One tired little guy

I made this LO some time ago for Scrappejungelen but handed it in before I got to take a picture of it. It was so funny, it has been on display in the shop, but when I saw it again I did not remember making it. So when I saw it there I was wondering who had made it. And then I recognised Oliver :lol:

The picture was taken last spring. Oliver had been to one of his first birthday parties. It is usually Ella who gets invitations for those, as she is a little older. So he was SO proud when his very own invitation was in our mailbox. For the week leading up to his party he was asking every day how long it would be before the party. When the day finally arrived he was SO happy. After the party he was exhausted. It was Ellas birthday that day as well so we had family over at home too. But Oliver was so tired. He fell asleep in his shirt and everything, and ended up sleeping through to the next day! So cute!

Your first tooth

Ella was so proud when she lost her first tooth in November. The second one followed just a few days later :-) She has been bragging about her loose teeth since the summer. But because she had something with her heart we were worried she could get bacteria into her bloodstream or that the loose teeth could be a problem when she was to be intubated. So, even though this was a proud time for her, we were not as exited. But her heart was fixed in September, so when she finally lost her first tooth in November we could all share her happiness. She put her tooth into a glass of water. And then the Toothfairy came and changed the tooth into money :-)So the text is about that.

This LO kind of took on a life of its own :lol: I do not really recall what my plan was, but certainly not this :lol: I am currently reading "The Virgin Blue" by Tracy Chevalier where there is a burnt out bible left in a secret compartment in the chimney. In the book the bible still contains important information to the story. So I was inspired by that. The text paper is from October Afternoon, and is SO usable. Also I have seen Oddbjørg do something simular with old bookpages and loved the effect. But this page kindof kept morphing into something else evertime I went near it. It has been on my desk the last few days, and I have done bits and pieces here and there when I had a few minutes :lol: I find it a bit unfamiliar to not have any "white space". But there simply where not any room left in the end :lol: I guess this was not so easy to scrap for me, both because of the memories and because I do not often use that many picture on a single LO ;-)

God jul!

Merry Christmas! Now Christmas Eve is just hours away. The kids are watching Christmas movies in their PJ's. So I wanted to take this opportunity to wish Merry Christmas to anyone who might stumble upon my blog today!

God Jul! Nå er det bare timer til den store kvelden. Ungene ser julefilmer i pysjamasene sine. Jeg håper alle får en fin jul med familiene sine!

Klem,
Hanna

I hold you - In my heart

This years christmas card pictures just arrived from the photographer, and I just had to make a LO. I have this thing for Christmas and snow PP. So after a few years of scrapping I have quite a selection, there are not that many Christmas and snow LO's every year. Not compared with all the lovely patterned paper that comes out. And then I ended up doing this LO without Christmas paper :LOL: But then Ella's Christmas dress fit so well with this paper from MM.

I worked it over with glimmer mist and distress stickles. So fun! I used a Prima felt gate to frame the picture, and just cut out the middle of it. Will use that later some time ;-)

Advent calender

Every year I exchange advent calenders with my friend Trude. This year I wanted to make a calender that we can use again in the next years as well. I was inspired by the matchbox calenders so many have made this year. But realised that my gifts to her would never fit in those tiny drawers. So I made my own version instead. I used bigger sized matchboxes. On top of it I made a box were the bigger gifts will go. On some days Trude will find a note in her drawer telling her to "go fish", and then she can choose a present from the box. On Christmas Eve I wanted something special, so that gift will be in the paperbag on top of the lid on the box. The paperbag was part of the Advent calender she made for me last year. So I wanted to incorporate it in some way. Since I had already used 24 boxes, I converted one of them into one bigger drawer to make room for a bigger gift and ending up with 23 drawers instead.

On the inside all the drawers are painted with gold paint. The nob is a brad, and on the inside I covered that side of the drawer with bookbindingtape. Then I painted the whole inside with gold paint.

