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2011-01-20T20:06:00.001+01:00

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Canvas

2009-01-06T12:50:00.003+01:00

I've been working on a canvas using different kinds of techniques that I've learned from different workshops I've done during the years.

Long time no see!!!

2008-12-19T14:59:00.002+01:00

Wow is it really September since my last post!? Days have gone by so fast, I have been working a lot with my two jobs and have been scrappin' a little but haven't had time to post it.

I have finished a work shop by Nat which was sooo fun to do! I am very happy with the results. You can see her post here.

This is what I did.

New home card

2008-09-21T09:02:00.003+02:00

On Friday we were invited to my friends Jenny and Paul for a crayfish party. This is something typical Swedish which is normally held in August but we were all busy moving into our new homes so we postponed it to September. Jenny and Paul bought their new home the same day as me and Tommie so this was a crayfish/"welcome to new home" party so I made this cute little card for them. I've used items from July Scrap muse kit.

Materials used: Sassafras Lass, Bazzill rhinestones, October afternoon.

Don't forget about the little RAK contest. See my previous post.

+5000 RAK contest

2008-08-30T08:03:00.006+02:00

Wohoo I can't believe I have reached 5000 visitors on my blog. To celebrate this and to see how many readers I really have I would love to give out a RAK to one reader. This is what I have in mind.

I would love to receive a scrapbook page from you. I have recently bought a new calendar/journal where you can put your own cover page in a pocket in the front of the book. The pocket is 21 cm x 14 cm or 8.3 inches x 5.5 inches.

The rules:

*The page should have my name on it somewhere: Eeva or Eeva Hall.

*You can do a digital page or a paper page or a mix of both. Please don't layer too much so the paper page gets too thick. It might not fit in the pocket. Or I'll just frame it and hang it on the wall instead :)

*Email me your digital page to the email address you find on the left side of my blog.

*If you want to send me a page through the mail email me for my address.

*You can email me for an invite to my online photo album if you would like to use a photo of me.

*Open for all both European and international scrapbookers.

The Winner
Out of all who has sent in I will draw one winner who will get to choose between one 10 dollar gift certificate at your favorite store, or I'll send you a little goody bag full of Scandinavian scrapbooking products (stamps and embellishments). Worth 15-20 dollars.

The winner will be drawn 30th of September so you'll have plenty of time to create.

Interview on scrapmuse

2008-08-20T13:47:00.002+02:00

Hello, dear friends I'm still here :). I know I've been silent for a while. There has been so much to do with the moving yet again but finally to our own place. I am trying to get everything organized in my scraproom but I seem to have more things than places to put them.

I haven't done any scrapbooking for weeks and I can't wait to get started again. Hopefully I will received my newest kit from scrapmuse before the weekend. If you are interested in learning more about me you can check the newest newsletter at scrapmuse. There's an interview with me.

Other than that there are some great news! I have finally gotten a job! It's only part time and so far after only 3 days I am still lovin' it! I get to speak German from time to time which is GREAT. And the people I work with are really nice.

5

2008-07-26T10:00:00.001+02:00

Today we celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary! I can't believe that it has already gone 5 years! It still feels like yesterday. I did this layout for a journaling challenge over at ScrapMuse so that is why I have chosen to do a layout with no photo.

Materials used: Fiskars and Basic Grey PP, Bazzill CS, Basic Grey: monogram, American Crafts: fleece, Fiskars: Chipboard shapes

Award and news

2008-07-09T12:50:00.004+02:00

I know I have been quiet for a while. So much has happened and I haven't had time to scrap anything. To make a long story short we have moved again. We are now living in a small 1 room apartment and the 4th of august we are finally moving to our own "house". We have bought a part (second floor) of a house and will be moving hopefully for the last time in a very looooong time. We will hopefully go back to Hamburg to get our furniture the first week of August so that we don't have to live in an empty house ;).

I got an award from the lovely Mirija.

Here are the Award Rules:
1. The winner can take the logo.
2. Place a link to the person that send you the award.
3. Give the Award to at least 7 other Scrapbooking-Blogs, which by its currency, the issues of choice and for their designs are especially noteworthy.
4. Put a link to these sites on your Blog.
5. Write a comment on their Blogs that they've won an Award .

Hmm already many of my favorite blogs have gotten this award.. I want to give this to dear Tanja who does amazing layouts and cards.

Take a look at her blog.

Sunny Öckerö

2008-06-24T11:17:00.000+02:00

This is a scraplift of Leslie Ashe's layout "My greatest gifts" which I did for the DT try over at Create my keepsakes.

Journaling: We spent a sunny day on the island Öckerö. Here we are eating lunch at the harbour.

Materials used: CS Bazzill, PP K&Company, Alpha and fleece American crafts, Ranger Alcohol ink, Clear flower Clearscraps, button brad chipboard and flowers unknown.

I love pink

2008-06-23T09:09:00.003+02:00

I created this layout for a DT search over at Create my keepsake. I didn't make it to the next round but it was fun to try out!

Journaling says: I love the colour of pink! Whenever I go shopping for clothes or scrapbook stuff I always stop at the pink section. My eyes catches the pink stuff right away.

When I got married my sister and my parents had planned a big surprise for us. They had contacted a friend theirs who has old cars so we were picked up by this beautiful pink car!

Materials used CS Artic frog, PP Danyeela patterned paper, Sassa Fras lass, My minds eye, Creative imaginations, Journal tag Making memories, Brads Craft Market and ? ?. Hearts Craft market, Ribbon Value Craft, Alpha ?, Rubon Heidi Grace.

" Lucy's challengewhite brings peace I'm loving you"

2008-06-22T13:24:00.000+02:00

Lucys challenge was to create a layout in white and only adding very little other colors. I didn't have that much white at home but I managed to create this layout. Thank you to Marianne Kiiskilä who took this photo of me and DH.

Materials used: Scenic route, love Elsie, American crafts, Prima, Bazzill. Flowers and brads??

Nat's challenge My dream house

2008-06-21T13:19:00.000+02:00

Nat's challenge was to create a layout with the word House or a house on the layout.

Materials used: basic grey, K&Company, Sassa Fras lass, the paper loft, love Elsie, igoodie bag, Hambly.

