Welcome to the Paperhaus Spring Fling Hop!! -

Hello and Welcome to the PaperHaus Spring Fling Blog Hop!
 You should have arrived here from Rommel's blog.

We are excited that you joined us in celebrating the release of the Spring Issue of PaperHaus Magazine! We are so happy to share all of the amazing projects and inspiration in it with you!

I must say the editors and contributors have outdone themselves one more time. 

I may even be so bold as to say this could be the best one yet......

I am sure you'll all agree the cover is yummy and now you are all longing to have a look inside!

HERE's the link.

Look carefully among all the amazing pages in the magazine and you may see a name you recognize,..lol! Yup,..me! And I am in very good company...

I am so happy to be one of the contributors to PaperHaus Magazine and I have three projcts in this issue. I have a layout for the Paperhues on page 38, one for the Dreamsketch on page 51, and also on page 57 a framed something for the TrendyHaus article about washitape.

I hope you like them,... and there is so much MOOOORE!

I have a layout to show you that I made for Les Papiers de Pandore. I used the delightful collection Little Winter Circus. I made it in a more clean and simple style than my usual one, but I like to mix things up and not always do the same kind of layouts.

Below you can see a close up of what the stitched 'beams' look like.

Below you can see a photo of my giveaway for the hop.
For a chance to win to win it I would like you to:

1. Leave a comment on this post

2. Be or become a follower of my blog

THE BLOG HOP WILL RUN FROM MARCH 1ST - MARCH 7TH

and we have a loong list of fascinating blogs for you to visit

The Spring Fling blog Hop starts at the PaperHaus blog: 

PaperHaus Blog – www.thepaperhaus.com

Frank Garcia – www.hausofw.com
Ivana Camdzic – http://www.papergirlcrafts.blogspot.com/
Trina McClune – trinamcclune.typepad.com
Jodie Lee – www.jodieleedesigns.blogspot.com
Lisa Gregory – http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com
Stacey Young – www.staceyeyoung.blogspot.com
Maiko Kosugi – www.maimaipiano.blogspot.com
Fun Stampers Journey – www.myfunstampersjourney.com
The Piece by Piece – www.thepiecebypiece.blogspot.com
Corri Garza – http://www.buglvr.blogspot.com

Shellye Proctor McDaniel - http://www.shellyemcdaniel.com

DeeDee Catron – http://umwowstudio.blogspot.com
Audrey Yeager – http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com
Sabrina Alery – http://www.sabrinaalery.blogspot.com
Patricia Roebuck – www.roebuck-adventures.blogspot.com
Jess Mutty – www.scrapgoo.blogspot.com
Anna Sigga – http://annasigga.typepad.com/scrappalicious
Susan Tutt – http://susanscrapbooker.blogspot.com
Rommel Okuma – http://risqueerabisque.wordpress.com 
You are here-----> Bente Fagerberg – http://paperandglueheaven.blogspot.com
Izzy Anderson – http://writesnapscrap.blogspot.com
Jennifer Grace – http://jennifersjumbles.blogspot.com
Christina Heeren – http://christinaheeren.blogspot.com
Gina Rodgers – http://gingerbread.typepad.com
Lori Hairston – http://www.lorihairston.blogspot.com
Paper Issues – http://www.paperissues.com
Peg Hewitt – http://pegsplaytime.blogspot.com.au
Georgia Heald – http://startingtoscrap.blogspot.com.au
Leah Crowe – www.leahscraftylife.com
Jodi Baune – http://www.dancingintherainjb.blogspot.com
Heather Leopard – http://thespottedleopard.blogspot.com
Diana Fisher – http://designbydiana.blogspot.com
Kate Vickers – www.scrapsation.com
Sarah Andreotti – www.vintagepearstudio.com
Leah Farquharson – http://www.bluebirdchic.com/blog
Cathi O'Neill – http://celticknotted.blogspot.com
Missy Gener – http://www.missygener.com
Marilyn Rivera – http://marilynrivera.blogspot.com
Julianne McKenna – http://julestheblingprincess.blogspot.com
Vivan Keh – http://contadinak.wordpress.com/
Jelissa Mei – http://jelibeanz.blogspot.sg/
Sara Zenger – www.sarazenger.blogspot.com
Emilia van den Heuvel – http://few-favourite-things.blogspot.com
Linda Brun – http://favoritspotonearth.blogspot.no
Lisa Duke – http://theshabbyhorse.blogspot.com/
PAPERHAUS FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/thepaperhaus

We would love if you could take some time to like PaperHaus on Facebook

There will be giveaways on the vast majority of blogs, possibly all.

So get  hoppin' :-) to win those prizes.

