Valentine inspiration :)

Hi my friends.

Finally I'm ready for some valentine inspiration this week.

The flu still bugs me, but I've been out today bought some sweets for my love, and I made this little mini album earlier this week.

Hope you'll get some inspiration :)

My Darling isn't much of a pink-lover. He would rather die than holding some pink stuff in his hands.... So well...I saved my pink cardstock for someone else....LOL

And instead I folded this fun little mini-album (card) for him to put on his desk...or maybe on the piano..... or in his pocket....LOL

For this project you'll need:
3 pieces of 6X6 inch (15 X 15 cm) white or neutral cardstock
2 pieces of dark brown cardstock aprx 3x3 inch or 7 X 7 cm
Pieces of patterned paper (GREAT way to use your leftover scraps)
4 photos 7 x7 cm
piece of ribbon
something to embellish the front ( I have cut the birds out of some Basic Grey patterned paper)
doublesided tape

- fold your pieces of cardstock in half and in half and in triangle. Open, and you'll get these scores: Lenghtwise, horizontal and from left to right corner.

-do the same to all the three pieces of cardstock, and glue them all together like on the picture above. :)

Crop your 4 photos in size to fit in the squares. Mine are 7 x 7 cm.

Add the photos to the open squares.

Cut pieces of patterned paper to fit in all the other open spaces of the album.

I was inspires by the colors in my photos....by patchwork.... and I wanted the colors to be all different....

Add the pieces of patterned paper to your album.

Cut two pieces of dark brown cardstock 7 x 7 cm and cut out the pattern you want to use as an embellishmenmt on the front of your album.

add a piece of doublesided tape to the front cover of your album. Add the ribbon that will bind the album together.

Add the brown square that will be the front cover on top of the ribbon, and add the back cover on the back side of your album.

It will now look like this from the back side. (the inside of the album facing away from you)

The album is basically finished now.

Add text or embellishments of your desire.

Have fun creating!!!

And please, leave me a link if you play along and make this minialbum too. I would LOVE to see your project!!

Hugs and kisses!

And

not to forget:

We are celebrating Mothers day here in Norway this sunday too - so we have three days the same day:

Valentine

Mothers day

and

fastelaven

:)

:)

Have a wonderful weekend.

xo

my Stamp BOX blog hop :) :)

This is not true! I can't believe it! I forgot to put up my bloghop post yesterday :( :(

SO SO SORRY!!

I'll have to blame that nasty flu of mine....

Anyhow the Bloghop will last until Thursday, so it is still time....

Welcome to the Just Add Sweets Blog Hop with myStamp BOX today!

If you have just happened upon my blog today, you may want to head to the start of the blog hop today, the myStamp BOX blog .

Here is our Just Add Sweets Blog Hop schedule just in case you missed anyone:

- Tracey Taylor

- Tina McDonald

- Virginie Delbecq

- Marci Knecht

- Allison Cope

- Cherie Nymeyer

- Gudrun Loennecken - ME :)

- Liz Jacob

- Ellen Sosnoski

- Kim Sonksen

- Nathalie Kalbach

- Jolene Johnston

- Elisa Kammerdiener

The design team's challenge was to take the theme of our blog hop and apply the colours of white, pink and orange to their creations.For participating in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating myStamp BOX designer's blog, you have a chance to win a set of brand new stamps sets being released this month! So leave a comment on all the blog posts and then return to the mSB blog and tell us what you favourite project was along the way for a chance to win!

Have fun!

Please hop along to LIZ Jacob to check out her sweet work!

No inspiration monday

Hi my friends.

Yes, you read right. No inspiration monday today :(

I have been all day on the sofa with a flu.

Argh! I hate to be sick.

I hope I feel better tomorrow, and I'll put up the inspiration "monday" some day during the week, so please stay tuned. ;)

I'll leave you with my LO for this weeks challenge sketch over at LOTUS Paperie.

see you!

wednesday inspiration :)

WOW! Wednesday already??!!??

And february!! Can't believe it!

Time just flew by too fast.

Anyhow - we'll play no matter what day it is :)

Hope you enjoy this weeks little tutorial.

This week I'll show you how to make a cool frame out of the pages from an old phonebook. :)

Here in Norway we are lucky to have these cute pink pages (along with plain white and yellow) in the phone-book.

I used one pink page for this project (so I guess my hubby won't even notice.... LOL )

What I needed for this project:

1 phonebook page cut in tiny stripes

1 cardstock 12x12 inch (Bazzill white)

patterned paper: "material girl" by Cosmo Cricket (I used "borders" and "elements")

stamps: my Stamp BOX "funky flowers"

chipboard letters: Cosmo Cricket

sewing machine

double sided tape

Cut your phonebook-page in tiny stripes. aprx 1 centimeter.