The alpha and stars are from igoodybag from SISTV. I've just change the color of the alpha. "Cupcake Confetti" by CC_SISTV_KAT and Cardboard frame made by F_KAT_SIStv for designed exclusively for Scrap In Style TV, LLC, also known to the online community as www.scrapinstyletv.com and www.sistvboutique.com.

THE HOTTY CHALLENGE

2008-06-20T13:16:00.000+02:00

Not that I wouldn't normally scrap another hotty than my DH but I know he wouldn't want to be shirtless on my blog :). This challenge was to create a layout with a shirtless hotty.

I found this HOT picture of Orlando Bloom :). I've used patterned paper from the lovely Danyeela patterned paper. Rubons are from Creative imaginations, flowers?, I've created a small pocket where I can put more hot pics ;). PS my DH thinks I am crazy ;)

Ravenea's Rockin' Challenge NKOTB

2008-06-19T13:13:00.002+02:00

This challenge by SIStv was all about music and how it has affected you.

Hehehee NKOTB has touched my soul :). When I was young I was a HUGE NKOTB fan. My room was full of posters and I listened to them 24/7. Me and my best friend danced and sang to their music every day and we also have a tape (both video and cassette) where we sing and dance :). Whenever I hear a NKOTB song I think back on my happy childhood and all the fun we had. Now I listen to my old mixed tapes when I do spring and winter cleaning :) makes even cleaning fun *LOL*

Materials used: Pink Martini, Scenic route, Bazzill, Love Elsie

SISiversary Dad Challenge Someday

2008-06-18T17:21:00.000+02:00

I made this dad challenge for my husband.

Photo is of my DH and his nephew Dante. I've chosen to cover Dante's face.

Materials used: Kaiser Kraft, Bazill, Creative imaginations, Scenic route, Junkitz, American crafts.

My favorite shoes Lesley's 4am Five Plus a Day

2008-06-18T10:16:00.000+02:00

For this challenge we were supposed to choose 5 different techniques.

I've picked these 5 techniques:
*Doodling under the title and over the scalloped paper.
* framing the photo
* hybrid printed out the hot tag on white paper
* handcutting the scallopped edges by hand
* stamped my title

It's hard to read the journaling part but it says: These are my absolute favorite shoes. They are starting to be very worn out so I might have to throw them soon.

Materials used: Basic Grey, Danyeela patterned paper, ??, buttons ?, ribbon ?, stamp ?, Hot tag designed exclusively for Scrap In Style TV, LLC, also known to the online community as www.scrapinstyletv.com and www.sistvboutique.com. From iGoodiebag bought for the sisiversary crop 2008.

2008-06-17T16:10:00.000+02:00

Reagan's challenge was to scrap about your age.

Materials used: Danyeela patterned paper, Love Elsie alpha and stickers, Flower? Acrylic paint, Brad? and journaling tag from eGoodie bag. Printable" by SIStv - SISiversary Set_LRF for designed exclusively for Scrap In Style TV, LLC, also known to the online community as www.scrapinstyletv.com and www.sistvboutique.com. From iGoodiebag bought for the sisiversary crop 2008.

Sisiversary 2008 Name tag

2008-06-17T10:05:00.003+02:00

Here is my name tag that we had to do for the Sisiversary.

I've used a piece of packaging that is inside Heidi Swapps ghost shapes. Materials used from KI Memories, Creative imaginations, butterfly brad ?, Prima tape, Alpha Love elsie and american crafts?,

Sisiversary 2008 more layouts

2008-06-16T15:38:00.000+02:00

Next challenge was fun :) I did a digital layout.

This challenge is all about you!! I want you to scrap about you.. about what you love about yourself.. about why you are fabulous!!

"Cupcake Confetti" by CC_SISTV_KAT and Cardboard frame made by F_KAT_SIStv for designed exclusively for Scrap In Style TV, LLC, also known to the online community as www.scrapinstyletv.com and www.sistvboutique.com. From iGoodiebag bought for the sisiversary crop 2008.

Another from the SIStv crop

2008-06-16T13:31:00.001+02:00

This time it was a challenge by Celine Navarro

"MAKE A LAYOUT (any size) with this color combo : YELLOW & GREY :D, 3 different STAMPS
one 4x6 photo and one picture of someone that you will cut around the silhouette :)"

This is what I did

I've taken a photo that I took last week and a photo of my sister that I also took last week.

Materials used: Danyeela patterned paper, Bazzill, the 2 flower stamps I've gotten from a UK scrap magazine, journaling stamp is KLAR-text, Alpha American crafts button ?.

What a weekend!!!

2008-06-16T10:15:00.006+02:00

I've had an amazing and fun weekend. Over at SisTV was a crop weekend all weekend. Full of challenges and classes and fun. I've made a lot of layouts and will be posting them here.

One of the first challenges was "Recycle something from your space and use only the supplies you have left over from the last project you were working on."

I have used leftover scraps from a layout I did yesterday. I've altered a making memories package for brads and made it to a key chain for a key.

This is what I made

Materials: My minds eye Ribbon Value Craft, Alpha ?, Rubon Heidi Grace.Brad making memories.

I see skies of blue (STM)

2008-06-14T13:26:00.002+02:00

I haven't posted for a few days because I was away visiting my parents. We have had wonderful weather, over 30 degrees Celsius in the shadwos for a few days!

Here is my try on this weeks Scrapping the music challenge.

I'm doing a lot of challenges over at SISTV right now so I'm adding the material list on Monday ;).

Manneken Pis (sketch 87)

2008-06-06T11:36:00.000+02:00

This is my try on this weeks sketch from pencil lines. I've chosen to work with a color I normally never use.

Materials used: Bazzill, Danyeela patterned paper, paper from japan, KI Memories: Pop Culture: Silly String, Basic Grey, Heidi Swapp: Journaling Spots: Stars and Moon

Lost in this moment (STM challenge)

2008-06-05T01:51:00.001+02:00

I really loved this weeks challenge at STM and I really really wanted to do a wedding photo. As I already told you I don't have my wedding photos here right now. I'll get them end of June when we go back to visit Hamburg. I do have some photos over at an old online photo album but the size of the photos are so small the quality gets bad when you try to print them. I took this photo from that album because it's my favorite photo of all time. I even have a bigger version of it framed on my wall but of course that frame is also still in Hamburg . I have been playing around with the photo in photoshop to minimize the bad quality. I made it a bit greenish to go with the color combo that I've chosen. It's hard to see that one this photo.

