Dec FMS Photo A Day

Good evening! 

This month I decided to do the Photo-A-Day challenge each day. I put each days prompt in my phone as a reminder. And I have taken one photo a day! Here's a few days:

Day 19: 'Tis the season to... be packing for Christmas with the family and working in Austria this winter season.

Day 7: 6 o'clock: Talking a walk in the snow (that unfortunatly was gone the next day). 

Day 2: Where I stood; on my fury carpet next to my bed, whenever I get up and whenever I get into bed. 

Day 3: Silver; My snowflakes decorations. 

Day 4: Tiny; ornaments/reflections. 

Day 5: In the cupboard: Books I have read - and like! 

Day 6: Shadow; The shadow from my table with some of my mists in their packages. 

Day 8: Where I shop; At that moment I was buying a gift for my best friends 10 months old little girl.

Day 10: R is for... remembering what I did a year ago; walking in the snow home from work. 

Day 1: Red: My Christmas star in my window. 

Check out FMS Photo A Day over at Facebook! Many fun and great photos!

Thanks for stopping by!

3rd of Advent and a Bday Card

Happy 3rd Advent!

Now it's not many days left till Christmas! :)

I have a friend whos birthday is on the 31st of December. So I thought I make a Holiday card and a bday card in the same.

I used Christmas colors and made gifts in the middle - just a little something I saw on Pinterest.

Have a nice Sunday and thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Cards Part 2

Hello there!

Here's another set of X-mas cards I made. I like to use different tecniques for each item I make.

This one is layers, layers and more layers with embossed heart that says "Merry Christmas".

For this one, I got some "Pinspiration" (Inspiration from Pinterest). I placed rhinestones on a plastic sheet and the made a bow - and done! Love it!

Here, I used rhinestones and the dots that are leftovers from the Thickers sheet. Perfect for a simple card or just embellishment!

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Christmas Cards Part 1

Hello hello!

This year I decided to make my own Christmas cards. I'm not that much of a card maker, but when I know for who the card is, it's more fun. I've tried to keep them all simple so that they won't be to bulky or heavy in the envelopes.

Here's a card with a glitter heart of felt.

Here I cut out a stencil and stamped "Merry Christmas"/"God jul" in gold and red. 

On this one it's mostly washi tape and adhesive which I poured loose glitter on. 

Looks maybe as more work, but it's only ribbon  cut short and glued to the cardstock. Over it I've used paper from BoBunny's Snowfall.

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"Go your own direction" w/ CS sketch #254

Happy Monday!

And it's here again - Monday. Today I'm sharing another layout created using sketch #254 from Creative Scrappers. Again, I've used MME's line Cut & Paste along with stamps and chipboard stickers from Basic Grey and Pink Paisley.

The text on the photo says: "It is easy to stand with the crowd, It takes courage to stand alone" - which I think is hard at the age of 9 or growing up nowadays. The photo is of my youngest niece.

At the same time as going your own way, you should make sure you enjoy the journey as well, somehow.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Surprice! Layout w/ CS Sketch #256

Happy 2nd Advent!

The snow came and went...

This layout was supposed to me in the competition over at Creative Scrappers. Buuut, since I'm a bit slow on the photographing my creations and due to the fact that I didn't have Internet for 4 days, I couldn't upload it. Too bad for me, but I'm showing it to you now!

I've used papers from MME's Cut & Paste line and Chalk line.

My bf took this lovely photo.

Almost all the little chipboard stickers are from Basic Grey (the title as well).

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a nice evening!

Advent Calendar w/ Winterland from Fancy Pants

Good evening!

One day I turned overambitious and created an advent calendar for a good friend of mine and her little family. I already had the photos in mind so it was just to decorate. I tried not to open the calendar myself, then they probably wouldn't close that well.

I've kept it simple, since I didn't have much time, with just a few decorations. 

Stamping, glitter glue, double adhesive tape with glitter poured on it, mini pearls, thickers and more is what I've used. 

Behind some of the numbers I wrote something for them to do - just little simple things.

The great thing was that she loved it! :)  

Have a great night and thanks for stopping by!

Birthday card with BoBunny

Good evening!

It's ten in the evening here and I 'm starting to get tired. I have been creating Christmas cards almost all day (I even cleaned my room). The other day I saw this tree from my window and I thought it looked so gourgeos in the sunset I had to take a picture of it!

On Tuesday it's my bf's birthday (he already recieved four gifts) and I wanted to send him a card. I quickly put this together and wrote in both Swedish and German on the back. I hope it will arrive on his day! 

I've used a white cardstock and paper from BoBunny's collection Snowfall, and a little moose sticker. "Manly" colors, but still some glitter to see that it's my design. :)

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Halloween pic

Hello hello!

Just wanted to show a picture of me from my birthday/halloween surprice party that my friends put together. 

They dressed me up as the Little Red Riding Hood, with a basket and everything. A friend made a foux scar on my cheek (the big bad wolf had been chasing me, but I got away).

I am gonna scrap these photos, sometime, I just need to figure out which ones (there's too many of them) and how! Meanwhile I'm doing another layout with MME's collections Cut & Paste and Chalk Studio.

Have a nice thursday!

Thanks for stopping by!

New Bike - MME Cut & Paste

Hey there!

I'm having a lovely weekend; my oldest niece is here and we have been watching movies, played cards and just spent time together. And I just saw her wishlist for Christmas - and she wishes for a camera (the big ones) among other things. She's 11. The youth is growing up waaay to fast!

