tisdag 26 oktober 2010

Scrappiness...

Today i have scrapped, and scrapped some more and the some, complete happiness or as i now call it scrappiness i love being in a creative state of mind again it makes me happy and i think my brain might go on creative overload soon. I have finished 4 pages for the mini album, created 2 layouts working on a third and started with a banner for little miss things room.
That is what i call multi tasking ;) the hubby call´s it insanity... And he gently reminded me that the living room floor is a space that all of the family is supposed to be able to use.
In my mind i was going "Whats wrong with climbing on the furniture????!!!" but i don't think that was the answer he was looking for..
I will try to take pics of it soon, but living in grey cold rainy fall land called Sweden is not making it easy.
But i thought i would share two pieces i made for a article in a Russian mag that featured a few from the prima dt, we all contributed with a layout and a card and a tutorial. Mine was about coloring your own flowers i used flowers from Primas innocence line, a stamp pad and some glittery gorgeous embossing powder, (you can see the flowers on the layout) if you haven't tried the innocence line do so its so much fun to get your hands dirty!
Well now i guess its time to clean up my scrappymess here.. So till next time lots of love and scrappiness♥♥♥

onsdag 20 oktober 2010

The Prima Idea book

For little more then a yer and half ago the prima team was asked to contribute with their best and innovative ideas on how to use Primas products the ideas where going to be used for the first Prima idea book.
It was such a fun process creating for this book and trying to come up with fun new ideas working with products that i love!, and finally the book has hit the stores!!!!
I have not been able to look through it yet but its on its way to my mail box (Yeihhhh) but i have seen a few of the projects the other designers is contributing with and i tell you so many of them has made me gone "ohh" and "ahh" and "why did i not think about that??!!" And so many of my personal favorite scrappers is in there, Ingvild, Janine, Iris, Jamie andChristiane just to name a few and i know there are so much stuff i want to try in there =) And I'm so proud to be one of the designers among these talented girls, and i think it will feel pretty amazing and kind of weird to see your on work in print like that..
If you like prima products, and hey who don't!, you don't want to miss this book and it is the perfect Christmas gift to a fellow scrapper ;)
Christmas is not to far away.... must begin to plan this years Christmas cards =) Christmas is my favorite time of year♥ i have so many crafting ideas in my head for Christmas decorations just have to finish the mini album first *lol*
Love to you all

söndag 17 oktober 2010

Something scrappy

Uhmm I'm actually working on a canvas album at the moment but it´s not done yet, i need to find somewhere to buy refill pages (its the prima canvas album from Donna downey) does anyone know where i could get these????
And i thought hey why not start with a mini album that seems like a good thing to start with when you haven't scrapped for half a year ;) I have always admired Cari and her ability to make the most gorgeous mini albums in a snap.. Well all i can say is that now i admire her even more!!!
But I'm having so much fun with it even if it´s taken me longer then what i planed. My fingers are stained with all kind of colors and again i find glue dots all over my floor and on my socks (somehow i always end up on the floor when i scrap...) and I'm happy!!!
When i was looking through my scrap portfolio i found a page i did for prima but it never made it to the blog so i thought that i could show it here now instead.
And i know the layout may seem a bit divalicious ;) self titled and all..
But the journaling is actually more a shout out to my self to believe in myself and to stop second guessing that what i do is good enough..
Something i do need a reminder about time to time.. Right now it is a reminder to start scrapping for real again!!!
Back to the mini album it is!


(And the photo is taken by the amazing Jenny Sandberg, she always makes me feel beautiful in front of the camera im actually quite camera shy otherwise...♥)

onsdag 13 oktober 2010

Do you remember...