I've chosen to make a very bright layout and used not so traditional wedding colors. The journaling part is taken from the lyrics. In real life it's even brighter than this photo shows.

Materials used: CS Bazzill, PP Rhonna Farrer, Catter box, Danyeela patterned paper, Grungeboard, American crafts, Bo Bunny, Creative imaginations.

XOXO (photo swap)

2008-06-04T08:49:00.002+02:00

I did this for a challenge at CMK forum. Layout is based on a sketch from http://www.pagemaps.com/ (the second one from the June maps) which I then flipped over . I've done this layout for Angela at SISTV who I made a photo swap with.

Materials used: Bazzill, Creative Imaginations, doodlebug, reminisce, American crafts.

Beautiful smile (photo swap)

2008-06-03T12:16:00.002+02:00

I did a photo swap with Jenn and this is the layout I did for her.

Materials used PP from Scenic route, Sassa fras lass and fontwerks, CS from Bazzill, Swirls from Bo Bunny, Rubbon Creative imaginations. Butterfly unknown.

I am unique (photo swap)

2008-06-02T16:19:00.000+02:00

I did this layout for Tina over at SiSTV.

I've used paper from danyeela patterned paper and CS from Bazzill. Rubbon and stickers are from creative imaginations. Brad from K&Company. Flowrs ?.

Photos from Öckerö

2008-06-01T16:12:00.009+02:00

This weekend has been amazing! We are having such a great weather. Today we have over 30 degrees Celsius which is very warm for June here in Sweden. Yesterday we spent the whole day on the island Öckerö. It's only about 20-30 minutes car drive from here and then you take a ferry over to the island. Here some photos I took yesterday. The two photos with the boats are taken a few weeks ago when we also were on Öckerö.

A perfect day (STM challenge)

2008-05-29T14:10:00.001+02:00

Here is this weeks STM challenge. I wanted to do a layout with a wedding photo but all my wedding photos are still in Hamburg so I had to choose another photo.

Materials used: Bazzill, Scenic route, Creative imaginations rub on and transparency, Heidi Swapp ghost shape, flowers ?, I've used alcohol ink on the butterfly and stickles under it.

Monkey business (sketch 86)

2008-05-28T16:43:00.001+02:00

Here is my try on this weeks pencil lines sketch.

I've chose to use two photos that I took 2006 when we were in Phnom Penh Cambodia. I've played around a little with them in photoshop to match the color of the flowers with the paper.

Materials used: Tinkering Ink Blur cake, Bazzill, American Crafts: "Eggnog" Thickers, Tim Holtz Grungeboard, Sei buttons, flowers & brad ?, red acrylic paint and white water color pencil.

Great day

2008-05-27T16:36:00.003+02:00

Yesterday I received my kit for winning last weeks challenge at Scrapping the music. It is a great kit sponsored by Scraproom blueprints. Thank you to STM for having such great challenges every week and thank you Mary for the great kit!

This is what I got

Kalevala

2008-05-26T11:37:00.003+02:00

I finally got a new Scrapmuse Kit! I had to take a break for a few months as we were moving back to Sweden and I sooo missed them! I've used only items from the kit and make this layout after the May sketch.

Materials used: Bazzill, Fiskars: Kimberley Poloson, Basic Grey, American Crafts: Newhouse Fleece Shapes, Fiskars: Kimberley Poloson: Old Fashioned Flowers: Chipboard shapes, I've printed the title using photoshop and an action called distressed.

Sketch 85 Ostindiefararen

2008-05-23T00:43:00.000+02:00

I used yesterdays background to make this layout. It's a ship that was docking here and we went down to take a look at it.

I've used parts of the new sketch from pencil lines on this layout.

Material used: Acrylic paints, ranger crackle paint, paper and rubons Sassa fras lass, skull sticker is from a bookstore, alpha American crafts, rubon basic grey, date rubon from creative imaginations, small paper stripe rogue de garance, button ?

Background

2008-05-22T08:35:00.004+02:00

Yesterday I played around again making my own background. I used the first and second tutorial from the brayer video that Nat shows on her blog.

I have used 2 acrylic paints on the background. Turquoise and cappuccino and then I did the rubber band part with Rangers crackle paint fired brick.

Here is the result

I've already used it for a layout but you'll have to come back tomorrow to see the layout.

There is a light in your eyes (STM challenge)

2008-05-21T11:46:00.003+02:00

I was so happy to read that I won the gorgeous kit on the STM site. These challenges really makes me think outside the box while trying to find photos that could match something in the lyrics. I scrap photos that I maybe wouldn't scrap normally.

Here is this weeks layout.

If you take a close look you will see that my DH's eyes are shining red :) .

I covered the cut out crown with stickles and silver paint.

I put the buttons in a small plastic bag, dropped some alcohol inc inside and made a happy dance :)

Materials used: KI Memories: Pop Culture: Hangman, Taxi Yellow, Cardstock Bazzill: Scalloped, Eyelet Edge, Artesian Pool and CS, PP from Sassa fras lass, crown cut out from Rusty Pickle Lucky collection, stickles and glitter stick from Panduro Hobby, Journaling part is from rogue de garance, Alcohol incs on photo and on buttons, transparency from creative imaginations, smiley?

Work in progress

2008-05-18T12:59:00.000+02:00

I am working on a wedding gift so I can only show some bits and pieces from it. I wanted to use some Grungeboard on it so I chose a key and a key hole and 2 hinges. I tried out different techniques on it until I found the one that I liked the most.

First I tried copper colored embossing powder but I didn't like the result at all. Firstly you can't see the lovely swirls on the grungeboard anymore and second I got ugly bubbles all the time probably because I was blowing too hot air on it.

Then I came up with something else. I used my Glimmer mist from tattered Angels (copper color) and this acrylic metallic silver tube I bought at a store in Hamburg. I sprayed the mist on the grungeboard and then used my heat gun to blow away/dry the water so that only the glimmer stuff stayed on the grungeboard. Then I just dabbed a little of the silver color here and there where I didn't have so much of the glimmer. I wanted to have an old looking effect almost like silver that has a lot of rust. I am probably not the first to do this so if you have used glimmer mist this way and feel I should link to you just let me know.

Here is a photo of the 2 hinges. The right one is the one with embossing powder. The left one with the glimmer mist. I used the back side of the grungeboard for two reasons. 1 because I had done embossing on the front side and 2. because if you would do swirls on real metal it would probably look more like the backside of the grungeboard.

