Say Hello to my dad!

My dad is like those migrant birds: he leaves the country some time before Christmas and doesn't show up until about easter again. I can understand why: the western part of Norway, where he lives, is wet and cold during winter (no snow really, and if they get snow, the authorities doesn't know how to handle it), and Las Palmas, Canary Islands, is a much better place to spend those awful 4-5 months.





The Canary Islands is a five-and-a-half hour plane flight from Norway, so obviously we don't see him much during winter. But this winter we did, as we spent a whole week on the islands!





The photos of him might not be of best quality, but I don't really care, I scrap them anyway. I rather want to help the kids to remember that grandpa actually lived on those islands, and that he still could raise a glass in a beach restaurant at the age of 75, than not doing it because the photos was a little orange...





The idea to this layout came when I saw the sketch challenge #21 at MME and the theme: Celebrate Today. My dad all reasons to celebrate that spesific Sunday, finally having his daughter and grand children visiting him.


Thank you for stopping by to see my dad and my work :-)

Jeg fant, jeg fant! /I found it, I found it

-Jeg fant, jeg fant!
-Hva fant du nå da, Scoobie?
-Ingen ting, og det var egentlig skikelig kult.

RL Scoobie driver med tilsynelatende umotivert graving av og til....


The title is from an old Norwegian fairy tale about this poor boy, Espen, who collects items he finds along the dirt roads. Every body else laughts at him and keep asking him what he has found this time, but off course he need all the items in the end of the story and he marries the princess.

-I found it, I found it!
-What did you find this time, Scoobie?
-Nothing actually, and that was really cool!

RL Scoobie does some no purpose digging once in a while...







Denne layouten er mitt svar på Scrappehusets scraplift/inspirasjonsutfordring for mars. Jeg lot meg inspirere av det monokromatiske utrykket på layouten, og selve designet, og så har jeg vridd litt på begge deler for å passe med de materialene og bildene jeg hadde :-).

This layout is my take on Scrappehuset's scraplift/inspiration challenge for March. I found the monochromatic colors and the general design on the example layout very appealing, so I used that as a start, and made my own twist to it to better fit the materials and photos I had :-)


Takk for at du tok deg tid til å komme innom!
Thank you for taking your time to visit!

Using up the scraps!

I'm waiting impatiently for the March MyScrapbooknook kit (se post below), and I am waiting impatiently for some new stuff I have ordered (hey hubby, I have ordered just a few items, and if you think I have too much already, I'll show you some youtube videos of other scrap spaces, and I promise, you will never, never again say I have enough).

But I can't stop scrapping just because I don't have any new stuff, or because I'm done with all my assignments for a (short) period, right? So I'm enjoying myself using up old supplies, so happy whenever there is an empty plastic bag to toss away because that means I have used up some older items!

When I saw this challenge over at Cosmo Cricket, I got this idea that I would try to use up my old CC. And I was shocked to find out that all CC I had left was some paper scraps from an old Christmas collection I don't even remember the name of, a sheet of stickers from a not so old Christmas line and plenty of chipboard from a few different collections. Oh, and there was a sheet of rubons from the Forever After collection left, my all time high fav line from CC.


I. Had. Spent. Every. Singel. Piece. Of anything else I had. Except for a few tiny alphabeth stickers. I guess that tells me I liked the papers and collections since there is nothing left.


So I grabbed my Christmas papers and stickers, and the chipboards and rubons, and made this layout about the wild animals on the Canary Islands - or to be more spesific - the lack of them:

Do you find the gekko in the photo, btw?

Start stalking the mailman!!!

My ScrapbookNook has started shipping the march kits. Look:





Brand new stuff from Crate Paper and MME + some more!
And to tease you even more, here are some more details from the kit:













Hmmm, I wonder if I need to borrow me a little girl and shoot some photos so I can use even the most girly parts *lol*

Not a subscriber? Have a look here (I'm telling you, even if you need to pay for overseas shipping, if you not are resident in the US or Canada, the prize is surprisingly low). What do you say, are you tempted?

How romantic...

I need to show you the photo from the challenge promt at Get Picky and the words following:

Welcome to this month's inspiration challenge prompt. We decided to embrace all things romantic with this gorgeous image below...who wouldn't want to come home to this....





When I saw this challenge I though NO WAY I can do this: there is so little pink and baby blue in my life (I'm the mum of two BOYS!) and leaving on a jet plane for a romantic weekend with hubby hasn't been possible for the past years!

But wait! There is a bed in that photo! And a lot of white! And I have some Sleepy Head photos! So I pulled out my pink and blue papers and a LOT of rubons and made a layout! Honestly I don't my layout would have looked like this if it wasn't for the get Picky challenge, but I love the way it turned out!





So you think I failed the challenge because my layout is not about romance? It is! Or about the lack of it, it is beetween the lines in the journaling: "Vacations are not all about action and exploring, but also about lazy mornngs - and never ending discussions in the evenings about who is sleeping where - like in the extra bed which is in the drawer under the sofa. This particular night M lost..."
Well, from experience I have learned that the queen size bed not necessarely is the most comfy bed in the appartment, the extra bed might be just as good or even better, but sleeping in a drawer, with the hubby snoring on the coach, isn't very romantic :-)

Kult! / Cool!

DS8's reaction when I asked him how scuba diving in the pool was like (see the previous post for the story).





As I said in my previous post, I planned to make a swinging shutter layout for the entire scuba diving story. The 6*12" layout above is the left side of the multiple page layout, her comes the right side:





The basic design on both this pages is Sketch #227 from PencilLines.
The middle of this layout was made to fit the to swinging edges - her is what the layout looks like when it's all put together (I'm sorry the colors are bad on the right side - the lence I used for the photo seems to be too weak for such a wide angel, but when I discovered there was no daylight left...).


DS8 didn't dare to dive in the open sea - too big waves - but hubby did!





Thank you for taking you time to stop and have a look! All your visits and comments mean a lot to me!

The scuba diver

At the hotel we stayed at in Grand Canary Island, there were different activities each day,anything from soccer to shuffle board, and they were for both kids and adults. One day there was this Introduction to Scuba Diving, and there was an instructor from the local diving center to guide us. DS10 wanted to give it a try, and after going throught necessary safety procedures, he was allowed to go scuba diving in the pool, the instructor following him very closely.

we felt very comfortable with this instructor and the safety precautions he took, so when DS10 asked if he could take a class an the diving center the next day, and then go scuba diving in the sea with the instructor, we said yes. To see how this goes, keep an eye on my blog, because my next layouts will be from that class and the dives.


Btw, did you notice the vertical slit/line in the middle of this layout? It's there because this is going to be the front page on a "swinging shutter" layout. If you haven't heard of it, here is an example. In my next post on this blost, I will reveal the inside pages of this multipage layout, so stay tuned!






This page was made with Creativ Scrapper'Sketch #145, and all papers are from SEI.