Do you remember when you where a little kid and the joy a blank paper could bring, the thoughts of filling that paper with lots of color and thinking about what to draw was a magical feeling, and do you remember when you got (or the times you didn't but borrowed it anyway) to take a look in your mothers make up purse, ohhh the glitter the eye shadows,the pencils the rouge the lipsticks!!!... And how gorgeous you looked after putting everything on your face. Or at least you thought so your self ;)
This sort of magical moments you don't get to experience as much as a grown up, but i love to See that magic in my five year old girls eyes when she gets to play with my make up or when she´s sitting there filling the paper with water colors.. Ahh the joy!
I do feel glimpses of that magic through scrap booking sometimes, especially when I'm shopping new glimmer mist colors i feal like a little kid again, and i do feal the joy of filling a paper with happy scrappy stuff =)
And i do LOVE to shop eye shadows, before i found scrap booking i spent a lot more money on make up and instead of filling papers with colors i tried different make up techniques.
I don't play around with make up as much as i used to, but then i found this girls blog who creates the most amazing looks with eye shadows, I'm stunned by her color matches and the only way i would get my eye to look that colorful is to spray them with glimmer mist, but somehow i don't think that that's the right way to go ;) She has great tutorials all in Swedish but with great pics!! Right now she has a blog candy where you could win a bag from Make up store ( LOVE their stuff!!!) which i of course i would love to do =)

But now i am curios what gives you that magical feeling, please feel free to share!
Now im going watch Greys anatomy =)

söndag 10 oktober 2010

This blog is in desperate need of CPR


Think i might give it a try to bring this blog to life again..
I know its been quiet around here for a looooooooooong time Thank you all of you who has asked me if I'm ok and what has happened with me.. Reading every comment has brought tears to my eyes and i love how caring the scrapbook community is.

Well sometimes life gives you a bit more then what you can handle.. and you need time to heal and try to get a new perspective on things and first after that you can move forward.

So promise that it wont take another 6 months before next post.
so til next time Love to you all. And mayby just mayby i might have something scrappy happy to share with you then.. Scrapping is sort of scary when you havent given it a try for 6 months i tell you!!

fredag 5 mars 2010

*TGIF*

Its Friday hooray!! I am home today, Little miss thing has fever but is her usual happy play full self so we are doing fun stuff together, just watched Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses and we will play some with my new big Foam stamps from the Donna Downey line that Prima released this CHA, i bought some dresses and shirts that we will try to print on today promise to show the result here later!

Thanks to the fabulous Augusti73/Anna i found these gorgeous wall papers from Pip studios and i love them, i want to use them on every wall here just as soon as i have talked the hubby in to it ;) apparently he don't think its a good idea to have flowers on every wall.. MEN!!
I got a few samples of the wall papers from PIP, i cut out some of the patterns and has used them on my layouts, i wish PIP did scrap papers to!
Together with some Prima papers and flowers it turned out into a layout!


I used Primas last release "The Tropics" together with my favorite flowers-Evelyn baby lilies for this layout.
The pic always makes me smile and it made me think of my relationship with little miss Thing.. I wish we always will be close and that she knows that no matter what, her father and i will be here for her, that she can relay on us to always be there.
I Love that little kiddo!
The pic is taken by the amazing Jenny Sandberg if you haven't visited her blog do so, she has the cutest pics of her new little baby girl.. I so long to be able to visit them and to hold that little bundle of joy in my arms Miss you sweetie!
Now I'm of to play dress up, apparently I'm going to be the evil stepmother.. Uhmm how did that happen?! *lol*
Have a happy Friday

tisdag 2 mars 2010

Migraine...

Well for the last nights the little Miss thing has had different kind of ghosts in her room at night.. So she has crawled up in our bed and wants to sleep as close to her mommy as possible (because the ghosts do appear in our room to apparently, and the only safe place is mams arm..and never dads strangely enough at night)
And the hubby dislocated his shoulder for a couple of weeks ago when he was snowboarding..
And well lets say its like having one little Girl and a very BIG little boy (and if your reading this you know i love you, but you are driving me crazy sometimes ;)
So for a few days here i have ended my evenings with migraine..
Don't leave much time for scrapping i have some stuff that i have planed in my head.. Do you also do that, plan future layouts in your head.. Some daydream about summertime.. i scrap daydream ;) I wish i will be able to get those ideas down on paper soon!
In the meantime I'm finishing this post with some more new Prima, this time Strawberry Kisses paper, Camilla flowers, Dianthe Flowers, and Lilliput roses..
LOVE those flowers!
Have a great week