Vintage Swirlydoos layout

"My Mother's Family"

Here is my 3rd design for Swirlydoos, made out of their great kit "Antique Linen" with some add-ons.
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The picture on this vintage layout if of my mother's family, and it's taken in 1951. My mother was one year old then, and she's the sweet little girl on the picture. On her site you can see her 4 year older sister, and their parents on their sites. I really love this family picture, pics like this is always so valuable.

Here are my close-ups for this time, please just click on them for larger views.
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Thank you for looking, and I wish you all a fab day!

More designs for Swirlydoos!

My 2nd design for Swirlydoos

This is my 2nd design for Swirlydoos as their guest, and this works should have been done weeks ago... But my daughter has been sick for almost 10 weeks, and I'm late with everything. She has been sick with fever (very low and high temps, up and down every hour every day), pneumonia, ear and double throat inflammation. My whole life have been put on "hold" all this time, my daughter is the most important thing, her health first. And her low temps have been really scary, and i have really not slept a single night all these weeks. She has been on 3 cures with antibiotics the last 7 weeks, my pore little 3 year old girl... but finally it looks like she is "ok" again, at least she could go to the kindergarten again this monday after been home for weeks and weeks. I just hope she will stay healthy this time, because last time she was ok it only lasted for two weeks before she was ill again... And of course, it's not just my scrapbook that have been "put on hold" for a while, it's everything! I'm 12 weeks behind in school, I have a lot of designs and works to catch up on, and hundreds of e-mails... So if you are one of those who have sent me an e-mail and still are waiting for a answer, please don't "give up" on me ;-) I will do my best to catch up on everything and answer you all as soon as possible.

Now, back to this layout; it's a layout about a photo shoot from before the war was over. My grandmother is the beautiful model on the pics, and the photographer was my talented grandfather that had photo as one of his main hobbies (because of this I'm so lucky to have a lot of great old photos). This shoot was in a boat on a lake in Røra, Trondheim, where my grandmother grew up.

I used the "Antique Linen" kit from Swirlydoos to create this LO, and I added some add-ons from Swirlydoos. By the way; have you seen their kits? They are sooo great! Please make sure you drop in to their website and check it out!

Thank you Swirlydoos for letting me be your guest this month, and thank you to you all for dropping by! Wish you all a fab. week! Hugs.

Guest Design for Swirlydoos!

Swirlydoos Guest Design

I am so lucky and so honoured to be the guest for November at Swirlydoos!
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This LO I made out of their amazing kit for November, "Antique Linen". The white Prima flower is from their "signature" add-on kit.

Due to the slow postal services, I have not managed to do more then this single layout yet. But, I'm really looking forward to have a lot of fun with the rest of this beautiful kit the next few days, so I promise there will be a few more layouts in the next days.

Here I used a Hambly overlay as a main background, and added splashes of Glimmer Mist (Black Gold) to add some "shadow" and effects on it. I also added a Prima white Lace and a few Melissa Frances Applique embellishes to the kit that I used on this layout.

This layout are based on the beautiful sketch for the month, designed by Beggahuna.
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Thank you so much Swirlydoos for this great opportunity, I really appreciate to be your guest this month! And thank you to you all for dropping by, wish you all a fab. week! *hugs*

A new Prima layout with some amazing flowers!

H2O FUN

This is my latest LO made with Prima products, and I used my favourite flowers released from Prima this year; Mini Lilies and Painted Ladies! Well, I know that I’m not good in English at all, and I’m not even going to try to find a word that can cover how much I love those flowers!!! Just look at them yourself and see!

The picture is of my daughter from last summer, where she is playing in water in a little plastic pool with bucket and spade.

The yellow bird is a vintage paper die-cut, and I created a stem it could sit on with a piece of a lime cord.
The bricks in the background I created out of a Prima back packaging for ribbons. I just cut out the bricks, placed them around on the white Bazzill canvas background, and then added Ranger white crackle paint to the edges of the bricks and around on the paper, before I used some Tattered Angels (Turquoise)Glimmer Mist on.
I also added a green Prima back packaging under the main photo to embellish the layout.

This time I chose to sew on a lace on all the four outer paper edges, but then only added strips of Prima pattern paper on two of them, on top of the lace.


Thank you for dropping by everyone, and I wish you all a great day! ;-)

Halloween "Trick or Treat" projects

Very easy "Trick or Treat" Prima packaging projects.

This time I created some very EASY and fun projects just in time for Halloween! I made these projects to show how you very easily can re-use a lot of Prima packaging for Halloween. This is fun to make, and it's environmentally friendly too!






The black treat bag is created out of Prima's NEW Hydrangea flower bags! (533458) I colored the green packaging area with a black Ranger dabber. And I just draw the "owl" on top with white paint.. A Prima "T" sticker tag (830137) is added to the front with "treats" written with Ranger black Stickles glue. I added a green ribbon on the top so you can carry it with you as a little bag.

