HOME for Christmas :)

Hi my friends and WELCOME to my "HOME for Christmas". It's 2nd of december today, and here in Oslo the weather finally changed from grey, wet november-rain to ice-cold, crisp, frozen december-winter-weather. We made the seasons FIRST ginger-bread yesterday, and the gingerbread smell fill the house. We also decorated LOTS of gingerbread "lollies" for the christmas marked next weekend. These cute lollies makes great gifts for the kids friends and the kids in the neighborhood.

I used pre-made gingerbread dough. (I don't have any really good gingerbread recepie :( ) Anyhow, the premade from IKEA works fine too :)

I cut the cakes with a round bowl and used a small cookie-cutter to make the shape in the middle. Added a lot of cruhched candy in the "window" before baking the cookies in the oven. The candy will melt and make the cute window. Let the cookies cool of for a while before you take them away from the baking-paper.

I've decorated the cookies with sugar frosting. :) Here are some pictures from cold, sunny Oslo today. Look at the frozen rose. Amazing, huh?:

Maybe some of these....or some other of the outdoor pics I took today will find their way to some friends walls during christmas. Beautiful outdoor photos allways makes great gifts :)

I made this little giftbag and filled it with a secret gift for my SIL today. Have to make one more for my BILs wife too ;) ;) The bag is super easy to make. You can download the pattern below. :)
Perfect for a little gift or to fill with some sweets.

Have a WONDERFUL day! and THANKS for popping by!

GCD-spotlight :)

I am SO, SO happy and honored to be one of the spotlight-gals over at GCD-studios :) Jump over to see what the other november-spotlight-gals have created TOO :)
We have celebrated the FIRST day of december today. Started decorated the house, lit the candles, decorated the front door and opened the first day "treasure" in our advent calendar.
We baked the first ginger-bread today. Yummy, yummy!!

I got this SUPER sweet award from Torunn:

THANK YOU!!! This award and Your kind words really made my heart smile. :) :)

I'm supposed to send this to 15 new people..... Well - I want to send this award to you ALL my wonderful, inspiring blogfriends!!!

But what I actually will is sending it to my very best friend LENE. BIG HUGS my friend. :)

See you tomorrow for more christmas inspiration ;)

december 1st!!!

Wow, wow, wow! This year has flown by SO quickly. And now it's december allready. Can't believe it!

I made this LO with one of my favourite pictures from early january this year...allmost one year ago.... This LO is for the last challenge (#152 ) of this therm with Lotus Paperie. For now we are saying goodbye to most of the wonderful inspiring girls at the team.

Anyhow I'm SO, SO honored and lucky to STAY for one more therm at Lotus. I'm really looking forward to all the inspirational challenges, sketches and all the beauty the team and the girls that join share. I love it all! :) :)

Hope to see you there.

Little giftbags and advent-calendar

Hi, and welcome to my "home for Christmas, day 2!!! :) :)
I'm really in a bit of a hurry today. I'm off to Moss to have a class.
So I'll show you two fast and easy little projects.
I really LOVE this little folded "french fry bag" Perfect for a sweet little gift. I've filled mine with some chocolate hearts.


Here are easy step-by step pictures, how to fold this bag:

Start with a square piece of double sided patterned paper.

mine is 8X8inch.

Patterned paper by 3ndypapir.

fold in half

take one of the corners and fold it over to the other side

do exactly the same with the other corner.

Fold one of the upper corner down to secure the two folded corners.

No glue needed.

Your box is ready to be embellished and filled. :)

VOILA!!

Here in Norway we use to have count-down calendars for the kids in december before christmas evening (we celebrate the 24th.)

Some people fill the calendar with little things others have chipboard-calendars with cute little pictures and stories. I fill my calendar with things to DO with my kids.

I love to take time this season, and TIME is my gift for them. o we have some little projects we make every day before christmas.

Like baking, making stuff, maybe go skiing (if the snow arrive)...and so on.

Here are some nice paper-bags, perfect for advent-calendar filled with some little surprises or for a little fast gift. :)

I decorated mine with cute tags punched out of patterned paper by 3ndypapir.

THANKS for popping by!!

See you!

HOME for Christmas

Hi all!

I'm SO excited to welcome you to my Home for Cristmas :)

You are invited to join me every wednesday and friday for all kinds fun and homemade for Christmas.

