Maze Blog I focus on how to use 6"*6" chipboards and how you can cut them apart to fit your project better.

All materials except chipboard (Memory Maze) and alpha (Simple Stories): Websters Pages

In my part of the world (Norway) it's summer and the kids are in the middel of their long vacation. We, the adults, don't have as much time off as they do during this period, but we try to use the weekends too, for having some fun together. Four weeks ago I brought my family up in the mountains, and here it was still quite chilly and you could find spots of snow. But if you looked closely you would find tiny little flowers even here, and some of them are just adorable (this is what my journaling says, too).

I have cut both a large Doily Chipboard and a Vintage Mirror Chipboard into two. I placed the doily pieces on top and bottom of my page and tucked the Mirror pieces behind my photo and other embellies. To find the chipboard's product description, please visit the Memory Maze Blog Post.

I will be back next week with more ideas on how to cut chipboards, so stay tuned. Do you cut yours, btw?

Memory Maze May work + blog hop winner

Hello.

A week ago it was my turn to share ideas on how to use useboards on the Memory Maze blog. This time I focused on how to you small items/ATC sized chipboards on different creations. If you want to read the entire article, please visit my post at the Memory Maze blog, but here is the short version:


I started by making these three 2,5"x3,5" pieces.

The first one is used on an ATC (You find all the product information on the Memory Maze blog post):

Chipboard: Memory Maze. Stamps: Kaizer Kraft, Teresa Collins Stamp Maker
Alpha: Adornit: Paint: Parma. Ink: Ranger. Pen: Zig

The second is used on a card:

Chipboard: Memory Maze. Patterned Paper: AC. Alpha: Crate Paper
Pearls: Inkido

The third one is used on a layout (There is a lot of white-tailed deers where I live. As my gardens is fenced, just a low fence so my dogs can run free in it, they usually don't visit us. Spring this year must have been tought on the deers with lots of ice on the ground, making it hard to find anything eat, becuase they decided to pay my garden a visit - and they ate the pancies I had on a table next to the kitchen window).

Chipboard: Memory Maze. Patterned Paper: Harmonie. Bling: Petaloo.  Ribbon: AC. Cheesecloth: unknown

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Memory Maze blog hop winner

Thanks to everyone who played along with our first ever blog hop for Memory Maze. And thank you also for all the lovely comments and for joining my blog. Without further ado the randomly chosen winner of my blog hop is................Tone-Lill Angelsgård. Congratulations Tone-Lill - please email me your address (see the right hand bar) so that I can ship you your prize ~ a card kit.

The Studio Challenges - The Five Things Only Challenge

Hi!

If you are looking for the Memory Maze Blog Hop post, please scroll further down or go here.

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The Studio Challenges never run out of ideas to get your mojo kicking and keeps providing you with clever inputs on where to start your creations. Some challenges have techniques as a suggestion for a starting point, others colors or sketches, some are recipe challenges etc etc. This week we have a Five Things Only challenge for you. Yepp, that's right: Five things only (+ cardstock, pens etc) :-) See details on the TSC blog.

Patterned papers: DCWV, DaisyD. Alpha: DCWV. Chipboards: Memory Maze. Twine: Unknown

I have used these five ingrediences + cardstock &alpha:

• Two different patterned papers - one of could be cut into different colored blocks
• Two chipboards, one globe and one polaroid frame
• Twine

DS10 in Stanstead Airport on our way home from London this Easter Break.
We don't have any Starbucks near us at home, so we took advatage of the one
at the Stanstead Airport :-)

Memory Maze is this month's sponsor and I have chosen to use two of their chipboards on my layout.

Please head over to to the The Studio Challenges to see the rest of the DT's fabulous examples and to find out how to play along and how to win a lovely prize pack from Memory Maze. You have the rest of May to play with both this challenge and our May Sketch Challenge.

Got Wheels (CSI Case File #71)

Earlier this spring my oldest son said he NEVER would buy a scooter - according to him scooters are dead boring. But his younger brother bought one, the oldest want tried it out - and now he wants one, too. What a shame he has spent all his savings on computer games....




Background paper: Lemon Owl. Other papers: Studio Calico, Kaiser Kraft. Washi: Teresa Collins.
 Chipboard: Memory Maze. Wood weeners: Studio Calico. Alpha: Webster Pages (grey), Sassafras Lass (red).
Pens: Zig. Flair: AC

 Some detail photos:

This layout is my take on CSI Case File#71:

How I solved the case:

All colors & sketch is used.
Evidence: Bicycle, doodling, bird (on flair)
Testimony: Add hearts to your journaling spot


Don't you love this challenge/case file??

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!

Card sized chipboard phrases are perfect for...

cards....!!!

 

The most obvious way to use card sized phrases is on... cards! *lol*

These two cards are super easy to make, all you really need is a few pieces of scrap paper, card sized chipboard phrases and some second small embellishments. Just by changing the color cheme, you easily make both masculine and feminin cards.

 

 

All materials except chipboard: Studio Calicio March Card Kit
Chipboard phrase: Memory Maze



I have painted the chipboard phrases with acrylic paint (shhh, don't tell the hubby, but I "borrowed" some from the man cave - I think he uses it for decorationg RC car bodies) - very, very easy - and the paint dries fast. I don't have the patience for projects whis requires long drying hours.

 

 

 

 

My chipboard phrases are from Memory Maze. As I said, they are perfect for cards, but they look great on layouts, too. I have an example for you in this post and will give you another one later this week, so stay tune.

 

 

I love the versatility of chipboard, and find them perfect for adding dimension to both cards and layouts, so I was very happy to see this week's theme at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog:

 

 

 

 

Have you ever payed the blog a visit? You really should, becuase there are tons of inspiration for lovely Clean & Simple cards there!

 

Welcome to my Memory Maze world

I have a big crush on chipboards, so you can tell I was tickled pink when I was picked to the first DT ever at the Australian chipboard manufactorer Memory Maze

Today I have my first DT post at the Memory Maze blog. I have chosen to show a number of ways to use card sized chipboard phrases on both numbers and cards.


Here is one of the creations:

Patterned Papers: Studio Calicio. Chipboard: Memory Maze. Small alpha: Cosmo Cricket
Large Alpha: Sassafras Lass. Button, twine & raindrops: unknown

I found this photos of DS13 when I was looking for a printer manual the other day, and I couldn't resist scrapping them.

Photo taken in 2000?

The Chipboard phrase is painted with acrylic paint

You will find the other two creations in the Memory Maze blog post as well as details about chipboard ID numbers etc. I'll display the rest of my creations on my blog next week but you are welcome to see them all at the Memory Maze blog today:-)


Do you like working with chipboard?