Category Story January promt

This is my take on the january promt "_____ freaks me out" from Category Stories.


I´ve called mine "so many things freak me out", and writing all kinds of stuff using my Indian Ink and a pen nib. It is not really meant to be read, I just wanted to get it out on paper so to speak.

I used the De vines felt stems from Prima as masks, and misted the LO using one of my Shimmerz Vibez. I then drew around the edges using my pen with nib and Indian Ink.

Materials used:

• PP: Cosmo Cricket (from Togetherness)
• Embelishments: Grunge board letters, Maya Road ribbons, Karen Foster scrap sticks, MLS mini alphabet stickers in Celery
• Inks: Adirondack Cranberry pigment ink pad
• Other: Stamps from Unity and Hero arts

Skissedilla #95

I´ve finally done a challenge! It´s been a long time, and it was so much fun! I used a one of the papers from Graphic 45 steampunk debutante collection. It had a flying man on it, and he didn´t really do that much for my LO, so I went crazy with my Shimmerz and Vibez :-) It was very difficult to get a good photo because of all the shimmer and glitter. You know how paper bend when you load it up with too much mist without letting it dry!

Materials used:

• PP:Graphic 45: Steampunk Debutante, Modern Marvels
• Embelishments: May Arts pleated ribbon, ribbon with pearls from stash, Elle´s Studio 2009 Calendar Tags, October Afternoon Cherry Hill cardstock stickers
• Other: Shimmerz Vibez Vertigo and Sea Monkey, Shimmerz Spritz Rock-a-fella Blue, Martha Stewart hematite glitter (glue: Scotch Quick-dry Adhesive)

October/November sketch challenge from Magpie Club

Finally, I´m ready to post some LOs! The first one is the last sketch from Julie Bonner, over at Magpie Club (the BEST kit club in the world). I totally love this sketch, and it was perfect with the October kit from Magpie Club. (This one is sold out, but the December kit has just gone live)

 

This LO is called "we´ve created all of this", and is a quote from my Grandpa. He said this on one Christmas Eve, while he was surrounded by his family, and his voice was so proud.  I do think it was his last Christmas, and I will never forget it. I guess I have to add this as journaling!

 LO with a photo with my brother and I one spring day. I love the tinsel ribbon from Webster´s pages, and thought it would be fun to use it to "symbolize" the bright green grass.

 I think this might be one of my favorite LOs. I wanted to use kraft paper form my butterflies, and do a really bright and shiny background. I have a bunch of cardstock that I don´t like the color of, so this is my supply for crafty stuff. I started out covering the paper with gesso, creating texture using a paint spatula(?). The I used three Vibez spritz to color the background. I chose the colors from Monicas dress. I´ve used a rubon for the title: "this smile - I live for this smile"

Finaly, I found the time not only to do a challenge, but post it as well. This LO/art thingy is made for this months Category Stories challenge. The promt is ---- is my sunshine, and I desided to make this into "Laughter is my sunshine". I don´t think that needs an explanation!

At them moment I´m playing @home with Claudin Hellmuth and I´ve learned so many fun techniques using paint! I soo wanted to do something using them, and this is what "happened". I´ve also gotten hooked on Donna Downeys inspiration wednesday videos. As soon as I settle in to my new studio, I´ll be starting my own inspiration journal :-)

Materials used:

• Embelishments: Prima Lollipops Flowers, chipboard and grungeboard alphas, Lily Bee Laugh rub-ons
• Paints and such: Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints in Classic Teal, Landscape Green and Yellow Pastel + Multi-medium Matte; Shimmerz Spritz Babys Breath and Shimmerz Vibez Rolling in the Hay
• Stamp: Donna Downey Tree Foam stamp

April Sketch Challenge - Magpie Club

 This LO feature photos of my Granny on her way to feed the calfs. She doesn´t like beeing photographed in her work clothes, but I love theese photos. She´s saying "You´re not taking photos are you?"

Materials used:

• Magpie club - March kit

Ohohoh! I´m Guest Designer over at Category Stories!!!

Finally, I´m able to share my big secret! A couple of months ago I was asked to be Guest Designer at Category Stories in April! I was so proud! I play along at Category Stories every month, its one of the two challenges I do not miss for anything.
I would absolutely recommend you to give it a go!  I love how the prompts make my head spin with ideas, and that I have a month to complete it.

This months prompt is My World, and this is my take on it:

The journaling reads:
«Sometimes I feel trapped in my world, I just want to escape from my cage, fly and be free»

The pattern on the background paper is created in Photoshop CS4. I used pills from the «2 health» digi sticker kit from Valerie Randall and created a brush. I use a Bamboo tablet, and made the size change according to the pressure on my pen. That way I was able to create the floating pills that I printed on to my Pattern Paper from Sassafrass Lass (I use a large format photo printer)

Materials used:
PP: Sassafrass Lass
Embellishments: Webster´s pages (digi elements printed on vellum),  Valerie Randall; Digital Stickers: 2 Health (Scrapgirls)
Ass. Thickers
Other: Rock Candy Distress Paint, Ribbons from stash.

