Calendar

Can't believe it, it is january 18th already.

The days fly by so quickly.

I feel like this year will go by in just a snap...

No, well, better enjoy TODAY, and don't think about how fast it will go by. ;)

Early in january I created this cute little Calendar with My Little Shoebox papers.

Super easy to make.

Just created the large envelope out of a 12x12 inch paper.

Printed the calendar on to cardstock, and cut out each coaster.

Created 12cards out of patterned paper, that would fit inside the envelope.

Made a hole in the envelope, where the calendar coaster could peek out.

Adhered the calendar coasters to the cards, making sure it would fit inside the "envelope-window".

voila!

A cute calendar to have by the phone, or on the fridge door, in the office.... or wherever you need a calendar.

Make Sure you visit My little Shoebox blog this week for sneak peeks of the NEW super-fun 2011 collections. :)

xo

christmas star ornaments

Hi my friends, and welcome to december 17th.

Hope you are all fine, and enjoying your december.

Today is the last day of school before Christmas for my kids, and the christmas decorating of our house will soon begin.

We save the tree and the most "serious" decorating for the 23rd, (as we celebrate christmas eve on the 24th ;) )

But It is always fun and good to decorate little by little during december as well.

:)

Today I'll share some of my all time favorite STAR ornaments.

Love these tree.

As soon as you know how to make them they can be made in all sizes and variations.

Today I've made it easy for me, by just re-dericting you to some very instructive "how-to"s and videos.

You can find instructions on how to make the above beautiful swedish paper-star

HERE

Mine is not stuck together in the middle, but is all fluffy.

In Sweden these stars are usually made of wood / particleboard ("never" or "spon" in norwegian)

and the large ones have a light-bulb inside, and are hung in the windows.

:)

These super cute little 3D stars are made by Eirun and me the other day.

I love to hang them on the Christmas tree, or use them as decoration on my christmas gifts.

So fun to make and very affordable as decorations. ;)

You can find a great instruction on how to make them

HERE

This LARGE paper-star looks gorgeous in my window.

I used 3ndypapir "felicia" for my star.

My star has 8 points, and are made out of 2 pieces of 12 X 12 inch patterned paper.

The pieces for each point measures 6 X 6 inch, but you can make the star any size you like.

My star is glued together using a hot-glue gun.

In the instruction shown here the star has only 6 points, wich works perfect for smaller stars.

You can find the instruction

HERE

and another step by step tutorial

HERE

Thanks for taking your time stopping by my blog today.

Have fun creating, and enjoy the season!

xo

gudrun

japanese magic paper rose ornament

Hi my friends.

A new ice cold winter day here in Oslo today.

We are facing the coldest november start of december since 1920 ( or something ).

Everything is frozen, white and snowy, and the trees have these beautiful ice stars on their branches.

Beautiful!

Talking about stars and trees ... I have made this cute japanese star ornament for my christmas tree. It is truly cute, and I had so much fun creating it.

I found this video on how to make it at flixya

and I emmediately fell in love.

I added a ribbon on my ornament to make it possible to hang it in the tree. :)

3d Magic Paper Rose Star Kusudama. Not Origami . Easy For Everyb - More amazing video clips are a click away

I made these two little house-ornaments for a blogpost over at the cosmo Cricket blog last saturnay, and thought it would be good to share here as well. Love these little houses. They are so cute as ornaments on the tree ( with a little ribbon from the roof ) or just to use as decoration around the house.

Have a great week!

Butterflies and paint

Hi my friends

and welcome to this weeks inspiration monday (on tuesday ;) LOL)

I have been busy playing with my shimmering acrylic paint and the beautiful butterfly stamp-set "colorful companions" by my Stamp BOX.

So while I'm waiting for summer, looking out on the snow (yes, more snow today :-/ ) I had so much fun doing this little project.

Hope to make you feel inspired to grab your stamps and acrylic paint too :)

For this LO I used a round scallop-edged eggshell colored cardstock.
Butterfly stamps by my Stamp BOX
patterned paper "på vingene" by 3ndypapir
shimmering acrylic paint by PeBeo
buttons
Alphabet stickers by sassafras
My tattered angels glimmermist "golden terracotta" and Tiger lily"
hole punch
black pen

I grabbed my stamps and my acrylic paint.
Used a sponge to add paint to my stamp.
I started out stamping the image several times on the cardstock, using my shimmering orange paint.
I used different butterfy images, and used some red shimmering paint along with the orange on some of them.
This will make the back ground pattern for my layout.