I had so much fun playing with dimentions on this project. Normally I cannot be this 3D on my scrapbookpages, so I wanted to really go to town with my embellishments on this. I used styrofoam balls and a heart that I painted in gold and embellished with stickles and sequins. I used the angel from a PP from 3ndy on the paperbag and used Stickles on that too. On the back of the back I glued angel wings. And I also used white feathers throughout on other details as well.

The patterned papers I have used comes from MME, MM, 3ndy, Melissa Frances, Anna Griffin and Basic Gray. I had so much fun creating this for Trude. Now I really hope that she will like it too!

Christmas LO with Norwegian papers

A little while some friends were here scrapping. Such a nice way to spend an evening! I recently got the new collection of Papirdesign christmas papers, so I wanted to make a Christmas LO. The picture is from last year, of the children baking cookies with their friends.

The scrap-pictures of the boy and the flowers I bought when I was in Vienna recently. The brown leather string is from the local archaeological museum. And the bronze plate is from the florist.

Collage

When I was at PACS I attended Carolyn Peelers "Collage Basics" class. We had so much fun playing around with acrylic paint, gesso and mixed medium. Every collage was very different. We were given plenty of supplies and the techniques, and then we did our own thing. SO much fun!



I got the bookpage and blue roses from Oddbjørg. Thank you! And then added some of my own stuff too. The metal circle thing with the bling in the middle is from one of those decorative things on a stick bought at the florist after a tip from Monica. It was silver, but I went over it with beige and brown distress paint and green and brown glimmer mist. So now it looks like its been laying in a ditch somewhere for years. The picture of Ella and Oliver was on our christmas cards last year. It was taken by a "Fame" photographer. TFL.

Kristine's blog

Have you been to Kristine's blog? She makes lovely vintage cards. These days she is celebrating 1 year of blogging, and has some amazing blog candy.

http://kristineskort.blogspot.com/

MME Høst LO

I made this for the MME challenge at Papirfest. The challenge was to use at least 80%MME products from their new lines. With added points for including Spellbinder die cuts. So I started messing about with some of the new Laundry line papers. They are gorgeous! I cut out the middle of one of them and mounted it on pop dots and scrapped the middle. The leaves are some I picked up on the autumn sale last year. They are confetti to decorate dinner tables with etc.

Anyways, I WON!!!! I had to leave before the final, because I had an early plane to Vienna the next day, but my friends called me. I was so happy and giddy I could not sleep :lol: As a price I received a huge goody bag from Trish. With tons of goodies from the new MME stuff. Plenty of papers, rubons, chipboard shapes etc. Sounds increadible, right? Well, it did not stop there... I also got the Spellbinder dies I had included on the layout. Wow!

Mommy, something happened...

...that is what Oliver said yesterday. The kids had been playing oh so quitely upstairs. And this is the little guy that came downstairs to mummy. Wet to the bone but quite happy. The kids had found a packet of toilet paper and decided to wash them... The result of which is very close to paper mache all over our bathroom! I had to concentrate very hard not to laugh, but the clean up afterwards was quite a job I can tell you. (My appologies for the awful picture quality on the picture of Oliver, I did not have time to take many pictures as the drama unfolded)

Wow, I am being featured!

Wow! I am being featured on The Inspirationalblog! OMG! I am so honoured, thank you!

Some pages I made in Paris

These layouts I made when I was in Paris for PACS. It took some time to get them photographed. Anyways, this first LO I made for the contest on Friday. And I came in second! Oddbjørg came first, and Cecilie Lundstad third. So that was one great day for the Norwegian girls at PACS!

The competition was to include a list of elements and not include others. And what elements we could use was decided by what drink we chose. Good challenge! The picture is of the kids riding the merry-go-round in Dyreparken this summer.




The LO below I made for the bingo challenge at PACS. The task was to choose 5 elements from a list and include them (and none of the others) on a LO. Then the elements were drawn one by one. I did not include felt, so I was out in the first draw :lol: Good fun though!

