'Visit by Father Christmas' for DT Papirdesign

Hi! 

First of all I'd like to wish you all a very Happy And Prosperous 2014 

Thank you for your company during 2013 and I hope to see you here often even in the coming year!

 Of coures I also have a page I would like to show you today:

I used a few Christmas collections here and not just the latest one.

 

Lots of different layers and sewing on this page.

 

 

 I love the chipboards saying Merry Christmas in Norwegian.

After the deadline was prolonged for challenge 103 at Color Stories Inspiration CSI, I was able to upload my page there as well. I made it for the challenge but nearly forgot about it!!

Hope you enjoyed my page and that you will have a nice celebration this evening!!

On Jan 2nd I'll be back with a bloghop so hope to see you then!!

Hugs!

 

For Inkido: 'Sweet Smile' using Harmony Flowers and 'Happy Christmas'

Hi! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and are feeling well rested.

Today is my last post for this year, but I am happy to say that I'll be keeping in touch since I am part of the new DT starting in a few days for 2014.

Here is the page I wanted to show you today:

I made it mostly using the latest collection from Inkido called 'Happy Christmas' and also the lovely pink Harmony Flowers.

I have some closeups to share with you as well:

 

I used several of the pink Harmony Flowers, but those packages are so full that there are still some left :-)

 

 

 And here are a few of the other products I used:

 

 Thanks for taking a look. Hope to see you back here soon again!!

I'll be back with a new page on New Years Eve!!

The last batch of Christmascards

Hello again, today I'm here to share the last batch of  X-mas cards.

There is still time to send off some homemeade cards before Christmas is uponus.

Maybe these can get you in the right mood?

I made these for todays post at the Papirdesign blog and used loads of gorgeous Papirdesign products.

Below you can see each of these cards on their own and also some more designs.

I used both older and newer collections from Papirdesign and some of the lovely sheets with gorgeous vintage Christmas motifs to cut out. It's just what's needed to get in the creative spirit.

I used:

Miniroser diverse farger.

Chipboard med God Jul.

Rödt band.

Mens vi venter:

PD 12711 Juleströmpe

PD 12715 Munter melodi

PD 12713 Nissegröt

PD 12707 Vennlig hilsen

Julehilsen:

PD 13836 Nostalgisk jul

PD 13831 Gledelig jul

Vintertid:

PD 11592 Frost

PD 11593 Blåfjell

Julens gleder:

PD 11590 Juletags

PD 10603 Juleglede (vintagebilder)

Lots of hugs and good luck with the cards!!

Welcome to the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! Day 10

" Welcome to the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! 

You should have arrived here from the PaperHaus blog. 

We are celebrating the release of the Winter Issue of PaperHaus Magazine but also inspiring you each day with wonderful holiday projects, giveaways and inspiration! Our blog hop will run from December 1st to December 12th! Be sure to stop each day and leave a comment each day to win some fabulous prizes by our lovely sponsors! Don't forget to check out the Winter Issue for additional inspiration, holiday cheer and some amazing projects from our contributing team!" 

Many of you have probably already checked out the fab magazine. 
But just in case; HERE is a link to it. 

I only had time to prepare two pages for the magazine this time and you'll find my contributions

 on pages 40 and 62. One is a shabby page using Papirdesign products and the other one more clean using products from another favourite; Les Papiers de Pandore. I hope you like them both. I am not supposed to share them on my blog for a month so you'll se more of them here at the beginning of the new year.

Here is my contribution for the hop:

This is a page I made for Inkido as part of their DT and I used the delightful collection 'Happy Christmas' 

I used an older photo of my youngest and her BFF. 

(These are both very sensible girls but will occationally get up to some mischief :-) )

The title was made using red glitter Thickers and some older stickers from Pink Paislee (Old School).

The flowers are from Inkido. I used both Harmony flowers and Fashion Flowers (red).

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut most of these shapes and borders. For an accent I added some 

red Viva pearl maker to the vine underneath the picture.

 Finally a shot to show some of the dimension I was trying to add to my page.

I love using black and white photographs on my pages as they are so neutral and permit adding a lot of bits and pieces that us scrapbookers love!

Here is a full list of todays stops:

DAY 10

• PaperHaus Magazine www.thepaperhaus.com
• Bente Fagerberg www.paperandglueheaven.blogspot.com
• Eila Sandberg www.dollopsofscrap.blogspot.com
• Shellye McDaniel www.shellyemcdaniel.com
• Authentique www.blog.authentiquepaper.com

So your next stop will be my delightful dear friend Eila and I am sure she has prepared a treat for you!!

Hugs!!

Inkido December challenge.

I hope you are enjoying lovely crisp early Winter weather where you are.
Here a storm just passed for now and it is mainly raining and very grey and drab. Perfect for staying  inside scrapping or making seasonal cards.