Here's how the key and key hole look like.

Badminton

2008-05-17T12:55:00.000+02:00

Last summer when we went to our parents summer house we played a little badminton. I had to hold my self from laughing as my mother had such a funny style playing. It almost looked like she was dancing ballet.

Materials used: Paper from Fancy pants, Alpha from American crafts, journal tag from creative imaginations.

Something to believe in (STM challenge)

2008-05-16T07:47:00.003+02:00

Here is my try on this weeks STM challenge. I have made this canvas for my mother. She loves angels and they have become very special to her. This weeks song was perfect for my angel stickers.

Materials used: Acrylic paint and silver metallic paint, Paper from K&C company and ?, Ranger, Grungeboard, Felt from Fancy Pants, Angel sticker from Panduro Hobby.

Received a wonderful SWAP/RAK

2008-05-15T12:47:00.002+02:00

Today I got such a surprise in the mail!!! I did a candy swap with Silje who posted a message over at SIStv looking for Lakrisal candy. We decided to do a candy swap so I sent her a bag full of Lakrisal and other candy that you can find over here and she was supposed to send me some candy too. Well today I got this HUGE package full of candy and scrapbook stuff and a beautiful zippered pouch which she has made herself! Take a look at her Etsy shop!!

This is what I got

You are such a sweetheart!!

Enjoy card

2008-05-14T13:40:00.002+02:00

Here's a card I made for a candy swap that I sent over to Silje in USA.

Materials used: Paper: KI Memories, Ranger crackle paint, Grungegoard, Distress Ink, Brads?, Window color.

Spring

2008-05-12T10:06:00.003+02:00

Over at Scrap Muse the current challenge is to make a spring layout so here is mine.

Materials used: Danyeela patterned paper, Bo Bunny alpha, ribbon?, chip board fancy pants?.

Scrap art zine sketch

2008-05-10T12:24:00.000+02:00

The German scrapbook magazine Scrap art zine has a sketch challenge held by Kimmy Sonksen pencil lines team. I did this layout and got published in the magazine. I didn't win but just getting published was a great feeling.

The flower on the layout is made after a tutorial found on SisTv. You can find it in the message board under Fashionista challenges and tutorials posted by Andrea Wiebe 11th of october 2007.

Materials used: Tinkering Ink, Heidi Swapp, Déja Views: Sharon Ann Timeless: Corrugated Shapes, Tinkering Ink: Finery Style 1, Paperfills ?, American crafts stars.
who is also on the

Altered Alpha

2008-05-09T12:05:00.003+02:00

I few months ago I altered these two alphas to celebrate me and my husbands 10 years "since our first date" anniversary. I haven't posted it on my blog because it got published in the German scrapbook magazine called Scrap art zine. It was the first time I got published and that's 2 times in one magazine. I also had a layout published which I will post another day.

Materials used: Alpha from Panduro hobby, PP and rub on from Basic Grey (I think), Déja Views: Sharon Ann Timeless: Corrugated Shapes, Heidi Grace: Everyday Grace Orange Flocked Circle Stickers, Fancy Pants: FashionSense: Harvest Felt shapes, also acrylic paint and stamp ink.

C'mon (STM challenge)

2008-05-08T09:54:00.004+02:00

Here is this weeks try on STM challenge. This week it's a song Called "Castle to the Crown" by Hits & Mrs. You can check them out on myspace.

Yesterday they turned off the electricity in my house for 2 hours so I used my time scrapping. All my photos are on my computer so I couldn't print anything out so this is a layout with no photo.

Materials used: Danyeela patterned paper. embossing powder chipboard.

Rise and Shine (STM challenge)

2008-04-30T12:09:00.002+02:00

Here is my try on this weeks STM challenge. I used the word shine in my title for my layout. The photo of my husband is taken last year while he was sleeping.

Materials used: KI Memories, Doodlebug letters, CM letters, Hambly, Tim Holtz grungegoard, embossing powder from karten kunst, black scalloped paper frill ?.

Sketch 81 Sörkvarn

2008-04-26T15:53:00.003+02:00

Here is my try on this weeks sketch from pencil lines. I've chosen 3 photos that I took last summer when we visited my parents in my hometown. The green and violet paper I have made myself using the brayer technique nr 1 that Nat is showing on her video tutorial.

Material used: Bazzill, KI memories, Bo Bunny, American Crafts, Stickles and the butterfly is from Depot in Germany.

Little Waltz STM challenge

2008-04-24T11:23:00.002+02:00

Here is my try on this weeks STM challenge. I have called mine *No little waltz* because me and my husband didn't do the waltz at our wedding :).

Materials used: Heidi Swapp, Stickles, Bo Bunny, K and Company, and Creative imaginations. Majority is from Scrapmuse January kit.

Sketch 80 Socks

2008-04-18T12:34:00.003+02:00

I had time to do the newest sketch at pencil lines.

Journaling says: I LOVE SOCKS! Everybody who knows me knows that I "collect" socks. The uglier the better. My feet are always cold so I especially love warm and cuddly socks.

If you look closely at the photo you can see I've tried to paint the background of the socks with some read color. I used water color pencils to do that. It didn't go that well as I am a noob and I didn't do it the right way. I wish I had seen Nat's newest video tutorial before I did this layout. Then I would have known that you of course have to sand it first for the color to stay on the photo :).

Materials used: acrylic paint, Ranger crackle paint, ribbon unknown, rub on from Basic Grey and creative imaginations, PP from Danyeela patterned paper and CS from my minds eye and journaling tag from Melissa Frances.

Thank you Nat!!

2008-04-17T11:59:00.002+02:00

A few days ago I received something amazing in my post box. It was a wonderful layout from Nat. It's called Listen Up and you can see it on her wonderful blog among many many other wonderful layouts. Thank you sooo very much Nat your journaling was sooo sweet!! Also thank you for the extra wordbloom that you included.

As a thank you I have made you this tag trying out Tim Holz's April technique challenge. I don't have any background stamps so I had to improvise a bit with a Heidi Swap mask and a mask bought at a German craft store. I hope you like it :). So keep a close look in your post box next week.

Material used: K and Company Wild Saffron, Grungeboard and Crackle paint (scattered straw) alcohol incs from Tim Holz / Ranger, American Crafts Alpha and Basic Grey rubon. Ribbon and brad unknown.