After I finished stamping all my butterflies I pulled out the glimmermist. I opened the bottle and "splashed" drops of glimmermist on to the cardstock with the back of the spritzer.

I used my Tiger Lily" and "golden terracotta" mists for this to add different drops of color.

Let the cardstock dry

While the cardstock with paint and glimmermist dried I wanted to cut out two circles of patterned paper. I used 3ndypapir "på vingene" for my circles.

drawed around a medium sized plate to make a perfect circle.

Cut out two circles using my scissor.

Now it is time to add the picture and the circles to the cardstock.

Added Buttons and the Sassafras letters for my title.

Now I wanted to punch holes all along the beautiful scalloped edge of the layout.

I used my crop-a-dile for this, but you can use any hole-punch.

Added a tiny black border along the scalloped edge and journaling with my favourite black pen.

Voila!

Hope you feel inspired!

And Thanks for popping by!!

have a wonderful day.

gudrun

flower inspiration

Hi my friends. Hope you are all fine.

Finally spring starts to settle for real here and flowers peek up everywhere.

I SO love this time of year! :)

I LOVE flowers, they always seems to make me happy. And after my post on how to made the bouquet I showed at the Hellerud scrapbooking and rubberstamp show Iwas SO, SO inspired by Wenche and her BEAUTIFUL flowers and by the flower challenge on the cocoa Daisy spring crop, to make this little spring bouquet.

My bouquet is pretty simple - most of the work is folding all the parts of the flowers.

I have made this little tutorial on how I made the flowers using my beautiful, colorful My Little Shoebox paper. This papers are perfect for flower-folding. Heavy, doublesided paper. I used hot glue to make sure the flowers don't fall apart.

I found the tutorial on how to fold the flowers here

So, let's just get started on the flower-folding.

For this project you'll need doublesided patterned paper. I used My Little Shoebox, but you can use 3ndypapir, CosmoCricket or any of your favourite heavy Weight doublesided patterned paper.

You'll also need hot glue, metal wire, oasis (green foam to use for flower-decorations) a little flower-pot or vase, scissor and paper-trimmer.

1. I started with 5 equaly sized 2x2inch squares.

2. fold the square in half

3. fold the corners of the triangle up to the top. The triangle ill now have a square shape.

4. fold the upper corners outwards.

5. open up the flaps and flatten, like this:

6. fold down the upper edge of each flap and fold the flap back in half.

7. fold 5 equal pieces

8. glue the folded triangles together.

9. you now have one petal of your flower. Do the same to all the 5 parts of the flower.

10. glue all the petals together. Now the flower is ready.

Make as many flowers as you like in your fvourite colors.

Mine are all in spring-colors. :)

11. attach the metal wire (stem) to the back of your flower using the hot glue.

When all the flowers have stems, grab the oasis and make it fit in to the vase you have chosen for this project. I used a little silver-vase.

Add the flowers and arrange them as you wish. Add green leaves to cover the top of the oasis and little stripes of green paper to make spirals like in this project.

And because these flowers are not in need of sunlight or water this is a perfect decoration for the dark corners of your house that needs to be brightened up a bit. ;)

Hope you feel inspired!

And thank you Wenche for this wonderful idea!

have a great week you all.

xo

Inspiration monday :)

Hi my friends, and happy monday. :)

It is beautiful spring in Oslo today. The sun is shining and the spring-flowers have started to peek out :)

I was so inspired by the spring-weather I just had to create some flowers for todays Inspiration Monday. :)

These flowers are not only cute as embellishments for papercrafts, but can be used as bookmarks for your favourite books too :)

They are made of patterned paper by 3ndypapir, felt, fabric and paperclips.

Cut strips of patterned paper, aprx 1 inch X 12 inch.

Fold the strip as a accordion.

Punch two 1 1/2 inch circles of patterned paper.

Add hot glue to one of the circles and add the accordion-folded paper-strip as a circle on top.

This is now the base of your flower.

:)

Cut out a circle of colorful fabric.

Cut out a slightly bit larger circle of heavy woolen felt.

sew a button on top of the fabric and felt circles.

Attach the felt and fabric circles to the center of the paper flower with hot glue.

Grab the other 1 1/2 inch patterned paper-circle and the large paper clip.

Add Hot glue to the paper-circle and attach the paperclip, and add the paper-flower on top.

VOILA!

The flowery bookmark is ready for your favourite book. :)

Thanks for popping by.

Have a wonderful week.

xo