Handmade

Yes, as most of you, my friends, probabbly know already, I LOVE to make stuff. And what can make me happier than seeing my little girls love to make stuff too. :D

Pictures on this layout shows Sol with her handmade "sitting-mat". She is so proud, she felted and sewed it all by her self. Just too cute :)

This layout was inspired by last weeks color combo over at The Color Room. :)

Alot of hand-stetiched elements on this layout.

If you live in Oslo / akershus area I'll have a "hand-steitching"-class at minnehjørnet in Ski
june 3rd. We'll do alot of fun stitching on paper in this class :)

I would love to see you there!

xo

gudrun

Wonderful Ukraine

An amazing adventure trough culture, music and beautiful art.

Kind, warm-hearted people, delicious food and a country filled with beauty made our trip to Kiev and Odessa unforgettable.

:)

Happy day :)

Hi friends!

happy, happy day.

Early Tomorrow I'm off to Ukraine :) and I tell you I'm SO excited!!

This is a tour with Oslo Symphonic orchestra

- so we'll have two conserts in Kiev and Odessa.

Did I tell you I'm over the moon excited.....LOL

Will be back mid next week.

Until then I leave you with this "happy day" card made with all Cosmo Cricket patterned paper .

This is actually a birthday-card for Eiriks Nephew. I made a little pocket inside with room for some money as b-day gift.

Have a great week friends.

xo

gudrun

One little layout

Made this LO for the challenge #5 over at The Color room.

I really enjoy these color challenges :)

It has been a busy busy day around the house. Getting ready for the weekend and for the upcoming Norwegian national day on may 17th.

:)

10 years!!

10 years ago today I married

my wonderful, amazing, lovely, dear, warm, funny, creative, darling, caring, handy superhero.

Can't believe time have flown by so quickly.

You have made my life wonderful Eirik.

Thank you!!

Butterflies and paint

Hi my friends

and welcome to this weeks inspiration monday (on tuesday ;) LOL)

I have been busy playing with my shimmering acrylic paint and the beautiful butterfly stamp-set "colorful companions" by my Stamp BOX.

So while I'm waiting for summer, looking out on the snow (yes, more snow today :-/ ) I had so much fun doing this little project.

Hope to make you feel inspired to grab your stamps and acrylic paint too :)

For this LO I used a round scallop-edged eggshell colored cardstock.
Butterfly stamps by my Stamp BOX
patterned paper "på vingene" by 3ndypapir
shimmering acrylic paint by PeBeo
buttons
Alphabet stickers by sassafras
My tattered angels glimmermist "golden terracotta" and Tiger lily"
hole punch
black pen

I grabbed my stamps and my acrylic paint.
Used a sponge to add paint to my stamp.
I started out stamping the image several times on the cardstock, using my shimmering orange paint.
I used different butterfy images, and used some red shimmering paint along with the orange on some of them.
This will make the back ground pattern for my layout.

After I finished stamping all my butterflies I pulled out the glimmermist. I opened the bottle and "splashed" drops of glimmermist on to the cardstock with the back of the spritzer.

I used my Tiger Lily" and "golden terracotta" mists for this to add different drops of color.

Let the cardstock dry

While the cardstock with paint and glimmermist dried I wanted to cut out two circles of patterned paper. I used 3ndypapir "på vingene" for my circles.

drawed around a medium sized plate to make a perfect circle.

Cut out two circles using my scissor.

Now it is time to add the picture and the circles to the cardstock.

Added Buttons and the Sassafras letters for my title.

Now I wanted to punch holes all along the beautiful scalloped edge of the layout.

I used my crop-a-dile for this, but you can use any hole-punch.

Added a tiny black border along the scalloped edge and journaling with my favourite black pen.

Voila!

Hope you feel inspired!

And Thanks for popping by!!

have a wonderful day.

gudrun

Cosmo News! :) :)

De Lovely - The brand NEW Cosmo Cricket line launches today.

I know you'll LOVE this line, so bright, fresh, colorful and fun.

I am in LOVE!!

Make sure you run on over to the Cosmo Cricket blog today to see all the goodness, and for your Chance to WIN this Lovely collection.

:)

Both layouts shown in this post are made with the NEW De Lovely papers.

:)

You can see more of the wonderful inspiration made by the Design Team over at the

Cosmo Cricket blog. :)

"Inspiration monday" will be up Tomorrow

- promise! -

See you!

Happy {inter}National Scrapbooking day! :)

Hi My friends, and Happy {inter}national scrapbooking day! :)

Hope you all have a great day with lots of scrapbooking and papercrafting.

I have had so much fun preparing things for today.

Make sure you visit the 3ndypapir blog to have a closer look and patterns for these two projects ;)

Special for today I made the instructions in Norwegian AND English ;)

The design-team over at Cosmo Cricket have made alot of fun challenges and inspiration just for you! Make sure you run over to see it all. - and MORE will come during the evening. :)

I have a tutorial up for THIS project HERE

Lots of fun things are going on, so make sure you go HERE for all the fun!

Have a Great day!

And thanks for popping by!

xo