Love like this, a STM challenge

2008-04-16T10:44:00.003+02:00

Here is my try on this weeks STM challenge. The photo is taken last summer at my parents summer house. It is really a very unflattering photo of me *LOL* but who says you have to always scrap the nice photos ;)? Ooh and if you look very closely you can see that the bigger PP is even upside down LOL. I guess that's what you get when scrapping while beeing sick...

Materials used: KI Memories: Pop culture, Tinkering Ink: Blur, Doodlebug and CM letters, Doodlebug paper frills Fancy Pants felt shapes and embossing powder color red velvet.

Turn it up

2008-04-12T19:09:00.005+02:00

There is a fun challenge blog called Scrapping the Music which I have wanted to do for a long time and I finally decided to try it out as I knew I had a photo that was perfect for the challenge.

I did the background myself using one of the many brayer techniques that Nat is showing on her video tutorial on her blog.

Materials from:MM, HobbyLine, Ranger, Junkitz, WeR Memorykeepers, creative imaginations, Rouge de garance, and Depot

Always dream

2008-04-05T18:12:00.002+02:00

Here is my a layout with a photo of my parents cat Niisku.

I have used Danyeela patterned paper, basic grey PP, rusty pickle transparency, Love Elsie.

Hello from Sweden :)

2008-04-03T23:18:00.002+02:00

Oooh I am finally online again! I had no idea it would take so long to be approved as a Swedish citizen again. Yesterday we got our papers and of course ran to the Internet and phone company as fast as we could. It feels so great to be back in Sweden.

Our temporary apartment which has 2 rooms and a kitchen is great and we can stay here up to 1 year if we want so we don't have to rush to find our own apartment.

Scrap wise I must say I came home with huge bags from the stamp and scrap fair last weekend. I bought a lot of alcohol inks and a few new ranger crackle paints and some pens and and and... I have never used alcohol inks so if Antoine has great tutorials just write a comment with the link to the site. Tomorrow I'll post a layout that I did today.

I want to thank Nat for a lovely going away layout that she has done for me!! Take a look at her blog. Thank you girl!!! Can't wait to see it live! It's really beautiful! I'm also gonna try out your background brayer tutorials ! I am so happy I bought my first brayer last weekend and now I can learn how to use it :).

And last but not least I have to tell you something embarrassing... I was a HUGE NKOTB fan!!! Yep had my whole room full with posters and have all their LP:s :). What a dork.. ha??! Right now I am so exited they are planning a comeback ;) ;). Take a look here. Or here.

New homepage and work published ;)

2008-03-15T11:27:00.006+01:00

As If I didn't have enough to do right now with the move to Sweden... I decided to create a home page :). http://scraphall.weebly.com/ . I had never heard about weebly before. As I was watching my photoshop course video they were talking about weebly and telling how easy it was to use it so I decided to have a go. I will still use my blog and upload my layouts here as always so just keep coming back here.

Yesterday I got my scrap art zine magazine. I had sent a layout and some altered alphabets a while ago trying to get them published in the mag. It was such a joy seeing them there :). It is my first time getting something published so if I may say so myself I am a happy camper right now :)

It's now official

2008-03-05T21:09:00.004+01:00

We are going back home to Sweden. A few weeks ago my dear husband did apply for a job in Sweden and somehow in 2 weeks time he did a test over the Internet, flew there for an interview and a few days later got the job :). They want him to start 1st of April so it has been a bit hectic as he got the job only 2 weeks ago. I have invested all my free time to look for an apartment, find somebody who will take over our apartment here from 1st of April, start packing for the move, call phone companies, electric companies and every other company who needs to know that we wont be here anymore. There is sooo much to do and ooh so little time ;).

Tomorrow is my last day at work. I sure will miss my dear coworkers who have become some of my really best friends. I will miss almost never having unfriendly customers. I have a quite strong Swedish accent when I speak German and somehow they find it sweet so they forget to be angry ;).

I will of course also miss my Hamburg scrapping girls! Thanks to the Internet I have met you and learned soo much from you. I have enjoyed the workshops that has been held in Hamburg so don't you dare forget to tell me about future workshops :). You never know if I'll drop by. Ooh and you might also want to consider to come visit me as we have Scandinavians biggest stamp and scrap fair at the Swedish exhibition center. It's only a 15 minute ride with the trolley from my apartment so I am going there the 29th of March.

In honor of going back to Sweden I will post my all time favorite song from a Swedish band called Kent. I've seen them live a lot of times as they come from a city near my hometown.

Happy Birthday Liz!!

2008-02-19T12:21:00.002+01:00

Liz I wish you a wonderful day today with lots of pressies and a lot of fun. I found a nice birthday video for you on youtube with a song from my all time favorite boy band *LOL*

New York or San francisco? and a bookmark

2008-01-25T12:34:00.000+01:00

Soo I am hoping there are some blog readers of mine who can help me out :).

Tomorrow we are going to the travel agency to start planning our trip to USA. One part is already planned and that is 3-4 days in Colorado Springs and now we are trying to decide if we go NY or San Francisco. I would love to go NY but the hotel prices are way much higher than in SF so I was hoping maybe somebody can give me some names of nice hotels/motels/b&bs in NY where you have stayed yourself and you found good. They can be at about max 80-90$ per per son per night.
I did this bookmark for a creativity swap that we had in my yahoogroup that I co run with a friend. We do swaps every month, mostly stationary related but I through in a creativity swap from time to time. If you are interested in swapping stationary, stickers and notepads then check out the group and upon joining just let us know you saw this on my blog.

Altered notebook and digital photo editing

2008-01-21T19:42:00.000+01:00

I had promised that I would scrap something to a colleague of mine. I didn't want to do a layout as I wasn't sure what he would think. He has never heard of scrapbooking so I decided to alter a notebook instead. This is what I ended up doing.

Other than that I got some great news! I got accepted to the Digital photo editing course that is held by Jönköpings university in Sweden. It's a 100% online course which means I don't have to go to any lessons in Jönköping. A few minutes ago I ordered the only book that we are going to need during the course: Scott Kelby, The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers

What does my name mean?

2008-01-20T14:49:00.000+01:00

It's Sunday and it's raining. I am bored and went out surfing the net.