The picture is of Ella waiting for her guests to arrive on her birthday turning 3. I love how the sunlight is caught in her adorable little face. Standing there all pretty and impatient in her new dress (that is too big). Brings back some good memories :-)

The pink tag with the dress pattern behind the picture I got from Xstine, and I think it fit just perfect with this picture.








Seems I cannot quite decide whether to write in Norwegian or English... So I guess I do a little bit of both!

Karusell glede

Denne laget jeg til Miss Skisse på Minneriket. Det var Silje som hadde laget skissen. Jeg liker veldig godt disse bildene av Oliver på karusellen i sommer. Og så ville jeg ta opp grønnfargen i genseren hans, samtidig som jeg ville at LO'en skulle være litt shabby/vintage. Løsningen ble å ta frem et grønt Bazzill ark og herje i vei med Glimmer Mist og Crackle Paint. Kjempegøy! Endelig fikk jeg brukt et av Bazzill arka også, er lenge siden sist...
Snurrehjulet er fra K&Comp og jeg syntes det passet så godt med den gammeldagse karusellen på bildene. Notearket er fra bestemor og er nesten 100år gammelt. Jeg fikk en hel bunke noter, men har bare hjerte til å scrappe med dem som var ukomplette. Jeg har sprayet notene med Archival Mist (for å nøytralisere evt. syre) og Glimmer Mist. På notearket har jeg også stemplet med et av de nye fe-stemplene jeg kjøpte på PACS. Jeg synes de er bare SÅ søte! Blomstene som er stemplet bak snurrehjulet er fra samme stempelsettet.

I made this for a sketch at Minneriket. I wanted my background sheet to be the colour of Olivers green sweather, so I played around with a sheet of Bazzill. Altering it with Distress crackle paint and Glimmer mist. The notes are from my Grandmother, she has left me a whole pile of notes from the home she grew up in. But I can only bring myself to scrap with those that are broken and missing some pages :lol:

Tilbake fra PACS

Nå er vi hjemme igjen fra PACS i Paris. Det har vært kjempegøy! Veldig kjekt å møte menneskene bak nickene som jeg kjenner i fra forum-verden. Og så og oppdage at de er så kjekke og greie damer i virkeligheten også. Helt topp!

Kursene på PACS har brakt ny inspirasjon, men mest inspirasjon kommer igrunnen fra alt rundt. Paris og Versailles i seg selv er jo svært vakre og inspirerende steder. Vi var på Jeff Koons utstilling på slottet i Versailles. Det var kult å se den kontrasten mellom ultramoderne/kitsch og tradisjonelt/gammelt/barokk. Overlat til franskmennene å komme på en slik sammenheng! For meg fremhevet de to stilene hverandre på en positiv måte.

Etterhvert kommer der nok bilder, både fra turen og av ting jeg fikk laget. Men, enn så lenge ville jeg bare fortelle litt om en flott tur og ny inspirasjon og scrappelyst!

Now I am home again from PACS in Paris. It has been so much fun! Incredibly nice meeting the wonderful women behind the nicknames I have gotten used to on different internet fora. And then discover how nice they are IRL too!

The classes I have attended at PACS have given me new inspiration, but most of my newfound scrapbooking inspiration comes from everything around the event. Paris and Versailles in themselves are wonderfully inspiring places. Just looking in the boutiques and at the facades etc. was so inspiring! We visited the Castle as well, and saw the Jeff Koons exhibit. It was so cool with the ultramodern/kitsch vs the old/baroque. Leave it to the french to come up with that! To me the different era's really enhanced eachother. Excellent use of contrasts!

I have ambitions to get some pictures put in here, but for now I only wanted to update you on the incredible trip I have had, and on newfound inspiration. Desperately needed after months of being "unscrappy".

Tilbake fra Rikshospitalet

Alt har gått kjempefint :-) Jeg skrev for litt siden at Ella skulle til Rikshospitalet for en hjertekateterisering. Jeg gruet meg sånn til dette. Klarte ikke scrappe eller sove eller gjøre noen ting. Men, nå er det heldigvis over. Ella er i bedre form enn noengang, og nå har hun ha et hjerte som fungerer like bra og kommer til å vare like lenge som hos andre barn! Det er en sånn lettelse å være ferdig at jeg får ikke sagt det med ord!