The adorable glass bottle with candy is a Prima flower bottle with the metal tag already attached (you can use Got Flower bottles too.) I created the "pumpkin" on top by painting the cap with orange acrylic paint and adding a green stem from covered wire (you can also snip off the stem from one of Prima's new vines and use that (533687).) Fill with candy or other decorative pieces.

Here I used Prima's Sprites flower containers (534172) to hold the yummy black licorice candy, while decorating the outside with Prima papers ("boo" and cut-out bats), crystals, felt frames, clear tape (811037) and a sultan center! The white ghost is simple to make too...just draw a ghost with an applique pen...then heat it up for the bubbly effect.


Prima's new stamp packages are absolutely perfect for re-purposing! (534509) Here I painted the top of each green cardstock package with Ranger orange crackle paint ...then I used a Prima stamp (Crenee) on top of the paint. Then I cut the top off of the plastic bags to make them shorter (these are the plastic bags from the stamp packaging.) After filling the plastic bags with candy I stitched each one to a green package...covered the seam with ribbon and added a Dymo label to the front! This would be a GREAT project to make if you have a lot of treats to hand out...just save up your Prima packaging!

For these treat bags I used Prima's Center Kiss packaging (524722). I used Prima's "Little Boo" Halloween paper line (860165, 860196, ) to cover the top of the package..(.to add a decorative edge use a Fiskars edge punch. Cut out the hang-tab hole with a scissors.) I stitched the paper on for a fun touch, but you could just use adhesive too. Slip the altered package back in it's original bag and add candy. Staple a fun ribbon to the top and you are DONE! Sooo easy to make! :-)

Thank you so much for dropping by, and I hope you could find some inspiration for how you can re-use your Prima packaging ;-) Wish you a great week! *hugs!

I'm so proud to announce that I'm on a new DT!

I'm a designer for Onirie! :-D I'm so happy and so proud, this is really an honor! Onirie is a French brand with some AMAZING designs, I really really LOVE their papers and stuff! So when I was invited to be a part of their team, I simply couldn't resist! I just love to play with their designs, and can't wait to play a lot more with it! :-D

I really recommand you to drop by to their blog and to their website to check out this great brand!

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Here are the layouts I have made with Onirie papers so far;

And here you can see some of their AMAZING paper designs;

Can you see why I couldn't recist being a part of their team? I just can't wait to play with it all!!! :-D Thank you Onirie for giving me this great opportunity!

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Thank you for dropping by, and I hope to see you back soon. Wish you a fab. weekend! Hugs.

It's time for a Prima fall layout

You Really Glow in the Colors of Fall

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This time I created a fall layout with pics of my daughter from last fall. This one I really made in a short time, hope that dosn't show too well ;-)

I used tons of Prima products, and I actually choosed a pattern paper that really dosn't look like to fit on a fall layout at all in first place, but with some extra techniques and embellish, it's fun to see how things can work out together after all.

One tip here; if you have two totally different colors that dosn't fit well together in the first place, add in the colors that goes in between those two and let them lead the different colors together ;-)

.Here are my close-ups for this time, just click on the images for larger views;

Prima "Paradise City"#840792 paper that I used.

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Thank you for dropping by, and I wish you all a fab. weekend! *hugs ;-)

Happy Birthday Pencil Lines!

Happy Birthday Pencil Lines!

Pencil Lines are celebrating 3 years online, and are having this amazing weekend over in their blog. Please make sure to drop by and check out everything that's going on over there!

And I'm so honored to be one of their guest this weekend, and I have created this LO and a sketch that can be seen here. I would LOVE to see your work based on my sketch, so please drop by Pencil Line and check it out! ;-)

The amazing papers I used on this LO is from Onirie, I just love their designs!

This time I tried out a sheet of Claudine Helmut Studio Canvas with sticky back. I used it as "photopaper" and printed a photo background directly on it before I sticked it on a white cardstock (like this I created my own pattern paper that matched the theme and photo). Then I stamped on it with clearstamps from Inkadinkadoo to add the streetlight/lanterns in black. Then I added the photo on that shows my daughter that is learning to walk with her father. I choosed to embellish the picture on the canvas with mulberry roses, and glued them direcly on where I felt it looked most natural and "3D". The beautiful butterflies are die-cuts from Onirie's pattern papers that I used. I also added Prima letters (Whispered Words) and Melissa Frances white "Applique" embellish.

The great online store TreL.no has Onirie papers in Norway, and I got most of my products on this layout from them. They have a lot of great stuff, so if you live in Norway, please be sure to drop by them and check out their great online store!

Here are my close-ups for this time, please just click on them for larger views.

Thank you for dropping by everyone!

And again, huge congrats to Pencil Lines; - hope your amazing sketch blog will keep going strong and to inspire scrappers around the world for many many years to come!