I found this fun site where you can do a bounch of tests. I did one about my name and this the result ;)

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are very hyper. You never slow down, even when it's killing you.
You're the type of person who can be a workaholic during the day... and still have the energy to party all night.
Your energy is definitely a magnet for those around you. People are addicted to your vibe.

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection.
You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive.
You have the classic "Type A" personality.

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong.
You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know.
You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do.

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out.
Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia.
Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Berlin

2008-01-14T14:47:00.000+01:00

I am finally feeling better! I am almost cough free after being sick for 4 weeks :( . Today I'm going back to work and I really look forward to it. Haven't been there for a long time.

Here is a layout I made from the Scrapmuse November kit. Photos are from last year when me and Tommie went to Berlin for a weekend.

Coffee filter album

2008-01-05T12:51:00.000+01:00

At one of my scrapbook forums we had an advents calendar swap. I wanted one part to be hand made by me so I created these coffee filter albums.

Photos from christmas and my Birthday

2007-12-27T21:40:00.000+01:00

I am very sad to say I didn't have a great christmas nor a great 30th birthday. I have had the flue now for over a week and was way too tired to celebrate anything. I guess I have to make up to it later when I am feeling better. I didn't even take that many photos this year but here's a few.

I took some photos of the gingerbreads that Tommie, my sister and my mother baked.

My mother had made me this painting for my birthday. I think she made a wonderful job and I am very proud of her! I'm going to find a special place for this painting.

Notre Dame

2007-12-08T11:10:00.001+01:00

I haven't done any layouts for a while, I've been more into altering items but the other day when I got my scrapmuse kit I had such a good idea for a layout. This photo is taken by Tommie a few years ago when he was in Paris with his classmates.

Nicolaus gift

2007-12-06T12:31:00.000+01:00

In Germany we celebrate Nicolaus today. On the night of December 5 to 6th you are supposed to clean your boots and put them outside your door and in the morning they will have been filled by the Nicolaus with gifts. We did a Nicolaus swap at my scrapbook forum and this is what I got from my secret Nicolaus partner.

Altered round box

2007-12-05T17:05:00.000+01:00

A while ago I altered this round box using only PP from Rogue de garance.

Altered clock

2007-12-04T11:35:00.001+01:00

A few weeks ago I altered this broken clock from IKEA for a challenge at scrapmuse . I am happy to announce I won second prize with this clock :).

Winner at Scraphappy

2007-12-03T10:31:00.000+01:00

I am a big fan of Scraphappy and Lains pod casts. I download them to my ipod and listen to them on my way to work. Often they are very funny so I sit on the subway laughing for my self which means the people are staring weird at me ;). You can check out her blog HERE and listen to her pod casts HERE.

A few weeks ago she was interviewing Rene Pearson The author of Digital Designs and she held a drawing to win the book. Guess who won the book ;). Thank you Lain for picking my name!

I haven't had time to try it out yet but I am taking it with me when I go visit my sister and we will be trying it out togehter.

Sketch 58 and my fave song at the moment

2007-11-16T18:22:00.000+01:00

I had time to do a new pencil lines sketch the other day. This is my try on sketch nr 58.

The photos are taken in Sweden in July 2003 a few weeks before our wedding. I needed to work on my tan so we went to visit my parents at a camping place.

In case you have missed this song .... you can now listen to it and watch some Grey's anatomy at the same time *LOL*

Happy Fathers day

2007-11-11T14:21:00.001+01:00

Today is Fathers day in Sweden so I have created a layout for my father.

Happy Fathers day!!!

Sneak peak, photoshop and going back to university

2007-11-06T16:41:00.001+01:00

There is a new challenge on scrapmuse and I have chosen to alter something again :). I have this wall clock from IKEA which is broken on one side after I dropped it on the floor. I though why not pimp it up so that I can hang it back on the wall. Here is just a small sneak peak of the clock. Gonna post it again after the challenge is over.

Yesterday I got a link from a friend to a great photoshop page "Moderskeppet". It's all in Swedish though. It has many video links where you can watch and learn how to use photoshop. He is also teaching an online course at the Jönköping university in Sweden. The next course starts in January and the application period has ended but you can still apply and get in if it isn't full already. I've always wanted to learn digital photo editing so keep your fingers crossed for me so that I get in either January or August. The best part is that university in Sweden doesn't cost much. You pay either 18 or 30 euro per term depending on how many weeks you will study.

I was playing around today with one of the 5 senses photo that I posted last time. I followed one of the video tutorials on "Moderskeppet". It was about making an evil face.

Layouts and mini album from Hamburg Workshop

2007-10-31T15:18:00.000+01:00

A few weeks ago I went to a workshop in Hamburg. See previous post for info. Here are the layouts and the mini book that I did there.

First workshop was held by Andrea and it was about how to make your own stamps. I had this frog photo with me so I wanted to do something green.

The third workshop was held by Nat and it was about old photos and heritage.

The second workshop was held by Christiane and it was about your 5 senses. We made a mini album.

I took these 5 photos

And here is a slide show of the mini album. The photo quality is really bad because I couldn't get enough of light anywhere.

Sinnesreisen

Create your own stamps

2007-10-30T10:22:00.000+01:00

I have been surfing around today and found this great Swedish page Sweetish sister where you can design your own stamps. Either you draw them self or you make a stamp from a photo of yours. I have been thinking about how it would be nice to create your own stamps but I didn't find any easy way to do so. As I'm celebrating Christmas in Sweden this year I might order one and pick it up at my parents.

Happy Birthday Christiane!!!!

2007-10-29T17:37:00.000+01:00

Christiane I want to wish you a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and of course a wonderful anniversary!!! I hope you have a wonderful day today!

I made you this little B-day layout. I played around a bit with this water based satin paint that I bought. On some places it feels like satin and on the chipboard where I used so much of it, it has not satin effect.

Other than that I am currently working on many projects at the same time. I have finally done my advent calendar gifts and sent them off today. I am 90% done with the projects from the workshop in Hamburg so I will be posting those soon.

I won 3rd prize with this frame at the scrapmuse forum.

Last week I also won another prize but I'm keeping that a secret until it arrives :)

From Workshop in Hamburg

2007-10-09T10:53:00.000+02:00

I haven't had time to finish my layouts and mini album from the workshop last week. It was a GREAT WS and I learned a lot of new stuff. We created our own stamps, and learned that just because you use older photos of grand grand parents and older you don't have to do heritage style ;). This is great because this week I will be getting a bunch of old photos from my grandmother. We are going to sit together and she will be telling me all about the persons on the photos. I don't see my grandmother so oft and I can't even remember when I last looked in her photo albums.