 Next stop on the hop from here is Izzy's blog.

GOOD LUCK and ENJOY!!

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!

The November sketch at Les Papiers de Pandore,..-and a sweet win for me...!

Good morning and happy Sunday to you all!!

It's been a busy week here again and quite a few days between updates....

Still, I am very happy to see you here and want to share my latest layout that I did for Les Papiers de Pandore and that is also the base for this months sketch.

 I used the newest collection called "Little Winter Circus" which is so full of cute whimsy! 

In my previous layout 'Skating Fun' a couple of posts down, you can see the papers 'clean' with no gesso or paint on them. But for this layout I wanted to show that these papers can look shabby too, with some mixed media added.

This is the beautiful and versatile sketch:

 

On the Pandore blog you can see lovely interpretations from  DT members Helen and Jennife,too.

 The flowers are recent ones from Prima Marketing. And to add to the wintery feel I punched a bunch of snowflakes from the pp. I used a chipboard snoflake as a template for my oversized yellow one and added glitterglue to the edges. I used two different masks from Crafters Workshop, - bricks and diamonds.

I added some mist here and there, and as always it sprayed in directions I had not anticipated and left large splashes all over my photo...! Luckily for this post I was able to remove them digitally, but they are still left on my photo so I may try to exchange it for a 'clean' one later. 

Feels like it's the second lo in a row that happens to me...

 Underneath my flower cluster I matted with one of the 'petit coupons' from the cards sheet.

The pretty washi tape with golden dots was used to hold together the packaging on a DT-kit I received from the States. Don't you just love recycling.. :-) ?

A couple more close ups and I'm done...

I hope you enjoyed my wintery layout. For those of you with papers from Les Papiers de Pandore, and any collection is ok not just the latest ones please join in our challenge and post your layouts on the Pandore Facebook page. Who knows,..might be your lucky day!!

Oh, I almost forgot (I actually posted before I remembered...LOL )....

 I won the Mix and Match challene over at Websters Pages with this layout!
My first ever posted there. Talking about some serious beginners luck .. :-)!
I am delighted, and I will receive a kit of my choice. Isn't that great!?
Here's a screen shot:

All for now!
Hopefully I will get some creating done today!

Hugs!

"Skating Fun" "Little Winter Circus"

Yesterday I received the new collections that Julie sent me from France. 

The latest "Les Papiers de Pandore" are so cute and the colours very happy.

You can sroll down a couple of posts and you can see the collections there.

I just had to start making something with them right away. 

This one is my first and I have one more on my table.

I wanted to do something fun and in keeping with the spirit of the collection.There is a childlike abandon about it and I feel it should not be 'overworked'. I tried to keep things on the clean and simple side to let the pretty papers 'shine'.

Lately I have my sewing machine out and use it on almost all of my pages. 

So even here to add some texture to the edges and borders. I used a die from Marianne Design to make the different snow flakes.

The cute little penguin here is cut from the papers and layered on a die cut journalling spot.

I wanted my title to be on the fan folded border but had some difficulties making the small letters stick. I cut a bit of hard plastic from some packaging and added my letters to it. 

Now sticking down my title was much easier! 

I was so lucky these older letter stickers from Pink Paislee were just the right colour!

As you can see there is not a single flower in sight here,...Shocking I know!.... :-)

I used the snowflakes as  substitute blooms and added leaves and some bling. All the snowflakes in different sizes have been fastened using pop dots to make them stand out and add some dimension.

Ok that was a fairly quick post today. 

I wanted to do it now as I am going to the theatre tomorrow evening to see the musical EVITA and probably won't have time then.

I saw it many years ago with Elaine Paige in London when I lived over there,and that was fabulous.

 Lastly, I would like to tell you that the next International Guest Designers have been posted on the Pandore blog and you can read it HERE. Big congratulations to all of them!!

Hugs!

Les papiers de Pandore ..."Little Winter Circus"

Finally we are allowed to share with you the lovely new collections that Julie Blanc and 

Béatrice Garni have created for us. We in the DT have been impatierntly waiting to receive the

new supplies and they are now only days away I am happy to say.

I will be stalking the mailman from Monday on....

At Pandore this Winter you will find no trees or elves, Santas or gnomes. Instead we note the magic of Christmas and the return to childhood with the light collection Little Winter Circus.

With no more talk here is part one of the Winter release!

And just look at these cute stamps! I cannot wait to start using them!

So how about a blog candy!!? 

 

A candy has become customary now with each new release...

Share the image of the collection on your blog, and leave a little comment here to participate in the draw of 15 November ... You may be lucky enough to win goodies from the new collections.


On Sunday we will share the rest of the gorgeous winner release with you.

I am so excited!!