Happy birthday - card

Hello there,

For my oldest niece's birthday (she turned 12!!) I created a card by stitching the title in various colors. After that was finished I cut it out and placed it on a paper from American Crafts collection "Plus one". The black paper with the cameras really fit my niece, since she loves to photograph.

Have a nice evening and thanks for stopping by!

♡♡♡ 2 read - layout

Hello,
Today I'm sharing a layout about my love for reading books. When I have a good book to read it's hard to put it away. On the layout I included a list of the books I read so far this year.

American Crafts paper collection "Plus One" came to use and the border is created from the borders in the 6"x6" paper pad. For the title I used Thickers and created my own word with water colors and the cut it out.

I also colored the flowers with water colors to match the papers and background.

The books on the picture I finished three of them in two weeks! That's fast for beeing me, :P

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Finally

...I've got something to share. My scrapbook supplies are now with me and my mojo is in the house :P A little update: I'm still working six days a week with one fun job and one that's not that fun. My parents were visiting me about two weeks ago, which was great. We went to IKEA, hiking and just spent some time together. Now I hardly can't until the end of the summer whrn I go back to Sweden.

This is a layout for my youngest niece about how you should love and be yourself. I like the way it came out :)

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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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! :)

"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.

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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!

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.

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Have a nice friday!

Stop & smell the flowers

Hey there!

Firstly, I'm gonna stop saving my blog photos in PNG and go back to JPG. Read somewhere that PNG's would be smaller and be faster to upload to my blog or Facebook. I've only noticed the opposite.

Secondly, I have another layout with Washi Tape to show. It's called "Stop & smell the flowers".

I've used some Prima flowers and some other flowers along with burlap, chipboards (painted with a mix of gold and black), buttons. 

For the background I've used 3 different washi tapes and painted with gold acrylic paint. Here and there you can see gold damask rub-ons and left over pieces.

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"Herr & Fru" with My Mind's Eye "All is bright"

Good day!

Today I want to show that themed collections like the "All is bright" collection from MME also works with not only summer photos, but also with wedding photos. My best friend got married last year and I had gotten the honour of taking the official wedding photos (YAY!). My Silhouette go to do some work here as well, I cut out the & in white cardstock with it. After that I adhered washi tape to it and cut off the access.

The title says "Herr & Fru" ("Husband & Wife"). As a little cluster I used some decorations from both MME, Teresa Collins and some things from my own stash.

I think these to just speaks for it selfes. :) 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a nice Sunday!

"When comes the baby?" chart & "Celebrate" layout

Good evening!

For one of my best friends I arranged a baby shower and one of the activities was to guess when the baby would come. This is what I created: Everyone got to put some gold acrylic color on their thumb and put their mark on the day that they thought the baby was gonna come and write their name.

I marked the due date extra with green loose glitter. 

All I needed was a white cardstock (12"x12"), number stamps, a ruler and gold color.

The title says "When comes the baby?" 

 And here's another layout about my birthday from last year. I celebrated with three of my friends and we had an awesome time!

I cut out a bunch of stars, which I've layered, with my Silhouette in glitter cardstock. (The picture is not doing the purple stars justice, though.) Purple paper is from an Swedish or Norweigen creator and the overlay is from Hambly. The title is going to be "Celebrate", I was (am) just lazy with this one as I haven't made up my mind how it should be yet...

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Today was the day I turned 25

Hi there!

Today was (still is) my 25th birthday - and it's been  wonderful! First I spent it with one of my best friends and her 7 month old daughter. We went on a little shopping spree - I could only find a hat and scarf for winter, but they totally matched my jacket! :P

I've gotten quite many wonderful gifts and one of them was to go paragliding (which I wrote about yesterday) here's a pic from that day. Another thing I recieved from my bf was a song he wrong and put together - and not just with an acoustic guitar but with rap and soft music. First time I ever gotten a song - I'm so happy and I cried hearing it the first time! Can't believe I'm 25...

You can listen to the song here:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fbutterb-r%2Fgeburtstag&h=2AQFEokkd

It's in German, a little Swedish and a few words in English :P

My friend had decorated her back seat of the car with balloons just for me! :)

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Reflecting (7 Dots Studio) - the day before the big day!

Hello hello hellooo!

Today is the day before the big day - my 25th birthday! :D 

Anyway, what can you use washi tape for (other than scrapbooking)? I decorated my Silhouette Cameo with this multi-color zick-zack tape. The result was a bit psychedelic, haha! But I really like it, and since it's easy to peel off I can just change it when I feel like it.

When I was in Austria visiting my boyfriend he surpriced me with a big birthday gift: to go paragliding! I've done it twice before and find it awesome and so sweet of him. I created a layout with photos of me a few hours after where I'm reflecting over the day.

For this layout I played with papers from 7 Dots Studio - Messy Head. LOVE LOVE LOVE this collection! Awesome colors and glitter/gold fits really good as well. 

A new product that I also LOVE is the 5-pack enamel/embossing powder that you melt from underneath; I used it all over my layout along with the sunburst. I also stamped and sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

On this one you can see a bit of the paper that I hand stitched and embossed with clear powder.

The journal tag turned out a bit messy, but I like that, cause the journaling is just for me.

Have a nice day!