Here is the cover for my mini album. It's my first in German. I usually don't scrap in German or Swedish or Finnish but I have been thinking a long time that I would love something in German which I can look back on when I am grey and old and remember those times when I lived in Germany ;).

Pencil lines sketch #1 Year

2007-10-06T23:40:00.000+02:00

I haven't done any Pencil lines sketch for a loooong time. I decided to take a break from all the mini albums that I have started and that still are unfinished and do a sketch challenge for a change. I went kinda nuts on the felt part :). It's just full of felt ;)

Happy Birthday Mirija

2007-09-19T07:56:00.000+02:00

Grattis på födelsedagen!!!!!! May you have a wonderful day today.

I won a RAK

2007-09-18T12:47:00.000+02:00

A few days ago I got an really big envelope in the mail from Nadine. It was full with wonderful scraps of sooo many different PP. The best part is that they were all new to me! I think I have or have had only one of the PP before. Thank you very much for the wonderful RAK!!

Here is a photo of what I got.

WS Layouts

2007-09-05T16:49:00.000+02:00

Here are the latest layouts from Dani's workshop. These are just a few pages of my "Who is she" album.

Closet is done and a new headboard

2007-09-02T12:38:00.000+02:00

I showed you a sneak peak earlier of my closet. It is now done and this is how it looks like.

We wanted to move our bed back to where it belongs (against the wall) but we didn't want to do it before we got a headboard. We only have a bed frame without headboard. The problem is that we can't buy a new bed here as out mattresses don't fit in the beds that are sold here :(. Our mattresses are from Sweden and they are great so there's no need to buy new ones. Anyway anyone knows how ugly your wallpaper can get if you don't have a headboard ;). We wanted to do something original that maybe not everybody have. I had an idea and quite frankly I like the result. We went to IKEA and bought flooring and put it on the wall. Now I just have to pimp my bedside tables as they don't look good with the wall. As it is flooring it's not that nice around the edges so we had to frame them with something. For that I used black velveteen scotch tape roll.

Sneak peak Closet

2007-08-30T11:25:00.000+02:00

I'm taking a small break from scrapbooking today and starting to pimp my closet. It's going to be red so I'm only done the "pre painting". I have a small problem. The closet has 4 ugly keyhole locks in a really ugly color and I'm not quite sure what to do with them. I can't take them out. What do you think should I paint them red too? Any ideas are welcome!

Right now the color of the locks are "goldish". It still needs one more coat of white and after that I hope it needs only 2 coats of red color. Photo quality is not that good as the light is very bad. I haven't done anything to the locks yet. They are covered with scotch.

Scrapbooshop in italy

2007-08-30T09:54:00.000+02:00

I got the September/October issue from Simple Scrapbooks yesterday and saw an add about an Italian online scrapbook shop, Scrap 4 all it is currently only in Italian but the english page is under construction. I hope it's a good one ;)

Love boat

2007-08-26T15:57:00.000+02:00

When I was younger we used to go a lot on cruises between Sweden and Finland. We mostly went on 24 hour cruises as the 36 hour cruises were a bit tooo much partying *LOL* You go on board at 6-7 in the evening and start partying and then you party the whole night through. If you are fit for fight you can go off the boat a few hours in Finland but you have to be back in time when the boat leaves back to Sweden. I have called this LO for Love boat as usually there are a lot of flirting going on one these cruises :)

This photo is taken 1998

Credit: Overlay from Rhonna Farrer Clear expressions.
PP Pink Martini

Photo swap

2007-08-22T20:09:00.000+02:00

I am in a photo swap again and this is what I did with the photo. I did a matching bookmark too.

Dani's work shop 2

2007-08-21T17:00:00.000+02:00

Here are second week of work shops. I've done 2 double layouts.

This LO is some snorkeling photos that I took with a normal one way underwater camera.

This LO is showing different faces of William. He is the son of my husbands brother hmm which makes him nephew?

Happy Birthday Tanja!!!!

2007-08-19T17:27:00.000+02:00

Today is Tanjas birthday. I hope you have a wonderful day today with full of Joy. I did a little Birthday LO to you.

Tagged

2007-08-19T14:05:00.000+02:00

I got tagged by Mirija and it's all about music so here it goes..

1. Wie heißt Dein momentanes Lieblingslied und von wem ist es?
What's my favorite song at the moment.

Hmm I have many favorite songs at the moment so it's a difficult question. But a really nice song that I like is by Bon Jovi. Til we ain't strangers anymore.

But I also like Surrender by Billy Talent.

2. Von welchem Lied kannst du den Text in und auswendig und wieso?
To which song do you know the text by heart and why?

Ooh that's a lot of songs :). But well one for sure is From this moment by Shania Twain because it was our first dance as husband and wife :).

But as I am a HUGE The Rasmus Fan I must confess I do know almost all their text by heart ;)

3. Welche CD hast Du Dir zuletzt gekauft?
What CD did you buy most recently?

Hmm that would be Billy Talent II.

Who do I tag... well let's see
Iris
Daniela

Workshop, sneak peak and LO

2007-08-19T13:19:00.000+02:00

First week of Dani's 6 week workshop is done and it has been soo much fun doing this album. Me and Tommie went to Djerba in 2004. I decided to put as much of my photos as I can in this album so that I have them all in one place.

Here is my take on the Make and Take workshop.

Here is a little sneak peak :)

And a LO about my curly hair that I had when I was young.

Journaling: When I was young it was really hip to have curly hair. As my hair was straight by nature I always went to the hairdresser to get it permed. These photos are taken with many years apart so I really liked it that way. Now I would never wear my hair like that and I am very happy that it isn't hip anymore.

Karen Russell Workshop

2007-08-11T19:59:00.000+02:00

I have finally scanned my Layouts from the Karen Russell workshop.

I've also added a few more photos to my last post. If you want to see more photos just le me know and I'll send you an invite to my photoalbum ;)

Photos from our vacation

2007-08-11T14:16:00.000+02:00

Here are finally some photos documenting our vacation.

Our first vacation by car. Will the car make it all the way?

This photo shows how the weather has been almost all the time. We had maybe 4-5 sunny days.

