Not Your Bag! - OUAS November Challenge Reveal

Have you ever been to an air port, waiting for your luggage, and suddenly you realize you are all alone at the luggage pick up? There is one suit case left, going round and round on the luggage belt, but it's not yours. It is the same brand and color as yours, but is still not yours.

This happened to me this summer, in Corfu Greece. Luckily it is a small airport, and the airport staff was very understanding, so I left husband and kids with the strange suitcase at the belt, and ran out to see if I could find anyone with a suitcase belonging to me. And luckily I did, after just a minute or two, lined up in the taxi line.

At first the girl with my suitcase claimed the suitcased she held was hers, but when I asked if her name was what the tag said, she realized she had done a huge mistake. She probably understood how big her mistake was, when I told her I had spent enough time on the airport because of her, and that I had no intention on spending a minute more helping her out getting hers. Oh my, sometimes I can be so rude, but honestly - at least she could had apologized, but all she was interested in was why I hadn't brought her suitcase out. Hello, I'm not stupid - what if she had drugs in it, and I had been stopped at the customs? No, there was a reason why I didn't bring her bag.

Anyway - when we came home I saw this bright pink tag in a shop, and I bought it immidiately.




Patterned papers: Pink Paisley. Badges: ScrapButtons. Alpha: AC.
Wood Veeners: Studio Calicio. Large tag, pucinella, handbag Brads & chipboard: unknown



This layout is my example for team B's reveal for the November sketch at Once Upon A Sketch. This month's theme is "Anything Goes" and here is the lovely sketch which goes with the theme:

Please head over to the OUAS blog to see the rest of the DTs lovely creations, visit our sponsors which have amazing prizes for you, and to play along!


Finally, tell me: have you ever lost your luggage?

Cardabilities Sketch #62 is up!

Hello fellow card makers!

Today is the day when Cardablities Sketch #62 is up:

And here is my take on it:

Monster stamp & Happy Birthday background stamp: SK Digis
Patterned papers: MME. Twine: the Twinery. Square sprout: Jillibean Soup
Alpha: AC, monster eyes: unknown

Did you notice all the cute monsters? They are made with digital stamps from the Cardabilities October Sponsor: SK Digis, as well as the "Happy Birthday" background.


SK Digis have a lovely range of digital stamps, all of them available in both .jpg and .png format.
Please visit the shop to see all the stamps :-)

Now please head over to the Cardabilities blog to see what the rest of the DT have to inspire you, and to learn how to win some goodies from SK Digis :-)

Model plane freak

DS9 is an RC model plane freak. He spends a small fortune on buying them, and due to a high level of self confidence, he believe he can fly them all. But he can't - and he always blame the plane he crashes when his tours end up as disasters - they have either too little power, keeps flicking even after adjusting, they have aerodynamic probles etc etc. Not once have I ever heard him admit he don't have the skills to fly difficult planes...


Two weeks ago he bough a Vision. He had been warned, both by his dad and other great flyers, that this was a difficult plane to fly. But DS9 was sure he could fly it - but he couldn't. The plane hardly lifted from ground, before it ended in the ditch....


This photo is taken before take off.

Patterned papers: Little Yellow Bicycle. Plane & cloud stamps: Imaginisce

3D foam dots give dimension to the details

I got the idea for this layout when I saw this sketch over at Pagemaps:

I flipped the sketch and replaced the butterflies with planes and clouds, but except for that I satyed pretty close to the original sketch?

Have you been out flying model planes lately?

OUAS October Challenge: Team B reveal is up!

Hi scrappers!


The sketch challenges at Once Upon A Sketch are monthly, and the October Sketch was originally launched at October 1th with DT Team A's lovely takes on the challenge. To make sure you are given inspiration through the entire month, DT Team B revealed their creations on the 15th.


Not do we only have a lovely sketch to get you started, we have a a quote to take inpiration from, too.

The challenge:
We would like you to create a layout based on this quote. You can interpret it ANY way you like. There is no wrong or right way to interpret this quote but your layout must incorporate something from this quote AND the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Here is my take on the October challenge:




Chipboard clock, alpha & Cloud: Imaginarium designs.
Patterned papers: Harmonie (background), unknow (yellow dotted). Rubons: Bo Bunny. Flairs: AFlairForButtons. Ribbon: MME. Washi tape, transparent cloud & buttons: unknown



Some detail photos:

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Please head over to the OUAS blog to see all the wonderful DT examples, learn how you can be our guest designer for them month of December, and to see our fabolous sponsors and the lovely prizes that are up for grab this month.