I reall LOVE this season, and hope you'll enjoy this as much as I will.

WELCOME HOME!
This little gnome welcomes you to her neighbourhood.

The houses can be a cute decoration - and I also made them so they are gift-boxes!!

How fun is that!

Fill the house with some sweet treats and give it to your neighbours or friends next door.

Download and print pattern.

(click on the picture to make it larger and right-click to save)

Print or trace all the lines of the house on the back side of your patterned paper, and CUT along all solid lines.

Fold along all dotted lines, and glue the sides and bottom of the house.
Leave the roof open - this will be the lid of your giftbox.
:)


Now, cut out the "extra" pieces of paper for the roof and glue it on top of the box-roof.


The birdhouse is ready to be embellished and filled with something good. :)

I have used alot of glitter-glue along the sides of the roof to make it look "frozen". Embellish with ribbons or whatever you like.

I have used all patterned papers by 3ndypapir.
AND, I'm SO glad to announce 3ndypapir brand NEW Etsy shop is open!!
All our international friends are welcome to shop.
Norwegian and scandinavian friends may contact me by e-mail for info on how to buy the papers. :)

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This little giftbag is perfect for a little gift to a friend.
Super fast and easy to make.
Just print or trace the pattern on the back of your patterned paper.
Cut around the box and all the way down to the dotted lines.
Do NOT cut along the solid lines of the middle part of the box (between the dotted lines)!!
It is going to be in ONE but with all the flaps cut so they can easily been fold.
Fold and glue.
Your bag is ready! :)



So for now:
THANK YOU for popping by!!
Hope to see you again on friday for more christmas fun.
:)

SOON Christmas!!! :D

It's 19th of november allready!! WOW! Time fly, and it's allmost just ONE MONTH left to christmas :D

I'm really, really a CHRISTMAS FAN! I love everything christmas.

I love to decorate

I love to make stuff

I love to make little gifts

I love to make cards and tags

I love to make sweets and cakes and yummy, yummy food :) :)

I love to make things and DO things with my kids - counting down the days before christmas :) :)

I love to SHOP for christmas and wrap all presents for the people I love.

I love light a candle, enjoy my cup of coffee

I love to take time, being grateful...

Do you Love christmas?

I've had LOTS of kind messages, e-mails and comments from you, my wonderful, encouraging blogreaders this year. And You all really make me happy - and make me feel special. THANK YOU!!!!

And as MY christmas gift for you - and because I want to share my LOVE and JOY for this season - I want to invite you to join me in my very own "home for Christmas" - every wednesday and friday, starting wednesday nov 25th - here on my blog. :)

I want to share some little ideas, homemade gifts, cards, tags, recepies, home decor etc. Hope to see you 'round :) :)

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my Stamp BOX designers are planning a GREAT blog-hop PARTY in December too. So please stay tuned :)

Busy, busy days

I'm really enjoying meeting other paper crafters, scrapbookers and cardmakers so this next two weeks will be some really good weeks.
2 demos and one class in stores around Oslo and Moss. i'm really looking forward to this :)

Jeg gleder meg skikkelig til å møte mange glade scrappere, kortlagere og papir-elskere i dagene og ukene framover.
Håper å se mange av dere når jeg demonstrerer 3ndypapir på Bikuben og Steffens. :)

Jeg og Lene skal også ha et jule-kurs hos HOBBYKUNST i Moss!! Dette blir kjempe artig!! Håper å se mange, mange glade østlendinger der!!
(dette blir muligens siste sjanse til å være med på et 3ndypapir jule-kurs før jul, så Skynd deg å melde deg på!!)

20. november kl. 14-16 Demo Bikuben Strømmen
21. november Demo Hobby Norge Steffens, Kongensgate 15, Oslo

27. nov KURS: Hjertelig juleinspirasjonmed Gudrun Loennecken og Lene Solhaug fra 3ndypapir.no Fredag 27. november kl 17.00-20.00 Pris: kr. 350.- hos HOBBYKUNST, Amfi Moss”På dette kurset skal vi kose oss skikkelig med masse herlig julepapir fra 3ndypapir. Vi skal lage kort og gaveesker og fylle "posene" med juleinspirasjon. Passer for alle som vil leke med papir, som liker å klippe og brette, lage koselige kort og gaver, og som gleder seg til jul.”Bindende påmelding i butikken, per mail eller telefon Tlf: 69 02 32 69 moss@hobbykunst-norge.no. Første mann til mølla...