This layout is called "New bike". She got it when she turned six. I've used papers from MME's new collection Cut & Paste. The letters are from Theresa Collins.

Here you can see the washi tape behind the arrows.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Iphone Tetris Case

Good evening!

Today I've been inside the whole day reading "Fifty shades of Grey", finally. It's hard to put the book down, I usually fall asleep after 10 pages. But in barely two days I've read 140 pages! Now I could use some air, haha!

Anyway, over to the hobby-stuff. Another gift I created for my bf was this Iphone case with studs. I looked around on Pinterest for some cool new shapes - and then it hit me: Tetris!

Firstly I sprayed the studs with spray (the kind you can use for when the nailpolish should dry faster). I've used three differend kinds of studs. On some of them I cut the things on the back off or just bent them in. 

I then glued them on with superglue for it to really last long. You can see I also glued around all the studs, also for lasting longer since the phone goes in and out of your pocket/bag quite often.

Need I say that he loved it?!

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"Cocoa Cuddles" w/ BoBunny Snowfall

Hello there!

I'm back after having my bf here visiting me from Austria. We've had wonderful days (even though I had to work a little); On the 2nd of November my friends had planned a surprice party for me (my birthday is in September, haha). That was a big surprice, but then they brought in my bf and I was soooo shocked. He wasn't coming for another two days! I am so happy that they organized all that for me and that almost everyone could be there.

Even better was that we were all dressed up (since it was the weekend of Halloween) so now I can finally scrap some Halloween-layouts of my own! :)

Since my bf comes from and lives in Austria, we can't see each other that often and I won't be able to visit him for his birthday I thought I'd give him a few gifts now. Here's the first one (that he begged for :P)

Title says "Cocoa Cuddles" and is cut with my Silhouette. I was totally inspired by Nicole Nowosad over at Jillibean Soup, when she made the chevron background. I've used several papers, back and front, from BoBunny's Snofall collection.

This piece of wood is distressed and then embossed with clear embossingpowder. I've tied three diffrent yarns along the layout.

A little bit of everything here and there.

I also used the leftover pieces as decorations/for quick journaling.

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Advent Calendars

Good evening or maybe I should say "Happy Halloween"!

Here in Sweden we don't really celebrate Halloween, but people still have parties and dress up and kids go around the block asking "Trick or treat?!", just for fun.

Anyway, I started to think about advent calendars in scrapbook format, when I stumbled upon this:

It's a whisky advent calendar! It's neat and would fit really well for my dad. The only thing is the price... The one I was looking at costed  £150 (about 1500 SEK). Pretty much for liquid of ca 75 ml.

So my dad came up with something else, still a calendar with things you can open but with the name of a whisky. Then you (he) can go and try it out! And for smaller whisky collections you can repeat some of the best ones. Simple and a little fun for the whisky fan. Can also be done with other things.

And then I started to think about advent calendars in the 12"x12" format and found this nice one made by Erdbeerlöckchen: 

There's always these "photo-a-day"-challanges and I thought I would take a photo each day until Christmas and make it like a calendar with lids that can be opend. I've always like the little albums people create about the days in December, but felt it was too much (and too much PL for me). So this is a great way to document everyday until Christmas :)

And this one (above) is my own. My mom sewed and hand stiched it for my siblings and me a long time ago. Last year I hung little peieces of Milka Chocolate (Austrian milk chocolate) in it. Haven't made up my mind yet what I should hang this year.

Thanks for stopping by!

Internet, Internet, Internet...

Hello hello!

Bad update here - I know, but I have my reasons. Not only there's no enough light to photograph my creations, there's also the fact that for several days (maybe more than a week) my Internet connection has been totally slow. Like snail-slow. Which has been really annoying; for each blog/website I visit the pictures are loading for a loooong time and then fail to load = update page several times.

And, when I want to watch something on Youtube that is 10 minutes short, it buffers for 40 minutes and then I can watch 2 minutes... I am so sick of this. Luckily, this doesn't last forever (just a week or so). 

Enough wining.

I've added to my scrapbooking supply with new papers and embellishments. The thing is only that I have the inspiration but no idea which photos to go with the papers. So, I now I scrap the layout first (cutting, pasting, decorating) and then look for the photo(s). Seems a bit backwards :P But all ways are good except the bad ones!

Thanks for stopping by to "listen" to my wining!

Page Maps Sketch

Hello!

It's been a little while since the last post, not that I don't have anything to show - I do, it's just that work and lack of good light has come between. So, today I thought I would show a sketch from Page Maps that inspired me to create a layout called "Reflecting".

Sketches are great to get the inspiration going along with the creativeness.

Have a nice friday!

Take me to the Beach - layout

Hello hello!

Fall is here and it's beautiful, but I have a christmas/summer layout to share. The pictures are from our Christmas holiday last year when we went to Teneriffe, Spain. It's called "beach" and the whole text says "Take me to the beach, waves at my feet, wind in my hair, sand on my toes, sun on my face" (a little something I found on Pinterest). 

To create the stencil I used a big circle stencil from Crafters Workshop and simply traced the circles and cut everything by hand. It was however very timeconsuming, so I probably won't do this again. I've also used a 6"x6" paper pad from American Crafts "Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic" along with white cardstock and gold glitter Thickers.

With my Silhouette I cut out the banners with the text.

The photos fit perfectly in the circles since they were taken with my phone; small and low resolution.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a nice friday!