Do we see you there?

Cardabilities Sketch #61 is up!

Good morning, fellow card makers!


Cardabilities Sketch #61 is up today:

And here is my take on it:

Monster stamps: SKI Digis. Patterned papers: MME. Flags: Søstrene Grene.
Twine: Pink Paisley. Buttons & monster eyes: unknown

Did you notice all the cute monsters? They are made with digital stamps from the Cardabilities October Sponsor: SK Digis, as well as the "Happy Birthday" background.


SK Digis have a lovely range of digital stamps, all of them available in both .jpg and .png format.
Please visit the shop to see all the stamps :-)

Now please head over to the Cardabilities blog to see what the rest of the DT have to inspire you, and to learn how to win some goodies from SK Digis :-)

Lesson learned!

Some times I wonder if we totally have failed as parents, and that our kids haven't learned anything from us. Like last winter when a neighbour called at our door, told us they had flat tires, and that they had reason to belive our kids was involved in putting up a row of nails across our street.

My kids were involved, and so was one of the boys next door. And there was a total of three cars with flat tires. When we asked the kids WHY? they said they just wanted to hear the funny sound from tires beeing penetrated by spikes, like they had seen/heard on films. Obviously it never occured to them that tires got broken from this and that somebody had to pay for it.

Luckily just one of the cars had to have all tires changed, the rest of them could be fixed, but this prank ended up as a $1000 one. Lucky for me the kids had savings, but for them it meant they could kiss new iPads good bye....

I do hope they have learned their lesson...
And I'm going to show them this layout when their first borns are here, just to remind them about what parenthood also is about *lol*

Real nails - the ones they used...

The color combo, and idea for this layout is from CSI Case File #39:

Evidence:

• Rubons (Swirl in right corner under photo, green "stitching" and printed alpha down the left side of the photo, white arrow)
• Map print (under photo)
• Stars

Testimony:

• I have journaled about a lesson learned - a short version of the story on top of this post.

Colors & Sketch

• All five colors are used + white (= neutral according to the rules) and a hint of brown on the journaling spot under the photo (less than 10% accent colors are allowed according to the rules)
• The sketch is used.

What do you say, did I nail this challenge?

mm... Mais! / Yummie.. Corn!

One of the advantages of living in the country side, is that we have access to fresh vegetables large part of the year, just within biking distance: some the local farmers have shops and some let you pick straight from the fields.


You must admit it: corn tasts best in the corn field!

Patterned paper: Basic Grey Origin. Mistable banners: Heidi Swapp (colored with Zig pens). Alpha: Bella Blv.
Twine: Pink Paisley. Buttons: unknown

 Original design: Artful Delight September sketch


Do you everhave the chance to get fresh vegetables?

Easy like a Sunday Morning

For Septemberthe challenge blogs OUAS and CSI and has teamed up, and this is how this week's challenge look like:

This week I have a layout up at the challenge blogs for inspiration, featuring my darling cat Ponky:

She really is an easy cat: cuddly, fond of people, kind - but may be too fond of little birds and mice.

Woodgrain patterned paper & kraft paper: Harmonie. Blue Patterned paper: Webster's Pages.
Off white/grey patetrned pater: Studio Calico. Chipboard: Imaginarium Designs.
Flair: AFlairForButtons. Bling: memories. Corrugated shapes: Jillibean Soup-
Twine: the Twinery. Bow/flower: Maya Road. Brad: MME

How I solved the case:

Colors & sketch: OK - all used

Evidence: Flowers, branches, birds, woodgrain, newspaper print (on the brad)
Testimony: Documented a pet and used the lyrics from the song as the title of the layout


Do you want to give this challenge a try?
Please visit the blogs below to read more and to see all the fabolous prizes that they offer!

OUAS

CSI

Dexterious (OUAS/CSI Challenge)

Just like last week, OUAS and CSI has teamed up again, and so will the two challenge blogs do for another two weeks.

Here is the CSI file to be solved this week, along with the OUAS sketch.

I just love this smashing color combo and the great ideas in Evidence and Testimony. I knew exactly what I wanted to scrap about when I saw the challenge.


This layout shows a model motor bike DS9's built- he has such great manual dexterity. "Fingernem" in Norwegian means Dexterious.