:)

"Fridge fun" :)

Hi my friends, and THANK YOU for all your kind comments. You all make me totally happy! :) :)
I have played with my wonderful stamps by my Stamp BOX lately, and made some more fun fridge-magnets. I made this never ending to do list as a fun little gift for a friend of mine too.... She can put it on her fridge .... and I'm sure she have plenty to write on the list too ;) ;)

My hubby went to work with a big grin on his face after I left him this message on the fridge early one morning :)

And my kids LOVE to play with the magnets....write their names and other cute little things.... :)

OK, THIS is NOT a fridge magnet...... LOL..... However it IS my LO for this weeks challenge #150 over at Lotus Paperie. Make sure you join the fun :) And it is still time to send your submissions for Lotus DT call! :) :)

Cristmas with Cosmo Cricket

Hi. I have had a wonderful time playing with my beautiful, awesome Cosmo Cricket cristmas products lately. Made these fun easy made fridge magnets. A cute little gift, or just to brighten the white fridge-door.
I layered cosmo patterned paper and chipboard and put the thickers alpha on top. Added a self adeshive magnet on the back side. :)


Made a few of these super fun and easy made candy boxes too.
The colors on these papers are so yummy. :)
You can find the pattern and step-bystep-instructions for these at the 3ndypapir blog

These boxes are made out of a Cosmo Cricket photo box and a CC keepsake box. They are SO beautiful and fun to work with.

I covered mine with patterned papers from the Jolly by Golly collection. Look at these super cute houses! I'm really in love with this line.

The snowmen allways put a smile on my face.

scraporama

Hi all. Finally back after the most exciting, busy, fun weekend at the big hobby / art / craft show "scraporama" at Lillestrøm this weekend.
Lene and I had a wonderful time at our 3ndypapir booth, meeting all new and old scrapbooking-and paper-crafting friends. Thank you for leaving so much love!!
Here are some pics from the booth and us working on it. Sorry, I was too busy during the weekend to take any "in action" photos...
You can see a few more pics at the 3ndy Blog.

Tusen takk for en kjempefin messe-helg til alle dere som var innom og hilste på Lene og meg på 3ndypapir standen. Utrolig koselig!! Og ekstra gøy at så mange som var på treffet i "bua" kom og handlet og lagde masse, masse lekkert med papirene våre - det varmer!! Store virituelle klemmer deles ut!! :) :)

Her er noen bilder fra standen, og Lene og meg som rigger. Hadde ikke tid til å ta særlig med bilder "in acton" - det var mye både lørdag og søndag, og det var kjempe-artig.

Pass på å springe innom 3ndypapir-bloggen også. Der har Lene lagt ut det hærlige brette-kortet. som vist på messa. :)Dette kortet er bare SÅ fint!! en ekstra BIG klem til min venn og kollega Lene. Hva skulle jeg gjort uten deg??

giveaway and LOTUS DT-call :)

Today is the day for the NEW november stamp-release and GIVEAWAY-day over at "my Stamp BOX". Make sure you visit the mSB-BLOG for your chance to win this awesome set. :)

Here are two LOs I've made for the last two challenges over at LOTUS Paperie. LOVE this weeks sketch # 148 (the lo above) with the circle shape, and challenge # 147 " use your ribbon scraps". I have a bunch of ribbons in a big jar, and I use them alot.... but it is allways nice to be challenged to use them in a new way. Make sure you jump over to LOTUS to grab some inspo, and join the fun!! :)

The DT work is allways awesome, and I'm SO glad I've been a member of this inspiring, wonderful challenge blog this therm.

The NEW DT-call for LOTUS design team spring 2010 is HERE. Go check it out, and send in your submissions!

On this LO I've used some of my darling Elle's Studio text boxes, calendar and cupcake-tag. I love the cute, verstile stuff from Elle's. You can find her stuff HERE in this Etsy Shop :) :).

The patterned paper is from 3ndypapir new Christmas Collection (yes!! I used the back side of the super cute "jul i skogen" to make this summer-LO) . Design Lene Solhaug.

Thanks for popping by!