"Small fly knocks over huge load"

 

 

Another LO I made during the crop this weekend. This is a LO with the photos of me the first time I was sitting without support. I´m so focused, and looking straight into the camera.... For a few seconds at least. In the next photo a fly has landed on my nose, and I´m trying to look at it... Of course I ended up tipping over. The title is a Norwegian saying, slightly altered.

This LO was made for a fast scrap challenge, we had a sketch, but unfortunatly I don´t remeber who did it. It might have been from Pagemaps...

I hope you enjoy it! I´m soooo in love with this layout :-)

Recap of the weekend!

I had a great time at the crop this weekend. Even though I was doing Shimmerz and Blingz demos almost all Saturday, I still got seven LOs done. (I´m posting a great tut on a Shimmerz/Blingz/Pearlz technique later this week)

I´m starting of my LO-bonanza with my take on this months promt over at Category Stories:

__was one of her very best friends

ahhh... I keep forgetting to add titles to my posts...

Its been somewhat quiet in here for a while, but in the "real" world so much has happened! Only one hour ago I got the final clear for MHF! So, now its mine, in all its glory!! It feels great, and at the same time horrible. Its such a huge step on my road to recovery, luckely its will be an extreme makeover, just not done in one week, so I wont have to move out of the comforts of my family home just yet...

I´ve also been asked to hold my first demo next weekend, showing of how to use Shimmerz and Blingz. Thats pretty exciting, and I´m twisting my mind how to showcase them in the best way. I use my Shimmerz all the time, but its a bit different showing others how to use them!

I´ve done a few LOs as well, I can´t show all of them just yet, only my take on Julie Bonners March sketch over at the Magpie Club.

 

I wass struggeling with last months sketch, but this one just came together like something that comes together really easily ;-)

I´m doing a class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking at the moment called Go Hybrid! So, I included the tasks from the first week, which was to use a didi tag and do my journaling/title work on the computer. I don´t do tags that often, so I enlarged the tag provided in the class and used it as a photo mat. I made journalingstrips in PS as well, and printed it all on my brand new "brown paper packages" paper from Couture Cardstock.

 Title: Picking Blueberries

Journaling: Picking bluberries with Grandpa. I think this photo was taken in the fall of 95 or 96. Grandpa is picking, you are eating. Why I´m holding you I have no idea, but at least the weather was nice....

I find it really difficult journaling photos taken so long ago. I figure it is more fun that I write something. "at least the weather was nice" is such a standard sentence used in all kinds of situations, that it makes me giggle adding it to random LOs like this...

 

 

Materials used:

• PP: Cosmo Cricket (?)
• Cardstock:Bazzill: Swiss Dotts, Coutrue Cardstock: Brown Paper Packages
• Embelishments: Webster´s pages: Ribbon, Prima: Velvet Heirloom Leaves, Vintage buttons colored with Alcohol inks, BG: opaline half pearls, assorted chipboard alphas colored with Vibez in Blue Jeans, Sande Krieger; digi tag (Borderline 5 digital kit)

February Sketch Challenge - Magpie Club

This was one tricky sketch I tell you! I made one in the beginning of February, and I was not satisfied, so I decided that I had loads of time to get one more done. Then someone came and stole February, at least I have not seen anything of it since... And here I am, in Oslo, with only my December kit, a couple of photos, scissors and glue. It was a challenge, but I did it!

The photo is of me, Marte and Olav. We  have used all the snow to make a snow man and a snow snake... What else is there to make out of snow? The photo was taken in 1991.

 

  

  

 

Materials used:

• December Main Kit from Magpie Club
• Kraft paper

Crazy busy....

February has just been the craziest month in a long time... I finally got an offer on my gorgeous flat in Drammen. It was bought by a 70 years old man, and it feels realy strange knowing that an old man is living in "my" home. I only lived in there for about 2 weeks before I got ill, it was brand new and beautiful and warm and all mine...

The last weeks have been hard. I did not like taking the keys out of my handbag, sending them away, and knowing that I´m never going to be there again. I feel like I never got to close that chapter because of my depression...  Anyways... Selling that flat means I have to get a new place to live, after all I can not live with my parents the rest of my life!! I´m still not always trusting my self to choose between apples and oranges, so my Dad and I have been going on viewings in Ålesund. I have quite strange requirements, like a big scraproom and space for a sink to give my dog baths... And preferably a balcony of some sort so that Rolf can sit outside.

