I'm this weeks guest at Scrappehuset :) :)

I'm SO happy and honored to be this weeks guest over at scrappehuset. :) Scrappehuset is a norwegian inspirational e-zine for all paperlovers. If you haven't been there yet, run over to get all the wonderful inspiration they share :) :)

I have made a little step-by-step tutorial at Scrappehuset this week - on how to make this cute little felt minialbum. And for those of you not reading norwegian I have made a step-by-step tutorial in english too.

Just click on the link below and download it for free. :)

FELT-MINIALBUM

(this is the first time I try this file-sharer so I hope it works.

Please leave me a note if not ;) )

Thanks for popping by.

Have a great week

xo

gudrun

Happy stamping

It's my turn up over at the my Stamp BOX blog today, and I'm all about text-boxes this time.

I have created two more LO's posted

at the mSB blog, so run on over to see what I created. :)

On the card shown here I have used all 3ndypapir patterned paper and my Stamp BOX textbox stamps.

thanks for popping by!

:)

Wonderful Spring :)

What can make a mom happier than the first spring-flowers in a little hand and a smiling, happy little face showing her treasure.

Sol came in with these beautiful, white flowers yesterday.

Yes, SHE truly is happiness around here :)

made this LO all digi, using frames and masks by Jessica Sprague, a free word art from 2 Peas, a brush and a texture overlay made of some old paper a letter and some antique tuille lace.

Thanks for popping by!

:)

LOTS of LOs

Hi my friends.

Hope you all have had a wonderful Easter.

Yesterday was all about the mSB-blog Hop here on my blog. Thanks for all you kind comments :)

No inspiration Monday yesterday - so I decided I wanted to share ALOT of LOs with you today instead.

I have been busy creating this easter break. It is SO good to have the time to just sit down and create, create, create. love it!!

A few of the LOs here was made at the large crop in Ski in march too. I just needed to give them a little finishing toutch :)

This LO is about SOL. She lost two of her teeth at school. The teacher put her teeth in a little box. Somewhat she lost the box on her way home.... and when she came home she was SO worried the tooth-fairy woudn't come......

She decided to write the tooth-fairy a note to tell her what happend to her teeth...and so she did....but the little piece of paper was too small so she didn't have room to write it all.........

She put the little note on a glass of water and sat the glass by the window, wating for the toothfairy to arrive.

Well, the tootfairy must have undestood the problem - she came and Sol found two coins in the glass of water - and it was all good :)

As you see I enjoy spring. I LOVE when the days are getting lighter and the sun stay up longer.

To find the little sprouts and early spring flowers in my garden makes me totally happy.

These LOs are mostly made during easter - and are all about spring - being together - having a good time. Family - love.

Most of the paper I have used on these LOs are my all time favorite manufacturers:

3ndypapir "secret garden",

Cosmo Cricket

American Crafts

sassafrass

and

My Minds Eye

I'm really in love with crochet embellishments lately - I think I can use it on everything! :) :)

I have some "friends" on etsy that make the cutest crochet-embellishments :)

have a great week, and thanks for popping by!!

:)

Introducing the New my Stamp BOX DT Blog Hop

Welcome to the myStampBOX Blog Hop!

Today, we are happy to introduce to you our newest additions to the myStampBOX team

but we would first like to thank all the wonderful and talented designers that are leaving our team. A BIG thank you goes out:Elisa Kammerdiener, Kim Sonksen, Lara Brooks, Liz Jacob, Marci Knecht, Natalie Kalbach, Trace Geworsky.

Thank you for all your hard work over the last 6 months. You’ll always be a part of the myStampBOX family.

Best wishes from all of us in your next endeavors!

Now… let’s find out who will be joining the myStampBOX design team. Follow the blog hop and visit each of our returning designer blogs. Each team member will be introducing a new member of our team. At each stop, please leave a comment and when the blog is complete, return to the myStampBOX blog and leave one final comment to have a chance to win a myStampBOX stamp set of your very own!

Jolene Johnston

Virginie Delbecq

Gudrun Loennecken (ME )

Ellen Sosnoski

Tina McDonald

Cherie Nymeyer

Tracey Taylor

Allison Cope

mSB Blog

We hope you enjoy our little welcoming blog hop!

