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!