Creative Blogger award

I have received this award from Inger Thank you!!


The rules of the award is:
1. Copy this logo onto your blog
2. Link to the person who gave you the award
3. Nominate 4 blogs
4. Link to these blogs in your blog
5. Leave a message in their blogs so that know they have received the award

I would like to pass this award on to:
1. Monica - Her creativity is amazing
2. Bibbi - I love her soft colours and sweet details
3. Catrine - I have been a fan of her work for years
4. Daniel - I just found his blog, and just love his finishing touches

Update

It is not that I haven't been scrapping lately. I have made 8 LO's that I cannot show yet. 7 LO's for the M Game at Minneriket, and 1 with a picture of some friends my daughter made this summer, but I cannot publish it because I did not think to ask the parents.

But here are some pages I made some time ago for Scrappejungelen using October Afternoon papers.

- Chocolate

These photos were taken by my friend Christine when we were in the local amusement park last summer with some of our scrapping friends and the kids. So much fun :-) Ella and Oliver give it their all, eating the chocolate they have just made in the "chocolate factory".



- (The two of) us

This picture is of Oliver with my mother on a trip we did last spring. I love how he leans into her, taking comfort from her hand. It shows so well the bond between them. He loves his grandma så much, he sometimes blurts it out in odd situations like around the dinner table or in the car. He is such a cutie :-)

I have received this award from my good friend Irene I am so flattered. Irene is an amazing scrapper, and I get so much inspiration from her. Be sure to check out her blog!

The rules of this reward are:
1. Link to the person who awarded it to you in your blog.
2. Pass it on to 5 new bloggers.
3. Link to those 5 bloggers in your blog.
4. Leave a comment in their blogs.
5. Write down 5 things you depend on.

So I would like to pass this award to:
1. Irene - I know I just got the award from you so you do not have to pass it on again, but I wanted to award you (is that allowed?).
2. Mari - Because her creativity just amaze me.
3. Trude - Because of her excellent sense of humor and kind heart.
4. Christine - For her amazing and übercool use of colour.
5. Oddbjørg - For her beautiful style.

I could go on and on. There are so many scrappers/bloggers that inspire me. Just have a look through my bloglist if you want to check out more of them.

5 things I cannot live without....hmmm.....:
The kids
The husband
My friends
Chocolate
My camera (or maybe I would be willing to trade that in for ice cream after a while?)

Summer

Another LO I made for Scrappejungelen using October Afternoon. I just love how this photoseries of Ella turned out. This was the same day as the photo in my blog-header. Such a lovely summerday, in the Japanese garden of our local park. Good memories to look back on these cold days :-)

Cuddle

I made this layout for Scrappejungelen using October Afternoon papers. The pictures is of Ella and Oliver cuddling in our bed one morning.

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.