Happy Birthday Sol!!!

Today my little baby girl turns 9.

I can't believe it!!!

Happy, happy birthday dear Sol!

The sunshine in our family.

The happy, playful, kind, lovely, caring girl.

We wish you a wonderful day and all the best for your year.

TWO cards are made for Sol today. And what could be better than a princess in her garden and a happy, happy raggedy Ann.

Both images are from the brand new Pixie Dust collection "british invation" that have its release today. :)

MLS goodbye bloghop

Hi my friends, and friends of My Little Shoebox.

Today is the day for the large farewell bloghop at My Little Shoebox.

If you just happened on my blog today, please go back to My Little Shoebox blog for all information about the hop.

Make sure you hop hop along the way and visit all the fabolous designers on the list and return back to My Little shoebox for your chance to win great prizes:

My Little Shoebox

Carol Figueiredo

Aphra Bolyer

Beckie Dreyer...

Cynthia Stevens

Deanna Misner

Debbie Sherman

Erin Payne

Erin Yamabe

Gudrun Loennecken - You are here

Heather Brown

June Goh

Kathleen Glossop

Melanie StanczykNicole Wragge

Pamela Young

Pattie Beltran

Rocio Duran

Shemaine Smith

Susan Dupre

Taj White

Tracey Locher

I have created a card and a layout for this hop using the OH so Beautiful "Oasis" line.

LOVE the bright, happy colors, love the designs, love everything.

How ever I will say goodye to MLS today. This awesome, generous, lovely manufacturer and the super talented team will be much missed in my heart.

But life is busy, and I need to move on. :)

As a little extra gift to my norwegian friends - and because MLS products are SO hard to get here in norway - I have this special little gift for you.

I'll pick two random, norwegian girls for two packages of wonderful MLS goodies.

lease Just leave a comment, and I'll pick two random (norwegian) winners.

Thanks for stopping by!

Now HOP HOP over to the wonderful, talented

Heather Brown s blog.

**this bloghop goes live 8am PST SORRY if my blog is up a bit early due to time difference**

got flu

Yes, I admit it. I feel really sorry for my self....

Having the flu or a bad cold is one of the worst things.... really ... when the sun is shining outside, the spring is coming, and I even had to cancel a scrapbooking class today. Buhuuu!!

Will be back - hopfully in better shape - real soon.

xo

Today I spendt the day at home with Sol.
She has catched a cold. Poor girl.
Even tho she managed to play at a wonderful concert this evening.
Sol and edwin played with two brass ensebles at the music shool here in Oslo today.
It feels so good to see them love their music so much.

Tomorrow we'll be off to tante Elins 75th birthday. All she wanted as a gift was us giving her some music - so our family band will play at the party.
So looking forward to that.
:)
As we had a nice and cozy day at home I managed to create some little projects too.

The above layout are made for this months challenge over at
Cocoa Daisy.
It was all about using a quote ....
I found this house with the quote on at Pintrest, and fell in love emmediately. The perfect "note to self" for me ;)

Thje other little project is just a sneak peek of my Step-by-step project coming up over at the
Cosmo Cricket blog
on saturday.
Make sure you stop by for some fun inspiration :)

Have a great weekend!

xo

All smiles

I'm OH SO HAPPY and honored to be on this list along with all these talented ladies :) :)

I'm so looking forward to start working with annas wonderful, inspiring sketches.

This layout is inspired by a sketcha s well.

:)

Not a PL sketch, but this months sketch challenge over at

Cocoa daisy.

Loved this sketch, created by Lisa.

I can see spring :)

Today has been a wonderful day here in Oslo.

Finally spring seems to find it's way here up north.

The snow is all slippery and wet, and the sun has been bright and warm. I had my lunch outside my favorite local café, and it was so good to feel the sun on my face and hear the little birds sing :) :

Here are some of my MLS-projects for this month.
These papers are all so happy and bright - they all bring a smile on my face. :)

You can see more of my projects on the MLS blog.

Also make sure you join this months sketch challenge!

I'll show you my take on it later ;)

Scraporama, the paper show at Hellerud was a great happening this weekend.
I got to meet so many wonderful people - all in love with papercraft, scrapbooking, stamping and card making.
It was so good to meet you all!! :)

Now the "sweet heart" collection by 3ndypapir (my design)
is almost sold out!!!
:)
Can't believe all the wonderful comments and all the love you all have given me for this collection.
Thank you!!! It really means a lot to me
:)

Here are two little glimpses from my 3ndypapir stand.

Trine took this picture of me sitting in the middle of the crowd at my stand. Probably busy showing how to create some paper flowers, talking to somebody or selling my papers :)

:)

Follow The Red Cape PDS Bloghop

Hi all.

