"Life Captured" & "10+1=elva"

Hello there!

I've got more layouts to share! The first one is created using a sketch from Silhouette. Instead of two stripes at the bottom I used another cut file from Silhouette, a wave. All the papers are My Mind's Eye; Miss Caroline and background paper is from the All is bright collection.

Quite a simple layout, but still cute. I've put some cut out hearts in the waves and painted the edges with pink acrylic paint.

The title says "Life Captured" and the photo is of my nieces last Christmas at Teneriffe, Spain. We went to a water park - which was so much fun.

On my second layout I tried to use mostly squares and create a grid. It's about my oldest niece who turned 11 this year. The title says "10+1=elva (eleven)".  The papers are from BoBunny's Vicki B. collection.

I still haven't written anything yet. I'm bad at that, especially when I don't really know what to write. 

For the title I've used four different types of Thickers. The big pink flower is created with pink washi tape and purple/pink ribbon and a big pearl from Prima.

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"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...

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Birthday layouts

Hello hello!

Since my last entry was quite the downer, I now show you some birthday gifts/layouts. As you can see there are a pair of Chucks in the picture - pink with folklore pattern - these were a bday gift from my sister and her family. Totally love them! Also, my oldest niece (11) sometimes does scrapbooking of her own and made me and my mom each a bday layout.

The photo she used of me is a few years old. She's starting to understand the whole layering thing.

And she isn't afraid to put the papers outside the lines. 

For my last birthday I created this layout "Flöelseda'". The title is a twist on the word birthday in Swedish, written with Thickers.

I've used washi tape as my background and orange as accentcolor, which also fits nicely to my scarf. 

I stamped the butterflys and the banner with Tim Holtz's "Spicy Marmalade" (orange). 

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Right & Wrong

This post hast nothing to do with scrapbooking, it's just me wentilating a bit...

Det är inte alltid lätt att göra det som man vet är rätt. Och jag är väldigt rädd för att ta konflikter med familj, vänner och arbete. Men när det gäller pojkvänner, både före detta och nuvarande, är det inga problem. Varför förstår jag inte. När det gäller (större) konflikter i min familj kan jag nog räkna alla på två händer, som skett mellan mig och mina föräldrar och jag har nog alltid försökt undvika konflikter för jag tycker verkligen inte om när de är arga, ledsna eller framförallt besvikna på mig. Vet inte riktigt hur jag ska ställa det till rätta igen. Vet inte om det hjälper om jag ersätter den.

Jag känner även, inte bara på grund av det här, att jag verkligen behöver flytta hemifrån. Jag fyllde precis 25 men känner mig fortfarande som 20. Det är alldeles för bra här hemma (i-landsproblem, I know). För att kunna flytta hemifrån behöver jag ett jobb, ett stabilt jobb så att jag kan betala allt. Men hur lätt är det att hitta?! Och vill jag bo kvar här eller ska jag stanna i Österrike lite längre och leta jobb där? Varken där eller här är det lätt att få jobb och bostad. Samtidigt som jag just nu har lite jobb så känns det som att det är lite motigt..

Deppigt inlägg, men behövde skriva av mig lite..

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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!

Card - Congratulations

Hello there!

Hope eveeryone had a nice weekend - I sure did; I went to and amusement park, Liseberg, with part of my family and we hab beautiful weather all day and the longest we stood in line for the attractions were 5 minutes! Since it was my mom's birthday on saturday (and mine is on wednesday) we celebrated it together with a big party - a really nice evening with super nice gifts!

It is not that common that I create cards. And when I do create cards I usually sit down the night before or the same day that I'm gonna give it away. Therefore it really needs to be quick and not think to much.

I noticed that My Mind's Eye chipboards fitted nicely together with this peacock feather paper. The small flower and brad come from my stash.

Here you can see the card from the side and a bit how it's folded. 

When it's opend it looks like this. 

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Adore - My Mind's Eye

Hello!

Today I'm sharing an My Mind's Eye layout paired with flowers from Prima and my stash along with some hearts like the ones I used for my previous layout. 

For the title I used glitter golden thickers and some washi tape behind. 

My Silhouette got to work some here as well: I cut out the pin wheel and the border with it. 

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"Come, give me a kiss" - My Mind's Eye

Hello!

All of us have their favorite manufactors when it comes to paper. One of mine is My Mind's Eye. Here I created a layout with photos of my sister and her husband when we all went to Teneriffa over Christmas 2012. 

With my Silhouette I cut out a bunch of small hearts in different sizes and put them on top of each other. Some of them i also put glitter on. I almost always save my scraps, and this time I found a way to use the part from the cut outs. 

Here's also a little cut out shape with lots of hearts - super cute!

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The Beauty of Fall & Father's day cards - BoBunny

Hello there!