Not necessarily a good photo but if you click on it and look closer you see it says Scandinavian Park. It's a border shop right before you cross the line from Germany to Denmark. Of course we had to go inside and buy some of my favorite swedish candy.

A romantic dinner in the car before we drive to the ferry taking us from Fredrikshavn to Göteborg.

On the ferry.

Photos from my hometown. Well there's not much else to show ;). It's so small you can't even call it a town.

At our summer house. Cutting the lawn, playing badminton and looking at cute frogs.

In Sundsvall visiting Tommies mother. We actually had a few sunny days there so we could go out with the boat.

I took a lot of photos of flowers just playing around a bit and trying to learn how to set up the camera for different kind of photos. Here is one of my favorite shots.

Happy Birthday Nat!!!!

2007-07-05T08:08:00.000+02:00

Nat today is Your day. May all that you wish for come true. You are a GREAT person!! Sooo Happy Birthday, Grattis på födelsedagen, Paljon onnea synytmäpäivänä, Zum geburtstag alles gute!!

Photos from Karen Russell WS

2007-07-02T14:28:00.000+02:00

Sunday was an amazing day! I went to the workshop held by Karen Russell and Heike and I have to tell you, It was worth every single penny!! It was just awesome. I learned a lot and I am now in love with interactive LO's . It was also such a pleasure to meet all the girls who I "talk" to almost every day on the net.

Here's a few photos from Sunday. I'll post my LO's later.

Sneak peak

2007-06-26T19:37:00.000+02:00

I have been working on my travel album so I have nothing really to show right now. I had to take a break from my travel album waiting for the paint to dry so in the mean time I did the retro challenge on Scrapbook-trends. You still have a few days left to do it if you are interested.

Here's a little sneak peak of what I did.

Keanu Reeves fan booklet and a sneak peak

2007-06-21T15:59:00.000+02:00

A colleague of mine is on sick leave for 4 weeks and I wanted to do something to cheer her up. She is a BIG Keanu Reeves fan so I made her something nice to look at.

I have also done a photo swap with a friend of mine and here is a sneak peek of what I've done ;)

Amazing pictures non scrapbooking

2007-06-15T19:36:00.000+02:00

My coworker is one talented guy!! He got to show off his work at "Elbart" this year. I didn't get to go to it and see his ART but finally I got the URL to his homepage. I knew he is talented but I had no idea he is THAT talented! I found a picture that I really like (the one names "Elephanta"! Keep up the good work!! Maybe one day when you are very famous I will make a LO about you and make you sign it *LOL*

Hubby's LO and some photos

2007-06-13T17:40:00.000+02:00

2 weeks ago me and my husband had a computer free weekend. We did a lot of stuff together. I reminded him that he had promised me to try scrapbooking so we sat down and I explained to him a little bit how I usually do and then gave him free hands to start creating :). So I am proud to announce and show my hubbys first LO. Don't tell his friends but he is quite proud himself of his LO ;)

We also went to St Peters Ording and I took a few photos there. Here's just a few of them.

This weekend I played around a bit with my camera taking some photos ....

On Sunday we went to Glückstadt and... well it was sooo warm we just took 1 photo..

2 challenges in one

2007-06-02T16:30:00.000+02:00

I got my Scrap Muse kit yesterday and I loved it soo much I had to start using it right away ;).

This LO is actually 2 challenges in one.

First of all it is a sketch challenge at Pencillines. Second it is a challenge at a new blog that I've discovered called One Little Word. Every week they will post one word which you are to make a LO of. This week it was the word STOP.

This is my LO. The photo is of my MIL Cinna. *Wave to Cinna*

Pimp my Shoe cabinet

2007-05-28T16:23:00.000+02:00

Remember the ugly shoe cabinet that I showed a few days ago?

I'm talking about this ugly thing :)

Well I've worked on it for a few days now and here's how the work process has been.
I had to first Spackle on many places before I could start with the red color. I have never Spackle so it took a while and I had to ask my husband Tommie for help.
After that I used my stamps and Staz-on ink to stamp the word Shoe cabinet. Well at first it was cabin but then I asked my fellow scrappers for a little help and changed it to cabinet :).

Next step was to do a little scrap booking. Me and Tommie did the LO's together. The black and white PP is Basic Grey, the blue is CS and the red/blue PP is from Danyeela Patterned Paper. I really love this red/blue paper from Danyeela and because I only have one sheet I never wanted to use it because it was soo nice :). Now I can look at it every day *LOL* I fastened the LO's with transparency film that is sticky on one side.

Closer look at the LO.

Final photo. Sorry for the bad quality of the photo. There just wasn't enough light there and I couldn't take with the flash. As always the knobs are not 100% at the same level...

ScrapMuse challenge and an ugly shoe cabinet

2007-05-25T11:51:00.001+02:00

This is my LO for ScrapMuse week 3 challenge. The challenge is to make a LO about 3 things you love about ScrapMuse.

Here is my LO.

It's hard to see what it says on the photo but it should be:
1. Best Design team
2. A friendly atmosphere
3. Love the Kit

Yesterday I decided to put my hands on the most ugliest shoe cabin in the world :). It actually stands in my hall and I see it every day. I actually have a matching wardrobe too and they both has to either go or get pimped... I am starting today so lets see how long it takes to do the shoe cabin. This is how it looks like now. Ugly hu??

Cecelia Ahern

2007-05-23T16:04:00.001+02:00

A few weeks ago I got to meet Cecelia Ahern talking about her new book A place called here. It was my first time meeting an author and it was so much fun. I'm gonna go more often when my favorite authors come to town. My favorite book by her is PS, I LOVE YOU. It's such an amazing book and I cried all the way through reading it.

Here's my LO from our meeting. Of course I also got an autograph from her but I had only my mobile phone with me and the camera on it isn't the best so I only took a photo of her and it's not the best quality.

Material is from the april Scrapmuse kit.

2 new LO's

2007-05-19T18:20:00.000+02:00

This LO is actually 2 challenges in one. Scrapmuse is celebrating 3 years and this week the challenge is to make a LO using 3 only colors. At Beyond Appearances the challenge is to make a LO with title "Laughter is the best medicine" I did this LO without journaling as I think the photo says it all ;). I start laughing just by looking at this photo.

The green and grey PP is Danyeela patterned paper.

This LO is showing me and my sister Evelina. I've used PP and CS from a Scrapmuse kit.