Little Corner of Ania

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The kids loves to listen to stuff@youtube and I figured I'd show them some quality-stuff..like Knutsen&Ludvigsen ;p Since my CD is sorta scratched and stuff.... :p

Anyways. Sharing some recent projects....

Fancy Pants Designs "Rough & Tough" collection - not only for boys ;p
Totally loved the photos of the kids from the late wedding we attended ;p Just look at Adrian in the background looking at Amalie......... :p This layout was my contribution to the product-spotlight at their blog..

A cute babycard - love this paper from the "Little Sprout" collection (Fancy Pants Designs aswell). This one was for the spotlight on the "Little Sprout" glitter die cuts (go check out Amy Petermans supercute frame. Loves!).

This layout is made with Nikki Sivils "Boo-tiful" collection and was created for the sketch inspiration. Love the intense colors of this line. Gorg! Go check out the other ladies' interpretion of the sketch :) This is by the way also my last creation as official DT-member of Nikki Sivils - I've enjoyed my term at the doghouse! :)


And finally - here's the Pencil-Lines layout - for sketch #153 w/Debbie Nicholas as the guest. Mixed some Jillibean Soup, Hambly & Shabby Chic Crafts tags for this one :)


Right! Busy w/a few scrappy deadlines looming above me but what do I keep scrapping? Some non-deadline-just-for-fun-stuff! Ahem duh. Have a lovely weekend - I'm atm situated in my scrappy corner sipping red wine & scrapping away *snicker*

Title: "Kanskje Kommer Kongen" -Knutsen & Ludvigsen

I'm falling behind on sharing my various scrappy projects. Usually I create stuff I can't show right away, and once I can I do immediately (or close to) - but there's been stuff like my bday&starting a new work and stuff lately so....!

Sorry!

Right, nuff w/the apologizes....I'll start w/the Nikki Sivils stuff for September - I simply fell in love w/her gorgeous line "Boo-tiful" (such intense colors...!). Sure, it's quite Halloweenish, a thing that's not really commonly celebrated here in Norway, but who says you need to use it for Halloween-stuff only?

Here I used it for a photo of...uh...well, it's a testshot I did at a girl/scrap-trip and some of the girls (I know who it is!!) thought it was fun to ruin my testshots w/bunnyears ;p It's a "just for fun"-layout and I love the way it turned out :)


Ok, can't ignore the Halloween-aspect of the line entirely - so I made an Owl-candybag out from the 6x6" paperpads and the Owl-chipboards (yes, an owlshaped minibook made of chipboards - I know there's a lot of owl-lovers out there! And if you're not - well - they do make cool bags for Halloween uh? :P). The paperbag is sprayed w/Glimmer Mist (graphite).

Right! Movin' on to Fancy Pants! :)
I made this bookmark for my son who asked me if I could help him find a bookmark (he started reading books for real..books w/lots of tiny text and none or few pictures :p... this summer and I couldn't be more proud of the fact that he actually likes to read...yayy!!)

Anyways.
I used a piece of chipboard from the Mix-n-Match chipboards, a sheet of the edgepaper from "Rough and Tough" and a lot of leftover-rubons from both newer and older lines from Fancy Pants. Oh, and the kraft-alphastickers :) If you wanna see more ideas for this border-paper from the Rough & Tough line, head over here :)

I also created a little grocery-list & noteboard outta the 8x8" square Mixed Media books, a sheet of paper from the 8x8" pad from "The Daily Grind" and a bind-it-all. For more info and instructions, check out this post :)


Just do remember extra strong magnets. When I went to the craft-store to buy myself some magnets for this project, I found something called jewellery-magnets. And they were like, small, silvery & elegant and darn strong! Way stronger than the usual large, black magnets I remember from my childhood (which I also purchased by the way....having a small stack of magnets here should be somewhat handy hm? I think..).