Apropos "roteplassen min" i forrige innlegg. Det ser ikke noe bedre ut der enda. Men, jeg satser på å få mer tiltakslyst etterhvert som jeg legger dette med Ella bak meg :-)

Bilde av roteplassen

Her er bilde av roteplassen min. Under lag på lag med scrappesaker er dette egentlig en ganske koselig scrappeplass. Men, nå... Det går jo ikke ann å sitte der nesten... Men, jeg er i gang. Jeg har kjøpt meg Cropper Hopper Paper and sticker binder, og har fått orden på Thickers'ene ihvertfall. Så det går ihvertfall litt fremover, selv om det tar tid.

Rot i systemet

"Det er bedre med system i rotet enn rot i systemet" har visst lenge vært mitt motto når det kom til scrappeplassen min. Men, nå er det bare rot og ikke system, og jeg blir ikke noe inspirert til å sette meg ned der, får bare litt sånn dårlig samvittighet for at det ser så fælt ut og går raskt videre... Så nå SKAL det ryddes. Ikke mer unnskyldninger! Tenkte jeg måtte skrive det i bloggen og gjøre det "offisielt" slik at jeg ikke kan ombestemme meg når jeg kommer hjem fra jobb i ettermiddag og er sliten og trøtt...

Er der noen som har noe inspirasjon til meg? Bilder, eller tips? Da hadde jeg blitt veldig glad :-) Skal se om jeg ikke får ordnet et "før"-bilde også så blir det så mye kjekkere å se forandringen etterpå... (Regner med at dette prosjektet tar noen dager altså, for her snakker vi lag på lag med rot!!).

PACS 2008

Til høsten går turen til PACS, eller Paper and Co show i Paris. Og jeg gleder meg! Kursene er bestilt og betalt, hotellet reservert og flybilletter kjøpt. Det skal bli helt herlig! Der er jo mange kurs å velge blant, men her er linken til bloggene til dem jeg skal på kurs med:
Carolyn Peeler
Denise Laborde
Irène Tan
Michelle Van Etten
Vicky Boutin
Jeg reiser sammen med med Oddbjørg og mange herlige scrappedamer fra Minneriket. Det blir langhelg i Paris med inspirasjon, scrapping og kjekke jenter. Det må jo bare bli bra!!

This fall I will be going to PACS, or Paper and Co show in Paris. I can't wait! Everything is booket and paid, so now I can only wait. There are tons of classes to choose from, but above are the links to the teachers I am attending classes by.

3 nye LO'er

Noen LO'er jeg har laget til sommerskolen på Minneriket. På denne LO'en var oppgaven å bruke maling. Jeg er så glad i dette bildet. Jeg tok det en av de første sommerdagene i mai da vi var på søndagstur i parken. Det er det samme bildet som jeg har i header'en til bloggen.
















På denne var oppgaven å bruke en knapp på en spennende måte. Så her har jeg brukt en knapp i overskriften, vet ikke om det var så spennende da men. Sånn ble det nå.


















Denne var til en skisse-oppgave. Jeg ble ikke helt fortrolig med balansen i oppsettet, så jeg synes den ble litt rar. Men, bildene er herlige da. Det var Oliver som ble så gira da han endelig hadde bursdag at han like greit bøyde seg frem etter lysblåsingen og tok en real bit fra kaka...

LO'er til jungelen

Her er noen LO'er jeg har laget til Scrappejungelen. Jeg har brukt ark fra October Afternoon og MM.

Her er Ella på hyttetur tidligere i sommer. Noen lego-klosser ble plutselig til en salgsbod, der hun solgte "Løk eller is?" Så herlig! Fantasien er ihvertfall i orden!

På ferie er det jammen godt å ha med en venn, og heldigvis kan Ella og Oliver leke med hverandre. Det hjelper jo at Oliver er så tålmodig med storesøster da...

