Road Trip 2013 - CSI Case File #83

My dad lives on the other side of the country, a ten hour drive from our house, so we don't see him too often. We decided to pay him a visit this summer, but also to take advantage of beeing on the road and visit a few more Places on the way.

My kids are good in the car, but find long travels boring, so they stayed up long the night before we took off, so they could sleep in the car and make the trip more easy. The photo in the layout below is taken about 1/2 hour after we left the house *lol*




Striped vellum, Wood veeners & vellum accents: Studio Calico. Brads, washi tape & note stickers: Teresa Collins.
Alpha & stickers: Simple Stories. Flair: aflairforbuttons. Envelope, ticket & photo accent: unknown

The journaling says: This year we took no trip abroad - instead we went to Bergen. for a change we decided to stop over in Vraadal.

This layout is my take on this week's Case File at CSI, #83. This month's theme is travelling and the perfect inspiration to scrap the photos from our road trip.

How I solved the case:

*All five colors used (Manilla Cream on the background cardstock)
*Evidence: Stripes, labels, travel accents, circles
*Testimony: document a trip


If you need a kick start on scrapping your travel photos (or any other photos), please head over to the CSI blog to see what the rest of the DT did, and to play along!

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 :-)

Greetings from Krakow

A week ago hubby was in Krakow, Poland - business. As the good man he is, he bought his family presents. The the boys got some cool t-shirts from hard Rock Cafe, and I got these fun, hand made chocolates:

I just love how they are decorated, and believe me: they taste soooo delicious. I have never seen anything like them around here, so I snapped a photo of them, so I could keep a memory of them, far after all of them were eaten.

I also knew I wanted to scrap them using bright, happy colors:

Background paper: Kaiser Kraft. Black patterned paper, enamel dots & tabs: Studio Calico.
Other patterned papers: Glitz Design. Green alpha: Sassafras Lass. Other alphas: Adornit. Bling: Prima.
Flair: Aflairforbuttons. Pins, ribon & twine: Unknown.

Details:

I got the the idea for the design, when I saw this fun sketch (Sketch #1) at The Paper Bakery Kit Club and I decided to play along.


Thank you for taking your time to stop by! Tell me, do your husband bring you gifts when he has been out of town?

It's the Weekend - OUAS March challenge

Hello friends!

Today has to be a fabolous day: it's Friday, which means the weekend, and it's March 1th, which means spring will be around any day in my part of the world.

A new month means a new sketch and challenge at Once Upon A Sketch. The March theme is:

"Its The Weekend!"

 What does your weekend look like? 

Some of you already know, but some of you don't, that every Friday night for as long as I have dated my husband, we have had our weekly Friday Night Date. It's an inhouse date, and it's the day at week we make some special food, share a bottle of wine and sit down and really talk. Our everyday life tend to eat up every spare time we have, so I sincerely believe those dates har been a key factor to keep our relationship healthy.

Chipboard: Imaginarium Designs. Bling: Designers Choice. Badge: Cre8tive Cre8tions.
Paper, ribbon, pucinella & charm: Unknown

All chipboard is painted with acrylic paint, the hearts then grid stamped and
repainted with white acrylic paint dots

Here is this month's OUAS sketch:

The "fine" print:

Theme: "Its The Weekend!"

 What does your weekend look like? 

Maybe you work, or run around like crazy taking your kids to activities etc. Lunch with friends? Movies? Dinner? Or maybe you do all the exciting stuff like ...clean the house, tend to the garden , kinds birthday parties. You might like to tell us of an exciting weekend coming up, or a weekend past. Maybe a weekend getaway? Whatever it is that you want to tell us that has to do with the theme "Its The Weekend" we would love to hear it. 

Your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. 

Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . You are allowed to journal in any language but please tell us where on your page we will find your journalling. Remember journalling has to be a bit more than a title, or a generic comment. Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

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Are you ready to get blown away by marvellous inspiration from the DT and the gust designers? Please check out the OUAS blog, and don't forget to read how you can win some fabolous prizes!


Have a happy weekend - how do you plan to spend your Friday Night?

Tak! Merci! Danke! Thanks! Gracias!

Did you know this means Thanks in Danish, French, German, English and and Spanish?
You did?



How come I'm not surprised - after all you're an intelligent woman :-)

Cardstock: Bazill. Chipboard: Imaginarium Designs
Twine: The Twinery. Flair: Cre8tive Cre8tions

I made this card with inspiration from this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #14.

As Valentine isn't really big here in Norway, I chose to make a Thanks card instead. You can't say Thanks enough, can you? A pretty chipboard, a piece of scrap paper, some twine and a flair -and of course a base card - you really don't need much more to make a simple Thanks card.

Thank you for stopping by - you know I really appreciate it!

New The Studio Challenge is up - come and see!

Today is my first reveal at The Studio Challenges (TSC) and I so want to shout from the roof top: Come play with us, come play with us!


If you're not familiar with  TCS, here is a short intruduction:

• Welcome to The Studio Challenge blog! We run fun scrapbooking challenges and sketches on the first and third Sunday's of every month to inspire you. We would love you to join in with us as we love seeing your creations and you could win some great prizes too, just link your layouts up in the side bar. Happy scrapping!

Today is the first Sunday of February, so we at TCS have a challenge for you:
As it's getting close to Valentine's day scrap a page about love and include at least 5 hearts in it.

Here is my example for you:

Moustache paper & stickers: Echo Park. Other papers & stickers: SEI. Trim: Harmonie
Alphas: AC (13), Basic Grey (others). Flair:

Designer's note: By keeping the hearts small, and adding masculine elements as the moustashes, this layout didn't get too feminin, even if the hearts are pink. My oldest son before his very first prom.

Add interest to you page by raising the hearts with 3D foam.

Please visit The Studio Challenges blog to see the other designer's lovely creations and to play along!

I'll never be a mixed media artist :-(

Do you have materials, or tecniques, you struggle with?

Using mist and masks seems impossible to get a good grip on for me. My papers get all bulky, and I struggle with the design on my papers and cards when I I don't have paper to shuffle around. Why? Do I THINK too much, or try too hard? It's interesting that I have problems with this media, as ink pads, water colors and modelling paste works great for me...

Anyway - I have been playing, and here is the result:

Paper: 7Gypsies. Mask: The Crafters Workshop. Mist: Dylusions. Modelling Past: Panduro
Brown ink: Ranger. Pens: Signo. Chipboard: Imaginarium Designs. Washi & metal: Unknown

My mist is Chocolate brown, but for some reason it turned out more pinkish on my background paper, even if this was in brown shades. So annoying!

Paper: 7Gypsies. Mask: The Crafters Workshop + Clubscrap. Mist: Dylusions. Modelling Past: Panduro. Pens: Signo. Chipboard (used as mask): Imaginarium Designs. Button: Purple Pumpkin. Washi & ribbon: Unknown



Paper: 7Gypsies. Mask: The Crafters Workshop + Clubscrap. Mist: Dylusions. Modelling Past: Panduro. Pens: Signo. Chipboard: Imaginarium Designs. Flair: ScrapButtons. Washi & clip: Unknown


Do you have materials or teqniques you struggle with?