And finally - a Pencil-Lines sketch (151, guested by Irene Tan) w/white corrugated cardboard (LOVES!), IKEA paint (LOVESx2), glimmermist (love how it's perfect to white corrugated cardboard..note to self tho: Spray first *then* add paint. Not the other way around. Rly.) and pieces of Hambly Screenprints, Fancy Pants, Bazzill and Scenic Route (the chipboard).

Title: "Nobody's baby now" -Nick Cave (whatev)

Am attending a wedding tomorrow - hence this wedding-card made w/Hambly (and yes! - Hambly totally is the to-go-manuf when it comes to creating wedding-cards IMHO :) ) & Prima yummies (and I love the pearl-thingie from 7gypsies which's dangling along the spine/fold aswell :) ). Decided to go w/the paper & transparency-combo once again. I really like these kind of cards - it looks so nifty w/o you really having done much to it sorta :) Looking forward to this wedding (& to not have to photograph all the time for once :) )!


Over at the Nikki Sivils blog the dt-team has created a lot of stamp+card inspirations. Here's my contribution - a quite simple card using the cherry stamp from "My sweet Cherry Pie" & embossing.

And here's my Nikki Sivils layout for Aug using "Henrys brilliance" & a bit of "My Sweet Cherry Pie", aswell as a two year old photo of my oldest first day at school.

Have a wonderful (rainy) weekend! :)

Title: "This Time Tomorrow" - Marit Larsen

Still in the vacation-modus for a few more days...which makes me feel pretty lazy :p
Am trying to work my way down the todo-list though, and slowly feeling the mojo come back..babysteps...

Sharing my two Nikki Sivils July-stuff - once again with the "My sweet cherry pie"- line :)
I've become quite fond of mixing papers from the 12x12 and 6x6 paper-pads...did so both on the card and the layout :)



Oh and I finally got around to join the Pencil-Lines this week - it's been a while due to vacation & stuff :) We were guested by a Japaneese designer this week, Kaori Watanabe.. I used papers from Upsy Daisy & bits and pieces here...oh, and a quasi-swedish title ;p

Right. Moving on..

Title: "The princess bride"

Ugh.

I'll go with the popular subject these days and whine some about the heat. It makes me drowsy. Drowsy drowsy drowsy! I don't like it! (ok I like that I can wear summery & light clothes now, but other than that - too much sun and heat is ugh)

Anyways. Don't have much to say (blaming the heat here making me drowsy..did I mention that already hm? :p), just wanna share some recent stuff..


My two last layouts for the Bella Artista-guestthingie for Bella Blvd :)

Pencil-Lines #141 w/Christiane Muller :) :)
I borrowed the title (the idea of "name"²) from a layout I saw not long ago - I am so sorry that I can't recall whose layout, just saw how she did the title and thought "Oh neat!". Thanks whoever this was...I am sure it was a Norwegian....(and sorry for not recalling who you were :p). Anyways. Point is - my Amalie loved playing with Banglamarie's Amalie in her adorable pink dollhouse..so hence the title: "Amalie²" :)
I used various bits and pieces of old and new Fancy Pants for this layout :)

And then we got Nikki Sivils' "My Sweet Cherry Pie" - easily my favorite from her :)
Seriously, when thinking of my friend whom I made this layout about I can't help but smile - she's such a genuine force of nature - I am so glad she's my friend :)


More "My Sweet Cherry Pie"- this time a card - I also used one of her stamps on the twill-ribbon - I really like how it turned out :)

Right. Hope you're surviving in this heat - have a nice week :)

Ps! Just finished the Twilight-series. Mhmm. Personal opinion? The two first books were a bit dull. Like, blah blah blah yadayada. Third book was (thankfully) more interesting, and the fourth book was very enthralling. Please don't burn me for saying the two first ones were dull!!! :p (and yes I still had to read them all - I'm like - once I've started I had to finish them all) Oh and my personal favorite is Alice. Ofc. ;p

Ps2! Need more books for the Summer! Got any suggestions? Now that I'm done w/the Twilight-series I'm gonna move on to "Good Omens" then one or two of the unread Mo Hayder-books I have here and hopefully "Neverwhere" aswell - mhm.. and that's it for now...

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