2. Advent

Det er andre søndag i advent og jula nermer seg med stormskritt. Her tenner vi to lys og pynter med hjemmelagde papirstjerner. 

Fortsatt god advent! 

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

A rainy day

Hi my friends.

It has been a rainy, gray day here in Oslo.

My car broke down last week and are still in "hospital". Don't know when it will be back.

Well, so we use this opportunity to really "get in shape" after a lazy summer.

Hubby riding his bike to his office 35 km each way,

me carrying all the grocerys for our 6 persons-family on my bike from the store 1,5 km away.

...

and the rain

...

Yes, this could have been a very bad day

...

but

I decided I didn't want it that way.

I wanted it to be a happy day.

SO

I used this rainy day to create a

3ndypapir-Epla shop

for my norwegian / scandinavian friends

So they easily can buy 3ndypapir papers for their craft-needs

:) :) :)
and more good news:

I created (re-created) a

3ndypapir-ETSY-shop

for my international friends.

:) :) :)

All this made me so happy and excited I just HAD TO create some fun little things.

This note-book idea had been in my mind for a while, and today was the perfect day for this to come true.

Besides I need a notebook before school starts to keep track of all the things I have to organize and remember.

Used 3ndypapir "søtt" and "sommerhilsen" (secret garden collection) for this project.

These little books will also make a cute gift for little girls. :)

I had some pictures of sol picking raspberries.
We had so much fun picking the berries and then make some raspberry jam for lunch the other day. Just needed to document this :)

Was totally inspired by Rondas august sketch contest over at Cocoa Daisy for this layout.
patterned paper-strips by 3ndypapir and hand chrocheted flowers from Etsy.

...

The weather lady tell us the sun will shine here in Oslo tomorrow.
Well, can't be better!
:)

xo

my Stamp BOX SUMMER-blog hop :)

Welcome to the Jump into Summer Blog Hop with myStamp BOX and our preferred product partners (Helmar, PK Glitz and Kiki Art)!

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

Here is our Summer Blog Hop schedule just in case you missed anyone:
myStamp BOX Blog

Virginie lescrapdenovalen.canalblog.com

Tracey tailoredpages.blogspot.com

Cherie cherie-inked.blogspot.com
Helmar Adhesives http://helmarusa.typepad.com/blog/

Jing-Jing http://thislittleartofmine.blogspot.com/

Jolene jolenejohnston.blogspot.com

Monique http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com/

Eva http://www.evascrap.blogspot.com/
PK Glitz http://www.pkglitz.com/blog/

Ellen closeyourears.blogspot.com

Maryfrances http://maryfrancesfabbri.blogspot.com/

Gudrun papirbloggen.blogspot.com ME :) :)

Lynda http://positive-force.blogspot.com/
Jill http://www.fromthefarm-jill.blogspot.com/
Kiki Art http://www.kiki-art.com/blog_en/

Agata http://underconstruction-agata.blogspot.com/

Ally yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com

back to the myStamp BOX blog

The challenge for this Blog Hop was to take anything that makes you think of Summer and create a project that fits the theme.

You participate in the blog hop by leaving a comment on each and every participating myStamp BOX designer's blog and all of our partner companies' blogs as well.

You have a chance to win a set of stamps!

Our partner companies will offer up a prize as well. So leave a comment on all the blog posts and then return to the mSB blog and tell us what your favourite project was along the way for a chance to win! Have fun!

Please hop along to Lyndas blog and check out her wonderful Summery inspiration!
Have Fun!

I created three different projects for this bloghop.

One really summery layout with stamped background.

Flowers are perfect for summery boys-layouts too, right ? ;)

This summer-greeting card (above) "wishing you sunshine"

And some little teachers gifts.

Shool is out tomorrow here in Norway, and we are all looking forward to summer vacation.

And what better idea than giving the teachers we love a little sweet present for the summer. Simple folded cards with yummy heartshaped chocolate inside. :)

Happy summer!!

Oh happy day!!

WOOHOOO!!!

Today the new Design Team over at My Little Shoebox is announced.

SO happy and excited and HONORED to be at this team amongst so many, many talented scrapbookers!

:) :)

flower inspiration

Hi my friends. Hope you are all fine.

Finally spring starts to settle for real here and flowers peek up everywhere.

I SO love this time of year! :)

I LOVE flowers, they always seems to make me happy. And after my post on how to made the bouquet I showed at the Hellerud scrapbooking and rubberstamp show Iwas SO, SO inspired by Wenche and her BEAUTIFUL flowers and by the flower challenge on the cocoa Daisy spring crop, to make this little spring bouquet.

My bouquet is pretty simple - most of the work is folding all the parts of the flowers.

I have made this little tutorial on how I made the flowers using my beautiful, colorful My Little Shoebox paper. This papers are perfect for flower-folding. Heavy, doublesided paper. I used hot glue to make sure the flowers don't fall apart.

I found the tutorial on how to fold the flowers here

So, let's just get started on the flower-folding.

For this project you'll need doublesided patterned paper. I used My Little Shoebox, but you can use 3ndypapir, CosmoCricket or any of your favourite heavy Weight doublesided patterned paper.

You'll also need hot glue, metal wire, oasis (green foam to use for flower-decorations) a little flower-pot or vase, scissor and paper-trimmer.

1. I started with 5 equaly sized 2x2inch squares.

2. fold the square in half

3. fold the corners of the triangle up to the top. The triangle ill now have a square shape.

4. fold the upper corners outwards.

5. open up the flaps and flatten, like this:

6. fold down the upper edge of each flap and fold the flap back in half.

7. fold 5 equal pieces

8. glue the folded triangles together.

9. you now have one petal of your flower. Do the same to all the 5 parts of the flower.

10. glue all the petals together. Now the flower is ready.

Make as many flowers as you like in your fvourite colors.

Mine are all in spring-colors. :)

11. attach the metal wire (stem) to the back of your flower using the hot glue.

When all the flowers have stems, grab the oasis and make it fit in to the vase you have chosen for this project. I used a little silver-vase.

Add the flowers and arrange them as you wish. Add green leaves to cover the top of the oasis and little stripes of green paper to make spirals like in this project.

And because these flowers are not in need of sunlight or water this is a perfect decoration for the dark corners of your house that needs to be brightened up a bit. ;)

Hope you feel inspired!

And thank you Wenche for this wonderful idea!

have a great week you all.

xo

Inspiration monday :)

Hi my friends, and happy monday. :)

It is beautiful spring in Oslo today. The sun is shining and the spring-flowers have started to peek out :)

I was so inspired by the spring-weather I just had to create some flowers for todays Inspiration Monday. :)

These flowers are not only cute as embellishments for papercrafts, but can be used as bookmarks for your favourite books too :)

They are made of patterned paper by 3ndypapir, felt, fabric and paperclips.

Cut strips of patterned paper, aprx 1 inch X 12 inch.

Fold the strip as a accordion.

Punch two 1 1/2 inch circles of patterned paper.

Add hot glue to one of the circles and add the accordion-folded paper-strip as a circle on top.

This is now the base of your flower.

:)

Cut out a circle of colorful fabric.

Cut out a slightly bit larger circle of heavy woolen felt.

sew a button on top of the fabric and felt circles.

Attach the felt and fabric circles to the center of the paper flower with hot glue.

Grab the other 1 1/2 inch patterned paper-circle and the large paper clip.

Add Hot glue to the paper-circle and attach the paperclip, and add the paper-flower on top.

VOILA!

The flowery bookmark is ready for your favourite book. :)

Thanks for popping by.

Have a wonderful week.

xo