Today I'm showing two cards I made with last years fall collection from BoBunny. The first one is actually a birthday card for my niece who turns 9 in October. I kept it simple and stamped the inside with more sentiments and a "happy birthday".

Here's a close-up!

The second card is a fathers day card (in Sweden this day is in October). It could even work as a birthday card since my dad's birthday is in October as well. The title says: "The best farther, brother, grandpa".

The tiny words come from My Mind's Eye.

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You are my sunshine - Silhouette phrase

Hello!

Really gonna try to show my creations a bit more often since I don't have an online gallery (yet). This layout is created with the BoBunny line Alora, just the "sunshine" is My Mind's Eye paper which also cut out using a phrase from a Silhouette cut file.

The picture is of my youngest niece on midsummers day a few years ago, here in Sweden.

I kept the layout simple with just a few decorations since the papers are quite busy. I also chalked the edges with the same pink as the papers.

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Welcome to the world

My best friend gave birth to a baby girl about 7 months ago. I wasn't home at the time, but still wanted to create something to say "welcome" to the baby. This is what I created: 

The frame is from IKEA, the giraffs from an old wallpaper and the letters from Webster's Pages = quick and easy!

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& you are wonderful - card

Just applied for the Creative Scrappers Design Team Call! Keeping my fingers crossed! Think there's still some time left to apply, so hurry over there!

I created this cute little card. It went quite quick actually: I just used Stampendous encrusted jewel kit - a new fave! some ribbon and stamps in cold and pink.

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Applications applications

...and not the kind you have on your phone. The ones you send in to a company hoping that they will like you and your work. I just wrote one. And I need to write a few more. And I hope I can get some hours of work tomorrow. But this application thing really got me creating again - it's true that the more you create the more creative you become! I will show you later :P Now it's off to bed!

Pinterest DIY Baby Shower

Hello there!

Just wanted to show some DIY-projects that I've seen on Pinterest and tried to do myself. I think they turned out pretty good. I organized a baby shower for one of my best friends and made these little things:

 The first one was to make baby onesies look like cupcakes with a sock in the middle. For this one I recommend small sizes on the onesies. Mine were different sizes, so some worked well and others didn't. But the recipient was happy - and I was too! :)

The next thing I created was these lips with pacifiers (inspired by all the mustaches out there). Pretty cute, I think. For this I used my Silhouette SD and drew the lips and circles. Pretty sure there are pre-made shapes for this, but I didn't have enough money on the Silhouette account :P For the pacifiers, I used the same paper as the invitations.

And a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! :) Have a nice weekend!

2013

Finally, I have gotten my computer back after 2 or 3 weeks without it. One evening when I was working on many things at the same time on the pc it just went bonanza on me and didn't wanna work anymore. Turned out that the hard drive had crashed!! With the help of a relative he managed to save all my more than 41 000 pictures! Which I am so grateful for. I bought a new internal (500 GB) and external hard drive (2 TB) so now I have no excuse not to save my photos :)

I've had a wonderful Christmas with my family at Teneriffe with all inclusive and living right next to the pool = awesome! We tried segways, I tried letting small fish eat on my feet (apperently the latest thing to do), went to a water park, drank "copy" drinks (fake drinks that had the same name as the real ones, i.e. a Mojito tasted like a big breath mint), we (I) went shopping a lot and just relaxed. It was not often I thought of "the real life", and it was so nice not to.

Planning a baby shower for one of my best friends, which is taking place on saturday. Still have a lot to do.

Hopefully I have some work at the kindergarten next week. I really enjoyed it there.

And I'm really hesitant to if I should (or want to) go to Austria again to work. Think I'm still gonna do it even if I don't want to. If it's really bad I'll just go home or find something else. And maybe it's better once I get there?!

Wonder what the new year has is store for me.

"Bonnie" layout w/ BoBunny

Unfortunately I can't remember which sketch I looked at while creating this, think it was Creative Scrappers, but not sure. Anyway, it's about my best friend who's pregnant and they (everyone) call the baby Bonnie (their names put together) until they know which sex the baby has.

Only BoBunny papers, fall collection (last year?) and my Silhouette got to work as I tried it for the first time with the Maroccan pattern and then used the left overs to create decorations (the flower at the top and the long stem under the picture).

CS #233 En av de bästa

Another layout created with a sketch from Creative Scrappers, #233. It's about my mom, "One of the best". Only MME papers and I've used my Silhouette to cut the scalloped edges and the left overs turned into accordion flowers.

Creative Scrappers #229

I really enjoy the sketches and inspiration that Creative Scrappers provide. Here I made a layout about my youngest niece as she blows out the candles. I've combined papers from MME, Crate Paper and My Little Shoebox on and the sketch #229 from CS.