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!