Today I want to tell you about the latest Inkido challenge which I am hosting this month.
This time I want to see a project incorporating stars and/or snowflakes. I am sure we all have many of those planned for this time of year, so why not share them with us here at Inkido.
Please remember we do not like 'backlinking' though :-) All the entries have to be new and made especially for this challenge.

Here is my page:



(Sorry my photos are not up to my normal standard. I still have no internet connection at home so I had to use my IPhone...)



For this challenge you can use all kinds of stars and/or snowflakes. Inkido has some great stamps with stars that would look awesome on a page or a Christmascard! If you cannot get hold of that one you can use chipboard or diecuts like I did and I also used a petterned paper with tiny stars on it. Mine is from the latest collection by Inkido called 'Happy Christmas'. In the collection there are even some awesome papers with snowflakes on them!!



 A few more closeups:



 Finally here's a sideways photograph of how I built up my page in layers.

Challenge Rules

1. You must submit your project / layout /  using the Link tool on the sidebar.

2. You may submit more than one project and you are allowed to combine this challenge with two other challenges.

3. You are required to mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Inkido. We also want you to link back to our challenge.

4. If you use any Inkido product for your project, do mention the product in your post.

5. The challenge will end on 31st December  2013.

Prize
Since we have so many collections and beautiful papers at Inkido we have a very special prize this month, you can create a collection of your 12 favorites papers from Inkido and we will send it you asap in 2014!

And here is the LINK to the challenge!

Welcome to the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! Day 7.

" Welcome to the Winter Frolic 12 Days Of Christmas Blog Hop! 

We are celebrating the release of the Winter Issue of PaperHaus Magazine but also inspiring you each day with wonderful holiday projects, giveaways and inspiration! Our blog hop will run from December 1st to December 12th! Be sure to stop each day and leave a comment each day to win some fabulous prizes by our lovely sponsors! Don't forget to check out the Winter Issue for additional inspiration, holiday cheer and some amazing projects from our contributing team!" 

Here is my contribution to the hop:

I needed some fast  cards to send far away and as I have quite a few to make I wanted them to be pretty simple and straight forward. I used dies and vintage pictures and embellished with pearls. I raised the different layers with popdots.

I used a combination of beautiful Christmas collections from Papirdesign.

Thanks for hoppning by!!

Your next stop om the hop is the talented 

Jess Mutty www.scrapgoo.blogspot.com

I'm on the Inkido DT 2014!!

Hi all!! 

Today is the exciting day when everybody will find out who made the Inkido 2014 DT.

Let me first share my joy that I have been invited back for a new term and I am overjoyed to be working with such an amazing group of friends, old and new!!

HERE you can read all about the announcement.

Hugs!!

PaperHaus Winter Issue reveal!!

Today is the  reveal of the Winter edition of the PaperHaus magazine. I promise you it is just as fabulous as the previous editions have been and here is the gorgeous cover for you: 

There will be a short bloghop every day to introduce the new magazine and I will be on the hop on day 7. But I still have a project from the previous edition that I have not shared yet so I think this isa good opportnity to do so:

This was for the PaperHues in the Fall Issue.

HERE is a LINK to the latest magazine.

And your next stop is the talented Jess Mutty.

Thanks for dropping by!

Getting in the advent spirit with this page.

Hi,it's me Bente here to share one of my latest pages for Inkido.

I hope to find you relaxed and well and enjoying your weekend.

Unfortunately this will be a rather short and sweet post as my regular Internet is down and I find myself writing my post on my mobile phone for the first time....

Ok, here is my layout, and I am

sorry I have not been able to edit my photos much.....

I used the lovely 'Happy Christmas' for this and added quite a few inkido flowers to embellish.

Here are a couple of close ups too:

I took a few pictures of my creative process but those are on my DSLR and I cannot get them transferred just now,but maybe I can add them as soon as I get my connection back. :-)

I very much enjoyed stencilling with the gold medium and also making the stars with gesso.

The burgundy geraniums match this collection beautifully.

I used the olive package of Harmony flowers. I just love that dark green glittered bloom. Soo lush!

I made the sweet green vine wreath by cutting the pretty green music paper of the Happy Christmas collection with my Silhouette Cameo. The Santa tag was also cut from one of the patterned papers.

Again, sorry for the 'crappy' photos!

Hope to see you soon again!!

Are you ready for some Christmas cards?

Hi there scrappy friends!!

Now the time has come to start sharing some of all those cards I have been making since the latest LOT with  gorgeouus PD X-mas papers  arrived in my mailbox! Recently I shared these cards on the Norwegian Papirdesign blog and  I thought I would post them here as well!

I love the 'traditional' feel that the seasonal products from Papirdesign have. Here I have picked colours like red and cream and mixed them

up with se trendy gold and some green.

All the tags and the birdpicture were cut from Papirdesign papers.

Those were my three cards for  today.

I hope you liked them!