Don’t forget to leave a comment on each one of the design team blogs and the mSB blog for your chance to win! Good luck and happy hopping!

I'm SO, SO happy to welcome Monique!

Here is what she says about herself:

Hi, I’m Monique Liedtke and I live in Delft in The Netherlands with my husband Patrick and our 3 kids: Manon 13, Timothy 10 and Mats 5. We have a super sweet Cocker Spaniel named Jippie, a rabbit and a goldfish. I find inspiration in almost everything: my kids, photos, nature, magazines, other scrappers, music, books, etc. I’ve been (addicted to) scrapbooking for 7 years now and can’t imagine my life without it!! My favorite techniques are stamping and sewing on my pages.

welcome to mSB Monique.

Make sure you visit her blog too

http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com/

:)

Now hop on over to

Ellen Sosnoski to see her card and who she'll welcome to the team :)

LO and card

I'm really enjoying this easter break.

We decided to stay at home this year.The weather here in Oslo is - well - not very nice - rain, rain, rain.

But - perfect to stay indoor and do crafty stuff :) :)

I made this LO with SOL from her 8th birthday.

Used the colorful happy "garden variety" line by Cosmo Cricket along with some tags from 3ndypapir "secret garden" "markedsdag".

P K Glitz is having a bloghop today, and the my Stamp BOX-blog are one of the blogs in this hop.

I created this card for the bloghop, using some of my favorite mSB-stamps and some glittery goodness from PKGlitz.

Join the bloghop today for your chance to win a wonderful prize and some smaller prizes along the hop :)

I had so much fun making this card. It is actually a lift of a beautiful card made by AmyH (Paushdesign). You can find her card and more of her beautiful creations in her 2peas-gallery.

Thanks for the inspo Amy!

Have a wonderful Easter.

and thanks for popping by!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOL!!!!!

Our wonderful, happy, lovely, special girl turns 8 today.

Happy birthday Sol!!!!!!!!!

more easter inspiration

Hi my friends!
Easter holiday have started here in Norway, wich means alot of people are on vacation, having some days off, celebrating, relaxing, being with friends and family.
Norwegian easter tradition is - amongst many things:
Mountains, outoor-activites, skiing, snow, sun, oranges, chocolate, egg, chicken...cross-words....good stories...

So I wanted to share a little easter inspiration today.
:) I LOVE to work with wool - felting and making cute chickens and hens are one of the favourites during easter.
My kids LOVE this activities too!!
The blue hen welcoming you was made this afternoon by my 14 YO son!
He was the first one to rush to the table and start felting when I started to pull out all the wool :)
All my kids, and a couple of their friends had a wonderful time around the table, making woolen stuff.
I created a little door-hanging for our front door.


For this project you'll need:
Colored wool ( I have used Nepal wool) in colors of your choice
felting needle and a foam mat to have under your project
foam-egg (I used 16 eggs) depending of the size you want yuor doorhanging to be.
Metal wire
Ribbon
Pre-made welcome-sign
(my welcome sign was bought at Kremmerhuset)
Tear off a piece of wool and wrap around your foam-egg.
Felt the wool into the foam-egg using your felting needle.
Push the needle into the foam-egg over and over again, all over the egg, to make the wool "stick" to the foam (usually the needles come with a great tutorial on how to use it)

You can make cute patterns on your eggs by simply adding other colors of wool and attach it by "stitching" it on top of your felted egg with your felting needle.



Cut a piece of metal-wire. This will make the fondation of your doorhanging.
Add one egg at a time to the metal wire.
I just pushed the wire all the way trough the foam-egg.


It will soon look like this:

Add as many egg as you desire for your doorhanging.

Put the remaining pieces of metal wire into the "next door" foamegg, and secure with some hot glue.

Add a ribbon and the welcome-sign.

:)

Have a wonderful week!

And thanks for popping by!!!