 



Patterned papers & brads: Kaiser Craft. Buttons: Epiphany Crafts

Stitch stamps: CloseToMyHeart. Cogs & alpha: LifeStyle dies. The rest: unknown



 

 

The journaling is written as a diary entry and says: "Tuesday September 11th: The model bike I bought on Saturday is now assembled. I think there must have been at least 200 parts and I did the most of it all by myself. It was off course fiddly, but I'm very happy with the result. I wonder what to build next?"

 

 

Tab from a soda can

 

Here is how I solved the case:

• Colors: all five used
• Sketch: OK
• Evidence: Stripes and dots (patterned paper, washi tape, brads), circles (faux stritched circles, check board cicle, cogs, metal embellies, brads), buttons (Blue bottons)
• Testimony:Journaling as a diary entry.

For a multiple chance to win awesome prizes, log onto the challenge blogs, participate and upload to both sites!

Happy scrapping!

Crazy Guys (Sketchabilities #75)

As I mentioned yesterday, Sketchabalities is up with a new, lovely sketch.
One thing I really loved about it was the the sketch was designed for (optional) multi photos. I had some photos from Greece this summer, taken when hubby and DS9 went para sailing, and there was no way I could use one photo only to tell the story.


Here they are, my crazy men, praparing to sail, sailing and beeing happy afterwards.




Patterned Papers, chipboard & Rubons: Fancy Pants Beach Bum collection.
Alpha: AC. Buttons: unknown. Stars: home made


Did you notice the tiny black stars? I bought myself some cool stitch stamps last week, and me and DS9 had fun playing with good old fashioned shrink plastic this morning.

Click on image to see the stars better

Stamps: CloseToMyHeart Stitched together

Tell me, have you played with some old stuff lately?

New Cardabilities Sketch is up!

It's the 15th today, which means a new card sketch is up at Cardabilities.


Here is today's sketch:

And here is my take on it.

Papers: October Afternoon

This is my first week in the new DT at Cardabilities and I was very excited to see what the rest of the DT had done with this sketch. Karan had kept all of the cards to herself, so none in the DT knew what the others had made.


And boy, these girls are so talented. Please head over to the Cardabilities blog for a massive inspiration and to learn how you can win a lovely price from this months sponsor. The Flying Unicorn

Looking for a layout sketch?
Cardabilities has a sister blog, Sketchabilities.And I promise you - this week's sketch is just lovely!
Why don't you go and have a look

Kassiopi (Skissedilla #175)

When we went to Corfu last month, visiting the coastal town Kassipoi was a must. We stayed there on a vacation ten years ago, it was such a lovely place, and we wanted to go back. And as it was just a ten minute drive frome our hotel, it was an easy trip.

DS12 was just a toddler when we visited ten years ago, and he had no memories of the stay back then. But he enjoyed seeing places he had just seen on photos.

Kassiopi is as nice as it was last time, and the people just as frindly as we remember them, so we had a great day there  - and we are seriously concidering spending an entire week there next year. And in swalking distance there are some really pretty beaches: the water get this awesome teal color from the white rock/pebble ground.

Some detail shots of the layout:




Patterend paper & stickers: Amy Tangerine



Flairs: Aflairforbuttons

This layout was made with Skissedillaskisse #175 and is my entry to their challenge this week.


Thank you for stopping by, I really appreaciate it!

Fornøyd / Happy

When we went to Corfu in August, we visited a coastal village named Sidari where there was a lot of water activities going on: boat and water jet rental, para sailing etc etc.

DS9 claimed he wanted to go para sailing, and so did I, but he refused to go with me - probably because he wanted to punish me - he had for some reason been grumpy since he left bed the very same morning (does this sound familiar?). He said he wanted to go with his dad - expecting hubby would say no as he isn't much into hights - so DS9 could complain the rest of the day that we had ruined his (does this sound familiar too?).

Then dad said yes. Bummer. DS9 couldn't go back on his wish *lol* But he's one tough kid, and we had talked earlier about doing this, so off they went.


Guess who was thrilled when they got back - DS9 even offered I could go with him if he could have another ride.

DS9's expression when I asked him what para sailing was like :-)

This layout is made wit a true mix of items from different manufactorers.
Background paper from Amy Tangerine, rubons from Fancy pants, overlay from Hambley(?).
The rest? I have no idea....

Hmmm, I kind of went bananas with the rubons...

Mix & match

I have wanted to scrap this photo in bright colors since out trip, but what kicked me of was the lovely
Sketch #174 from Skissedilla.

