Cosmo Love and card challenge

I created this layout for this saturdays blogpost over at 

The Cosmo Cricket blog.

Must Love "salt air" the happy, colorful, summery"  line by cosmo cricket.

And have you seen the new "odds and ends" collection?

Make sure you check it out! Can't wait to get my hands on these goodies! :)

I also created this super simple card for this weeks challenge over at Pixie Dust challenge blog.

Used some super old pieces of scrap paper as background.  Note to self: Never throw away old treasures...  LOL

Have a great weekend.

xo

120th birthday and some scrapbooking-love

Today my grandmother asta would have had her 120th birthday.

We had a nice lunch and planted some beautiful flowers at her grave.

She was a wonderful person, and all I remember of her is lots of laughter, love and warmth.

She loved parties, and had lots of friends even in her old age.

This day made me dig in to my really old pictures. Love these little, old treasures. 

Here are three of my pictures:

upper left: (Granma) Farmor Asta and me ca 1976

upper right: Asta ca 1938

low: Asta with the Black hat up left, her mother ( my great grandmother) in the middle and my dad, the little boy with dark hair,  on the first stair (right)  ca 1930.

 Now on to a bit scrapbooking.

I created this layout with pictures from the fair (tusenfryd tivoli) last summer.

My girls really had the best time ever.  :)

This layout was inspired by this months challenge over at Cocoa Daisy and a sketch challenge by Donna Jannuzzi at Ella Publishing blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

:)

easter, summer, breakdown, layouts and just little bits and pieces of life....

Hi my friends.

Hope some of you are still here..... it has been a while... yes, I know.

My computer had a breakdown during easter.

Luckily Hubby solved the problems when the store opened and he could buy a couple of new discs.

:)

The week of Easter was so good. BUSY but good.

Lots of kids around the house. It was so nice to make a happy, cozy easter celebration for my kids and all their little guests.

The weather in Oslo has ben the best ever.

FINALLY after the long, long cold winter easter brought us almost real summer.

This layout was made for this months challenge over at Cocoa Daisy, using the CD april kit. LOVE it!

Pictures from a little bike ride with Eirik and Sol during easter break.

I created this layout

a while back for the great "words and perspectives" project over at Sue Myldes blog.

I was SO happy to be invited as one of her special guests.

My word is Life.

You can read more about my journaling and perspective HERE.

Make sure you visit sues blog and look trough all the wonderful, inspiring layouts and artists that have participated in the words and perspectives project.

 The layout below is made for this weeks sketch # 235 over at Pencil Lines Sketch blog.

Used my favorite Cosmo Cricket patterned paper for this project.

Picture of Sol and Momo, at Sols birthday.

Machine stitched the heart on top of all the paper strips.

 Crazy isn't it....

first this loooong, cold winter here up north, and then all of a sudden the summer came ... well at least warm and lovely spring.

Here are two little pictures from our summery easter  :)

thanks for popping by!

Pencil Lines 233

 Hi friends. 

Here is my very first layout made for Pencil Lines Design Team.

I'm so happy to be a part of the wonderful, inspiring sketch blog.

:)

This layout is made using this weeks sketch ( # 233 ) 

by Anna Bowkis.

Make sure you come on over to Pencil Lines Sketch blog to soak in all the wonderful inspiration by the other girls at the design team. Hope you feel inspired to join the challenge :)

I used papers and enbellishments from Cocoa daisy March Kit on my layout. 

:)

Here is a picture from beautiful Stockholm city, Sweden.

I was so lucky to have a wonderful, fun weekend there.

Enjoying the early spring, beautiful flowers, great food...

gone shopping...

I was totally inspired by this weeks challenge, by Kelly,

over at the Studio Calico blog.

had a blast dig in to my SC march kit.

LOVE the happy, bold colors.

I had totally fun playing with my mr Huey mists and crackle paint + mists on the chipboard stars.

Pictures on this layout are my two crazy little girls at the warehouse. They are always up to something ...

what better way to use a shopping trolley?

Pictures taken with my hipstamatic app.

product list:

patterned paper: American crafts, Cosmo Cricket "salt air", Studio Calico "woodland"

chipboard stars: Jenni Bowlin

Cracle paint: Ranger white

Mist: Studio Calico Mr huey "schoolhouse" and "cream"

sticker tags: studo calico

letter stickers: American crafts Thickers "dear Lizzy", some old sassafrass (?) orange letter stickers

staples

** Just a note to my norwegian friends: I have started a brand new blog, I call it ( My Kitchen )

Mitt Kjøkken.

Hei Venner! Jeg har startet en ny blogg. "mitt kjøkken". Den skal inneholde små og større oppskrifter og notater fra mitt kjøkken. Ikke noe fancy, bare enkelt og ærlig. Ta gjerne en tur innom!! MITT KJØKKEN**

FINALLY!!!

Just HAD TO share these happy, happy spring pictures from Oslo Today.

OH we have waited for this.

The girls was SO, SO happy when they came home with the very first flowers this spring :) :) :)

Release day and a challenge :)

Hi my friends.

Today is the day for a new challenge over at Pixie Dust Challenge blog.

Go check it out and play! :)

It is also the big release day for the new Pixie collection:

Love all these cuties!

Egg Hunt and two winners :)

Happy day!

Today is the day for the first sneak peek of the super cute easter collection "egg hunt", by Pixie Dust Studio.

The digital stamp collection will release april 7th, so stay tuned!

I really LOVE the darling images of this collection

:)

And now, on to the winners of my little RAK at the My little Shoebox bloghop.

I promised to draw two norwegian winners for some MLS goodies.

Drumroll:

Ann Cicilie

and

Aquarell

Please e-mail me your addy and I'll send you the goodies

gudrun@papirmolla.no

:)

Sketch inspiration

Hi friends, and happy weekend.

the weather in Oslo have been grey and rainy today.

More fit for indoor scrapbooking than outdoor activities....LOL Good for me :)

This weekend I was inspired by a wonderful sketch by Virginia Tillery, and the sketch-challenge over at the Lily Bee blog.

I have played with my glimmer mists on the beautiful "resist" paper by House of 3 and Pink Paislee, along with bits and pieces of the lovely Lily bee papers, chipboard-embellishments and rub-ons.

I printed some paragraphs about our dear girl Sol on to the backing of the Lily Bee Rub-ons packaging.

The journaling is about how Sol is right now, when she turned 9.

Sol actually means sun in norwegian. And she is truly the sunshine of our life :)

I had so much fun creating this layout.

So if you are as much in love with Lily Bee as I am - make sure you go to the Lily Bee Blog and join this great challenge :)

Happy weekend.

xo

Birthday Photos

Some favorite shots from her big day :)

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.