Oliver ble 3år i juni og var stolt som en hane! LO'en omhandler bursdagen hans, men også overgangen fra liten til stor :-)

En LO fra turen til Legoland tidligere i sommer. Et sjelden bilde med meg foran kamera... Men, det er jo kjekt å ha med i albumen det også for barna da.

Hjemme igjen

I går var vi på Rikshospitalet. Det gikk ganske greit. Ella var så tapper. Hun lå helt fint mens de undersøkte henne, men tilslutt begynte hun å gråte der hun lå. Vi fikk mer informasjon om operasjonen. De kaller det ikke operasjon da, det kalles visst intervensjon ettersom de kan gjøre inngrepet vha et kateter i lysken, og ikke trenger å skjære i henne. Det er veldig lite risiko ved inngrepet. Det er ikke mer farlig enn å operere inn dren i ørene. Så det er jo betryggende da. Jeg som ikke er lege synes jo at hjertet høres mye farligere ut enn ørene, men det er jo fantastisk at de kan "fikse" henne nesten uten risiko. Ella gruer seg da.

Legen forklarte at hun kommer til å sitte på fanget mitt og så får hun medisinen gjennom veneflon i hånden. Så sovner hun inn i narkosen på fanget mitt. Hun får medisin som gjør at hun slutter å puste. Så når hun har sovnet tar de henne veldig raskt og hjelper henne å puste med maske før de intuberer. Da må vi gå ut av rommet. Og så får vi komme inn til henne etter operasjonen slik at vi sitter hos henne når hun våkner. Ella satt og så barnefilm mens legen forklarte. På flytoget etterpå begynte hun å gråte. "Men, jeg vil ikke at du skal gå ut mamma, jeg vil du skal holde meg i hånden hele tiden!" sa hun. Så sovnet hun i fanget mitt; helt utslitt... Stakkars liten, av alt det legen hadde sagt så syntes hun det skumleste var at vi måtte gå ut fra rommet...

Rikshospitalet i morgen

I morgen skal vi på Rikshospitalet og gjøre nye undersøkelser av hjertet til Ella. Gruer meg! Vet ikke hvorfor egentlig, for operasjonen blir jo ikke nå, dette er bare en dagstur og sikkert enkle tester...
Jeg var hos Trude på fredag og fikk laget 4 LO'er til "sommerskolen". Skal legge dem ut når jeg bare har fått skannet dem. Det var skikkelig deilig med en venninnekveld!

Kosestund med mor

Oliver cuddling with his grandmother, whom he calls "mor" (mother). He calls me mamma. I was inspired by the light colours in the photograph, and the vertical panel behind them. I love how this picture captures the love between them.

PDA og scrappetørke

For noen måneder siden fant vi ut at Ella har en hjertefeil. Legen hadde funnet en bilyd på hjertet som vi skulle utrede på sykehuset. Sånn bare for å finne ut at alt var i orden. Men, så viste det seg at det er en feil der, kalt PDA. Dette innebærer at noe av blodet som kommer med oksygen fra lungene føres direkte tilbake til lungene istedenfor å fraktes rundt i kroppen. Sannsynligvis skal hun opereres. Vi skal på ny utredning på Rikshospitalet i neste uke, så etter det vet vi nok mer.
Det kom som et sjokk, og etter dette har jeg ikke hatt særlig overskudd eller inspirasjon til scrapping. Men, nå kjenner jeg det er på tide å ta meg sammen og komme meg igang igjen! Jeg tror jeg vil ha godt av noe annet å tenke på. For det blir jo endel bekymring da, sånn er det å være mamma...
Inne på Minneriket har de "Sommerskolen" som jeg tenker å bruke til inspirasjon. Der er der masse kjekke oppgaver, som jeg ikke kan unngå å bli inspirert av!

Blogging!

Jeg har endelig fått ut fingeren og kommet igang med en blogg. Her tenkte jeg etterhvert at jeg skulle legge ut LO'ene jeg lager, og diverse som inspirer meg.