From this - to that

Last wekend was spent hiking in the Norwgian mountains: me, the kids, my husband and my mum.

Two years ago my mum had an accident and smashed her ancle really bad. Ten surgeries (!) later she is like a goat even in harsh terrain. I'm so happy for her! Did I mention she's 72, btw?

Patterned papers, stickers, chipboard, flair & cut outs: Shimelle for American Crafts. Alpha:Echo Park. Wood veeners: Jillibean Soup

 Close ups/details:

The design is taken from the October 1th Sketch at Stuck!? 

I find sketches a great starting point when creating, especially like now when I have been "out of business" for a while.

Do you like sketches?

Pretty birds

Scrapping hasn't been on my priority list this summer. I have spent the season wisely, though, both done som travelling and also spending hours and hours doing garden work. I just love it so much! But now, as we're facing fall first, then a long winter, I might find time to scrap again :-)

Our garden has been through some major changes this summer: we put up a greenhouse, made a pond, dug up boring old shrubs and planted more perennials. For some reason I also got this sudden urge for pink flamingos! The weren't easy to find, but finally I did. I can't think of anything more kitchy than pink flamingoes! Here they are, with me.

Papers: Echo Park Cut outs: Fancy Pants Designs. Dotted overlay: Bella Boulevard. Sequins: Studio Calico. Cut file: Silhoutte Design Studio

 Close ups/details

The design is taken from the September sketch at Stuck?! Sketches.

Please com back next week as I have more layouts to show!

Lockers in Wroclaw (Scrap lift)

I visited Wroclaw, Poland, in December. The main reason for the trip was the Christmas market, but we did some sightseeing, too.  Oneone of the bridges lovers had put up lockers to show their love, and I found the collection so pretty and colorful, that I needed to take a photo of it.

Papers: 4heures37. Word stickers: American Crafts. Wood weeners: Project Lift/Becky Higgins. Twine & charm: unknown

The idea for the design came from one of the April scrap lift challenges at Paper Issues. Here is the layout to lift, made by Janet Grzanka-Dlugokenski 

I used the layout as a sketch and kept the main elements, like the large vertical paper strip and the right side embellishment cluster

What a surprise: I doodled :-)

Cute wood weeners

Please come back later this week, as I have more up the sleeve for you :-)

A wine drinker's heaven

Italy.
Piemonte.
Barolo.

Do I need to say more?

Some times themed/ photo papers work out on layouts (why do I keep buying them, when I find them difficult to use?)!

Background paper: Paper House Design. Other papers: unknown Alpha: American Crafts. Corrugated word: Jillibean Soup. Wood weener words: Becky Higgins for American Crafts. Chipboard: unknown

Close up of cluster (and wine)

The background paper is bought recently, but the other must be 7-8 years old. 

The design is taken from the April 15th sketch at Stuck?! Sketches

It might be hard to recognize the sketch because of the image of the big wine bottle on the background paper, but it's there, just have a look - layers, cluster and title *lol*

Thank you for stopping by - your visit means a lot to me!

Saddle up (Scrap lift)

After my long scrapping break I found myself a little rusty: I still have the technical skills, but haven't been into doing my own designs for a while. I'm a big fan of sketches, and have always been, but scraplifting has taken it one more step further: watching designer's details and tecniques is so inspirational!

Paper Issues has a new scrap lift challenge every weekend, and over the next week I'm going to show my take on the April lifts.

Let's start with "Saddle up":

Background paper: Lemon Owl. Rubon & alpha : Basic Grey.
Stickers: Sandylion.

Here is the layout I lifted:

Layout by Kelly Feldmad

I was attracted to the general design and multiple photos, and chose to have a bottom border, too, to keep the layout balanced. Actually, scraplifting is pretty much like using a sketch: you take inspiration from it and make it yours as you feel like. No need to copy every detail!

Details:

Mix of stickers and rubons

I wonder what I was thinking when I bought these themed stickers. Who cares, they turned out to be handy :-)

Lovely old rubond from Basic Grey. It was time to use them, as they don't stick that good any longer when They get old.

Your thoughts on scrap lifting?

Please come back on Tuesday when I have a new scrap lift to share!

Good Times (Stuck?! April 1th Sketch)

For my birthday last year, husband and kids gave me a riding weekend  up in the Norwegian mountains.

Summer can be chilly in the mountains, but it still was a wonderful weekend - good, sturdy horses and a beautiful landscape. I was teamed up with the horse Hogda Viljar - a good choice made by the instructors - not too hot a horse, but not completely dead either :-)

Papers & stickers: Doodlebug Designs. Words: American Crafts. Wood weener: Freckled Fawn. Brads: unknown

Even if the mpintains hadn't dress in fall colors yet, I found the Doodlebug Designs Friendly Forest collection perfect:

Legg til bildetekst

Saddlebag - for food and extra clothes

The design is taken from the April 1th Sketch at Stuck?! Sketches, a great sketch to work with.

I hope I can do i similar tour this summer, too, but might find one with a little more speed and action!

Tons of Work (Scrap Lifting part III)

I am a garden junkie. I love digging, weeding, cutting and getting dirt under my nails. My long time goal is to have a pretty, low maintenance garden, but I I'm not sure if I'll ever get there :-)

One of the thinkg we do to keep weeds away/down is cover up areas with thick layers of bark. We haven'd refilled in ages, so last summer we needed tons to get back on track. Actually, me & the husband managed to get rid of this huge pile in just a short weekend, using nothing else but wheel barrels & shovels!

All papers & cut outs: Pebbles. Alpha: American Crafts. Ribbons & brad: unknown

 Details

Doodling...

Some vellum cut outs without (!) doodling.

The bright green freshes up the page a bit!

The design is taken from the base layout at one of the March Scraplift Challenges at Paper Issues. I just loved all the layers and the big bow!

Do you enjoy gardening?