Add doublesided tape along the edge of your white cardstock.

add the stripes of phonebook-paper, little by little on top of the tape. Fold while you put the paper on to the tape. Don't worry if it doesen't get straight, or if it get messy. Just tear away the "mess" and start with a new stripe. :)

When you have added the folded paperborder all along the edges, machinestitch on top of the paperborder. I stitched in the middle of the stripes. Love how the edges comes up and gives the frame dimension. :)

Added pieces of patterned paper as a background for my photo.

Stamped a little barcode under all the pieces of paper, and stamped flowers on to other pieces of patterned paper.

Added the photo and title on top of my collage of patterned paper, and machine stitched along the edges of the photo.

Cut out the stamped flowers and added them randomly around the LO with a brad in the middle.

ta-daa!

Thanks for popping by and joining me on this "Inspiration Monday" on a wednesday :)

NOTE: This LO was actually made for this weeks challenge over at Lotus Paperie. Go check it out for more inspiration!!

:)

Have a great week.

My stuff is at CHA!

Yes it is CHA winter 2010 over in Anaheim these days, and we hear talk about cha, and we see sneaks of new collections all the time.

SO much new, yummy stuff. :)

Wish I was there, attending the show - it all seems to be so fun.

Anyhow, this year I'm SO HONORED and HAPPY to have some of my stuff featured at the BEST boot: Cosmo Cricket. :) ( i have seen some pictures, and the boot is SO cute. :) )

They have some WONDERFUL new lines- and have you seen the new chip letters? They are to die for! Love them all :)

I'll share some NEW LOs I've made with the new Cosmo lines, and some of the stuff featured at CHA.

Have a great evening.

xo

inspiration Monday #4 - so many photos, so little time -

Hi my friends.

A late inspiration monday for you today....

I have been looking trough some of my pictures from 2009 - and yes, there are some....

I don't know how many thousands....

I also dug into my LOs from 2009 - and I found I made about 400 LOs and minialbums in 2009.

...and STILL there are photos (a lot of photos) not scrapped, and happenings not documented....

well, to be honest, the reason why I scrapbook is not so much for documenting the life of my kids and family....it's more about my creative process....

Anyhow, I like to document, and gather memories too.... I love to look at the LOs from years back and remember - get into the memories - smile at things long forgotten.

So after digging in to all my photos I realized it is just TOO many photos ..... and too little time to scrap them all....

I have discovered envelopes are on their way in to scrapbooking again - this makes me happy :)

I love envelopes. They are so useful, so versatile and add a new, hidden dimension to the scrapbooking LO :)

On this LO I have made an envelope of one of my favorite patterned papers, and today I want to share my envelope-idea with you.

Maybe you have too many photos too??

Here is my LO - pictures from summer 2009.

I love to make photo-collages, and I often use flickr-toys, mosaic-maker at Big Huge Labs. Works perfect if you want to make a mosaic like the one I have on this LO :)

Here is the sketch I made for the envelope.

The envelope is made out of a 12x12 inch patterned paper, so I just used my sketch as a guide when I folded the envelope.

For this project I used:

1 white bazzill cardstock

1 smaller piece of cardstock

Studio Calico, Home Front collection

glimmermist: (turqouse) my tattered angels

2 buttons

embroidery floss

butterfly punch

(rubons: Hambly and Autumn Leaves (stitches))

So, let's get started :)

Fold 3 inch in on both sides, 2 inch in on the top and 1 inch in on the bottom of the 12x12-paper you want to use for your envelope.

Use the sketch as a guide.

You can make the envelope in what size you prefer.

Cut away the corners of the 12x12 paper (see sketch)

The envelope is ready to be glued.

I prefer to use doublesided tape.

I glue the middle part and the bottom, leaving the top open. I want to put more photos and memorabilia inside my envelope :)

To close the top of my envelope I sew on two buttons. One button on the lid, and one on the envelope-front. I use a little piece of embroidery floss and tie a little bow between the two buttons. :)

The envelope is now ready.

As you know I used mine on my LO. You can use it in a minialbum, as a envelope (surprise! LOL), as a LO on it's own, or how ever you prefer.

I'll show you how I made the rest of my simpleLO :)

To add some color to my white cardstock, I added my favorite, turquoise glimmermist.

Let the cardstock dry.

Now I added my envelope, the pictures I preferred to use on my LO, some butterflies as embellishment and my title.

I put the "leftover" photos on a large tag, with room for more photos or journaling on the back.

This tag fit perfectly inside the envelope.

I have more photos in all sizes and other memorabilia I'll tuck in my envelope too. :)

Voila!

1 LO with all the photos and memories from our summer at the south coast of norway 2009 :)

Hope you enjoyed this little inspiration Monday.

Thanks for popping by!! :)

xo