:)

Hijacking the Cosmo Cricket blog

The Cosmo Cricket Design Team is Hijacking the Cosmo blog every saturday, and yesterday I was SO honored to be the first designer to share a "step-by-step" tutorial on the Cosmo blog :) :)
I shared this little accordion album. To find out how I made it, and see more pics of the project, please run on over to COSMO CRICKET BLOG!

Happy Weekend!
:)

Me, a scrapbooker :)

Yes, I scrap!

Somethimes I just wonder....if I scrap, or if I just teach, run 3ndypapir, mail bunches of papers all over the world, surf internet, talk to people on mail...

Well I LOVE this part of my job, of course!!! But most of all i want to be a scrapbooker, an artist - a photographer...a paper-lover :)

And it feels GOOD when I find time to do the things I love the most.

Here are three LOs I made recently.

One with the BEAUTIFUL butterly stamps by my Stamp BOX (love these!!)

And the two LOs below are made for LOTUS paperie.

This awesome challenge-blog that recently closed. SO sad! :(

Used patterned paper by 3ndypapir, and the CUTE heart-stamps by Ett Trykk.

textbox by mme.

On the LO below I used my chipboard-snowflakes and thickers-alpha as mask, and spritzed with my favorite turquouse glimmermist by Tattered Angels.

Snowflake-stamps by my Stamp BOX :)

Thanks for popping by!!

:)

Easter inspiration :)

Hi my friends, and happy inspiration monday. :)

I have made some cute little greeting-cards, and a tiny little chocolate-gift today.

Easter is just around the corner, and I guess friends and family will love to get a little card or some sweets to remind them we are thinking of them even if we are miles and miles apart.

:)

I have dressed up a little chocolate.

This chocolate is a typical norwegian chocolate, and most of us are thinking of cross country skiing, snowy mountains, oranges and hot cocoa when we see this chocolate.

Well for us norwegians, a perfect choice for easter. :)

I have dressed mine up a little bit, to make it more festive.

:)

For this project I've used

white cardstock

a scallop border-punch

a round and a scallop round ( 2 1/2 and 3 inch) punch

ribbon and green leaves and paper-flowers to mebellish

3ndypapir "secret garden" collection patterned paper

and a scan of an old easter postcard.

(You can download the images I have used for my projects by clicking on the images in this post and save. )

These images are for personal use only!!!

I punched a circle out of the bunny-card and a round scallop of the white cardstock.

Attached the round card to the scallop background and drawed around the circles and scallops with my favorite brown pen.

Cut a piece of white cardstock that will fit as a "coat" around the chocolate.

Adorned the edges of my cardstock with my scallop-punch.

Cut two pieces of patterned paper to put on top of the white cardstock-"coat".

The red patterned paper is just to add a little red border on each side of the lighter patterned paper.

Attach the patterned paper on top of the cardstock.

Fold the cardstock-"coat" around the chocolate and fasten it on the back side.

This is now a perfect coat for the chocolate.

Adhere the circle with the cute postcard on top of the paper-"coat".

embellish with paper-flowers and a piece of ribbon.

So simple and easy, and

Perfect as a cute little gift.

:)

Here are the two easter-cards I made today as well.

Hope you feel inspired.

Have a wonderful week!

Classes

Hi my friends

Hope you have had a wonderful week.

My week has been busy, busy, but fun.

Still working on shipping all the packages of 3ndypapir to all the retailers around Norway, Sweden, Iceland etc.

I have had alot of classes this week too - one every second day :) I love to teach, so these scrapbooking-and papercrafting classes makes me all happy.

Last weekend I attended the large Crop / gathering in Ski, and I had a blast, teaching, scrapbooking laughing, being with friends. GOOD TIMES!

:)

I had one class at Minnehjørnet early this week, and I will have one class at Steffens tomorrow.

Yesterday I went to Moss, I had so much fun teaching for a group of wonderful people there :)

They all wanted me to put out pictures and templates for the stuff we made in this class.

So without further ado, here it goes.

ENJOY!!

:)

I have put alot of love, time and effort into all my creations and templates.

Some of the templates are made by me, and some are other peoples work of art.

These templates are for PERSONAL USE ONLY!

Please don't use them for magazines, books or other commercial use without permission!

All papers used for these projects are by 3ndypapir

:)