Last week we went on a viewing. The flat was soooo ugly... and dirty... and I know someone has died in there, and there was still breadcrumbs on the kitchen counter (the flat was so bad that the relatives of the dead person did not bother to do any cleaning before selling it I guess...) BUT, it has two bedrooms, one "small" one, and one huge! Of course the huge one automaticly became the scraproom, I mean, who needs a great big bedroom? Not me!! And it gets even better. The "scraproom" has a balcony, with views over the mountains and fjord. And there is a fireplace. So, who cares about dead people and seventees  wall-to-wall carpets that never has been cleaned? (theres nice wood floors underneath) NOT ME. After all, it has a GREAT BIG SCRAPROOM! (No space to clean Rolf though... but I do have a degree in Interior Architecture, so I´ll figure something out right??) As I´m leaving for Oslo early Monday morning, my parents are meeting the agent and a plumber tomorrow afternoon to get a quote on the costs for fixing the bathroom and the kitchen. And maybe I´ll be the owner of a "new" place next week?

On top of all this, I´m taking a pen tablet class with Jessica Sprauge, I´ve been working on a DT application, I´ve given Rolf a much needed bath (it took 7 hours...), I´ve had realy bad nightmares the last weeks, and I´ve been wakeing (is that even a word?) up at strange hours. And I´ve rearanged my scraproom and done a "deep clean" in there...

I still have a great big list of things to do before Monday, so, to make things less stressfull tomorrow, I started organizing 5000 photos on my Mac... Way to go Siri!!!

I have actually been able to do some crafty stuff as well... I´ve been doing a lot in Photoshop (because of the pen class), I´ve actually done a digi LO as well! Crazy, I know...

 

This LO is my take on the second February challenge over at the Studio. As always when I just need to do something, but don´t know what, I scrap Rolf. This photo was taken on the 17th of May, the Norwegian National Holiday. As you can see he is all dressed up, with a ribbon in the colors of the flag. Later that day he chewed it to pieces, and now its doing its job as an embelishment on my LO.

The journaling:

" I love my dog. I love celebrating the 17th of May, and eating as much ice cream as I want. I love scrapbooking..."

I just realised that the LO should not have any red or pink on it, so I failed miserably... Well, that fits perfectly with my last week :-) At least I did some crafty stuff!!

Materials used:

• PP: Senic Route
• Cardstock:Scraps of Bazzill
• Embelishments:Ribbon from Rolfs mouth, some metal embelishmets from my stash
• Other: Shimmerz Vibez in Blue Jeans and Red-y Or Not, Dymo, Thickers

I´ve also made a card. I got a big pack of cardstock and chipboard from Couture Cardstock yesterday, and I must say, it is the most fantastic stuff!! You know how cardstock warps when heat embossing? (I know it is not supposed to if you do it right... but I always end up getting that...) The point is that when I embossed this paper, nothing happened! It stayed perfectly flat!! And I cut the bird and the frame out using my craft knife. It cut like butter I tell you, and I even had an oldish blade on it! I can not wait to try cutting it with my Cougar...

Materials used:

• Cardstock: From Couture Cardstocks Red Carpet Collection
• Inks:Versamark 
• Stamps: I don´t know the name, but its from Unity Stamps
• Other:Embossing pen from Tsukineko (for the doodled frame)

The next thing on my list is to pack some scrapbook stuff to take with me to Oslo, draw a winner for my Blogcandy, pack clothes, walk Rolf, make some burgers and watch the Olympics.... Ready, Set, GOOOOOOOO!!

Sketch #46, Skissedilla

 

This weeks sketch over at Skissedilla is created by Carrin. I turen it around, and you might say I made it mine! I just hope it is not too different from the sketch. I just got a bit carried away! I´m sure that is a common disease in scrapbooking :-) Everything I´ve used on this LO I found on my work table. The only thing I´ve added is the background paper, everything else is scraps. I´m very pleased with my self!

 

 

Materials used:

• PP: American Craft, scraps from Hambley (both paper and transperancy)
• Cardstock:Core´dination
• Embelishments: Butterfly button from Chatterbox, brads from table (:-))
• Dies: Candles and Decorative Accent, Swirl :Bigz from Sizzix
• Other:Ribbon from stash (on table I might add....)
• Alphas: ThickersTypo in Mustard

Elle´s Studio Valentine´s challenge

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

At one point the chocolate covers actually had chocolates in them, who knows what has happened to them??


Materials used:

• PP: BG Bittersweet
• Cardstock: Core´dination
• Embelishments: BG Bittersweet
• Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities: Dahlia, Small Labels
• Inks: Distress ink Walnut Stain
• Glossy Accents