Welcome to this Pixie Dust Studio Blog Hop.

If you just happened on my blog today, please go back to

Pixie Dust Challenge Blog

for all the details.

Make sure you leave a comment on the challenge blog and all the designers blogs along the hop, for your chance to WIN the gorgeous red cape digital stamp set By Pixie Dust STUDIO .

:)

Here's the hop order:
Pixie Dust Challenge Blog {http://pixieduststudiopixiechallenge.blogspot.com/}
Karen {http://karenscards.blogspot.com/}
Tasha {http://milliesmagicalmoments.blogspot.com/}
Jami - March GDT {http://sgtstamper.com/blog}
Margie - DTC {http://ohbumbleismemargie.blogspot.com/}
Joyce - Challenge Coordinator {http://jolaras.blogspot.com/}
Gudrun {http://papirbloggen.blogspot.com/} You are here!!

Erin {http://stamptillucramp.blogspot.com/}
Taylor {http://taylorusry.blogspot.com/}
Cat {http://catscraftycorner.blogspot.com/}
Shelly {http://jaspere-jaspereslittlecorner.blogspot.com/}
Melissa {http://8ers.blogspot.com/}
Cyndi {http://scrappychickcyndi.blogspot.com/}
Kathy - Owner/Illustrator {http://pixieduststudio.blogspot.com/}Thanks everyone!

Now hop on over to

Erins blog

for more gorgeous inspiration :)

Thanks for stopping by, and happy hopping!

**all patterned paper used on this card by 3ndypapir, digital stamp by Pixie Dust Studio**

"Håndlaga 2011" and a challenge :)

Hi

More snow in Oslo today.

This winter seems like it will never come to an end...

Still over 1 1/2 feet snow in my garden....

Now, well .... days are at least longer and lighter now.

...

Yes, I'm starting to long for spring...

Feels good to create some bright, spring-inspired cards :)

This card is for this weeks challenge over at

Pixie Dust Challenge blog.

:)

Håndlaga 2011 is a blog and a contest for all norwegian designed things and all things handmade.

You can nominate norwegian designed items

( like spesific papers from 3ndypapir for example ;) )

spesific handmade things (norwegian )

or (norwegian)blogs featuring handmade things.

Love this idea. How fun would that be to be featured on a blog / contest like this.

So please, if you love some of the 3ndypapir products - or my blog for that sake,

go ahead and nominate.

:)

You can find all the details

here

(you should probably use google translate if you don't read norwegian language ;) )

Thanks for popping by.

:)

I'm alive..... :)

Hi my friends.

Wow! days are running by so extremely fast.

This weekend and the past couple of days was filled with music,

a real ball ( dance with original baroque dresses and winer waltz ),

a concert with the best violinist in Norway; Henning Kraggerud , lots of practising with the orchestra in beforehand of course.

I love my music.

Love to work with so amazingly talented people.

Lucky me!!

I also managed to do one more of my absolute favorite activities:

a Scrapbooking crop in Ski.

Love to meet my crafty, super talented, fun, gorgeous, happy, warm hearted, lovely friends.

Love to laugh, talk and create.

I had so much fun!!

And .... I managed to create 5 layouts!!!

not bad, eh ?

here are two of them:

The above layout are pictures from my instamatic

Just little glimpses of my march 2011

This layout is some pictures of Sol with one of her favorite teddys.

Used some of my all time fave Lily Bee products on this.

:)

Will show the other layouts later, when I've added some little journaling and so on ...

:)

And last but not least:

Today is the very day for sneak peeks for the upcoming

Pixie Dust Studio Release.

This friday Pixie Dust will host a blog hop for your chance to win this entire collection.

So make sure you head back here on friday!! :)

see you!

xo

Our Vintage Affair

I'm SO happy and honored to be this months guest over at the wonderful, inspiring Challenge blog " Our Vintage Affair ".

Our Vintage Affair is a challenge blog for scrapbookers and cardmakers who love to make Vintage style projects. Each month there will be new and very exciting challenges.

Polly (ARTfulWings) and Loreta (Loriete)

hope you will join in and enjoy their vintage, super inspiring, fun challenges.

3ndypapir is the sponsor for March, so if you join the challenges you'll have the chance to win the entire "sweetheart" collection.

:)

This vintage inspired layout is my contribution to this months sketch challenge.
The cute vintage picture is of my mother and her sisters.

More New York and Moonbeam release

Hi my friends.

I have been playing with some more of my photos from New York lately.

Love how this picture from the wintery city turned out.

Played with a resist designer paper by house of three and my bottle of mists, rubons, little pieces of patterned paper...oh, I LOVE IT!!.

:)

Today is the big day for the Moonbeam release over at
Pixie Dust Studio.
Check out these über cute images!