Recycling (layout)

Happy New Year, everybody!
Are you as excited to see what the new year will bring as I am?

I still have four more days left of my two week long holiday brake and I'm happy to know they will be spent up in the snowy mountains here in Norway. I have spent the break wisely, with family and friends, but I have also grabbed som Me Time - including scrapping.


I had some photos of DS11 laying on my desk, and this sketch at the Chic Tags blog was the perfect excuse for finally scrapping them:

Here is my take on the sketch, featuring DS11 who has recycled a pair of worn out cross country skis to make a cross bow (yes, it worked). Where he got the idea from? YouTube, of course...

Background paper: Pink Paisley. Tags, cards etc: Chic Tags. Flair: The Paper Bakery. Alpha: Webster's Pages.
Stars: Pretty Little Studio

 Some close ups:

Banner made of tags/journaling strips

The backround papers have premade holes (star, circle). I simply used a packaging from Chic Tags to put behind them - the blue dots where the perfect match to all the dotted banner pieces.

Thank you for stopping by - you know I appreciate it :-)

Time flies - tic tac toe challenge at The Studio Challenges

The Studio Challenges runs fun scrapbooking challenges and sketches every other Sunday of every month to inspire you.

Today we have a tic tac toe challenge for you - its' very easy: All you need to do is pick a line from the gird, any line straight or diagonal and create a layout using them, easy!:

Here is my take on this cool challenge - I picked the bottom horizontal line for my layout: Chipboard, triangles, gold.

Mask: The Paper Bakery. Washi: Freckled Fawn. Raw chipboard: Imaginarium Designs. Colored chipboards: AC/Amy Tangerine. Rubons: Pink Paisley (stars, arrows), Glitz Designs (dots), Jenni Bowlin (October). Twine: The Twinery.
 Silver spider accent: unknown

Chipboard: a mix of raw, unpainted chipboard (title) and ready made patterned chipboard (Arrows and "documented)
Triangles: There are triangles in the mask I used for my inked backround
Gold: On top and bottom: wide washi with golden dots. Gold rubons (Arrows, circles, stars, month tag)

Please head over to The Studio Challenges blog to see the DTs lovely example and to see how you can win a GDT spot :-)

Crocheting with twine

Have you ever tried it?

The first challenge at The Studio Challenges in July is all about going creative with twine. The DT has come up with lovely ideas, so please visit the blog for inspiration and to play along.


I learned to crochet as a little girl, and crocheting is like swimming or biking: skills you have learnt well you don't forget. This is what the journaling on my layout says, too.

Patterned papers & cut outs: Lemon Owl. Twine: Pink Paisley

Details:

How do you use twine?

Food from my garden - CSI file #75

Summer doesn't seem to take off here in my part of Norway - we have plenty of sun, but the air is still quite cold - and I'm dying to get more vegatables out from my greenhouse and out in the veggie garden.
Do you have a greenhouse or veggie garden?

If you have known me for a while you know I am a garden junkie. I love everythings that grows or blooms and I have a soft spot for anything edible there: fruit, berries, herbs and vegatables. The first I pick is rhubarb and hives - and even my kids ask for rhubarb soup as soon as it's getting green here.

Patterned papers: Glitz designs, Studio Calico, Cosmo Cricket. Butterflies: Studio Calico. Acrylic buttons: Ephiphany Crafts. Twine: Pink Paisley. Cutlery, flower: unknown.

Journaling: I admit it: any meal taste better when made with ingrediences from my own garden

Isn't this cutlery the cutest?

This layout is made with inspiration from CSI Case File #75:

How I solved the case:

• Colors: all five used
• Evidence: Flowers, wood, banner title
• Testimony: from "Pop the question": What is your favourite meal to prepare?

Thank you for stopping by - you know your visit means a lot to me :-)