A new challenge at OUAS, and a preview of my new mini album.

Our very first challenge for 2012 is here.

January 1st Challenge 

Journalling Criteria/theme: New Years Eve!

Our theme this time is New year's Eve. We would like you to journal about your feelings around this time of year, or tell us about your most memorable New Year's Eve. Where were you? Who were you with? What did you do? Why is this one memorable? Note: the photo that you use for this challenge does not have to necessarily be from New Years Eve. For example, if you spent New Years Eve with your family you can have a photo of your family taken ANY time of the year.

Remember that you are allowed to also create a card or altered project based on this sketch and instead of the journalling criteria you need to use a quote.

You must combine our journalling criteria/theme with this sketch.

If you need to have a closer look at the rules of the challenges please take some time to visit 

the home of Once Upon A...Sketc HERE!

Remember, the MOST important thing is to include the journaling!!

I am not scheduled to make a layout for this challenge, but I decidd to use the sketch for a different project I have been working on.
A couple of weeks ago we had a photo shoot here with our youngest DD Beatrice.
Super sweet Gisela Ackerup came to our house for a photo shoot.
With all the cute photos I got I decided to make a small album showcasing some of them.

I started out using the sketch for the cover but then I kind of got carried away....


Here is a small preview of my album you can have a look for yourself:

Those gorgeous chipboard pieces are of course from Imaginarium Designs.
This time I painted with a dimensional paint that looks a little like snow, and then added some
glitter for extra bling.

 

I plan on sharing the rest of my album soon, I have a couple of pages left to finish!

So long, take care!!

Color Combos Galore is back !!

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!!

I am sure many of you wondered what happened to Color Combos Galore when it just disappeared over night!...You may even have missed us...

Well, I have some good news for you, magically, almost overnight again; we are back!

I know many of you have found other favourite places to be during our absence but I hope that you will come back and check out the beautiful challenge that Janet has prepared for us.

For this festive combination of colours I created a boxed album. Or rather I decorated  a silver box that I will use to house a small tag album with my scrap resolutions for this coming year.

This is my box;

 I used some paper from my stash that is so old I don't even know who made it, but the series was called Domestic queen it seems,..

I covered the lid with the pp  and cut a strip to cover almost the height of the side of the box. 

I wanted some of the original colour to show. I added a Maya Road rose trim to cover some of the dents I made in the paper.

 That gorgeous butterfly  that I painted white with my dabber is one of the exquisite pieces that Imaginarium Designs produce. I am absolutely in love with their chipboard!!

You can find the butterfly HERE

I added a doily, some flowers (Petaloo and stash ) and voila the finished box. I wrote 'Scrap Resolutions'  in 'CosmoCricket' tiny letters.

Now I have to go off and think a little more about what are my scrap resolutions are. I do know that I want to start submitting regularly both to magazines and design teams, 

I have just been a bit lazy so far!!

Thanks for your visit. 

I hope you will visit Color Combos Galore to see what changes Janet has made and as always  to read the fine print.

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My Good Girl

Hello all, are you ready for some champagne and a clean slate,...?

Not long now until we sing Auld Land Syne and toast our near and dear ones.

We are three  families who have been enjoying eachothers company on New Years Eve for many years now. Most of our children are old enough to want to celebrate with their own group of friends and only the youngest ones remain with us the entire evening.

We alternate preparing a beautiful meal with everything and then we talk and laugh until midnight when we all go outside to look at the special fireworks that are normally fantastic.And we also spend some time talking to our neighbours as they are also out and about.

But before that I have one last layout to share. It is another one that I made some weeks back, actually for a combo at CCG that was not revealed.

The shape is round even though the iron bench underneath almost looks like part of the lo.

I used some bits and bob I had on my scrap table at the time. The flowered paper is from Prima and the gingham is October Afternoon.

The red branch with leaves on is part of a larger one by Prima. 

This piece was left over from an earlier layout.

The gingham ribbon was in my stash and also the textile chipboard letters from Prima Marketing.

To make the the frilly edge of  the outline I used my favourite Martha Stewart lace border punch to punch several strips that I then pleated at random. Of course the pleats will look a lot neater if you use a ruler to measure exactly, but I don't do that!

I used a pearlmaker to get the tiny pears along the green edge.The tiny letter stickers here are by Glitz

The title refers to the fact that Beatrice is always such a good girl. we are curious to see what happens in a couple of years. Will she still have her sweet disposition?

Ok friends, Thanks to all who made it this far and I will wish you 

a HAPPY NEW YEAR

and much love

in case I don't post again this side of New Years Eve.

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A sweet Summer layout.

Even though I enjoy the cosy warmth of Christmas with its many lights and candles, it is no big secret that I am a Spring/Summer girl at heart!

I guess that after eating a whole lot of heavy foods, at least we do that in this part of the world, you may be ready for a small dose of sun and Summer. I know some of you are spoilt with sunny weather right now, but we are definitely not!! I heard from my family in Norway that they have been having storm/hurricanes and are flooded in large areas. Boats have flown up onto the beaches etc.

Recently I found this layout that I made quite a while ago but forgot to share here on the blog.

 I love the sweet photos. I snapped Beatrice wearing a happy face because she received a new pink camera all her own.I forgot to bring my camera with me to London, and being without one is not an option. Luckily for my youngest I bought a pink one that turned out to be perfect for her!.

 I used a mix of papers and embellies on this. The houndstooth paper is MME I think and the rose patterned light blue one is by Norwegian Tilda. The buttons are from my stash.

 I rolled up pieces of patterned paper to make that sweet kind of flower that look so gorgeous on other people's layouts,...lol!

 Banner in  a combo of October Afternoon and Tilda. I used a doily and apart from distressed paper you can see I used the lace borderpunch here.

 Those lovely blue chipboard letters that I have been hoarding were made by Pink Paislee. I seem to love everything they do!!

 I am off to watch a couple of episodes of NCIS with my DD.Don't you just LOVE it when you have days off?!! No need to get up early tomorrow morning and we have all been in our pj's for hours!

Take care 'till next time!