My most favourite layouts of 2012 Part 2....

Happy New Year to all of you out there! 

I hope the year that is coming to an end has been good to you. For me honestly, it has been a bit of both!  I have experienced some hardship, but  I have also been blessed with a lot of good things. Today is is the last day of the year and it calls for celebration and for looking back on what has been, but also on what is to come... Did you make any resolutions? Did you pick a special new word for the coming  year? Good luck to you if you did. 

I tend to make more of a general kind of resolution, if I may even call it that. I decide that this year I am going to be better than the previous one. I am going to be for example ; kinder, (to others and to myself :-)), smarter, more patient, less lazy, etc. I find this is a better way for me, because I can use this in my everyday life to be a better person. 

I would also like to thank each and every one of you my friends for your support this year and for the love you leave me. It makes me so very happy to read all the comments you leave about my work and other subjects. And I have been completely bowled over by all your generous remarks about the layouts in my previous post. From the bottom of my heart; 'Thank You'!!

Are you ready for Faves Part 2 ?...Here we go!!

Happy New Year!

Hugs!!

My most favourite layouts for 2012 Part 1...

This time of year it is customary to make a post or two featuring our favourite layout/projects from the passed year. I went through my folder on the computer and actually found quite a few that I was surprisingly happy with. I say this because many times it is so easy for me to only see the flaws in my work and so much more difficult to appreciating the good points! 

So starting from the beginning of the year here are a few of my personal faves. (In no specific order!)

As they were too many for one post I will share some more in a day or two.

Portraits Everyday

 Hello and lovely to see you my sweet blog friends!!
I am actually very happy that some of you still find your way here even though I rarely update this poor neglected blog. LOL!
I was hoping to update before Christmas Eve, but on top of arranging a family Christmas here at home I have had the flue since Dec 23 so things have been a little out of hand here. With the help of my lovely daughters though we managed to arrange a warm and cozy Christmas to the enjoyment of young and old. I hope the holidays were warm and precious for those of you that celebrate and that all the rest of you  can take part in the enjoyment of the 'cozyness' of the season! I am still not feeling well, I have a terrible cold and spend most of my time underneath a blanket on the couch. I won't even name some of the awful re-runs I have been watching on the telly!!
But I am slowly getting there!

This is my latest lo made for Les Papiers de Pandore. I have used the lovely collections "Little Winter Circus" and "Everyday Portraits". 

The two collections are of course quite different but the colours marry very well as you can see.

This sweet portrait  is one I took of Beatrice on our recent trip to Stockholm. We had  lovely time doing only what we felt like at the moment. Last time we went there we visited almost ALL the museums and sights,...(and I really mean ALL...) - so this time we just did a lot of shopping and eating. -Of course we had 'fika' with sweet Eila,too. This picture is a lucky shot while we were 

waiting for the bus to take us to the towncenter.

 Just look at all the yummy flowers here. I love flowers!(..surprise...LOL!)

They are a mixture of Prima and Manorhouse Creations.The yellow and pink largeish paperflowers came in my warehouse box from MHF a while back.

The butterflies are from my stash. Last Summer in Norway I borrowed my sisters Martha Stewart punch as I don't have this one myself. It is one of my favourites actually!

I prepared the background of my page with two different masks by Prima Marketing with gesso and two colours mists. The vines were cut using a Cheery Lynn die and the lace circle is made with a Spellbinders die.I added some glitter to the vines to give the lo a more festive feel.

Now I should really get off that couch and at least start a page,...there are deadlines to be met!!
I know that if I can just start I will not be able to put it away until  I finish!!

I wish you all the best!!
XOXO

Focus on "Petits coupons" of "Little Winter Circus" and new Paper Issues blog hop.

I have been somwhat missing in action this last week. On Thursday we celebrated Santa Lucia which might be called our festival of light up here in the northern regions, and on Friday my DD2 Victoria had her 18th birthday. Maybe I will share some of my photos with you a little later.  I have been spending  a lot of time on preparations for these days and have not been scrapping much....

Still I do have a little something to share today. On the Les Papiers de Pandore blog a few days ago the DT were challenged to come up with different ways of using the round cut-out labels from the 'etiquettes' sheet. This is what I was able to come up with as a last minute idea.

Instead of cutting them out round kept some of the background on each to make square gift tags for labelling small christmas gifts.

 I used papers from the delightful "Little Winter Circus" collection to make up the boxes.

Just adding little bits and pieces like a diecut doily or a swirly vine and some twine  will make the simplest gift look good. Give it a try!

 I had a lot of fun making these and enjoyed the fact that they were quick to make.

You should head over to the Pandore blog to see what the other members of the DT came up with.

I love the look of the triangular box, but must admit I had a hard time getting the twine tied down. 

It just kept sliding off...LOL!

I would also like to remind you that there is a new theme and a blog hop on over at Paper Issues.

Our give away is spondsored by Amanda Rose stamps, and she makes some seriously cute stamps!

Just look:

Check out what the PI Team made:
Heather
Judean
Missy
Kellie
Aimee

Ypu could win three of these stamps and HERE you can read how!

Finally I would like to tell you that  "Blue Fern Studios" has a give away on their blog.
They are a new company producing the most lovely chipboard embellishments designed by the talented Michelle Singh.

From what I've seen so far I think I might be in love....
HERE is a link to the Blue Fern Studios blog.

That's all from me for today. Bye bye!