I had the opportunity to go out in the boat while DS9 and hubby were para sailing, and took a lot of colorful photos from both the preparations and the actual flight/sailing, and I need to scrap those later. I just haven't made my mind yet if I should do a multi photo (two pager) layout or a mini.


What do you do when you have 6-8 photos and you want to use them all?

Poor Kitty!

Our kitty (well, actually she's not a kitten any more at 3YO, but she still acts like one) had been into a cat fight some weeks ago. She had gotten some bites, and they became infected (cat bites are the worse). There was no other solution that taking her to the vet to have her infections cleaned up, stitced and to put her on heavy atibiotics and pain killers).

I have never seen any cat beeing so sorry for her self.

All materials from My Scrapbooknook August Kit featuring Carta Bella papers and stickers, except twine, buttons and sprouts.

Detalj showing details of layers on sprouts

Journaling and other details

At first we put on her this super cute PJ to prevent her from biting her stitches, but that didn't work at all. She refused to take a single step with it on, so we had to remove it and out on her this acrylich screen instead. And she wasn't happy at all.

But after a week of recovery, and indoor grounding she is as good as new and ready for new adventure.
And I am broke!


This layout is made for the August Member Inspo Sketch Challenge at MyScrapbooknook. Please visit the challenge forum to see the sketch DT member Nicole Nowosad made from one of our members original layout.

Do you want to give it a try?

Family Portrait

Hi!

Have you ever been on vacation (or somewhere else) when somebody sticks up a camera in your face, to sell the photo to you later on? It happened to us outside our hotel in Corfu - as so many places before that.

It's very, very rare my family get to take family portraits, so I grabbed the opportunity when I saw the photo was of a decent quality (ok, not of a very hig standard, but good enough). But I became a bit surpriced when the photographer printed out such a large photo. Hello, I haven't scrapped large photos in ages!

Anyway, here we are, the family:

Somebody should tell DS9 he gets double cheeks when he smiles like that!

I got the idea for this layout when I saw this week's sketch at the Basic Grey blog. Originally the sketch was designed as a two pager, but I chose to use only the left part of it.

Do you, like me, have collections you love so much that you refuse to toss out the scraps, or never get tired of it? I do, and one of them is the Basic Grey (BG) Hello Luscious. I just love the happy colors which shouts Summer! at me. I have used this collection on this page, and added some rubons from BG Origin, one of my other favourites.

PS, One wich the photographer would you use a better flash. See how much darker we adults become because we are further away from it? Not that I mind having a dark tan, but it looks a kind of weird...


Are you good at having family portraits taken?

OUAS August Challenge, Team B Reveal

Good morning!

First of all - thank you to all of you who have visited my blog lately. It means so much to me that you take your time to see me - and reading all the sweet comments always make my days!


Today is Team B Reveal Day at Once Upon A Sketch (OUAS). This month's theme is

Season (Winter, spring, summer, autumn)

 and here is the challenge and sketch which goes with it:

We would like you to create a layout and interpret the theme "Season" however you like based on the following sketch. You can journal as little or as much as you like, but your layout must incorporate this theme and the sketch below. Please make sure that we see some sort of journalling on your layouts and please tell us where your journalling is . Hidden journalling is perfectly fine.

Ideas for journalling: current season in your part of the world, favourite season, seasonal traditions on your part of the word, a childhood memory, a summer romance, what summer/autumn/winter/spring brings for you, baby it's cold outside, summer loving, spring is in the air, autumn breeze, summer holidays, seasonal changes, etc etc. Anything goes ..

Here is my take on the challenge. Even though I love all our seasons, summer is my fav: long days, fewer clothes, kids (and adults) spending more time outdoors etc etc.This photo is taken in late June when we went crab fishing with my Swedish scrap friend Pysselpetra and her family.



Sponsor materials used: Imaginarium Designs chipboard: clouds, branch, butterflies



This is the first time I have used modelling paste on a layout, and I really loved how it turned out. I used  negatives from the chipboard as mask for the clouds directly painted on the backround paper.

Papers/overlay(Chipboard Alpha: Fancy Pants Beach Bum

Branch and butterflies are inked, the butterflies also given a touch of glimmer mist. The chipboard clouds were given a coat of modelling paste before slingtly inked with grey ink.

Do you want to give this challenge a try? Please head over to the OUAS blog for the complete challenge, to meet our GD, see this month's prizes and our sponsors, and to explore the DTs super inspirational examples.

See you there!