Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Brrr...

We have just come back after spending Christmas and New Year in Sweden with my family. Had the best of times though I managed to catch a bad cold at the weekend so I feel a little rotten now. Typical timing LOL!

Got a mountain of things to catch up on and a basket over flowing with clothes that needs to be washed and other things that need catching up on so I better get going. Leaving you with a few photos taken on a walk in Sweden just near by parents' house :)

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Lights + Hot Chocolate...

A few days ago I blogged my entry in my Christmas journal about my love for Christmas lights. This is the following spread in my journal:

A photo of some coloured Christmas lights on the left side (new for this Christmas...prism shaped glowing lights that slowly change colour) which I totally love and a documentation of a yummy combination of hot chocolate that I discovered. White hot chocolate with marshmallows and little chocolate covered biscuit balls and then cinnamon sprinkles on top of that. Yum :)

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Reading...

I don't know about you but I love reading! :) I love books. I just wish with every book (well maybe not every book, but...) you got a bookshelf and with every bookshelf you got a space to put it LOL! I'd love to have my own little library in the house...a room full of books and a cosy chair. :) Every birthday and Christmas I wish for books. And with books you need bookmarks...

[Supplies: Sweet Safari - Misty Cato, Border-Line - Lauren Grier, Big Font Pack - Darcy Baldwin
(all SSD)]

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Cards...

I hope you all had some great New Year's Eve celebrations yesterday :)

I just wanted to pop in and show you some hybrid cards made as part of my assignments for Sweet Shoppe Designs CT. They are both quite general sort of cards. Friends cards. The kind of card you can use for any time really, or if you just want to send someone a little note :)

[Supplies: WUB by Robin Carlton, Christy Lyle & MandaBean (SSD)]

[Supplies: Webby Buddies by Penny Springmann, Libby Weifenbach & Eva Kipler
(SSD)]

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a very...

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

"Goin' Nuts" Layout Class...

I designed this class as part of my on-line class work for A Trip Down Memory Lane. Please feel free to use these instructions to make your own layout. You are free to link to this page from any forum etc if you wish. Please do NOT copy this information and/or photos to use for your own classes/forums/webpages without permission.

Supplies needed:
Making Memories – Noteworthy – Delaney Floral
Making Memories – Noteworthy – Delaney Ledger Circle
Making Memories – Noteworthy – Delaney Die Cut Scallop
Making Memories – Noteworthy - Adhesive Glitter Clears #30886
Making Memories – Noteworthy – Diecuts Glitter Box #30287
American Crafts – Thickers – Shoe Box, Pink Glitter #42383
American Crafts – Thickers – Gift Box, Black #42759
Doodlebug sugar coated brads (4 to match your flower diecuts)

Also needed:
Scraps of white cardstock
Glue (I use Herma removable)
Black journaling pen (Zig Millennium)
Charcoal Chalk Inkpad (optional)

Start by cutting your “Floral” paper to size. We will be using the blue side with dots of this as the base for the layout. I scrap in true A4 size, so I cut mine to 29,7x21 centimetres (cm). Please feel free to adapt to another layout size if you prefer.

Pick your photo. I’m using two landscape photos at 10x15 cm. I have trimmed them a little at the top and the bottom so they measure about 8,5 cm tall.

Cut a corner from the scalloped paper (10x10 cm) and two strips from the “Ledger Circle” paper, rip one of the long edges of each piece and then ink the edges.

Attach your paper pieces to your background using the photo below for placement. My bottom strip starts about 2 cm from the bottom edge of the layout and my top strip starts about 5 cm from the top of the layout.

Glue your photos in place and cut off any bits that hang over the edge of your layout.

Cut two narrow strips from the “Ledger Circle” paper, rip one of the long edges on each, ink the edges and attach to the layout with the orange side up.

Use your packs of Thickers to make up your title. I chose to place part of my title on top of my photos.

Create a little flower arrangement partially overlapping the right top corner of the right photo. Use the diecuts and the glitter clears plus some Doodlebug brads for this.

Finally add a square journaling diecut from the pack to the top left corner, journal onto strips of white cardstock, ink the edges and glue in place.

Your finished layout should now look something like this:

I hope you enjoyed my class! Wishing you lots of fun creating your own version!

Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Lights...

A very simple page spread from my Christmas journal today. Documenting my love for Christmas and my love for Christmas lights. I have loved it ever since I was little. I remember all outside trees had white lights in Sweden. But there was one garden in the neighbour hood where they had coloured lights in their outside tree. Wow! I L-O-V-E-D them. And I insisted on going to see them with my parents every time we went for a walk. I would just stand there and be totally amazed with a big smile on my face. Little has changed... :)

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Pages...

This is another spread from my Christmas journal. I wanted to document the decorating of the tree and the differences I find between England and Sweden. I have been grown up with the tradition of taking in and decorating the tree on the 23rd of December. Christmas is celebrated on the 24th. You do see inside Christmas trees up before this in Sweden, but I also do think that the 23rd is probably the most common day to do your tree on.

In England not so. Here (I get the feeling?) it's a lot more "random" when you do it. I love Christmas so we do it early...last week in Nov/first in Dec. That seems to be about as early as you decorate the tree here in the UK. As you go for a walk, lots and lots of trees are up in houses by mid December. So different from Sweden and so interesting. I love it as we always get to decorate the tree twice (in different countries!) :)

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Eating Crab...

Just wanted to come and share another layout from the Cathy Zielske class. (And yes my layout is straight even if the dots make it look like it's not...just a bad photo of it, sorry!)

And yes I did indeed make a layout of a crab. And it's not the first time either! I love crab, it's something I have been used to eating since I was little and the love for it definitely comes from mum. So I wanted to scrap it...and use the great photo of it on the plate LOL! Sorry if you're not a crab person ;)

Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas Fun...

I hope you all had a great Christmas :)

Just sharing a little fun Christmas decoration that I made using a digital kit. You could of course make it however long you like...

[Supplies: "Woody Bits" CD Muckosky (the Lilypad)]

...and another page spread from my Christmas journal: